I really criticize Obama for the Warren thing, but I think you've been on too many political shout shows. You've been infected by the idea that he's done something wrong by parsing his words like every other bloviating fool on TV. Please, say it ain't so, Joe. Say you're not just a bitter Clintonite.

-- A pretty hopeful Clintonite.

The truth is, a survey i read about today says that more people get their news from the Internet than from newspapers. So when they deride "the bloggers," it's with anger and hatred for a rival who's wiping them out as surely as television replaced the weekly trip to the movies.

In all the search for The Real Reason for the Rich Pardon, we forget the real question we should be asking: what caused the explosion of indignation by "the liberal media" about a pardon that always seemed to me to have many angles. Why were the Opinion Makers like Dowd and Matthews so certain of why Bill granted the pardon? (Hint: it was obvously lechery -- the wife -- and corruption, because she gave to the Clinton Library)! In fact, those outraged had long before settled on their "novel" about Bill. They had made their money, and created their audience, by searching through right-wing fictions, and finding stories that resonated with their essential, and irrational, snbbishness. Bill was by no means perfect, but it doesn't explain why he made both Falwell and Dowd to froth at the mouth.

He deeply hated the jerk, but remember? He was facing a Congress full of Republicans who loved the little crapper, because he shared their view of Clinton, and would always bend over backwards for them. In fact, it was a big shock to him that, when he retired, he got no plum jobs in the Republican hierarchy, because it's clear that that's what he was angling for the whole time.

Freeh is the guy who mucked up computerization at the agency so badly, so that agent were wtill working out of shoeboxes. That's one of the reasons why they missed the 9/11 conspiracy, which would have turned up in any number of anomalies in the visa records and so on.

If there is a case to be made for a conservative Catholic cabal busy plotting in our government, Freeh is Exhibit number one. He's a made man in Opus Dei.

Sure, the Steelers should win. But who cares? I hope they lose. I'm always bored by big, tough, defensive teams. Without Swan and the boys, who cares about the Steelers? Who cares about the Bears without Sweetness and the Refrigerator? I don't want to see any team that wins all its games 9-7 win anything. Sure, it works, but they bring you down. Just like a pitcher's duel is boring unless you're sitting right behind the plate, watching how fast the fastball comes in, how it's diving, and so on. Otherwise it's like watching paint drying.

I want this game to be won in the dying moments by that increadible acrobatic pass catcher for the Cards. What's-his-name. Let old Pops Warner win one.

On the other hand, a great pleasure this year was to watch the collapse of the Cowboys, America's Team. Ha, ha.

Is Montana making a comeback next year? Please say yes.

Apple has kept its machines clean by dropping the previous line of processors. They transition you. I bought my G5 in 2004, when it came out, and an Intel Mac mini in 2006. The G5 is starting to get old. It's five years old, a dog's age in computer years, and slowly, it is less and less capable. "Universal" apps will get fewer and fewer. That's the name of the game. In computers, evolve or die. Of course, I can still run Leopard and a bunch of things on the G5, but eventually, its day will come. I used my Mac Plus for about 4 years, then I bought an SE/30 which had to last until 1997 when the iMac came out, then the new iMac, then the G4 tower and then the G5 tower. It's not some kind of mortal sin. Computers evolve. Overall, the transition to Intel has finally solved the Motorola/IBM problem, which was that they couldn't keep up in the chip development cycle. The PPC is a very nice architecture, but they just didn't keep up; and the final truth is, the Intel chip brings total compatibility to the Mac. Sales results show that people are very happy with that.

On the other hand, on the Windows side, probably the biggest problem are the millions of Windows 98 and Me users whose machines are hanging on to the Internet, and serving as spam bots. And Microsoft's support for a promiscuous number of architectures is one of its biggest security problems.