I'm a test, rampart? You put words in my mouth and then attack me?

Try Google. Five minutes will give you an initial insight into the impact of amphetamines on baseball going back to at least the forties. Ruth was notorious for taking whatever pick-me-up he could find to recover from his hangovers. Mantle? Speed freak. Aaron, I'm not sure but then I only spent five minutes with Google. But he played in an era when most players not only used amphetamines but weren't concerned about hiding it. What I did learn is that studies have shown that amphetamine use has approached 75% among professional baseball players alone in some years. Not just one player that a buncha people hate already, but a majority of players.

I won't do the research for you, because you won't believe me and because it's too easy to do on your own. Unless you're afraid to face the truth. Which, I suspect you are. Bonds is a simply convenient target for people like you, a man easy to hate and easy to hang your own insecurities on.

Face reality, all your heroes have clay feet. But you know what? Big deal.

...but I think it may be time for Kevin Federline to suffer a tragic single-car celebrity car wreck with no survivors.

Because once again I am compelled to suggest that we are well past due time for Kevin Federline to be in a tragic single car celebrity car wreck with no survivors.

For the record, my mom is not a fan of KFed. She may not even know he exists. But she always told me that if you don't have something nice to say, etc. etc.

Well, in a way I kinda agree with you about the whole celebrity culture thing, but The Fix here is hardly cramming it down your throat. It's an optional link among many. Pretty easy to avoid.

Personally this is my one source of celebrity news, just as King Kaufmann is my one source of sports news. The rest of my news reading is definitely of a more serious, less entertainment-oriented kind, both here at Salon and from many other news and information sources.

Why do I read The Fix then? Well, it's a brain break once a day. It's news about the irrelevant, presented in a small dose with a mildly catty tone. I chuckle, or shake my head, or shrug my shoulders. It enables me to, occasionally, understand what others are going on about and it provides me with an opportunity, every couple of days, to write a letter to Salon in which I suggest that we are way past due for KFed to be involved in a tragic single car celebrity crash with no survivors.

It's like one of those single serving bags of chips. It's not good for me, but it's just one bag and I kinda enjoy it for what it is. I still eat plenty of vegetables.

I don't watch television news of any kind whatsoever, so, no I don't get celebrity news from CNN and similar ilk. When I read the New York Times, which is rarely since I have come to distrust it as a news source, it's really very easy to avoid the celeb news. Same is true with any newspaper.

But you're right. Salon is not my only celebrity news source, and my other source does to a degree support your thesis. I see more of Brangelinajenickica, et. al., than I care to while paying for my groceries. Alas. I could freak out about it, but in the end, I am doing the only thing I can to influence it's pervasiveness -- mostly ignoring it. Beyond that, I feel I need to focus my sadly finite supply of indigation on important things, like this hotdog vendor who put ketchup on my dawg without asking! What on earth was that man thinking?!

I still say that The Fix is just what it is. Optional, catty, occasionally amusing or good-griefing. And you don't have to click the link. Hell, that's head and shoulders above the grocery check out line.

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

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.

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

What about KFed?

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

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?

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