UConn James

Laughed my butt off when I read this b/c I was thinking about my area the whole time. We get the occassional storms and all, but it's rare that anything serious ever hits. Link

I think you'd like Steve Laffey, who's running for in a Senate primary against Linc Chaffee (R(-INO)) in R.I. I can live with Republicans, and I might even vote for them again, if they govern rather than load up on pork and preach morals. I've watched him over the years and I mostly find myself saying "%$^& YEAH!" whenever he's on TV. He's the mayor in one of the bigger cities, took over when they were in the red by so much it wasn't even funny; cleaned it up and pissed off a lot of people b/c he cut off the gravy train and did things that made fiscal sense. The city is the better for it and they're getting back on track. It was really telling when the Bush-buddy RNC refused to support Laffey even when he was mulling running for Jack Reed's seat, so he figured, wtf. Proof positive that the two sides don't want things to change. Defecit finance and running in the red is great, don't you know?

Note 2 -- One should purchase one of these and some of these beforehand, and clear all public appearances from the schedule the day after. Tried the Biscuits with LA's Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes last week. Good eats.

Locke lived in California, I know, and it didn't seem like he went too, too far out of his way to see his father. Jack & father were at a hospital in LA. Would be a simple explanation that his injuries were so severe they brought him there.... I would think, tho, that Jack would know and remember a guy who almost killed his wife. Plus, that happened when Locke was a relatively young man -- Sarah would've been like 2, which would make Jack the youngest surgeon ever . There'd be criminal charges associated with it, too, and I don't see that in Locke.

Aaron Rodgers, out of Cal. I say Tice. The scandal. Not producing despite bringing in talent.

I think it works much better for the character of Sawyer/James Ford the way they ended up writing him. The murder-suicide as the end result of a scam and that he witnessed it adds so much depth and hypocracy to him. It also allowed us to see that glimpse of when he realized that he was doing the same thing with that family. And about the sh--hole part.... What, you want him to lie? Fair enough. It just means I won't be watching the TeeVee as much. I like that LOST isn't all about Sci-fi, it's about telling the stories of all of these characters and then it challenges the viewer to piece it together, and we do even tho 80% of the puzzle is missing. It is heavy on drama, comedic with Hurley (as a kind of neo-Falstaff) and Charlie, mysterious.... Having seen the Locke-loses-a-kidney episode again... as he's driving in his red VW Beetle (read: Nazi Wheelbarrow ) it cut short of what happened. He was just pounding his fist on the roof and panel. Anyone think that Locke tried to kill himself? I was thinking of that ep and how it paralleled Boone being "sacrificed" but the end result for Locke was a black screen, a rimshot and "LOST." Wouldn't surprise me if the linkage was that Christian Shepard did the surgery that rendered Locke a parapalegic. But it also would explain Locke's belief in God/Fate/Whatever, as those facing those circumstances often look to something outside of themselves. Like Sawyer's character, that kind of revelation would give you an instant re-thinking of Locke the person. So, welcome to the new digs in the OT Forum. The season starts Wednesday.

Using the 50/50 method, it comes out to 0.0000152587890625. But that is fine-tuned by knowledge of the personnel and coaching, weather, predictive skill, balls-to-the-wall-guessing, etc. So yeah, LA isn't really going out on the limb. More like he's holding on to the tree trunk at the base. Don't call him a tree-hugger, tho!

I really don't understand that unless something was tweaked whereby a week of rest would have him at 100% and playing would have made the situation decidedly worse. Would those precautions include getting cheap-shotted by Frank Middleton? We've now lost our MLB in the last two games at TB.

I'm still in it. I just didn't see us going to TB and being able to overcome their D. Historically, the Bills don't play well in heat and humidity. Good thing is, I've got us down for three straight wins. Hmm.... Steak or lobster?

In essence, the Buc's D (re: CBs, mostly) got in his head. Wasn't seeing the field fully. Tried to place the ball where the defender couldn't possibly get an interception or knock the ball down, either sideline tiptoe, leading way out to the side, shoestring.... Unfortunately, when you lead your receivers in that manner, you make throws where they can't possibly make a catch either. Welcome to the big leagues, kid. The Ds are going to be like this every week (unless you're playing the Texans or Cardinals). People need to give him a chance to fail b/c it's only through games like this that he's going to realize he needs to do better. It's called "grooming the QB." (And on that subject, JP really needs to get a haircut ).

