UConn James

I wouldn't be able to say, as I've only been to UConn games in the college milieu. And that was during the past several years as they moved into D-I A. Sad to say, but that game day atmosphere of which you speak was much better before they moved to the new 40,000-seat stadium off-campus, about 30 minutes away, two years ago. At the old Memorial Stadium on-campus here were the old traditions of floats, parades to the stadium, students getting just rowdy enough, lots of tailgating and the smells of barbeque smoke all around on a warm October day, a really close and cozy view of the field.... these things are pretty much gone. The scene at the new stadium is pretty sedate. Some of it caused by fiat. No gas-grilling tailgating allowed (I think they allow electric grills, whoopdeedoo), no throwing footballs allowed, etc., etc. Maybe it's just like a wife who won't let anyone eat in the living room with the new white rug.... Maybe in several years it will be better as more people become bigger fans and improvise in the tailgating strategem. The U is really trying to push Tradition, and they don't seem to understand that tradition doesn't come forcefully, it just happens by itself.

ABC is saying that the time of the attack from a cell phone recovered in an unexploded bomb was 8:49 a.m. Familiar number? NYC and Madrid. Hang in there, Nick. Our thoughts are with you 'English types' today.

Spot on. We're in the era of many outlets being either administrative/establishment lapdogs (this is pretty inherent, as most quotes come from some kind of Officialdom), some that are attack dogs, and some that reasonably balance the two. I think the last sentence is the most telling. Words just fly by people in this era. Previously, people actually sought out information and actively participated. That continues to change as a smaller percentage (but actually, hard numbers of subscribers are up) of people read their news. Big difference in the quality of TV and print, too.

I would argue that not knowing is sometimes/often preferable.

Ooooo.... Low blow.

Am I missing something, or didn't W&B make their bones by protecting their source's name 'til the end? They denied that it was Felt for several hours after the VF article leaked, until they confirmed that he did approve release of his name. If you promise anonymity as a reporter and don't honor it, even if that means you spend time in the clink, you pack up your things at your desk and turn in your reporter's notebook at the door. Your fellow reporters will hate you for doing in their newspaper and craft, and no one will talk to you again. Seriously, man, you don't need to go to J-school to know that.

In a related story, three Vietnamese families ate dog on the same day.

I was getting a little worried that everyone is just fine with checkpoints. You took the words out of my mouth. If someone's driving erratically, etc. then by all rights, pull them over. But there is zero probable cause for DWI checkpoints.

On the radio while I was doing the Bataan Death March with shovel and sand: "Gov. Mitt Romney today signed a bill banning gay marriage. Unfortunately, he didn't sign a bill banning gay names.... Mitttttt Rommmmney."

Most Respected: SDS Most likely to become president: Rueben Grant, I'd agree. Most Conservative: Joe Six Pack (any more, and he'd loop back and be a flaming lib) Most Liberal: EII. Most Artistic: Moose Best personality: Hmm. Toss-up b/w Rockpile and R.Rich Our Einstein: CTM Board Dreamboat: Do the ticket girls count? Most likely to read poetry: Me Most likely to design a bills helmet using crayons: BF Mr. Doom: Haven't seen him in a while but, JP-Era did a good Chicken Little impression Perfect couple: R.Rich & PsychoWard86, o' course. Most likely to start a LAMP: stevestojan Most likely to be buried in Bills garb: Rosen

I call on Day 2. Just enough so you don't seem Day 1 Desperate; all of the chicks know about the call on Day 3 (don't ask me how they found out. We've got to pummel the squealer by hitting him copies of the Book of Guys), so that equals Desperate, too. I've only strayed from it once, when I called right after I dropped her at the door. But this was for a girl who had the body of a young C. Zeta-Jones, the brains/creativity of Elizabeth Bishop, and the sense of humor of Redd Fox. Damn, I shoulda asked her to marry me! Here's another hint of advice to the single guy who reads way too much Maxim/Stuff/etc. Don't go around the bar or wherever proclaiming how you like to give oral. I knew a guy who would do that (hey, he wasn't a buddy, so why give him good advice?) and it would just freak (most) girls out.

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Yup.

You know, people should spend as much time discussing the very real problem of actual sex offenders and them repeating their crime multiple fuggin' times but still being let out, much like only the most recent one in Idaho. Instead of debating the threshhold requirements of assaultdom, maybe legislatures should wake up to the fact that sex offenders do not rehabilitate and make some laws around that. Maybe then everybody would be a little less paranoid and reactive.

Yeah. Hence, "We build, we fight" and the logo of the bee with a machine gun and monkey wrnech and hammer. They often landed just after the initial assault troops. As I understood, they were like SEALS and had that training (I could be wrong about this tho), only much of the time they built stuff in the midst of hell coming down on them. Kind of similar to how my brother is an Air Force Raven, and in doing so, he also automatically has the qualfication to be an Air Marshal.

