bjorn_skurj

She's got her good points and bad ones, but she's my country and I love the shit out of her. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

For your birthday, I will now admit that Hanley Ramirez is better than Jose Reyes.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...8?currentPage=1

Anyone who serves on a school board has done their civic duty, plus one.

Target cannot sell wine in the Empire State, but I am not too proud (or too rich) to drink box wine.

I haven't, but feel I would be within my rights to do so.

I that movie.

Or the biggest September collapse in baseball history.

Maybe it would have stopped the war, but probably not. Maybe it would have brought more scrutiny to the planning for the occupation, but the planning was most probably not available, or even maybe didn't exist at that time, for scrutiny. Maybe it would have given those of us in the media who knew in our bones that this war was bullshit but were too scared to say anything about it the courage to go into full WTF mode. I don't know. I have always been gobsmacked by what appears to be the fact that Bush and them actually believed they would find WMD and that we would be welcomed as liberators. I

If I was a Red Sox fan I'd be a little pissed too. We shall see - a lot of baseball yet to be played.

That was a little sharp, but all in good fun.

I am not an expert, but I am pretty sure that wasn't his fault, at least not for the Rangers.

Rick Reilly is a good writer.

One, I don't spend any time in the Rangers' locker room. Two: Avery has played for three teams in six seasons, yet whatever he does, and however he does it, seems to work. In 86 games with the New York Rangers over the last two seasons, the club was 50-20-16 with him in the lineup and 9-13-3 without him.

I did NOT approve of Avery leaving the Rangers. God, I hate Dolan.

Iraq is an atrocity. To blow the crap out of that country and to kill all the people we killed with either no plan or an extremely stupid plan to reconstruct it is an atrocity. To be that incompetent may not be evil, but it is atrocious. It is no thing for a nation as dedicated to righteousness as we like to think we are to be doing. It is only my ironclad support for freedom of speech which restrains me from calling for the banishment - preferably to downtown Fallujah - of Perle, Wolfowitz and the other neocons who exploited the events of Sept. 11, 2001, to beat the drums for their ill-consid

Bourbon, sleep, remonstrances. I might bake a cake.

Thank you, Canada, for ice hockey, Rush, the New Pornographers and the BlackBerry. Oh, and Molson Brador and John Candy.

They can send me all the e-mails they want, but I am not voting for any Mets for all-star this year.

I keep wondering if I am related to Blanche Barton.

I don't know. I imagine a lot of people had to put up with it when the Salvation Army was big. Is a sermon and some bad singing too much a price to pay for a bowl of soup?

Having that in place is one thing. Actually utilizing it is another. The political price to pay would be enormous.

They bring imaginary people living in the sky into it, I s'pose.

Reinstating the draft would be political suicide for anyone who votes for it. Short of a nuclear terrorist attack in U.S. soil, I don't see it happening.