UConn James

If you ragged on every guy who has his position changed position from where he played in college ball, you'd be knocking a LOT of guys. Levitre wasn't drafted to be a T (and yet, in a pinch the last couple of games last season, iirc, he wasn't horrible at tackle). Many NFL LBs were DEs in college. BTW, Wood isn't a DT, and I'm sorry to burst your balloon, but he's a big boy who carries himself well.

Actually, they can't. Any sale of an NFL team must be met with the approval of 3/4 of the other franchise owners. Link Don't try to apply the workings of the real world on the NFL. You'll usually be wrong.

Tom, is there a link for this report? I checked BBC right now, and there's nothing but a Breaking News bit that Mubarak saying to ABC News he "wants to resign immediately, but fears chaos" if he does. He also said he will never leave Egypt. Link

That's like the old floral-patterned sofa in the basement. In January, everyone says it has to get thrown out once the snow melts... and yet, five years later, it's still there. Sometimes, initiative needs to be taken when the will is strong, or else it'll never get done. Leave Mubarak in power for 8 months, and their army soon will become very political.

WaPo: Egypt protests show George W. Bush was right about freedom in the Arab world I'm not saying I totally agree with this piece, but... ----- +1 History repeats itself is going to be the narrative of the 2012 election. Especially if the current polls hold and Mitt Romney --- and his Reagan hair --- gets the nomination.

Actually, they also featured a team that printed a mouse heart on a standard printer (I believe it was an HP) that had been jury-rigged for the purpose, and which used stem cells in the printer cartridge. And then, they got that heart to beat. I don't know. The tech is advancing rapidly. It may be ~10-15 years before it gets to testing human hearts and trials for those who are far down on transplant lists, and have nothing to lose. So, 40 years until it could get more perfected and the cost down... it's an estimation.

The NOVA Science NOW series had an episode (titled "Can We Live Forever?") a couple of weeks ago where they showed organs being generated from stem cells on bio-scaffolding. They showed mouse lungs "breathing" in a jar and said they successfully transplanted into a mouse. Hearts, skin, showed one woman whose esophagus was repaired, and said some injured Iraq/Afghanistan vets will be getting stem-cell-generated ear transplants later this year. The scientists involved said the timeline to where we'd routinely be growing people new organs from their own stem cells is about what DC Tom said --- probably four decades.

Well, there is a point. A lot of things, even benign, naturally-occurring materials, uncontrolled in mass quantity have the potential to cause destruction / disease. Look at wood chips / sawdust. In small quantities, it's harmless and, actually, even beneficial. Gather a large pile, and it is classified as "hazardous waste" b/c there's a serious risk of fire because it generates a lot of heat near the core of the pile. Same principle with grass clippings. I don't know the whole deal with milk's possible problems, but having had some experience with expired jugs in the fridge, in a spill of mass quantities, there's certainly the potential for large-scale bacterial proliferation. Milk, like water, seeks the lowest level and seeps into water systems. With 10,000 - 20,000-gallon tanks, yeah, it might not be a bad idea for farmers and dairy transport companies to have a plan for containment if they spring a leak.

When this house was re-built in the early '70s my uncle acted as the GC, and while 2x4s were/are code, had them use 2x6s for the trusses. His words: "You'll be able to drive a tractor trailer on this roof." Professionally, he was a master electrician and later, a reputable building official in a mid-size city nearby. Several of those 'X-is-code-but-we're-doing-Y' upgrades that have really saved us over the years.

And yet, another entity with his same brand of genius will show up here inside of a week. Don't be fooled by a join date either... this particular troll has gone through many already and has made plenty of aliases for future use so there's the impression that he's someone who's been on TBD for a while, but is 'just discovering' PPP.

But, there is Joe Lieberman... and, now, Dick Blumenthal. They both like to be on teevee more than is healthy for a normal person (or is that "more than is normal for a healthy person"?)

Two feet at UConn/Yukon/UCan't? A couple of towns north, when I walk my dog in the clearing, I'm thigh-high and I'm still not close to touching ground.

They don't respect simple copyright law for movies. Yet, when it'll come to mass-producing, say, cost-effective fuel cells that our "American innovation" designs, Obama et al. expect Chinese companies to play fair and not rip our patents. Perhaps someone could print up a background banner for him with the theme of "Losing the Future."

Here in the NE corner of CT, it's a little more than you guys have, wrt actual snowfall and not much cumulative melting (I was down there yesterday - 38* in Manchester, 30* here according to my Jeep thermometer). With this next storm, the squirrels aren't even going to have to jump/climb to get to the feeder! Roads are in pretty bad shape as well. It's scary just trying to pull out of the driveway or around corners with the 8' piles. Let's just hope Phil doesn't see a shadow Wednesday!

Fez, I think you need to get to the gym.

Changing a breaker isn't very hard or dangerous.... Trip the main, take out the old, put in the new (minding to put the wires in the same configuration), throw the main back on, replace panel. Checking out a DIY book can save quite a bit of coin. But I can appreciate someone who feels it's beyond their ken, especially when it gets into things like electricity, furnace or plumbing.

It adds another layer of taxes and bureaucracy. Yay! CT got rid of county services b/c it was rife with corruption (most of all, the county sheriffs).

The Romans used to make people save up their pi$$ so it could be used as a cleaning agent. It has a high ammonia content, after all.

Not likely. Adams (the old cooter who gave Buffalo fans the double-barrel-middle-finger a few years back) has said they're both gone.

"Pet Parent: Belinda" , AD.

J.D. Salinger letters show "warm," "affectionate" side

Sorry, but you're way out of line wrt what your moderation duties are. If this is an indication of your methods, maybe you need a talking-to by senior mods. It was not overtly political and was fair comment on something that was part of the endorser's statement.

And I just saw that PBS "American Masters" piece about him a couple of weeks ago. I'd blame the hour, but.... As I wrote before, I'm just now catching up on a lot of movie-viewing. Never saw Bardem in anything, and now that I've moseyed to IMDB, it seems all the more impressive the performance that the Coens got out of him and that he gave. Tropic Thunder has been added to my list. Memento, We Are Marshall, and The Triplets of Belleville are up next.

Just saw NCFOM a couple of days ago and it's what prompted me even harder to see True Grit. Tommy Lee Jones personified that sheriff, and I think I'm always going to hold that first impression of Javier Bardem. I was watching that and especially in the conversation with the garage owner, thought immediately of Loughner in the Tucson, AZ, shootings --- cuckoo conversation, machine-like, no remorse. I didn't follow there toward the end --- what happened to the $2M? I'm not going to ask whether Shugar [white-fonted for spoiler]killed the girlfriend, as that seemed obvious. Anyway, I'm recommending TG to anyone and everyone. I don't know if the academy has given Best Actor to someone two years in a row, but Jeff Daniels in this would be a very good time to start. The Coen Brothers' dialogues can lend themselves to an awful rigid delivery (they seem very high on annunciation of every syllable; people just didn't/don't talk like that) and in this sense, their movies are somewhat like watching a Shakespearean play in Olde English. Which is what made JD's job all the more great, b/c the lines flowed out of him with ease.

"Olbermann left the way all my men have: abruptly and with no explanation, but with a lesbian to take care of my needs." Some people are making innuendos that Olbermann should run for Joe Lieberman's senate seat in CT. I would normally laugh this off, but then again, Minnesota elected a comedian* in the previous go. * - Debatable. Being a comedian implies having an audience that laughed