So, Mr. Bird, as I guess he is called these days, who used to play on the whitest NBA team that wasn't in Utah, has traded two "major" black players for two "major" white players, and everyone pretends not to notice. Interesting, ain't it?

I have no way of knowing, but I don't think so, no, not explicitly. However, I do get the feeling that he may have a greater comfort level with white players, and he may have bought into some of the racist bullshit that was flying around him when he was a player, with white players always being referred to as "hard working" and "coachable".

Maybe no-one told you, but there's a big tennis tournament going on, right now. Not in a week or two, but right now, you know, as you sit there, pondering on what might happen in the Superbowl next month. There's even an American in the final, with a warm-hearted story of an unexpected comeback to boot.

Let's not even mention that idiotic ice-skating game that you feel the need to bring up every once in a while.

Bush is like the asshole corporate managers that are parodied so skillfully in Dilbert; the kind of morons who spout cliches like "work smarter, not harder" and have inspirational posters on their walls. They think they can make things happen by wanting them to happen. No matter how many times the smart people explain things to them, they just never get it.

is "Debra Dickerson" really G. Gordon Liddy?

Given that the resolution is in fact meaningless this is the best possible outcome for the democrats, as it shows the Dumbos in their true colors: unable or unwilling to stand up to the little Dick-tator, and a bunch of hypocrites for refusing the "up or down vote" that they've screamed about the past few years.

1. The MVP should have gone to the Colts offensive line

2. If it hadn't been raining, Grossman would have had a great game. I was suprised the commentators never mentioned that Manning pretty much stopped throwing deep after his interception (other than the wide-open touchdown). You can't throw a ball through the rain the same as through clear air - there's more resistance, and that's why so many of Rex's long passes were underthrown and were just hanging there.

3. The Snickers ad wasn't that bad - get a grip, folks.

4. I'm glad I wasn't the only person who noticed Prince's "huge erection" in silhouette. He was even stroking it, for God's sake !

Are you serious ?

Don't have time to watch it. This is supposed to be a magazine - stop being lazy and write a goddamn story if there's one to write. Sheesh.

A writer who isn't good enough to get someone to pay them to do a job, or to get published in a mainstream source?

A person who is excessively opinionated and thinks the world should care?

A person with way too much time on their hands, who probably ought to get a real job?

A person who needs to get a life, or at least a hobby. Go to the gym, guys and gals, or take up birdwatching or stamp collecting.

BTW - are blogs really "so popular"? I mean, does anyone actually read blogs apart from other bloggers?

how so many of these right wing politicians, all of whom claim to be Christian, will say anything to get elected. Don't they remember the saying "what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his immortal soul?" I think that comes from some book that they like to pretend that they read.

I have to say that if I was trapped on a plane that long, at some point around the five hour mark i'd be thinking of calling 911 and reporting a kidnapping ...

Also, a lot of business travellers are going somewhere for a meeting and coming home the same day. Once the plane is two or three hours late there may be no point them even making the trip, at which point they absolutely should be entitled to leave the plane.

as Seinfeld so clearly showed in his brief moment in the spotlight. Now there's someone who just knows how to be funny.

And why does every black American who ever wins anything, ever, have to praise God? Give it a rest, already. You won it all your your ownsome, honest you did.

BTW, when did Al Gore get so fat?

"It might help you to gain some insight about those of us who love God, before you bitterly dismiss us"

Sorry dearie, but there's no bitterness. We just think that you are too fucking dumb to be true. We're laughing at your inane stupidity. Get it?

As Shakespeare said:

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Such tricks hath strong imagination,

That if it would but apprehend some joy,

It comprehends some bringer of that joy;

Or in the night, imagining some fear,

How easy is a bush supposed a bear! ?

That just about says it all, doesn't it?

Is that the entry for today's oxymoron?

"Are there any Democrat politicians who refuse to stand with Al Sharpton?"

The implication, of course, is that Sharpton and Coulter are two sides of the same coin. The truth, however, is very far from that. Sharpton is a smart politician who has used hot issues to press his agenda. He's also changed a lot from where he was twenty years ago, around the time of the Tawana Brawley affair. On the whole, the good things that he has done - supporting poor children, raising voter awareness, protesting police violence, trying to reduce homophobia in the black church and community - outweighs the bad.

Coulter, on the other hand, is nothing but an evil piece of scum that drips hatred and lies. She has never done anything positive for anyone other than herself.