UConn James

The oil industry has so many politicians in their pockets they walk with a limp. And to be fair, it includes both sides. But is slanted toward the right. The really sad thing, tho, (and I suggest you read an article that was in Field and Stream several months ago) is that Bush didn't even need to be bought.

Then, there's Cardinal Sin from the Philippines. You can't make this stuff up, folks.

The preview has been playing a lot the past couple of days.... Spoilers in yellow: Read some things a few weeks ago that the episode where Claire has the baby will be the one where a major character dies, in a circle-of-life theme. Original spoiler said it was more poignant b/c it would be "a boy who dies." Didn't consider Boone a boy, but it certainly does look that way. It's going to be a Jack-centric ep. He's already saved Charlie.... I think there needs to be a loss just to balance it into believability b/c he can't save everyone. And the more I think about Locke as being this group's Ethan, the more I'm convinced of it. I've had a bad feeling about him from the start. Terry O'Rourke was a great choice to play Locke. I predict he gets banished before the end of the season.

Louisville Sluggers don't cost that much. Can't you use wood?* (James is not responsible for wisecracks made in the wood-is-p___s milieu).

You might try Exclusive Pro Sports. You should probably call the number b/c the website isn't very extensive. I got a Bills jersey through them back in the mid-90s and the price was all right and they were really helpful. They specialize in MLB, and I'm quite sure they have throwbacks. Hope that helps.

All I was asking for was a charging call when the NCState point guard hipchecked Marcus Williams.... You know where 'sympathy' is in located in the dictionary.

Yes I do. W/ all of the information out there, to continue smoking is knowingly putting a gun to your head. I know people who smoke and have myriad health problems because of it. And they still smoke. It's a choice that has consequences these people knew all too well, Jennings more than most. I hope he does get better, but I'm not going to say I'm sorry for him.

Well, it's good that he quit, but he never should have started. I have a hard time showing him any pity. One thing to say about him is at least he listens and talks to all sides. I remember one interview he did w/ the NRA and Handgun Control. When the pro-gun people sat and listened quietly to the other side, and then when it was their turn and the gun control people started rudely talking/shouting over them, Jennings turned to the NRA people and writhly said, "Now I see what you're up against." At least he's fair.

That and a strange brew..... Yaknow.... Kofi...? Oh no, I'm gonna get pulled off the stage with a cane. Yes, he should resign.

One of the quirks of Catholicism to cut off questioning. To be fair, tho, JPII kind of made a joke about infallabilty when he was first elected. From the sound of the joke, I think he did see the inanity of it.

Ben Sobieski never really impressed me. Tucker did well in relief at C last year, but he's not the answer. If Teague is a FA next year, I can see TD drafting a center early as is his MO of finding a replacement a year before. Give a rookie a year to acclimate, get him some spot duty, and then let him take over. An aging Teague is going to want a higher contract and I don't think he's quite worth the one he got.

They like to link it back to the past tho. At my brother's wedding in a small Catholic church on the hottest day of the year, the priest ambled on and on about "the ancients." Meanwhile, it was well over 100 degrees inside with all of the body heat and we were all wearing black suits. To anyone who was overweight, it was nice b/c they must have lost 10 pounds in those three hours.

Because the "Pro-life" proponents don't try to do that....

I actually agree with you on this point. I went to a congregational (I'm not sure what kind of protestantism it was, even, no one ever said) church until I was 18 that was filled w/ stiff upper lip New Englanders. The main line of beleief and teaching was "We are not Catholics. We are simple people who don't need marble and gold and prayer candles. Prayer and hymn singing are quite enough." Frequent quoting of the passage about it being easier for a rich man walking through the eye of a needle.... This even played out when the 18th c. church building burned down (boiler explosion). All of the walls were flat white, cheap red carpet, run-of-the-mill pews, etc. And it was never about This is what we believe, it was This is what we are not.

First Pam Anderson, then Paris Hilton, now a David Baas video! :huh: I would not be angry if TD picks him in Round 2.

After reading that, it's definitely something to think about. But it also has me wondering why the Others, if there are any, wouldn't have searched out the plane when it crashed. They would undoubtedly have seen and heard it in the air or heard transmissions on the radio. I'm not quite sure the Others exist.

