I also said I'd root for whichever quarterback painted Matt. 6:5 on his cheek black and then lived up to it. Like that's ever gonna happen. Not that they're liable to care about whether a hellbound type such as myself roots for them or not.

Subtracting the snark, I stand by the rest. Warner has a striking story and a few great seasons, and we can get all warm-and-fuzzy about that. Even I, with zero patience for all the rapacious bible thumping, love his story. But when he was down, he was way down. You can't ignore how bad he was when he was bad, nor for how long. (Doesn't mean you can celebrate his great moments.)

So, amazing performer at times, but not a HOF career performer.

As for the officiating, well, there are ways the NFL can quash this kind of talk. Stop sucking at officiating. Even if it didn't affect the outcome of this game (and I'd agree probably not), it still was sub-standard. It didn't used to be like this, not this consistently bad. I mean, sheesh, it's something every weekend now, not just the Super Bowl.

Of course it's corrupt and tainted. And it's competitive, so of course it's corrupt and tainted. And any talk about sportsmanship and fair play is just a bunch of claptrap. That stuff has NEVER been important in baseball, as any parent who's had a kid in Little League will tell you. Recite the Little League pledge, then spend the rest of the time clawing and scraping and backstabbing and cheating for every little edge.

I don't care. Baseball is still kinda fun to watch, and since I'm not all religious about it, I don't care what these assholes do to themselves. They're getting paid, aren't they? That's what it's all about. Everything else is just noise.

TSA airport "security" gets the respect it deserves. Immortalized in a discontinued toy. Now can we discontinue TSA too?

We cut it last year, and don't miss it. Hell, we signed up for one of those converter box discounts and are on the "no more funding but we'll let you know if any shows up" list, and decided not to bother buying one of those either. Hulu does the job for the shows I can't miss, and, hell, the only thing I was watching on broadcast TV was the occasional morning traffic report. So come Tuesday (or May, or whenever it is), I guess our TV is just for DVDs.

If cable was $20 a month, I might still have it. But it had gotten so expensive — yeah, like $80 (and we didn't have any premium packages) — I couldn't justify it any more. It's better to watch shows on my own schedule now, using my non-cable internet connection or NetFlix delivery for far less money.

This is one of those things I've been only barely curious about, so I never bothered to investigate. But I still occasionally wonder. What's the model? Other social networking sites include advertising, so at least you can tell where the income might come from. Twitter is just a little of messages. Is it just living on venture capital until it dies, or does it generate income somehow?

...is that Apple employees have entered into a mass suicide pact with their company's CEO, whereas Motorola's employees have not.

Just to be clear. I mean, that's what drinking the Kool-Aid refers to, after all.

On what do you base this confidence? Because I doubt your favorite newspaper has any interest whatsoever in "self-correcting."

You wonder if these people will ever learn that you lash out at Jon Stewart at your peril.

...doesn't warrant this much attention.

Including myself.

But it doesn't exist anymore.

Funny how that works.

I'd find it highly offensive if you put me on the same level as Glenn Beck.

Now what were we talking about?

I'm among those who decided not to renew due to the Paglia idiocy. To the extent I come to Salon any more, it's mostly to see if you've done anything. I may drop in on another story at times, but the less I see your byline, the less often Salon.com is a destination for me.

But I hardly think you should stick with the column to indulge folks like me. I admire and respect the excitement you feel about moving in new directions. I sincerely hope you experience great success.

And calls the forward-delete key "Delete" too, with a ⌦. Weird, I suppose, but the backspace key is where you'd expect it and behaves like a backspace. Forward-delete on full keyboards behaves like forward-delete should. I've never found using the fn modifier on my MacBook to get forward-delete onerous, but if you do then Moore's solution seems reasonable.

Now I suppose it's time for Windows folks to pitch a fit about how dumb it is to call Backspace "Delete."

In regards to backspacing and forward deleting, Apple hasn't "decided what's best" for anyone. On Apple keyboards, the backspace key backspaces. The Delete key forward deletes. Just so happens the word "delete" appears on the backspace key. Shock of shocks. (Though I've got a HP keyboard here which calls the backspace key Delete as well. Damn you, HP, for you backspace non-conformity! Damn you to hell!)

On Apple laptops, the delete key is not included, but the functionality is available by clicking fn-backspace. Or, alternatively, using a keymapping tool to change the function of another key to forward-delete.

I guess this is the end of the world for you, OMG, teh backspace key sez deletez! Whatever will you do? Consider upping you dose, perhaps. You seem awfully worked up about this.

The notion that Apple somehow "decides what's best" but Microsoft doesn't is patently laughable, of course. They both "decide what's best." And they are both occasionally right, often wrong. C'est la vie.

To have your entire political ideology based on the hissy fit. Republicans are really weird.

Even the beloved Lynne Rossetto Kasper can't save it.

Lefty "The Leftist" McLeftington.

The Third.