Please thank your relatives for their service.

Law-abiding, serving, making their own choices and taking care of their people, they are infinitely to be preferred to what I just saw on AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Under pressure to increase their numbers, the Army and Marine Corps have sharply raised the number of recruits with felony convictions they are admitting to the services.

Data released by a congressional committee shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in 2006 to 511 in 2007. And the number of Marines with felonies rose from 208 to 350.

I think that's under fair use of about 100 words. Of this number, 9 were sex offenders.

Over the years I watched Lynn St. James limp around the track in Indy, mainly on display as lark. I saw Manon Rheume try to stop pucks in minor-league hockey, as the meatheads in the stands guffawed. The only winning woman in a man's sports world that I saw was Shirley Muldowney. As a child I waved at her from the stands in Pomona, CA as she rode in her hot pink dragster down the return road after a run. Shirley was cool, Shirley was tough, and Shirley was a winner!

Danica had been nothing but a lark to me as well, a beautiful and young Lynn St. James, if you will. I am delighted to hear of her win and hope she has many more. Auto racing in general is lacking in interesting personalities at the moment and by being a winner, there will be more to talk about than her looks. I do wish she would ditch the bikinis though!

For the record, there are plenty of men in Nascar that had full-time rides for years without winning a race. Michaal Waltrip, anyone? He ran 463 Nascar races before winning his first race, the Daytona 500 in 2001.

there is no feminist orthodoxy we must all ascribe to.

But there IS a selective service ALL men MUST sign up for.

MEN ONLY.

End of argument, that is until you women force this to change and make women be forced to sign up too.

In 1981, several men filed lawsuit in the case Rostker v. Goldberg, alleging that the Military Selective Service Act violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by requiring that men only and not also women register with the Selective Service System. The Supreme Court upheld the act, stating that Congress's "decision to exempt women was not the accidental byproduct of a traditional way of thinking about women," that "since women are excluded from combat service by statute or military policy, men and women are simply not similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft, and Congress' decision to authorize the registration of only men therefore does not violate the Due Process Clause," and that "the argument for registering women was based on considerations of equity, but Congress was entitled, in the exercise of its constitutional powers, to focus on the question of military need, rather than 'equity.'"[23]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States

Some people feel that the draft is fundamentally unfair (or illegal in a way) because only males must register with the Selective Service. Many masculists as well as feminists hold this view. For example, the National Organization for Women, a feminist organization, passed a resolution in 1980 opposing males-only draft registration as discriminatory, and the ACLU's Women's Rights Project provided aid to the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Rostker v. Goldberg, in which the plaintiff unsuccessfully challenged males-only draft registration. Congress retains the right to conscript women and considered doing so during the Second World War.

It seems to me that since men are the majority of the Supreme Court (and were at the time of Rostker v. Goldberg), and the overwhelming majority of the US House, Senate, DOD staff, and military leadership, maybe it's ... um... in their hands?

Why are men so resistant to this? And please don't say that their wives and daughters are pulling the strings behind the scenes.

whom neither rich men nor women support.

The government is run by rich people who support women's issues and rich men's issues. Poor men (less than $100 million in assets give or take) have nobody to support their needs.

Also, the law makers DO create laws based on what women want and on the implicit threat that the women will drum or shame the lawmakers out of office who refuse to make the laws that favor women.

Women have a lot of tools in their shed to rid the government of men who might cause trouble to feminist causes. The same cannot be said for men, most of whom still live within a spider web of deceit and self delusion that women enthusiastically uphold in 100 different ways to keep men ignorant.

Sorry, if the truth bothers you, but that is why it is the truth. It is TRUE.

and I think Dan Wetzel is talking through his ass. Just because Danica Patrick is attractive, doesn't mean she's just there for decoration. She is a talented and capable driver, better than many in the field. Look at her performance in her first Indy 500, which she came within a hair's breadth of winning. In fact I would compare it to the rookie performance of Nigel Mansell, who similarly came close - but by that point he had hundreds of races under his belt and was reigning F1 champion.

BTW, last year there were three women in the Indy 500, DP, Sarah Fisher, and Milka Duno, so she's not alone in that sport. Katherine Legge of the UK is also a rising talent.

Here's an irony. Danica, a woman whose job has her drive in circles in excess of 220mph inside concrete walls, met her husband when he treated her for a hip problem she acquired doing *yoga*.

ESPN called Janet Guthrie for her comments.

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/racing/columns/story?columnist=mcgee_ryan&id=3356062

I am a regular Broadsheet reader, and to disprove the point that women never cared about auto racing before Danica, or any woman got involved, I am going to attempt to name ten male Indy drivers off the top of my head. I may misspell some because I am honest to goodness doing this off the top of my head.

Arie Luyenduyk

Paul Treacy

Willy T. Ribbs

Danny Sullivan

Emerson Fittipaldi

Nigel Mansell

Kyle Petty

Richard Petty

I'm stuck, sorry. You can see it's been a few years since I kept up.

Now I will attempt to name ten male NASCAR drivers:

Bill Elliott (who also never wins and always keeps having a ride)

Terry Labonte

Bobby Labonte

Ricky Rudd

Dale Earnhart Jr.

Who's that hotshot everyone hates. Him.

Ernie Irvan

Rick Schrader

Rusty Wallace

Was Cale Yarbrough Indy or NASCAR? or were there cars then?

Stumped, can't get 10 but got close.