Braun skates on peeing a positive Saturday evening right after a playoff game because there wasn't a local Fed Ex office open to ship the sample. No one is questioning it was his and no one is questioning possible tampering...just that it wasn't shipped immediately thereby violating the Player's Union/League agreement.

As I the MLB's behavior in attacking Braun.

The good news, I guess, is that the MLB just keeps adding more to the millions that he can get from this case, if he decides to sue.

Aren't these same people who told us Iraq had WMDs?? Is this a case of believing when the source says what you want to hear?

Actually, they're not ... at least not until Bush dismissed all their reports to the contrary and made it clear that he only wanted intelligence that supported the winger's WMD fantasies.

CIA confirms Bush lied about WMDs.

On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior IA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again. Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMDs.

No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.

On April 23, 2006, CBS's "60 Minutes" interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. "We continued to validate him the whole way through," said Drumheller. "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."

But it's pretty funny how you continually cite the intelligence agencies as evidence that "everyone" (heh) believed Iraq had WMDs, but now you choose to dismiss them.

Guess your claim about "believing when the source says what you want to hear" is true.

Well, ...

You go to their website, enter a message and a phone number, and press submit.

She was, and remains, terrified. Think about the type of man who sees a Craig's List posting for sex with a stranger and just shows up. Not, I think, someone with a lot of impulse control.  Although, AFAIK, she has not been physically assaulted, the threat is there and very real.  

This woman has changed her phone number four times, to no avail. She now thinks she will have to move. Her entire life has been torn apart because this vindictive @sshole had computer access.

It is hard to write this off as just electronic communication. I find that often men, even really nice guys who would never hurt anyone, don't understand what it is like for women living in a society, hell in a world, where they are under constant threat of violence simply because of their gender. From the time we are young we are taught that we must be constantly on guard, that we are not free to walk around anywhere, that danger does lurk around any corner. And, OMG, being out alone after dark, well, that is practically an invitation to assault.

We deal with it because what choice do we have? But that kind of fear and stress, even though for most of us the precautions become second nature, it does harm to a woman.

I went searching to find out more about "Lord Mahan" when I read your essay, as I have a good pal named Mahan....and so found on Wik-pedia the correct attribution for the quote about power tends to corrupt.

Found another good one from Acton:

"There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success."

And I make it a practice to give cash contributions to the local Boy and Girl Scouts, school groups, etc., and skip the popcorn, pizza, candy, candles - whatever - so they can keep the entire contribution (I do like to get the gift wrap, though - that's something I really use, and there are no calories involved!).