UConn James

Actually, the real problem is when both sides continue to spin in the "what's wrong for you is not wrong for me" circle. Like when the right and Russia cry about Nightline airing the interview with Basayev, yet when Jean-Marie Le Pen is interviewed about why the Nazis were great.... that's no big deal. Why did they look into it? NYT tries to turn over every stone. They deal in information, even if it never sees ink.

Hmm. I always like the view in the Berkshires and when I went thru in June, the roads were in pretty good shape. The rush and traffic of the cities is over, you put some driving jazz or classic rock on and coast. Tolls are usually about $12-$15, total. Just watch out for the vending machine sodas on the pike --- a 20-oz. bottle that usually costs .75 was $2. Highway robbery.

90 West. It's a really nice drive once you get past Springfield. Especially on a clear summer day.

Well, it's easy to blame it on a party membership, it's a cop-out in a real explanation. It certainly plays a part, but much less of a share than most people assume. I don't not vote for Rob Simmons b/c of Tom Delay. I think voters judge the individual and their own beliefs. Lieberman is sane? That's news to me. In the '04 primary he got pretty out there. I guess that's what sleep deprivation does to you.

If you read all of those, you're more 'informed' (whatever that means as being the product of today's media) than most people. NPR has some good reports; and what I love is they let the subjects of the story speak for really long turns, so there's no chance of a Jayson Blair deal and it's not edited down to the tell-utterly-nothing soundbites of most broadcasts. Myself, I'm now less well read than the average bus driver.

Well, I think it puts another gram in the critical mass that Ohio proper shouldn't be called a true "battleground" state. But for a district that elected the previous Republican by a landslide, Hackett made it pretty darn close - 3,500 votes short against Schmidt. Then again, he did lose to a woman who was in pretty deep in ethical issues... and at the end of the day, reading a lot of her quotes (and don't get me wrong, I can accept a person of any party who thinks for themselves) she really does seem a hollow, cookie-cutter Republican. Can't say I agree w/ Hackett's critical stance on Bush's GWOT strategy, but admit that the man sure earned his right to say it, and he'll be deployed on another tour in Nov. In the national media, it was made out that he was bascially a single-issue candidate. What did him in? Was it that people supported the war, or that they were unsure of/disliked his other issue stances, or rather the lack of them being clearly defined?

Anyone watch the ending scene in the rerun tonight when Jack resucitates Charlie? Also in the ep, Jack was going along on covering up his father's drunkenness in the operating room causing the death of the patient; he later "revises [his] statement" when he finds out from the review board that the woman was preggers. The whole Jack beating on Charlie's chest was obviously tied in that he wasn't going to give up hope when others think it's too late. But there was a certain thing where the choreography of the recusitation was like a birth. That first gasp of breath. Watch Charlie's hands, they look like a baby's reaching out at Jack, grasping. Then Kate joins the fracas, sobbing in the role of the new mother. Also in the context that this was a rebirth for Charlie.

I remember the Chargers' squad always being among the best stocked, along w/ the Iggles'.

Hey, I wrote a post a couple of months ago pondering on Jin's watch=handcuff with a whole Faulkner reading tied in and not a peep. That was good stuff, people! Good stuff!!

Back to the Roberts confirmation process, I think Garrison Keillor hits the nail on the head here. Kerry needs to STFU and stop grandstanding as if it's his party, b/c it's not. The Old Scout: The Inexorable Ascent of A Harvard Man

MSNBC was just reporting varying degrees of injures, but NO fatalities.

There are reports of a few people jumping out of the exits.

Probably mid/late September. They started filming the new season a few weeks ago. I don't think the re-runs are even halfway thru. (Psst! Nice avatar! Best SNL skit ever. I heard a while ago they were going to make "The Continental" into a movie and then nothing materialized....)

Grrr!! Put me in coach, I'll take their %$^&ING HEADS OFF!!!! (That stupid angle Preaileu took gives me proof positive that I am glad he is gone).

