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Does anyone else just not give a damn? As long as he doesn't serve time I'd welcome him back, especially if he can coach our O-line into something that looks at least close to NFL-worthy.

You never know. I realize he'll be kicking but most programs are pretty big on their dry rules during the season. I have a few friends who played D1 football and told me that they didn't even want to party (read: drink) much during the offseason, since they were always busting their asses trying to put on more muscle. Of course, these guys were all linebackers and D-linemen so YMMV. Congrats, though!

Just take the batteries out. Who needs a smoke alarm anyway?

If people really wanted to come down on Jackson's legacy, they'd leave him on the $20. Dude's been spinning in his grave since 1971.

Over lava. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz0i94ABgD0

Friggin nailed it.

I never said anything about men. I tend to think the same way about the male "talent" in porn as I do their female counterparts.

Yeah! Let me know when you're done with your sloppy seconds thirds fourths ... errrm... 64ths?

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In all seriousness: what must her boyfriend be like? "Oh, I'm cool with my girl getting railed twelve ways to Sunday by random dudes, probably picking up some sweet infections along the way."

Rightly or wrongly, I don't doubt that at this point.

He made Jay Cutler cry. I'd give him a job just based on that, though.

Google "sundown town" and try to tell me that places like Tonawanda, Brighton (suburb of Rochester), and Niskayuna (suburb of Schenectady) don't fit the description to the letter. Then there's that whole bus incident in Buffalo...in 1999 for chrissake.

I drink Brooklyn Summer nowadays. Out of a can. Come at me.

So it's now 6:46. How long did that temptation actually last?

Yet there are Malcolm X schools all over the damn place.

Diversity + proximity = war Diversity + proximity = "white flight" They won't ever learn.

I went with Spieth as well. He could have weekends of his life at the British and the PGA and still not win one or the other because someone else had the weekend of their life. Serena can beat any other female tennis player on any given day; they just can't play on her level when she's at her best. Lots of guys can play on Spieth's level, and to beat them all out for all four major championships requires as much luck as it does skill.

Funny you should say that...

I thought that was what I said. I wasn't trying to say that fundamentalists on the whole have an interpretation in the same way that the Catholics on the whole do. Though it is important to point out that many fundamentalist denominations do have copious statements and papers on the "harder" topics in the Bible that they impress upon the churches they cover.

Right. Well now we're taking it back to the Reformation and the concept of sola scriptura; that interpretations of the Bible are also subject to the Bible and the Bible serves to interpret itself in many areas. A literal interpretation of the Bible is no less an interpretation than what the Catholics tend to hold - it's just, well, literal.

His nutritionist kept telling him it's all about smaller portions.

I'm assuming you're talking about infant salvation. I guess the answer would be that the Bible doesn't directly speak to it in general. They can point at examples of children that were saved in infancy or in the womb (John the Baptist, David's first child with Bashsheba) and hope, I guess. I haven't met someone who claimed to know for sure.

From what I understand about modern evangelicalism is that, in those churches, typically, only adults (or those who have come to what I'll call a "mature faith") are baptized because it's representative (that is, not required for salvation) of the new life they have committed to following God. Since babies cannot make that commitment, they do not baptize babies. Additionally, after the ascension of Jesus there is no record of babies/infants/toddlers being baptized by the apostles. Instead, adults were only baptized by immersion after they had demonstrated saving faith in Christ. When it comes to issues with literal interpretations of John 3 (water and the spirit), there are answers to be had, though I won't speak as to whether they are convincing. Ezekiel 36 speaks of the promise of the New Covenant and promises a cleansing water for those under it (as a Pharisee, it is highly likely that Nicodemus had memorized Ezekiel's prophecies, and certainly knew of them). John 7 refers to the Holy Spirit within believers as living water. Though it may simply state the obvious, we do appear to come from a sack of water at birth. As far as whether an unbaptized infant (or even a stillborn or miscarried child) is denied heaven, I suppose that depends on who you talk to. Most of my friends in the evangelical community appeal to the goodness of God and his demonstrable affection for children in the Bible in believing that babies who have no concept of God are admitted into paradise.