It’s what keeps most people from slapping George Will, if that helps.

Guns?

The government’s going to take ‘em no matter what, so you’re right….it doesn’t matter.

Gays?

Don’t quite know what the connection between some bureaucrat in Washington and the U.S. gay population (Buster Ol—-) is, so hopefully that doesn’t matter, either.

Abortion?

Not going anywhere.  A wedge issue where one side pretends they’re defending something, and another side pretends to attack it, when actually the only real battle being fought is amongst the American people who are taught to hate each other over the matter.

Torture?

Not going anywhere, either.  The only thing the government loves more than throwing black men in cages is raping Arab boys: http://www.infowars.com/media-ignores-real-controversy-behind-torture-photos-they-show-prison-guards-raping-children/

Come to think of it….sticking their faces into MLB’s business (which MLB privately desires, of course) is probably the most relevant thing that a U.S. Supreme Court Justice can do these days.

Hey…

Wrote about this over at my blog this morning too:

http://www.noyoureatowel.net/2009/05/obamas-supreme-court-pick-has-baseball.html

Obama made sure to mention that baseball past when he introduced her today. Interested to see what a person like Curt Schilling (huge Republican but huge on player’s rights) has to say about her…

-Andrew

I was hoping for a Bart Giamatti appointment

Anyone who gave Seligula the smackdown he so richly deserved will have no problem sorting through the various Amendments and whatnot.

Field Hockey, you mean, right?

David,

You have the right to say what you like. In turn, I have the right to think you’re icky and off topic.

Ain’t that America.

Have a nice day.

So you guys see overwhelming evidence of troops molesting little boys….and your response is to blame me? 

Incidentally, I am a casual hockey fan, but I was kicked off a Red Wings message board (“Craig, follow their lead!” Everybody yells) because I used to always spell their name like this:

The Detroit RED Wings. 

‘Cause, ya know, all their good players are from socialist countries (they might have one or two crappy Americans, but if they do, they’re so bad I don’t even know who they are).  So, the people at the board were angry at me (“That a shock”) and so, to further egg them on, I posted this picture of all these Swedes and Canadians cleaning off their false teeth while ‘God Bless America’ was being sung.  The socialist players were just too innocent to know they were supposed to be pretending to cry like pathetic Americans do.  So that picture got me banned.

Guess I’ve just been an angry man since I saw this 9-second video four years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD06SAf0p9A&feature=related

But whatever, aye?

@David - I have no doubt that a certain (small) percentage of American troops are doing horrendous things to innocent civilians and not-so-innocent soldiers, just as a certain (small) percentage of any group of human beings does horrendous things to other human beings.  I can’t comprehend it, and I certainly don’t condone it.  Find the guilty and punish them, but don’t suggest that the actions of a few represent the many.

My biggest issue with your comments is that they have nothing to do with baseball, and, well, this is a BASEBALL site.  Yes, Craig goes off-topic sometimes, but it’s always based on a baseball tie-in, and he very succintly brought his brief, tongue-in-cheek reference to other issues back to baseball.

You take a single word and go off on some bizarre tangent relating to torture, socialists, Viagra (I’ve read some of your other comments), and a host of other issues.  Aren’t there other web sites that would be more appropriate for this discourse?

Wooden:

I agree wholeheartedly with what you wrote.  And while, in deference to GBS’s point, I’ll try to stay on-topic a bit (I admit and apologize for veering so far off in this instance), I’ll say that your point was kind of my own point.  The military now has something like 2.5 million active enlisted soldiers (hundreds of thousands of them are actually Filipino and Mexicans, especially amongst the infantry, incidentally).  Some are undoubtedly great folks with good intentions, while some are undoubtedly murderous animals.  You take that many people and that’s what you’re going to get.  This is a main reason I refuse to participate in the raging idolatry of the military.  (Hilariously, all day yesterday during MLB games, they were worshiping living military people….on Memorial Day.  “This game is dedicated to the memory of….this dude standing right here.”  Aren’t we supposed to worship living troops on Veteran’s Day?  But whatever.)

GBS: Sorry that I’m kind of a crank.  In this case, Craig dropped a few hot-button bombs, and I decided to ignite them.  But you guys could’ve just ignored me, as the first few posters did.  And some of the past stuff I’ve gotten cranky about stemmed from the idiotic, anti-freedom steroids hysteria and Selena Roberts now-wholly-discredited-slanderous-book, and so I don’t think that are enough bad things that could be said about that.