My father's uncle Oscar was a SEABEE back b/w the end of WW2 and through Vietnam. There were a lot of missions either where he was the only one who came back or there was one other guy. To the men and women who did and do this kind of work, we owe a debt of gratitude. He always put some kind of alcohol, usually Scotch, into everything he drank. He did this to "kill the germs." He died a few years ago, but he lived a good life.

I hit a deer on a back road when I was learning to drive w/ my dad, who is probably the best driver I've ever known, who learned from my grandfather, who drove for a well-known commercial trucking co. back in the '40s-'60s (he brought all of the houses to Mystic Village w/o a problem when none of the other guys would even try it). Anywho, I was doing about 45 mph and it just jumped out right in front of me. No time to do anything. Radiator damage and a busted headlight on an old Tempo. Several squirrels, when they went for it after darting hither and yon trying to make up their minds. A few chipmunks. I always try to brake or put them under the middle, but I'm not going to swerve and hit a tree so a rodent can live. Hit a porcupine about 10 miles past Freeport, Maine, several years ago. It was about midnight. From the size of the thump, at first I thought it was a bear cub. I stopped, in the same manner, saying "What the !@#$ over!" flashed the Mag Lite over the road - nothing. Looked underneath and there was a friggin' quill sticking out of a rubber gasket. Just had to get the wheels aligned when I got back b/c there was a little shimmy. On my next trip to Maine, we came upon a moose flopping in the road, ass end covered in blood and a leg missing (that's a sight you just don't forget.) A couple from California in a gold van had hit it just a couple of minutes previous; good thing they just clipped it, b/c quite a few people have been crushed when the moose buckles and tips onto the front end. You know, I had the idea a while ago to make up those little stickers like on the back of the Ohio State helmets that you can put on your bumper as a record of your kills.... My gf at the time thought that was gross.

Wonder what this portends for the bus driver choking the boy.... Newsflash! You don't grab someone else's kid in this day and age. But 'sex offender' labeling for that is a stupid application of law.

Interesting take. Like how he paid the old guy Six Large for the scooter. Hmm. Also in the ep, there was a passage where Locke mentions "Alice in Wonderland" which had me flashing on the finale where he's being dragged into the hole and he says, "Let me go!" A lot of the extra-textual references have been about some kind of hidden machinations (either underground, underwater, or complexity (what was the game the young Locke was showing the boy? Shoots and Ladders? __ Trap?). So I would say that those who've guessed at some underground mining system might not be far off.

The speculation, I believe, came in the form of a chat (don't remember which site it was on, sorry) where he was asked if he'd like to stay in Buffalo, to which he replied, "If they pay me." Several other answers were along these lines as well. This was around the time Rosen-ass was on the sports talk show circuit crying about how his clients weren't making as much as they should. 2+2=4. I think. I wasn't a math major. (Ganesh, just to be clear, I wasn't calling you out upthread. Those were general statements, not repudiations.)

If Rod Woodson said it, then it must be so.

And this is the Bills' fault because...? TD is supposed to give him a contractual sympathy !@#$ b/c he dropped out of the Top 5? That DT from Wisc. who was expected to go in the first-second and got picked in the 6th.... should he get first round money? It went the way it went, he gets paid what he gets paid, and he agreed and signed to two(!) years ago. If he holds out, I think and hope TD has the stones to hand Rosen-ass a note reading, "G_ F_ck Y__rs_lf" and asking if he wants to buy a vowel. Willis is not the end-all, be-all of the Bills O, and unlike the Dolphins and RW, I don't think they'd bat an eyelash.

The repeat episode last night (the one where Joanna drowns, Jack goes nuts seeing a man and being sent to get his father flashback) was one I somehow missed in the initial run. I saw probably half of it but heard the rest, as I was typing up a cover letter for a job (fingers crossed!). So, I'm catching on that most, if not all of the main characters have had stories where they were not supposed to be on the flight, according to their own plans (Locke being ousted from the safari, and as I learned last night, Jack didn't want to go find his dad, Sawyer getting put on the first thing smoking out of the OZ, Kate probably belongs here too) / got delayed (Sayid waiting until his acquaintance was buried, Charlie rushing off with the coke from the groupie's place) / didn't know if they should be leaving (Hurley unsure of which day to be back for his mum's b-day). Is there anyone I'm missing, or a hole in this theory? Anyone who would wager a guess as to why these circumstances might have caused(?) the crash? On edit: Oh, yeah. Michael and Walt -- both didn't want to be there or want each other. Sun and Jin -- Sun was going to skip out at the airport, Jin was going to get away from the f-i-l, only to learn he had the P.I. following him. All are there for circumstances they didn't want or that were more or less forced on them.

Be sure to get a 'ching-ching' bell system and the pink streamers, too. Very macho, that.

You mean like how Tom Ridge funded a lawn mower demolition derby in Texas? You just can't make this stuff up. Actually, if there were forced nail clipping on flights, supervized by the flight attendents, everyone would be too busy to hijack a plane. "Hey everybody! Complimentary emery boards!!"