You gotta feel a bit bad for the guy, though. As much as we all (myself included) mercilessly vilified him through the entire ordeal, you have to appreciate that afterwards he didn't roll over, bend over and take it on behalf of this disgustingly corrupt administration.

Yeah, he was in way over his head, he didn't belong there and he didn't handle it particularly well. But at least he stood up to them and told the truth in the end, which is more than I can say for the majority of people on that side of the fence.

Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but I'm giving poor old Brownie a get-out-of-h*ll free card for refusing to let them railroad him without a fight. Heckuva job, Brownie.

"I'm an honest person who is kind to animals and small children, mostly, and I deserve to see the Yankees not win their division at least once before my grandchildren swindle me out of my pension."

I think I'm going to put that on a t-shirt. Don't worry, I'll give you a byline.

"For ease of ridicule..."

HAHAHAHA! A delightful turn of phrase. Love it!!!

But we diverge on the Twins, my friend. Third place my a**. I'm an honest person who is kind to animals and small children, mostly, and I deserve to see the Twins win the pennant at least once in this exciting new century.

"I believe the most damaging thing Tom DeLay has done in his life is take his faith seriously in the public office, which made him a target of all those who despise the goals of Christ."

That's right. We're rounding up Christians and persecuting them for being Christians, not for anything illegal they may have done. Oh, there goes the doorbell... as a Christian myself, I knew they'd eventually come for me too! And if everything Tom DeLay has done comes under the heading of "the goals of Christ," I really need a new Bible. Mine says something completely different.

Thanks for the semi-shoutout there, King (you sort of blew it in the end by going for the Braves again). OK, we all know it's gonna happen (it always does), but it's still fun to dream. I myself am dreaming of a Mets-Twins Series, so I can be happy no matter what. I mean, I'm an honest person who is kind to animals and small children, mostly, and I deserve... aw, whatever. LET'S GO METS!!!!

I see no indication that the LW is "in a hurry," just that he's looking ahead and wondering what he might be up against if he finds he is ready to take the plunge again, but his divorce isn't final yet. He's afraid women won't want to go out with him once they hear he's technically still married. That's a valid concern.

The best advice I can give is to tell the truth. Too many men lie about their relationship status, thinking the woman won't stick around if she knows the truth. Then he's shocked when she leaves... not because of the truth, but because she finds out that he's been lying.

Also, stick with women your own age or older. They're much more likely to have been there and understand the situation.

Good luck. You sound like a decent guy.

There was already a Flight 93 TV movie a couple of months ago and somehow we all lived just fine. That movie was shown nonstop, and I never heard a single word about how distressing and inappropriate it was. My only concern was how much of the dialogue and depictions of onboard actions/conversations were completely made up, given that no one who actually took part in those conversations and situations lived to tell the tale. Even most of the cellphone conversations are hearsay and relayed from memory... hardly reliable. The whole thing was pretty much conjecture, like "this is what probably happened" or "this is what we'd like to believe happened." We've accepted this story as fact because it sounds good. Meanwhile there's no possible way to know what really happened up there.

We've been subjected for five years to a barrage of 9/11 footage, documentaries, books, articles, 911 tapes and every other thing you could imagine. So why the sudden burst of oh-gosh-please-don't-remind-us melodrama about one movie? Especially since the accepted version of events is so fictional it's pretty much nothing but movie fodder anyway. Nobody seemed to mind the sick impropriety of turning a tragedy into an implausible action movie plot in the first place, but now their delicate sensibilities are offended by the action movie that inevitably followed? The audacity of the American people never ceases to amaze.

I'll remember him as a vile creature who turned out to have even less balls than he had conscience. And that's saying something none too flattering about his testicular fortitude.

It will take over your life. Seriously. It will consume every thought, every moment, every fiber of your being. Not only that, but you'll spend more time on emails discussing "trades" of these players that you will honestly begin to believe that you OWN than you spend with your significant other--who will get so tired of hearing about it (as will all your friends) that you'll be sleeping on the couch.

Trust me, my friend. Don't go down that road.