I mean, sure, some of the comments are funny, but in the end you have a bunch of people who aren't nearly as talented as those they're denigrating trashing work they can't hope to match. It reveals their own pettiness and petulance more than anything else.

George Burns said, "If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl," and that comment applies to this. The most wonderful thing in the gets old after a while. Sometimes we need to take a break and come back to something to regain our appreciation.

I've gotten sick of all of those records at various points in my life, and come back to them and loved them all over again. So what? The fact that we want something different doesn't mean great art stops being great art. It means we enjoy variety in our lives.

...that "musicologist" was a word that the Car Talk guys made up for their gag credits.

I'm a little tired of God Bless America too. Though I think the reason we sing martial, jingoistic songs at sporting events isn't that mystifying. Sports are rife with martial metaphors, both in the way they're talked about and in the way they're played.

Here is my question. How come the fellow's answers to the most interesting questions King asked basically boiled down to "I dunno."

...I presume that very shortly we will discover video of Bush binding people's hands behind their backs and throwing them from rooftops. And of course the MSM will ignore the story when it breaks, though Sean Hannity et. al. will declare breathlessly, "If the president DIDN'T bind their hands and throw them from the roof, the terrorists would have already won."

This drug seems to produce the same results as having your gallbladder removed, if my experience is any guide.

It's just a typo. You never made a typo?

Does that count?

It would be a Bud or Coors or Miller Lite though. Not an actual beer.

To the extent I even thought about, I suppose I assumed she was a he. In fact, though logically I knew she wasn't Peter Finch, in my mind -- even now, after watching the video of her! -- I still picture Peter Finch when I see the name Digby.

More than her gender, the thing I've always thought about her is that she is the best out there. Digby should be required reading for everyone.

Wipe up and put it back in your pants already.

I am opposed to the wholesale slaughter of people. Call me Moonbat.

The business couldn't exist without them, but they take in the shorts everytime some rich CEO doesn't make a nickel. Same in true in book publishing.

You're a butt. I agree with you about Griffey, but you're still a butt. Will you stop posting now?

Jack forgets that the Apple hate runs deep and runs true, both in the media and in the population at large. Journalists may get caught up in the Jobs show, but every other minute there's a story about Apple dying, exploding, sucking, overreaching, etc.

...in this thread, those who point their fingers at Apple and Apple users and cry, "J'accuse!" are at least as shrill, misinformed, and "sad sad sad" as those they're attacking.

I read the comic, and thought, "Meh." I mean, it was fine, but nothing special. It's not a new idea, but whatever.

Then I read Mr Owen going repeatedly batshit crazy.

Now I love the strip. You go, Berk! Woot!

*wanders off, unsure whether to laugh or cry*

Why not red, white, and blue on the uniforms?

As for how great America is, well, that's our problem. We have so many of us thinking we're so great that reasoned self-reflection and criticism are forbidden. So many of us are blind to our failings and therefore contribute to making the failings worse. People like Mikes Pace, with his unrepentent self-love, actually makes America worse.

There is nothing wrong with recognizing our failings and weakness. Without such recognition, the problems can't be addressed. You solve a problem first by acknowledging it.

American Exceptionalism is far more damaging to America than a Che Guevara t-shirt. They don't hate us for our freedoms. They hate us because we're act like chest-thumping, self-absorbed, frat brat assholes.

IF he makes a serious play for the Repug nomination, or wins it, and IF the Dems paint him for who he is: a Hollywood dilettante slash corporate lobbyist, he's eminently beatable. But he has to get hit hard with the truth. If the Dems let the role win out over the actual man, though, they could have problems.

So I guess I wouldn't like Evan Almighty. And I wasn't planning on seeing Live Free or Die Hard until people started reacting to Justin Long's God comment. Religious zealots with no sense of humor make me laugh, and when they get in a dither when someone badmouths their alleged deity, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Oden didn't play at Texas. Save yourself, King, before the self-righteous Ohio-hidebound frat rat fury of Mikes Pace makes textual diarrhea all over your letters page.

...I wouldn't be worried about warrantless wiretaps, now would I?

Sure, you can see naughty bits, but when I see the word "porn," I tend to think of naughty bits TOUCHING each other, rhythmically. Not naughty bits touched by the Soften tool in Photoshop.

I deeply apologize for attempting to make a joke. But simply saying it wasn't funny would have sufficed. The constipated essays were unnecessary.