Disclaimer: Top Comments is highly subjective. There are many great comments, and I hope that people post their favorites down below. Oh, and something about flotation devices.
Welcome to the S.S. Commentary! I'm your skipper, J-Love. This evening, you're in for big kick ass comment fun. It's a little early tonight, but I had to get it done because I've got some stuff going on tonight.
To start us off, here's a special message from Al Gore and Bender Bending Rodriguez... you know Al Gore, but for those of you who have forgotten him, here's Bender:
Now that we have Bender out of the way, let's move on...
There are 14+ comments tonight. There is one reason for this. The NBA Draft. That's right. The comments will be drafted by the NBA teams with lottery picks. Regardless of this, the Knicks will still win only 20 games next year.
Before I begin, thank you to the emailers. Thanks to you, I have even more comments I may have missed! :) I only used one of the three, I got, but I think that emails should be central to the process. So, keep those emails up. I'm not sure who they were from though, so leave comments, and I'll update this thank you.
Now, onto the comments! (Note: The comments are in no particular order... the rankings mean nothing) Just imagine David Stern going up to read each pick. Or, imagine Bender doing it.
This Diary explains the feature.
1. The Toronto Raptors pick media war's comment pointing out that net neutrality has not been as much about the Googles and Amazons as it has been the smaller types like SaveTheInternet.
2. The Chicago Bulls (from the aforementioned Knicks) select ortcutt's reminder to the New York Times as to why taking advice from Geraldo Rivera is not something to do.
3. The Charlotte Bobcats select Norville Rogers look-a-like Adam Morrison... oh, and LeftHandedMan's advice to Democrats on how to deal with the GOP's condemnation of the NYT.
4. The Portland Trailblazers select Elwood Dowd's comment giving some historical perspective on how early primaries work... Dowd's comments in the NH thread also give some perspective on the wider field, while not throwing so many candidates out.
5. The Atlanta Hawks select Deano963's reminder that The Hammer won't be able to nail the judge in the TX-22 case with a "lib'rull" moniker.
6. The Minnesota Timberwolves, inspired by the Hawks, select one of the responses to Deano's comment above, selecting RequestedUsername's comment.
7. The Portland Trailblazers (from the Boston Celtics) pick jimraff's comment advocating the teaching of intelligent design (before you get all up ons, read the comment)
8. The Houston Rockets select BlabberMan's comment on safe districts. Because the Rockets should care about gerrymandering has already done in their state, and what it could do to them.
9. The Golden State Warriors select ilyakogan's comment on the changes in attitudes in Central Asia (good diary in this one as well)
10. The Seattle Sonics select GreyHawk's comment combining snark with an Armando "sighting".
11. The Orlando Magic select phild1976's comment attacking the MSM for not looking at the actual story in the bank records stuff, instead focusing on the NYT.
12. The New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets select a Gulf Coast Shrimp-related comment from lgmcp
13. The Philadelphia 76ers select (from the emails!) House's comments on Christian theme parks... honestly, I want to see what a Book of Job ride would look like... crying much?
14. The Utah Jazz surprisingly select DH from MD's comment, for reminding us of the REAL problem with political parties.
BONUS: And somewhere, the Knicks select the letter found by Fabooj in the L.A. Times. They don't select Fabooj's comment (I do, but they don't), but the Knicks really have no idea how to draft, so we'll just assume that they would screw this up. (they could have also had maggiemae's great response, but these are the same guys who gave Larry Brown 40 million dollars to crash the team into the floor.
Finally, the top 5 for mojo, removing C&J and tip jars and all that:
1. Cedwyn "Along These Lines" 133
2. SusanHu "Thanks Lefty" 102
3. NightProwlKitty "They Vote for Flag Burning" 92
4. ProgressiveLiberaltarian "Patently Dishonest Issue" 86
5. ProgressiveLiberaltarian "Woah I am seriously moved" 78
Salutations, happy trails, and all that.