See a psychiatrist immediately. You're depressed, but you also have a social phobia. This stuff can be treated with medicine and, like CT said, cognitive therapy. Don't wait another day. It will chance your life. I've been in pretty much the same position as the letter writer, and within a couple months of finally going to the doctor and getting help I had basically completely turned my life around.

Go to the doctor. Go to the doctor. Go to the doctor. Go to the doctor. Go to the doctor. Go to the doctor.

God, I remember when Salon used to be interesting. It's been a long, long time.

Bring back King Kaufman as a daily writer, or there will be no reason to visit this site at all. Wake up, Salon. You are dying and deciding to publish stupid articles like this is the reason why.

Seriously - did she utter a single sentence in that entire interview that we haven't heard a thousand times before? She's a concern troll who gets to make movies because her mom is famous. BORING. Better interview subjects, please.

Oh boy.

I remember my father used to swear up and down that the ballplayers in the 50s and 60s were so much better than the ones today. Even as a child I recognized how idiotic this was, and told him so, and why. He could offer no counter-arguments, of course, yet he remained steadfast in his opinion. Probably because that era was just a better time, in his view, when kids were more innocent, when you earned an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, when the air was nicer to breathe (okay that one's probably true), and when ballplayers like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays roamed the Earth. Not like today, with your internet-porn surfing first-graders and your Ken Griffey Jr.s and your smartass kids who make you feel stupid.

Some people are more intellectually honest than my father. When cornered, they'll resort to things like: players back then didn't feel the need to tip their hats after a sac fly! Which is true: Ted Williams didn't tip his hat after hitting a sac fly. He just gave the fans the finger.

Wow, this story really is a hoot, isn't it? I'm sure this woman would feel better if she knew that she was providing blog fodder for lazy Salon writers.

When does he get admitted into the BBWAA? When does he get to vote for the Hall of Fame?

I say we engage in civil disobedience until King is given his rightful due.

How long do you think you can get away with spitting in the face of your readers?

A lot of people probably wonder why Salon continues to publish the inane musings of Ms. Paglia. The answer is simple: outrage = hits. Salon figured this out a long time ago.

So stop reading Paglia's column. Stop clicking on it. Stop commenting on it (yes, I know I'm violating this one right now). Just ignore her like you would any internet troll, because that is what she is. And then she'll go away.

They were and still are preening narcissists who cared more about their own "trip" than other people. The hippies in Grant Park didn't give a shit about Vietnamese civilians; they just wanted to feel important, and while they were at it get high and get laid.

From what I can tell, their complaints about the World Series amount to:

1. It rained a lot.

2. In an alternative universe where the Rays hadn't tied the game in the sixth, Bud Selig would have suspended the game anyway.

3. Neither team was from New York, Boston, or Chicago.

Coming soon to Salon?

-"Is the Federal Reserve Unconstitutional?"

-"The NAFTA Superhighway: Road to the North American Union?"

-"Buildings Don't Fall Down Like That: What REALLY Happened on 9/11"

-"Spreading the Wealth: Barack Obama's Hidden Socialist Agenda"

So this tired, lazy "critique" of cultural relativists who celebrate female genital mutilation, which wouldn't be at all out of place on the O'Reilly Factor, is supposed to be profound and thought-provoking? What, because he's French? Give me a fucking break and stop printing this kind of nonsense.

is that hardly anyone lives there. About 80-85% of Missourians live in either Greater St. Louis or Greater Kansas City. And many of the remaining people live in college towns like Columbia and Springfield. When Republicans win Missouri they do it by winning in the suburbs.

How many days do you think it will take Salon.com to publish a story assuring us that everything was on the up and up?

Not a force play. Runner bowls over the catcher as the catcher is holding the ball in front of him. Catcher is knocked over, falls backwards. His hand hits the ground hard and the ball is knocked out.

Safe!

I think. I remember long ago an outfielder, maybe it was Willie McGee, made a diving catch, and in doing so injured his wrist. In pain, he took his glove off, with the ball still in it, and set it on the ground. It was ruled a hit.

I believe the rule is that until you take the ball out of your glove with your other hand, you're not safe.

I'm just pulling this out of my memory and/or ass, however.

Come on - the Cubs bombing in the playoffs is a fluke? Cub failure is the opposite of fluke. It is anti-fluke. It is the natural order of things. It is the way things ought to be and always shall be. "The Cubs suck" is a logical, eternal truth. The Cubs losing can never be a fluke. The Cubs losing is a manifestation of The Real.