In addition to being one of the top CBs, he's none too shabby at PRs, either. The CB position by nature is one of the hardest to fill with a top-notch player, it required such finesse and athletic ability. And it's especially important now, with the rules shift, to have one that is that good b/c so many others are playing at a Chris Watson level. DL players just need to rush the quaterback or play kill the man with the ball. I wouldn't make that trade-off, plus there's the little detail that we don't have that choice to make at the moment. You keep what you've got.

It was a 14-y.o. boy who shook his hand, right? Had he just been in the bathroom/Port-A-Potty for an unusual amount of time after having seen the Jills?

It's a difference of opinion over the length and breadth of the First Amendement. Let's leave it at that. 'Night.

Yet when they interview Michael Jackson, Gary Condit, Mel Gibson or Jane Fonda, that's all right. I consider it free speech, b/c even tho it might not be popular and I might not agree with it, it's allowed to air.

Nightline? You've gotta be kidding. Why do you think they've been trying to get rid of it for the past five years? Alfred E. Neuman presents those topics he wants to present. Be what they may; I'll defend his or anyone's right to until the day I die. Here's an idea. You try to write, produce and edit a 23-minute news program each weeknight that everyone agrees with.

I think it would be the Republican caucas in my town last week when they actually decided to nominate to their own ticket the incumbent tax-and-spend (8 percent increase in town budget) Democrat because "he's too popular" and "he probably can't be beaten." Even though the last election was hardly a landslide and we were running the town drunk. Un. Fuggin. Believable.

So, just b/c you don't want to know, then ABC must self-censor for your convenience. Never mind that you're not strapped to your armchair and your remote control isn't Super-Glued to Channel 4. Oh well, good luck to those historians in 2078 who'll have nothing to go on except the official, gov't-approved documents. Those really helped David McCollugh when he was writing "1776."

I'm not disputing the facts. What's at issue here is that you don't think ABC was "responsible" by airing this interview. This is just another addition to all of the filed clips. In the history books, this guy will be noted for the scumbag he is, that he's actually said these things that killing kids is fine b/c 'they' killed people on his side. And in the unfortunate event that he is captured rather than killed, it takes away any plausible denialbility that he ordered these terrorist attacks. You didn't say anything against the networks for showing the edited tapes when OBL gloated about the 9/11 attacks. Nightline, let's face it, is just slightly more in-depth than a nightly news segment, usually about some more obscure event than America is really interested in, which is why so few people watch it. But you seem to be pissed just by the fact that they're briefly updating the story, which might prompt some people to actually give a sh-- and try to read more. It's just a transcript of questions and answers and in the grand scheme, it's about as innocuous as the "Day 346: Natalee's Still Missing And Her Mother's Still An Airhead." Lord knows ABC has talked with Russian officials who've said they want to find this guy and smoke him. I just don't get an inability to reconcile that there are two sides to the conflict and for a matter of record, ABC decided to air the one that bothered to talk. The reason why it's not here and we don't have to worry about it is b/c of brave soldiers who fight for our ability to go about our lives and talk about our sorry-ass little First World problems.

The funding goes thru universities, etc., (and to my understanding, not private companies who would then profit, tho uni's can patent something and collect a vastly under-proportioned fee for its use) and progress and findings are diseminated thru peer review. Free rider program. Not saying that everything needs to, just areas where there's a nation-wide payoff for something a select few would be paying for. Like national security, interstate highways, etc. But whatever. Some people step up when something's important and do what's right and beneficial for everyone, rather than thinking about their own pocketbooks. I'd say Sen. Frist saw that light... if I didn't know better.

How 'bout the one they showed on the news here during Day One of the Richard Seymour holdout. RS comes barreling through the center of the line, a designed RB blitz-pickup. TH's nowhere to be seen until RS is all over Drew, and it sealed the game. Just sayin'... if you wanted something that's more representative of his abilities.

I've heard about women getting celebs to sign their breasts, but this phenomenon is getting out of hand! And Ralph's age is showing. The youth today just pronounce it: "Double U Tee Eff!"