I have DirecTV for the Sunday Ticket package. I've watched NFL Network since Day One. I used to watch NFL coverage on ESPN, but they'd often waste time reporting on other sports (baseball, a sport popular in the 19th Century and basketball, some kind of inner city sport).

What's the big deal here? Cable SUCKS and it always has -- shopping channels? The Catholic Channel?? Here comes ONE decent content-filled channel which presents the NFL in the best possibly light. Seven bucks a month? I'd be happy to pay it if it wasn't in the basic tier of crappy programming. That is what I want to watch on television.

Every game, endless replays and commentary, every second of the Combine and the Draft -- all of it. Excellent programming. Time-Warner is wrong, dead wrong. Lose some of the fascist mind-programming crap and lose ALL of the useless shopping channels, make room for NFL Network.

Say, how's that "a la carte" programming idea coming along? Because I'd sign up strictly for NFL Network, ESPN and whatever channels my kids watch cartoons on.

Why, exactly, is Ron Paul's candidacy a joke? I don't live in my parent's basement and I don't have any credit card debt. I'm 50, own my own home, et cetera.

I don't see the "baby elephant" metaphor as being as compelling as the end of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (# ISBN-10: 0451163966; # ISBN-13: 978-0451163967) when Chief Bromden acts on the possibility of escape.

I'm of the opinion that you could examine Giuliani and Clinton and find that they're precisely the same. Evil tentacles of the Combine.

I'm not getting the joke. Could it be that the Mainstream Media division of the Combine has underestimated how angry the American people are? The Founding Fathers would have Giuliani or Clinton hanged. They would have embraced Ron Paul.

and voting for "the lesser of two evils" is bracing. The concept of a candidate you can actually support wholeheartedly is unique.

That Paul is not a Yale Skull-and-Bones member is not a bad thing IMHO.

>I mean the gold standard - I dare any supporter on this blog to explain this will work to the rest of us. No cheating now or lazy responses.

Do your own legwork, champ:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_currency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

The Federal Reserve is a private bank. They create money out of thin air. Nice, eh? Unfortunately this leads to a transfer of wealth and currency devaluation. It's looting in a suit and tie.

>Okay, now how about a REAL interview?

>I vote Glenn Greenwald.

C'mon, Salon... give it up.

Are there any achievable military objectives in Iraq? Is the US presence not the problem? Would it not be a good idea to get the f*ck out of there already?

Is Bush43 merely covering his butt by keeping American troops "in harm's way" as the hive-dwellers love to phrase it?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_50/b4062021769214.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5

Worth reading.

This must be some kind of sick joke -- Salon was hacked, right? A "motorcycle daredevil"? What is this, the 1930s at some backwater hick carnival? The only positive way to look at this story is that the "motorcycle daredevil" was the kind of thick synthetic cheez-whiz that Nixon and Vietnam and Elvis Presley embodied -- that avocado-colored kitchen appliance veneer of sheer and utter... vapidity. No substance, no body, nothing.

Somehow beating a former business partner with an aluminum baseball bat and then avoiding paying the awarded damages for thirty years fits right in with the image. True Americana. Maybe "Evel" should have performed a "motorcycle daredevil" stunt for the survivors of Bhopal -- that seems to fit awfully well.

Where's Dr. Thompson when you need him?

OK, what about Israel's nuclear weapons program? Can we stop pretending that no one knows anything about it now?

Would be Pelosi for not impeaching that f*cker.

Well, thank God that whole Ron Paul thing is explained away. Now we can get back to licking Hillary where she pees. Everyone knows she's the only candidate any person of a good stripe would ever consider voting for, right? Right??

Flesh chickens? Is that all you've got?

Remember "Hildalgo" and "Pearl Harbor"? Then that movie set in the Crusades... there were a whole string of movies which certainly seemed to be attempting to lead the Sheeple along a set path -- priming the pump, so to speak.

Maybe a movie telling the story of those five Mossad agents arrested after having been witnessed high-fiving one another while videotaping the WTC collapse would be interesting. Or following Mohammed Atta on one of his visits to Jack Abramoff's Sun Cruz gambling boat in Florida. Something a bit different from the standard "Arab terrorist" point of view.