I slept through 1997, so I don't feel responsible for any of this.

Marquee Moon saved my soul when it came out. A light fell upon me, the scales fell from my eyes, and I suddenly realized that Supertramp, ELP, and Peter Frampton sucked balls.

"What I Like About You" is "better" because it isn't full of references to songs that are better than it is.

I didn't say that it was a good song, or that I liked it, and I'm so sorry if I caused you any pain. Honestly, I found it innocuous, a bouncy little piece of commercial fluff built around a pretty decent riff. If it bothers you so much, maybe you should think about Marquee Moon, which should have been a hit, but…

Damn you guys- now I'm gonna have to check it out on Wikipedia.

You're quite right, of course, but so am I. Let's leave it at that.

I wold have been offended and disgusted if somebody (thanks, Sean O'Neill) hadn't mentioned the greatest of all one-hit wonders, 96 Tears. Sometimes, rock critics simply have to prove how deep their deep cuts can go. I'm glad that at least one of these guys was brave enough to state the obvious. But, I was pleased to…

The Milwaukee Brewers have two real traditions- the late-season collapse, and the whole season collapse. Bernie and the sausage races are just smokescreens to hide the sad truth.

I get five or six of those things in me, I ain't so fancy no more. Need a couple of brats to soak up the alcohol.

Sweet. You can taste the brandy better. Korby's, of course.

I prefer the "Charlie Parker" cocktail series, the ones with heroin in them.

That's because you're not frying them on a grill before you stuff them into the bun.

The best brats are always made by white-haired guys, with busted veins in their cheeks, at local mom-and-pop butcher shops in small Wisconsin towns. If you're ever in Port Washington, WI, try the brats from Bernie's.

I don't drink beer all of the time. Quite often, I'll have a Brandy Old-
Fashioned instead of beer, before I have another beer.

Now we'll never catch the midnight rider.

Sure- which is an entirely different kind and degree of scam. Being blind stupid with greed, and being just gullible enough, are two morally different things. Your point has some validity, but you seem to me to be working way too hard to make Madoff's victims more culpable than they are.

"Decimated" means "reduced by 10%". Yeah, I know, I'm being a grammar/vocab pr*ck, couldn't help it, just a nervous twitch.

Sure. By definition, those gains don't exist. But, if I put in 10, take out 5, it doesn't matter if I'm "worth" 100 when the scam collapses- I'm still out the 5. I understand that many people did pretty much that.

I'm sure you've heard the line attributed to Don Vito Corleone- "A man with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns". It may be divine to forgive those who have done such damage, but it's foolish to forget that damage. To the victims, do the wrongdoers motives really matter more than the fact of the…

Good post, thanks- but what about all of those Client A's who poured all- or at least, lots- of those "gains" right back into the scam?