Free Republic

Posting limits due to source.

Citing the “need to maintain an adequate level of popular diversion during these bleak times,” Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, announced a fund of $175 million will be used to subsidize the National Basketball Association. “When you’re paying $10 to $20 million a year for a top-notch player even the resources of a millionaire owner can be stretched beyond what was anticipated,” Geithner observed. “Many of these teams are forced to play in arenas more than ten years old. Cities are too strapped for funds to build new ones.” Anticipating critics’ contentions that the use of scarce funds for...

We admit it, we're stuck on The L Word, Showtime's frothy drama about fantasy lesbians getting it on in swimming pools and showers all over Los Angeles. Granted, some of us have it worse than others. Some of us only go so far as to meet Sunday nights for viewing parties with friends. In the morning we rehash over e-mail and phone. But we leave it at that. There are others among us who go that infatuated extra mile, overwhelming dozens of websites with nitpicking analysis, swooning fantasies and cries for help. Starved to see images of themselves on TV,...