...a man who talked like this is the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary of his fantasies would be let go.

This is a man who's president of the United States, but his behavior might easily result in court-ordered psychiatric care if he was in almost any other job. It's not a question of liking or disliking him, of agreeing or disagreeing with his politics. He's delusional. By any reasonable definition, he's a danger to himself and others.

Impeachment? Hell, that's not the half of it. This guy needs to be committed.

It really sucks the way King does what columnists do, only better than most. I really hate the way he's informed and witty and willing to admit when he's wrong. And the thing I hate the most is the way I have no choice about reading him. Even now, his armed thugs are upstairs getting fresh coffee and going pee. I have only seconds before they return and force me to read still more King, to be subjected further to his clever ignominy.

Oh, despair.

I'll give you credit for some good gags. I chuckled, especially at a few that landed a little close to home.

But the heat thing? In real life? Not so bad, I think.

In my house, I'm the Mac user, my wife is the PC user. We mock each other for our choices, but it's all in good fun. As someone said, it's just a computer, not a religion. I am a Mac user for a variety of reasons, and have been satisfied with it over the years.

Does my MacBook run hot? Yeah, it seems to. A tad hotter than my previous PowerBook, perhaps, but I've yet to feel like I couldn't use it. It hasn't crashed so far. I haven't set it aside due to heat problems so far. Doesn't mean the heat isn't a problem for some people, just means that heat perception is at least partly subjective.

Point of comparison. My wife uses a fairly high-end HP laptop. It's configured fairly similarly to my MacBook (to the extent that such comparisons can be made between platforms). For roughly equivalent hardware (same RAM, same HD size and speed, etc.) she paid $200 less than I did. Not a huge difference.

I'm the one with Photoshop, so when she wanted to do a little Photoshop project recently, I handed over the MacBook and used her HP to check email and do some online research while she did her thing.

Our gripes? "Your computer is hot." Yup. Both of us. Seems she's a bit more sensitive to heat in her wrists, while I am a bit more sensitive in the trousers area. The heat of her HP bugged me, while the heat of my MacBook bugged her.

What are the raw numbers? I don't care. My machine meets my requirements, it works well, and I have no complaints. Same for my wife. Neither one of us owns a thermocouple. We just get our stuff done on the tool that meets our requirements. Your mileage may vary.

I certainly apologize if that offends someone else's religious sensibilities. I may be stupid to some people for the tool choice I've made, but oh well.

Yeah! It's been too long since we heard yer name, young skanky fella!

1) How many home runs Barry Bonds hits.

2) Whether or not he took steroids.

I will say this, though. If Barry Bonds was beloved by millions with a scintillating, thoughtful personality and there was absolute proof of him taking steroids (say, a video of him injecting himself and saying into the camera, "I am injecting steroids," followed by a test of the contents of the syringe demonstrating that the contents were, in fact, steroids), I think MLB would be planning a huge celebration of home run number 715, and eventually, home run number 756.

MLB certainly doesn't care about steroids, except as a PR inconvenience. They just think Barry Bonds is a dick.

Well, who doesn't?

Kerry and Edwards successfully and effectively pointed out her and her father's hypocrisy. Nobody likes that.

What about KFed?

...from the sychophantic press that Colbert skewered alongside him, and from that approximately 33% of Americans who still have their heads up their asses.

He's not that good for the environment. It's really that simple. He is fair, for a Republican, but his voting record is environmentally tepid overall, and he too often gives moderate cover for truly egregious anti-environmental legislation. Endorsing an okay Republican because, compared to other Republicans, he's an okay environmentalist is fatuous.

Not that I expect anything better from the Sierra Club. In fact, I've long since given up on the Sierra Club. I don't know if this is true in fact, but in appearance, the fox seems to be guarding the hen house at the Sierra Club any more. The Sierra Club is no longer a "green" group, it's a former green group that has sold itself out as a brand to corporatized outdoorsiness.

Real environmentalists know that a Sierra Club endorsement is ultimately meaningless anyway.

I have to say that the Republicans have shot my capacity for shock in the face.