A huge positive for me --- the furniture is still intact. There will be days like this in JP's (and MM's) development. Mope for 10 minutes, watch the tape and learn from it, get angry about it and work harder for next week.

Who is doing just as well as JP --- 2/3 for -1.

Feast or famine for the Colts, I guess. Who'd'uve thought after last year they'd be bad on O? Stuff like this has me not SO much sweating that our O isn't exactly lighting it up yet. Hey! Baltimore's supposed to win the Super Bowl, don't you know? Someone needs to inform the Titans that they need to lose.

On the original airing, I thought it was a chain-like thing that had Locke's leg. I'm on a rooftop antenna, tho. I paused the DVD on that scene and it looked kind of... how do you say... vegetative. I don't like how Lost is springing up all of these Out-There sci-fi shows. And no, with a mug like that, I wouldn't expect Mr. Maplethorpe to be getting many leading-man hero roles.

They interrupted one of the college games yesterday to show the line of showers moving right across the state. It was about 80 percent reds and purples (which basically translates to 'Wall of Water') on the radar, which goes to show how strong it was. Lots of lightning strikes. Up this way, we got a few boomers (a couple were so close that my dog about jumped up, hit the ceiling and came down on the couch. A 90-lb chicken-dog , but his mother was the same way) but it was mostly rain, which we desperately needed. Don't know where it came from, but it was probably leftovers from the showers on Thurs/Fri. When it was over at about 7, we had that orangish-yellowish half-light glow that comes after these things. I always love that.

I think the regulations were a little laxed that year, as tradition was what they were trying to promote for the anniversary. The time when the 69ers started wearing their black-trimmed unis in the season and then in the Super Bowl... well, it wasn't that far off from the regular garb and the NFL pro'ly said "Eh, what the hell...." Also, there's no rule for pants --- hence why we can switch b/w blue-on-blue, blue-on-white, white-o-blue and white-on-white. It's be nice if JP continued to voice his opinion about really loving these unis, and that he wants them to usher in his own era.

Paul, to be fair, there's a composition issue. Earlier in that sentence you were talking about the D's, seperated it by a comma and then mentioned that if we just had more experience.... I was furrowing my brow over that too. I'm just a little worried to see how Lindell will kick on grass. Prove me wrong, Rian! Prove me wrong!

Speaking of prospects for the first (or maybe second) round, I'd pencil in the FB Bernstein from Wisconsin. Shelton is getting up there.... And if you look at the tape of preseason and the last two weeks, he's missed on a few key blocks (see: JP's safety) and quite evidently hasn't been opening holes for Willis. Bernstein, when I saw him a couple of weeks ago, had that fire like a Sam Gash type. I'd love to see TD pick him up, and considering our ties w/ Wisconsin, I wouldn't be surprised by it. You're right, tho. Kiwanuka will likely be the #1 pick. Sorry, Matt Leinart fans.

Just be aware that the ticket girls all carry Mace®. Tho, it will take them 30 minutes to get the canisters out of the pockets of those jeans....

Yeah, he's a real prince.

Read your under-avatar line, then implode as you try to reconcile your utter hypocracy.

On PPP, when you mention that someone's relative was busted for intoxication, you get called a c**t. I wonder what happens on the main board....

The opportune thing is when you only use that excuse once for each kind of mistake. If JP uses it to describe himself throwing into double coverage, and then next time he doesn't, then I'd let it pass. Problem when Drew used the phrase was he'd do some boneheaded thing like throw the ball away on 4th down, pick the wrong side of the field to defend, etc. Continued making the same damn mistakes, and it rings hollow. Also how he'd say "we" when it was more like "I need to execute better."

My defense of him? Go back and read the post, especially that whole, "[A]nything short of collecting his only copy of something similar in world-changing scope to the Marshall Plan, I'd say it was wrong" part. The rest was pointing out that a lot of posters here picked up a two-pack of standards at Costco.

Well, when things are made to be broken so we have to buy more, more, more.... Cheap-o products are what keep our economy running.