We can recreate TMQ...we can make it *better* than it was before...we have the technology....Here's what we'll need:

1) Access to NFL game films via the Sunday Direct Ticket monopoly, a Tivo machine;

2) some cheer-babes pictures, perhaps from http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/cheerleaders/, since they believe that a thong and 2 triangles are acceptable cheer apparel;

3) a blindfold for watching the Atlanta Falcon's defense - especially the secondary (I live in Atlanta);

4) 3-4 pots of strong coffee so we can stay awake watching the Eagles, Giants, Dolphins offenses;

5) a spell-checker with special alerts for words like "Jew", "Eisner", "honkey", "wetback", etc;

6) a brain accessory pack so the column's author can adopt an appropriate "smarter than thou" tone;

7) a cool web site to host that has a lot of traffic (hey, while we've got all the TMQ readers here....)

damn, norlos will never be the same.
i am so disillusioned.
when is carlos gonna start selling ad space i wonder.

I have read most of the postings about TMQ's demise and I am suprised by two things: the insight displayed by many commentators into the subtlety and finesse with which Easterbrook criticized Eisner and Disney, as well as his TMQ targets, and by the whining, self-pitying, woe-is-me bellyaching by the (presumably) white males who feel somehow aggreived by the writing of Ralph Wiley. Easterbrook is an extremely intelligent man with a self-mocking sense of humor. The "I'm-so-smart" air about his columns is shtick. He's a freaking fellow with the Brookings Institution, for Christsakes! That's what we call a "think tank." Did you expect him to come across like Joe Sixpack? The fun was in his ability to poke fun, analyze football as though it were national defense, and to lower a few well-placed booms on some of our culture's sacred cows. As a minority, I never felt offended by anything he wrote because he was insightful, analytical and well-intentioned. He never advanced his own personal social, racial, or religious agenda (other than the worship of scantily-clad women), but only demanded that we think about those agendas we advance. I do not perceive his blog to be Anti-Semitic. He's getting shafted. On the other point, some commentators used the TMQ episode to take shots at Ralph Wiley. He does a different kind of work than Sports Guy or TMQ. Wiley doesn't "hate whitey" anymore than Sports Guy is a racist redneck because he calls Larry Bird "Basketball Jesus." It's called a point of view. Those of you white males out there feeling sorry for yourselves because minorities and women now have the same opportunity to express themselves as you and you ancestors have had here for 300 years ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Here you are, blessed with a nation, an economy, an armed force and a culture set up entirely for your use and enjoyment; a social structure the top of which some of you sit upon simply by virtue of your birth with y chromosones and white skin (of course, guys like Bill Gates earned their status), and you're whining about the society being unfair to you? Puhleeeze. Your Greek, Roman, Norse, Norman, and English ancestors are rolling over in their graves at what panty-wastes you have become. Stop whining and go out there and compete. Scramble around like the rest of us trying to "succeed" in American society and stop fobbing off your own insecurities on cultural critics and writers like Wiley. I don't always like his stuff but it's not because he has some anti-white agenda. Sometimes he hits, sometimes he misses, just like Sports Guy and others. And when you have a pro ball career and have published multiple books, then some of you whiners can demand Wiley's removal with some credibility. As of now, all you appear to be are disaffected, Trech Coat Mafia-type misanthropes. Get lives. Here in America, they're practically giving them away to guys like you.

The cancerous core of bigotry is the presupposition of native capacity or cultural experience based upon an arbitrary common trait. When you try to correct one broad brushstroke with another broad brushstroke, you simply create twice the mess.