Those of us who have suffered since the days of Santo and Kessenger (or Durham and Dunston) and who love the Cubs, who would not boo them and who will stick with them even if they lose.

And the corporate idiots who buy up all the seats they can and send people with a marginal interest in baseball who just want to be where it's cool to be.

And regarding the previous letter - trust me, Sox fans are harder to stand as a Cubs fan than Cubs fans are to stand as a Sox fan. They're angrier, for one thing, and much, much, more holier than thou.

But Lotus 1-2-3 used to come with a key disk. Lotus argued that removing copy protection that required the key disk floppy to be in the drive when running the program was necessary to prevent piracy.

Of course, there were plenty of programs designed to dupe the key disk and crack the primitive copy-protection they'd put on the disks and 1-2-3 went the way of the do-do.

No business would even look at a piece of software like that today. The game market will develop similarly.

It would have been stupid to pass this bill as a Democratic bill. They needed 40%+ Republicans to make it truly bi-partisan, or it would have been used as a cudgel against Dems for the next 20 years.

Now we can put together a better bill.

No equivocating, no professorial style - It's wrong and it's an outrage. Good job making the ads more direct as we closer to election day.

This seems like a lot of media hype with nothing there. None of the three women you mention accepted an offer and went through with the deed.

Brooke Shields already played this role in "Pretty Baby", and the price was much lower if I recall correctly.

God only knows how something so basic became a left/right issue, but it is. The right generally opposes supporting public transit, possibly becasue the benefits go to the cities where most of the leftist voters live. Of course, that's also where most of the tax revenues originate, but never mind that.

There's also a legacy of racism and redlining and fear that public transit will give the "wrong sort" access to areas where the influential live. It's stupid and self-defeating, as horrible traffic then pushes the edges of the suburbs further and further out, creating traffic jams further and further out.

He helped bring about the crash in 2000 by talking down the economy and precipitating a stock crash that might have been more of a deflation, and he's doing it again, but this time he'll be the one to see the economy fall out from under him.

Nobody could have predicted this (tm)

Kenny Starr's Blind Man in the Bleachers.

He's just the blind man in the bleachers to the local hometown fans

And he sits beneath the speakers way back in the stands

And he listens to the play by play, he's just waiting for one name

He wants to hear his son get in the game

But the boy's just not a hero, he's strictly second team

Though he runs each night for touchdowns in his fathers sweetest dreams

He's gonna be a star someday though you might never tell

But the blind man in the bleachers knows he will

And the last game of the season is a Friday night at home

And no one knows the reason but the blind man didn't come

And his boy looks kinda nervous,sometimes turns around and stares

Just as though he sees the old man sitting there

Well, the local boys are tryin' but they slowly lose their will

Another players down and now he's carried from the field

At halftime in the locker room the kid goes off alone

And no one sees him talkin' on the phone

And the games already started when he gets back to the team

And half the crowd can hear his coach yell, "Where the hell you been?"

"Just getting' ready for the second half", is all he'll say

"Cause no you're gonna let me in to play"

And without another word he turns and runs into the game

And though the silence on the field, loudspeakers call his name

It'll make the local papers how the team came from behind

When they saw him playing out his heart to win

And when the game was over the coach asked him to tell

What was it he was thinkin' of that made him play so well

"Well, you knew my Dad was blind", he said, "Tonight he passed away"

"It's the first time that my father's seen me play"

"his governor, Rod Blagojevich"

Hm. So McCain must be responsible for anything Janet Napolitano does? HEy - that actually improves him in my eyes.

When Goldfinger was written, it was a progressive notion that women could be sexually agressive without being tramps, whores, whatever you want to call it.

No, "Pussy Galore" is no Anais Nin, and the Bond books are male fantasies, but Nin and Galore share sexual liberation. You gotta put things in the context of the time they were created. Remember - her competition was June Cleaver and Harriet Nelson.

I mean, he does have a recent history with drugs...

Huh? Anyone noticed that as the country suddenly kvells over all things female (cough, "I can see Alaska from my house," cough)

What? What does that have to do with gender? Seriously.

Rebel with a trust fund.

Q:What are you rebelling against, Bill?

A:What have you got (that's acceptable to Karl Rove for me to rebel against?)

Did he give you the steering wheel?

I challenge Camille Paglia to write five columns without referring overtly or obliquely to Madonna.