John Adams

Classless. In a better world, he'd be pressured to resign unless he did anything short of a complete mea culpa. But in the world where you the president can lie under oath or completely botch an entire war and not pay a price, this will get 3 days of lip service and be forgotten.

Peters has his sights set on being a major bust Bill. He has looked simply awful in pre-season.

My daughter's school didn't play the speech but we listened to it on youtube as a family. It was a great speech and I'm glad he made it. If it inspires my daughter to do better in school, good. We need more--not less--people emphasizing the importance of learning and hard work. Most of the "cult of personality" are athletes and actresses (some are just rich children of these); I'm glad at least one of the cult has a story about his hard work and brains.

10 or 11 win seasons with this offense? You must be joking. The over/under has to be 6 wins.

Stupid then. Stupid now.

A presidential address to kids can't help but be somewhat inspirational. Obama is surely a better role-model.

First, you haven't seen the original speech. No one has. Second, if the president says something you disagree with, call it to your kid's attention. That's called parenting. Third, a presidential address to kids can't help but be inspirational. Fourth, kids can help the president in a million ways that aren't offensive. Why is it so bad that the president challenge kids to figure out ways to help him? It's civics. If you as parent don't agree with how your kids express their support for the president, talk to them. Again, parenting.

The 3rd QB doesn't count for a roster spot.

God forbid kids write an essay about how to help the president. God forbid someone read a book about the current president in school. Imagine what awful things could happen. The kids could learn to think. The kids could think about their civic duties. So glad my child is not a product of public education.

Not in my world because there's nothing wrong with being gay.

Some animals prefer sexual relations with their own sex. Some like the opposite. Some like both. BFD. Who cares? Born gay. Choose to be gay. What adults do with their privates is their business.

I would love to think so but these political bloodbaths are often more smoke than fire.

Thta poll just shows that people don't vote like they poll. They want everyone to throw out their guy but when push comes to shove, they return their incumbent to office.

Sign in and all literature seems clear that this is not the case. "All games will be available at 9pm Pacific."

Yeah. You might throw some baby out with the bathwater but mostly, you'd be throwing the sh------- bathwater out.

It's funny to remember that during the SB years, people often called for Reich to start over KElly because every time he was called on, he played so well. Buffalo talk radio was often focused on the possibility of Reich starting. Sounds stupid now--or like it must have been some tiny minority but it wasn't. Lots of people wanted to see Reich. Every city, every team goes through this, especially when they are losing.

In some ways, I'd rather Congress focus on baseball than some of the other issues.

Yes: I'm not advocating that the world only eat hand-picked food. What I am saying is that the food-producing machine needs some fundamental changes and the reason they are not made is because the consumer just sees the box of Luck Charms, a shiny apple, and a lb of ground beef--not all the sh-- done beforehand. If consumers shopped with a touch more thought, the food-producing machine would produce better (in more ways than just taste) food. By going to Whole Foods, do I guarantee that the farmer who grew the corn didn't dump a gallon of pesticide into the local river? Nope. But I put some faith in the brand's attempt to do better. And yes, I know that in some ways, they do not do better. And the same goes for my local farms--when I go to them, I can't gaurantee that they are injecting their chickens and cows with hormones but at least it seems they aren't and I can see the cows and chickens. I have seen and read about much of what happens to produce and livestock in our current system. I know I want no part of that when I can avoid it.

You are talking to Chef and I on this topic. We're not liberals. I can't speak for him but I've done a lot of reading. I am comfortable with my decision to try to, as best I can, avoid the artificial chemical-ing of food/earth. Are organic farms perfect? No. Some organic farms are inefficient as balls. The lack of certain chemicals may promote less healthy produce, especially by the time it gets to a shelf. And in some cases, an organic farm may have a larger carbon footprint. That said, I am more comfortable buying outside the food machine. It's a comfort level born of both facts and conscience. I try to buy local produce from the local inefficient farm. I try to buy at least US-grown produce during the winter--passing up Argenine strawberries in February. That doesn't mean that on a road trip, I never buy fast food or processed eats. I merely try to do better.

You're mixing things up here. There is probably little difference between the organic apple and the pesticided one. But as Chef says, there are different ways of farming. We may be so !@#$ing overrun with people that the only way to farm and feed all the mouths is to keep pumping the farms full of petroleum and grow corn out the ass. If that's true, then thank you very much, I will continue to shop at the better and less industrial farms and pay the premium. First, I find the produce to be better by far. Second, it's just a right thing to do, like turning off unused lights, recycling, and picking up trash. As far as hormones and antibiotics, those are meat issues and they are very real. What happens in the mass-produced meat system in the US is horrific. Everyone with half a brain knows they couldn't really stomach seeing what happens in that machine. We can all hide behind a flip remark ("As long as it tastes good, I don't care") or more likely ignore the stories, but I'm quite sure it would plague anyone to see the system in action. But, as I said before, there are much better ways. Is it really necessary to pump cows full of antibiotics? No--they need them because they are being fed corn (which they are not ideally suited to digest--cows are grass-eaters) and live in their own feces--and live in tiny pens with nowhere to move....so they get sick all the time without all the drugs? I'd rather eat a grass-fed cow that lived for a while on an actual range of grass instead of a dirt or blacktop cage. It just strikes me as humane and decent. Not in a PETA thumping whacko way--just in a "Look we can do better than this" way. Not a lecture. Just some choices. If everyone went "organic," whatever that means but just assume for a second that it means something like buying food from people who farm with a conscience, maybe there wouldn't be enough organic food to go around. At the moment, that question is not/has not been put to the test because although it's a growing industry, organic foods are still in a vast minority.

I do but that's besides the point. IF you want to eat beef, there are better farms out there that don't shovel corn down their throats (cows are not made for corn-eating) and make them live in their own sh--....and what they do to pigs is perhaps worse. Pigs get so stressed in the big hog farm kennels that they eat each other's tails. And those are not the really bad stories--just the day to day stuff. I don't advocate getting rid of big farms but things can be done much, much better. The corn industry is an abomination. It's driving farmers into the ground and forces massive and overproduction of a single product that then gets forced down people's gullets at a prodigious rate. And those corn fields are fed petroleum--that of course runs off into feed and water. There are ways to industrially farm that aren't as barbaric as we do them now--and that won't drive prices through the roof. It's hard to change the system though because the consumer just sees the end product (ooh look, Lucky Charms!) and not the process.

(Wonders whether it's worth discussing facts and science with you. Decides it is not.) Thanks for steering me straight. I'm going to go buy some petroleum-fertilized produce now. And also get me some corn-fed and chemically-immunized cow meat.

Not true. What much of modern farming does to the earth is abhorrent.

And yet Whole Foods produce kicks the everloving crap out of any store around here--or even the Holy Wegmans. Organic or not, they run a better food store AND it's not full of corn syrup.

+1 Darin is a total kissass to the mods. Some things you can't change so don't worry about it.