Oh, defrocking a few priests and saying that offenders would suffer in the afterlife for what they did is almost as good as fixing the structure of the friggin system that allows it to happen and covers it up. The pope was a truly benevolent and pious man who was personally great with children, he was like the favorite grandfather to the world, but his administrative control for protecting the children from the priests was lacking. Bernard Law was promoted to the Vatican! The Boston Archdiocese is comparable to the Chicago FedEx plant. If they screw up a package and can't pay, the the parent company doesn't sit back and say it's Chicago's fault, they have to make restitution. Nevermind that the Boston branch's land holdings are considerable, yet they cry poverty. And the Catholic Church is the largest landholder in the world. This excuse sucks and the victims aren't getting the help they need (one of them committed suicide a couple of months ago). That's tantamount to murder.

"No sex for us; we're British."

Except that in one state, someone would be charged w/ murder and in the other they would not. Kind of puts the notion of common law at nought, and common law is the basis of our (and many other) country's legal system. What happens if a woman who lives in Alabama goes to, say, Oregon to have an abortion? Does she get charged w/ murder once she sets foot back in Ala.? This is something that requires a national standard, and w/ the contentiousness of the issue it was ruled correctly back in the 70s that those who choose to have an abortion can do so, and those who don't can do that as well. It'd be nice to have individual states do their own thing, and I'm sure it's been looked at in depth by people smarter than us and it just wasn't feasible b/c of the common law. Nevermind that it's extremely rare for the high court to go reversing big issues like it for the same reason why many of the programs started/decisions made by a previous president aren't immediately changed when a guy from the other side is elected.

Despite having played some at WR as a frosh, it is not the position at which he made his bones. See Scott Frost and Eric Crouch why using a 2nd might be too high. I'd be leery about taking him in the 3rd, and more likely in the 4th or early 5th. A performance at the Combine or informal workout is to be taken w/ a grain of salt.

Ahh yes, the Ritual Deflowering of the Altar Boys.... Sorry, there's some figures like the pope who have such appeal when you read about his life (and I admit I'm drawn to the pagentry and the idea of the confessional --- something that truly fascinates me), and then there's the reality of what the system allows and covers up, the pope included, for not coming out much stronger against this pandemic than nine paragraphs in the liner notes of one of his inaudible speeches in 2000. And a steadfast refusal to admit wrongdoing and make restitution to provide for counseling, etc. For a lot of people, these things are very hard to reconcile.

Uhmm, I don't think there's anybody out there who says, "Woo Hoo! Don't use condoms because abortion's GREAT! F^%$ YEAH!" There's only those who believe that barring access to desperate women will lead to what there was back in the day w/ back-alley and creating two tragedies instead of one. Likewise, Dems aren't shouting that teen sex is a great thing either (with the possible exception of those Dems who are horny 18 year olds). It's just a matter of dealing with the reality of hormones and that no matter how much you try to push slogans into them, they're still going to have erect penii. If you believe the curriculum should be more than abstinence-only and uhh-sex-is-for-losers campaign-yeah-that's-it then I can only say watch how you vote.

I think the highest ever recorded was some Russian guy with a .75 bac. He was concious and walking too. Unbelievable. If you've been drinking and get pulled over: A) refuse the test 2) Thank the police under your breath for possibly saving yours and other drivers' lives, no matter how well you think you can drive drunk and III) Learn your lesson, and learn it right good. Back in the '60s, my dad was hit by a Puerto Rican guy who when he approached the door, the smell of alcohol was obvious and the guy bleeps out in probably the only English he knew, "Ha ha. No insurance. Ha ha." Suffice to say this guy got tap-danced on. Cop comes up just as my dad and a passenger put the guy back in his car. Cop looks at the guy slumped over the wheel, picks his head up by the hair, slams his face back into the wheel, and says, "I think you guys better get outta here...." Street justice. Those were the days.

No crap. If you smoke, you may as well eat a lot of what's bad for you but tastes good. 'Cause it's not gonna matter if you eat well.

I think people are paying a lot of attention to TE position b/c Mike Mularkey is a former TE. Is there any specific insight people have re: how MM would want to use a TE in the offense? Or is it just b/c of the above fact a surmising that TE is uber-important to him and so we must trade for the Fuggin' Solja hiss-elf. I think the roster has a pretty good set of TEs. Campbell has been quite a find. Euhus, who TD picked in the 4th round last year probably heavily w/ MM's input, was making some really nice plays before he was injured. They'll both be back and ready to go when the games count.