The patriotism-sports thingy.

I remain seated during the National Anthem at games I go to. And there always seems to be some Colonel of the patriotism police in the vicinity that wants to make an issue about it, sometimes close to physically.

I try to explain that the great thing about America is you don't have to stand. But it doesn't sink in.

Do we still own part of Cuba anyhow?

Action will follow the talk roughly a year, or a little less, before the 2008 elections, by all republican congressional candidates trailing in the polls by 10 or more.

There is speculation that this pro wrestler who killed his wife and kid and himself may have been due to steroids.

Barry may be off the hook for a few days anyway.

Calling the Clinton marriage "unique." It's probably fairly representative of the typical American marriage.

Is roughly the equivalent of ranking Dubya over George Washington.

About Jordan-Bowie, then or now..........But then and now I correctly identified Olajuwon as the best player in that draft.

That Olajuwon was the proper pick----Easy to tell, EVERYONE has always talked about the picking Bowie over Jordan..no on ever condemns the Olajuwon pick.

America's national security will be in jeopardy as soon as the American army ceases bieng the policemen of Iraq.

..........is speaking for God, then I am proudly "Godless".

Maybe it's coincidence, maybe it's signifigant.........The percentage of the population that approves of Bush and supports the surge is merging into the same percentage who don't believe in evolution.

On Oden being 19

It's not her fault, it's her parents.

Has had a corncob up her butt ever since she wrote HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS in the pre-impeachment/Senate trial time of Clinton.....And then it turned out that they were not high crimes and misdemeanors.

Of the high pitched, obnoxious rhetoric of the republican big mouths is in direct response to.... A.)a larger and larger majority of the country finally and fully realizing the disaster the conservatives have given us......and B.) this realization taking shape at the ballot box.

The Coulter/Hannity/Limbaugh etc. reaction is going to get more belligerent after the 2008 election.

I suspect Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh are secretly rooting for Hillary...They are sick and tired of defending the indefensible. That gets old, and as desperately as they might try, it's damn difficult to mount any offensives other than stuff like "faggot." In brief, the carnival barker insulting passerbys trying to get them holler back.

They've been jealous of the dems hammering away at Dubya. They want to get back to the full-fledged pitbull minority status. That suits their nature best.

She is just hopelessly backed into a corner.

At one time the biggest cheerleader for the "smaller government" but minority republicans, against the "big government" liberals.

Then her party takes total control of government, Whitehouse and Congress for years, and they set new record highs at all levels of government, and in all ways--from spending, to governmental powers, to secrecy, to pre-emptive war and nation building.

That's backed in the corner. So Clinton, Gore, and Edwards are fags.

It's the signal that the conservative movement is exploding.

It's like the initial rumblings and spurts from St. Helens, before the collapse of one side of the mountain

If all Bush's decisions were working out and everything was running smooth, Coulter would be in the background and relatively quiet.

The more aggressive she is, and when she is getting the most exposure, is when her political movement is going in to the toilet. And her aggressiveness and exposure will only add to the troubles.

It's probably a safe guess she has contempt and spite for her own friendly audience as well. Eventually she may be spitting venom at them as well.

For now her game is leading a jihad of the riff-raff, many rural and red state, against their intellectual superiors. Her humor, using the term humor loosely, draws laughs and kudos down on the farm or at least with the farm mentality. It's all basically just trying to poke their fingers in someone's eye.

For Coulter, is Moe of the 3 stooges.

They would put frozen zygotes and embryonic stem cells all around their nuclear facilities.

That would render "bring 'em on" Bush impotent to attack.

To try and catch the 756th homer and retire.

The current republican administration has created a bloodbath in Iraq.

While the current crop of republican candidates for 2008 are debating whether evolution is true or not.

That a good chunk of the world can distinguish between America and the republican base.

In his base---the Confederacy.

Even if Bush hits rock bottom he can always count on a few supporters.....Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, and Alito.

Come back to life like our guys do--Jesus.

It will eventually come down to one swing vote and a 5-4.

They could find kiddie porn on the Oval Office computer and Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito would rule in Bush's favor.

At age 42 Mays called it a career. That year he had a .211 batting average, a .303 on base percentage, and a .344 slugging percentage..............Bonds turns 43 this month. He's currently .295 batting, .512 on base, and .589 slugging.

He still has the most amazing stat in sports history in my book---------He swung the bat and missed the ball 16 times in an entire season.

Very, very few players did anything after the age of 40. The league is still petrified of Bonds and walking him non-stop at age 43.

In the day of Rose, Aaaron, and Mays----the days of double headers and less comfortable and convenient travel, the trainers had these little pills they handed out called greenies-----Jim Bouton wrote about it in BALL FOUR.

Amphetamines.

Performance enhancers.

These massive offensive and defensive lines, now hallowed and respected legends with glorious nicknames, that led teams to Super Bowl titles over the last few decades.

But Bonds is Darth Vader.

It is absolutely indisputable that Bonds was a better all-around player pre-steroids.