Agreed. We need a defensive replacement more than an offensive one. Give AJax a taste of the bigs, see how he fares. Hinske and Swish will likely split time in right for the duration, but we'll need a defensive replacement for the later innings. That shouts AJax.

First time here. Good smart post. No Halladay nonsense. I'll have to come back.

Thanks. Not sure how I made that mistake. I'll chalk it up to the loss of sleep due to DST.

Good analysis. I've long been troubled by the fact that I've known many people of varying intelligence, and yet their intellect never seems to have any bearing on their politics. I'm as likely to run into a liberal idiot as a conservative one. All the intelligence seems to do is magnify their ability to rationalize and explain their beliefs.

Funny. Ozymandius mocks EVERY liberal personage that I know of. The rich liberal intellectual elite living in an ivory tower, believing that he and only he knows how to save the world from its own problems? That doesn't remind you of ANYONE?

Except for all the people I know who have read the novel, you are the only one I've come across who sees it this way. And whatever happens as a consequence of Rorschach's journal being published is not Rorschach's doing. In order for WWIII to happen, there are still people of free will who have to make these decisions. WM puts Ozymandius and Manhattan on one side - those favoring predestination, moral relativism and Great Men- and Rorschach and Laurie on the other, the side that believes in free will, right and wrong, and the importance of every individual. Roschach's journal would only reveal the truth to the world. To believe it would inevitably result in WWIII would be to embrace the deterministic view that the series has spent a good amount of effort rejecting. Again, the emotional climax of the story is when Laurie convinces Jon that humans - individual humans, not some collective humanity- are worthwhile. There is nothing that I know of in any of Moore's other works (though I grant I've not read them all) that leads me to believe he values the deterministic view.

In the book, only the first Nite Owl had been a cop. The rest were good ass kickers (one a retired soldier), but no one was depicted as having the sort of strength shown in the film. Ozymandius is the exception, as he is supposed to represent a person who has pushed his mind and body to theabsolute peak of human perfection. As such, one could view him as being almost superhuman.

Alan Moore's politics are... eccentric. It'd be a mistake to assume any one character speaks for what he feels is "right" and just as much a mistake to assume he wanted the ending to be applauded. The very fact that we have such politically diverse (and emotionally messed up) character as Rorschach and Ozymandius will give plenty of fodder to either side of the political debate, and there is no doubt that what Watchmen does best is give the reader/viewer something to chew on.