UConn James

I'm sorry, ladies and gents, but I have to say it was our beloved Bills. Since when is being "decisive underdogs" an acceptable excuse for losing the game of games? Does Vegas decide the results? And especially with our O and D at the time that should have showed up much better than they did. It's a cop-out. I'm also a BoSox fan (more in the past three years when finally getting back into it from the strike years), and before this year, I'd have to admit it about them too. It hurts, yeah, but it's true.

Dan Pompei has the juice? Sorry, I just had to. The link doesn't go to a specific story. Who'd you really have in mind? If he declared, I was thinking about Leon Washington out of FSU. Seems to have a complementary breakaway style to Willis, but also the power style of a Henry-type back. Shaud Williams showed something this year. He should get a shot. I don't care that he's a smallish back. That means nothing. Oh wait, it does mean something, a lower center of gravity and makes him tougher for LBs to get leverage on and tougher to tackle. Zeroue is locked up in Pitt, and already has a lot of miles on him. It's a rare RB that can last even more than 5 seasons.

How's 'bout Antowan Smith? Won a Super Bowl the year after he was dumped....

Translation: One team has asked how much Travis currently weighs.

There was nothing in there that couldn't be written by the average 10-year-old with access to a textbook from which to base it. I'm a copy editor by trade and a well-earned 3.9 GPA. I know tone and writing for the affect. I fail to see the genius. Gotta watch out for us racist liberals, yaknow. That admission is quite apparent.

Everybody knows you can't cut and paste any statement that you find in a freshman history/philosophy/etc. text or online. </sarcasm> I'm going out on a limb, I know, but that limb is the size of most tree trunks. Thanks for calling me a racist, BTW. Because we can't have an honest discussion about what effect the diversity-at-all-costs® rather than getting there on MERIT is having on schools i.e. the dumbing-down of America. Imagine a teacher having to spend 5 semester hours a year out of 45 simply replying "HUH?" and furrowing his or her brow when a vocal idiot spews this stuff in class. I've seen it. If you're going to college there should be a reasonable expectation of knowledge so every serious student's time isn't wasted. Black, white, Asian, Martian, administrators let in way too many mental midgets. Even in the name schools. Why don't you call up The Cos' and call him a racist too.

Ladies and gents, I give you the by-product of diversity-at-all-costs on the college campuses of America. Let's accept a borderline retard just because he's black and we can push the male minority student percentages up. Nevermind that this is slowly turning higher academics into a joke as standards decline. Why can't Emeka Okafor be the role model of choice? That guy is just awesome. Maybe more people should listen to Bill Cosby than castigating him for speaking the truth.

That explains the away jerseys....

There is now competition for the pixyland guy*. *Admittedly, I'm using a loose definition of the word "guy."

No sh--.

Two questions: 1. What the hell is with the guy in the beret at the top of the picture? 2. Shouldn't the blonde in front come with kneepads? It does say the trainees are "eager to please"....

My uncle was in Vietnam for three days when Tet started. Stationed on the northernmost hill in South Vietnam, 1/2 mile from the DMZ. Flipped through all of the grainy old pictures. ("There's the tree line for the DMZ".... "This was Charles. Not Chuck. Charles. He was very particular about that. I called him Chuck every chance I got. He got a letter one day, we didn't know what it was, he read it, went around behind the tank we sitting in the shade of and blew his brains out. We had to pick off gray matter from our uniforms."). The radio transmission on the day of Tet was, "SEVEN NVA DIVISIONS HEADING TO YOUR 20. DI-DI-MAO, MF'ER!!!" (For reference, there were three divisions in the entire Marine Corps at the time). 100 percent disability. He says, "I sure as sh-- wouldn't want to be there [iraq]."

Sorry, but in true McLaughlin style, YOU'RE ALL WRONG! Jeff Buckley - "Grace"

And wasn't he the one who funded the hardcore porn movies?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is my district's congressman. He'll also be collecting a cushy gov't pension for the rest of his life. Why should he worry? SS is the biggest gov't-raided Ponzi scheme ever concocted. I'll cry no tears for the future when it goes insolvent.

Or at least get a gun lock. They give these out FREE in the lobbies of police departments. You just walk right in, look around or ask, and take some. They won't even arrest you for it. Idiots like this who give responsible gun owners a bad name, and give gun-grabbers (from both parties now...) a talking point.

Another interesting link. A tangent at the end on the Butt-Smack Rule :

He does it before every game, during warm-ups. Helps him relax, sayeth he. It was reported shortly after that the way he thought the rule was, was wrong.

1. Lost, 2. Extreme Makeover: Home Ed, 3. Desperate Housewives, 4. The West Wing and 5. nightly news with a big grain of salt ...are about the only things on television I bother to watch. And I'm not overly anxious if I miss them, except Lost is getting more like a can't-miss-or-else-you're-Lost. I watched Alias the first season, missed three episodes of the second, and when I came back, was like , and dropped it. No big loss.

Every time I pick up a 100-pound rock I could potentially drop the rock and crush my foot, even with heavy boots and be out of commission for a long time, office job or no, not even factoring in medical bills. This man is paid very well to do a job that he is not doing, after he's been medically cleared by doctors. Maybe the Jets or his next team should buy him a plastic bubble. How in the hellfire can you and others defend this guy and then rag on Ricky Williams?

I build stone walls in the summer and have tweaked my back a few times. If I pick up a rock the wrong way or trip, I might not be able to do the job again. My clients should pay me to stand there all day and look at the rocks and never build their wall. That way I'll be fresh and ready for my next client.

The fifth sentence Bush introduced him with was: "He's been confirmed by the Senate three times!" Described as a tough, fair pragmatist (I'm down with that), but with limited management experience. Maybe he can direct the use of Homeland Security monies for something besides lawn mower drag-racing in Texas.

AD, how about changing your under-avatar sig to "Put-Down Artist." Really. How do you suppose it would be if Libertarians were in control of Congress? Or Greens? Or....? They can talk a good deal b/c they're on the outside. Truth is, if they're in there, they do the same thing. That thing about power corrupting and all.

From the explanation of the mechanics, I'd rather have the punter (especially Moorman!) try it than a kicker. I'll have to try this next time I'm kicking FGs at Memorial Stadium....

I understand how someone could put the "new" label on Abbas. B/c while he was PM, he also resigned b/c Arafat was still basically running the entire show. As I said, let's see how he does w/o Arafat's henchmen standing behind his back w/ knives at the ready and if he can lessen the influence of Hamas and do something serious about the suicide bombers/attacks on settlements. And yes, hope that Israel will play ball as well.