BUT! We need a catalogue of Bush Administration/Republican crimes, lies, sins, problems, screw-ups, and so on since 2000 CE. Every new article gets new comments by new people saying we need to pay attention to the "real" problems, rather than just the daily scandal.

So, let's set up a list of ALL the real problems. Salon, you know how to e-mail me. Please e-mail me, and I will help compile the master skeleton list of what they have done. If we do this, in the future, historians will write about "The Salon List." They will say that "The Salon List" was crucial in getting W.Bush impeached.

GAUNTLET is acceptable in most dictionaries. Originally, this sense of GAUNTLET was a misunderstanding of GANTLET, but now it is accepted. Better to find a different word, though, because this is a dead cliche.

The tough fundamentalists are equating Foley + The Pages with Clinton + Monica. They are accusing Democrats and liberals of double standards. They are believing that Rep. Hastert only knew about mild, non-sexy IMs and e-mails.

Adding a little to Ufansius's previous marvelous post:

Most of these American fundamentalists believe that once a person is "saved," a person stays saved, and eventually, nearly automatically goes to heaven. G.W. Bush and many of his minions fit their criteria for being "saved." So the fundamentalists have quit worrying about them. The issues of hypocrisy, brutality, and incompetence, which worry us Salonistas so much, do not even apply in the minds of this category of fundamentalists. Because these Republicans already are "saved."

Note that this mindset is contrary to real Christian wisdom, which mandates a humble, life-long "There-but-for-the-grace-of-God" attitude toward salvation.

Right now, the tough fundamentalists seem not to be concerned much about Foley. Foley is a homosexual, and destined for hell, they belive, so they do not care a fig for him. The christianists seem to be concentrating on the threat of evil Islam to the exclusion of all other political considerations. They have ratcheted this theme up several hundred percent in the past six months.

The fundamentalist leaders are not picking up on the Republicans' hypocrisy. Foley is having no real effect. Individual Evangelical footsoldiers may change their votes, but do not expect any big movement away from Bush, toward reason.

Many American right wingers still do not realize that Americans really do torture, and that they just made torture legal. These behind-the-news, left-in-the-dust-by-reality people seem to believe that any theoretical person who might possibly be tortured obviously would deserve to be tortured. Because, after all, this is America!

We need to wake these folks up, and bring America back. Or we need to move to Canada.

The photo of Condi arriving in Baghdad shows her in regular Condi clothes. The Republicans seem to have realized that the picture of W.Bush in his flight suit and helmet was too hypocritical, even for them. So somebody made Condi take off the the helmet and body-armor before they allowed photos. Too bad for right wing helmet and body-armor fetishists!

The announcer John Miller's voice is the vocal equivalent of (say) really, incredibly wonderful big breasts. When posters criticize John Miller, it is only because they just cannot believe he is real.

Mr. Miller did a masterful job of hosting ex-broadcaster Ernie Harwell during the Tigers-Yanks game on Friday night. We still saw the game, but we learned about Ernie and about the past half century of baseball, because John Miller did a great job of hosting/directing/entertaining.

And, you Joe Morgan haters, did you hear Joe making fun of himself? Back off, please.

Roar on, Tigers!

Ever! Especially not to young people who work for him! Any private sector middle-aged executive would be fired for what Foley did. And any executive who let somebody like Foley off the hook, say in Microsoft or General Motors, would be fired too.

My goodness, even if Foley was in star-struck, soul-mate love with one of these pages, there are better ways to communicate! And even if Hastert is an utter management rookie, the proper procedure is utterly, obviously NOT what Hastert did.

This has nothing much to do with pedophilia, or ephebophilia, or homosexuality. It is a creepy, low-level, unimaginative version of sexual harassment. The straw bosses in stables should not stoop to it, much less U.S. Congressmen.

Most people who read and post on Salon probably do not know how much the W.Bush-supporting christianists hate LDS. So they do not know that LDS could be political allies.

Salon is nifty, but a problem with Salon's format is that threads die every day, and we never will get any discussion of this topic.

Dear King and All Subjects of the King,

Here is a rules question: What happens if one guy on the receiving team signals for a fair catch, but then another guy catches the punt? Is that okay? Any difference between pro, college, and other rules?

This might be a good tactic. A guy on the right sideline could signal, and maybe distract the kicking team, but then a guy on the left sideline could catch the punt and run it back.

I know that you, King, are interested in punt rules, and I know some of the greatest Rules Mavens read your column.