okay, gotcha. I think that's admirable.

" I think the country seems so polarized on social issues is that the left tends to demonize those with whom they disagree and label any and all disagreement as "evil" or "hate.""

"because I'm one of them, and I'm not alone."

and I hear YA... There is no question that things have improved rapidly. I just get nervous when I hear conservatives saying code phrases like "forced down our throats." Social Conservatives are almost always, by their very nature, the last to accept basic realities about how to treat others with whom they don't…

I'm not saying the persecution is on the same level, necessarily. I was referring to the idea that we should just wait for gradual change. That didn't work out so well during the Civil Rights Movement. I am a white Mississippian, and I assure you that, had people waited for the South to "come around" without…

you're like living proof that time machines are possible. Swap "homosexuality" for "racial equality" and it's 1964.

hey Ronaldo:

No one cares whether Dan Shaughnessy likes soccer or not. Seriously, no. One. Gives. A. Shit. That's why this column is so annoying... not because he's stealing from himself. Not because it's horribly argued. (Hands and thumbs? Seriously?) It's because he doth protest way too much about something that NO ONE…

The Reds fan sticking the bird in drunk asshole's face made it all worth it.

Since when does Raymond Carver call play-by-play?

yeah, I see what you mean. the rest of the play was comedy gold.

Am I crazy, or did that pitch hit the catcher's glove? Seemed like a passed ball to me.

The announcer's "He'll be here all week — try the veal!" at the end... that was a nice touch.

it wouldn't surprise me at all if they did that. The audacity of those fuckers knows no bounds. Anyway, you took a joke — obviously the chances of this rude person really being a paid tobacco flack are slim — and blew it just a wee bit out of proportion. The actual article is much grayer in its assessment than said…

They all look drunk, Phillips included.

No, but (a) saying there's zero scientific evidence for it, when in fact the evidence is hazy but that, so far, a link appears unlikely; (b) calling the headline misleading, when it's not misleading at all (it's a rhetorical question asked in the context of the overwhelming yet erroneous public consensus that tobacco…

How are the health and 401(k) benefits treating you at Brown and Williamson?

And you must be a 2 with a wandering eye, you flaming asshole.

I'm a fellow Cardinals fan and enthusiastically approve this message. Well done LC.