Five minutes of my time late at night spent on those five GIGANTIC paragraphs to explain something it took me a minute to absorb a few days ago, Twenty seconds to write about Allen and his fans.

He seems to have gotten sidetracked by 9/11.

That's not directed at the show, it's directed at the shitty arguments against ABC's actions, and conservative justifications for keeping it on the air. Are you really so dense that you don't understand this?

Something tells me that, since he built his huge vacation home on the Baja Peninsula, that Mr. Dick doesn't head up north very often any longer.

"the seething hatred directed at this show, i just don't get it."

And studies have also shown that the 18-49 demo can be sold on switching brands, while 50+ is set in its ways. If this show could draw 18-49-year old males, ABC could get top dollar from, say, breweries to plug their brands. That the show doesn't means that maybe ABC can pull in, say, Bud Light, but not get much for…

It CAN be, but how often is that the case?

It doesn't multiply on its own, ya know.

The answer to the question is Party Time. Enjoy it while you can.

Major League attendance as a whole dropped off in that timeframe. Yeah, t.v. was part of it, but so was suburbanization. The Giants, in the decade before they moved, put up better attendance numbers than did the Cubs, yet there was no talk whatsoever of moving the Cubs (and Wrigley was not a destination ballpark for…

Because nothing says "baseball" like a stadium that has jets flying over it for an entire game.

Sure, the Giants had their eye on moving after attendance nosedived, but that nosedive began after Moses opened low income housing projects next to the Polo Grounds in 1951.

And he pushed the Giants out of Manhattan first.

IIRC, Ramona Pavilion served as a ballroom and then a roller skating rink prior to its demolition.

We are talking about foreign combatants captured overseas. Geneva Convention takes precedence here.

If it was the lead character in a Mike Judge show/film- other than Beavis & Butthead, that is- then I'd see that happening. But sometimes Judge just likes to tell the same joke over and over again, just with different settings. I see this continuing until they wrap the show. And I'm okay with that.

"Meaning, if only they had "booby trapped" (maybe with claymore mines) legislation to make it unalterable. Which is apparently a thing that people can do."

Sure, slavery in the US no longer exists, thanks to four years of civil war. Are you ready to take up arms to release less than one hundred prisoners from a quasi-legal POW camp?

They were that crafty. The Constitution didn't- still doesn't- address secession. The Confederacy decided to let the question be settled by warfare, thinking they'd win. They nearly did in 1862.

Again, they were booby-trapped. Maybe there's a better way to put it: The Republicans who created them installed a political dead man's switch. That's why when Obama asked for them to be closed (he first did so on his second day as POTUS), he got no support on either side of the aisle.