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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
frantaylor
Published Letters: 44 Editor's Choice: 3
He advocates throwing out the Constitution when he suggests that Bush should fund the war anyway without the approval of Congress.
Plastic soda and water bottles are made of polyester, which is not the same thing as polycarbonate. Yes, the same polyester they use to make clothes. I'm not hearing anything bad about polyester here.
Polycarbonate is Lexan (TM), which is what they use to make Nalgene (TM) bottles, car headlight lenses, and "bulletproof" glass.
Who needs a bulletproof water bottle? It's just silly.
Do your homework, buddy. The Red Sox take the crown for the best record in baseball. It's not a tie. The Red Sox take it because they beat Cleveland head-to-head. Why not just say it: The Red Sox have the best record in baseball. It's official, it's a fact. What you said is not official and not a fact.
The Sox just got done making the Angels look like a minor league team. How's that prediction doing?
If it's a tie, why do the Red Sox get the perks that go with best record?
When the tis is BROKEN it is no longer a TIE.
Like everything else in baseball, you have to look at the rules to see what matters, not just the numbers. The fundamental thing you are missing is that there are virtually no ties in baseball, there's always another rule to decide who actually gets it. Baseball is nothing but rules, if you don't get that, you don't get baseball.
Let's see some analysis of injuries. The Angels are walking wounded; they showed it on the field last night. The Red Sox are at last as healthy as they were back in April when they were mopping the floor with the rest of the league.
For those of you who wonder why Beckett pitched the whole game: it's pitch count, pure and simple. Red Sox management has said repeatedly that they stick to the pitch count. Even if the pitcher is throwing a no-no, he will come out when he hits his pitch count. Conversely, if the pitcher is doing well and he's below his pitch count, he stays in. Watch some Red Sox games and you will see this. It's a simple but effective strategy, it really cuts through the debate of when to leave a pitcher in and when to take him out. Grady Little's wacky decision making is very much a thing of the past.
Throw out the misdemeanor and charge him with perjury. He says he's innocent, so therefore he lied under oath when he signed the guilty plea.
Of this charade and also the guy who passed off piano recordings of other people as those of his dead wife. We are a society of suckers, we elected a psychopathic crypto-fascist as president, we spend $600 in a crazed frenzy on cell phones with unfinished software. We are in a war that was started on false pretenses and continues on a different set of false pretenses, where we don't know who the enemy is and we don't even know if we are winning or losing. We have "No Child Left Behind" which will produce an entire generation of test-taking kids with no ability to think critically. Welcome to the age of deceit, the sunset of our civilization.
All of you here who think that this King Kaufman guy is any good at sports writing, go read the paper in any town with rabid sports fans, like Boston, New York, Chicago, or Cleveland (I'm sure there are others). Even the Murdoch rags like the Boston Herald and the New York Post have quality sports writing.
With the exception of King's column, this is probably my favorite web site; Glenn Greenwald deserves Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
The problem here is that there is no analysis of the things that matter. Injuries, relief pitching, and head-to-head rivalries are all very important in Baseball, and you won't see much of that here. What you see instead is an analysis of the announcers, the commercials and the radar guns, none of which have any bearing on the game.
Go back and read King's column with his playoff predictions and see how silly it looks now.
I just have to dash to the Apple Store and buy the latest gadget, without reading the contract, doing any homework, or engaging in any type of thought at all. And when the thing I buy isn't what I thought it is, well, I'll just sue.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
