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The Color of Money: Coincidence? By the time the Benbern(b)anke is done, it'll be worth the same....

I believe it was a Sunday Night game last year, where she was sitting up in the box at the new Dallas stadium... and I remember thinking that it was like Mr. Hyde to the opening sequence's Dr. Jekyll or a mild "Portrait of Dorian Gray" moment. I know a girl who works up at a yoga center in MA that sees a fair amount of celebs and her reaction is usually how very plain most of them look in person. I'm not going to say that I date Playboy models --- hell, they're airbrushed within an inch of their lives! --- but it all goes toward seeing people as they really are and not the idealized, computerized images that we see on screen, in mags, on stage. It gives people really whacked views of body image. These people are like avatars.

Damn right on #4. You know, this is an offensive league. The Rules Committee has tilted things toward scoring and tons of offense as the NFL wanted. We're regularly seeing contested 30-40-point games. Going forward, this game is not going to be about having shutdown corners --- that's really not going to happen anymore besides the rare physical freak. CBs are going to get beat because with PI they can't take as many risks. It's going to be a matter of offenses making their plays, and a defender (especially DBs) getting only a few moments per game when they can change the course of things. Tight, aggressive defense is a thing of the past. That's not a fault of McKelvin's. He's been in position all you can ask. On #8 the fair catch at the five is usually a 50-50 whether it rolls for a touchback or gets downed at the 1- or 2-yard line. You may not think a few yards matters all that much, but for all the improvement of the OL, Fitzmagic's quick release and Freddie, having to run the offense literally under the goalpost is like dumping blood in the water when there's a shark around. Especially with Dirty Player on their DL. #10... I just hope what Fitz has for armstrength doesn't deteriorate too much over the course of the season. I don't think he'll ever have laser accuracy like Brady (on most days), but yes, the man is usually putting it within the margins. Combined with real leadership and ability to read a defense and make progressions, that's 187% better than any QB we've had since Kelly. No props for David Nelson? All the dude's done is much more than replace Josh Reed. Does he put pine tar on his gloves? All I know is if you put it anywhere in his wheelhouse, it's almost a sure catch. I remember seeing him in Florida games and I'm at a loss to explain how he went undrafted and astonished how the stars lined up for us to sign him. Spellbound ain't the word for it, Bill!

I think we've got a few years of consistent winning before that happens. Detroit seemed to turn the corner after the Stafford and Suh picks 3 and 2 years ago, respectively (actually, I posit that they turned the turn / stopped digging the hole deeper the moment they fired Matt Millen). As another poster here has linked to a clip from "Pulp Fiction" several times --- "Let's not go sucking each other's ----s just yet."

It was not a temper-tantrum that "cost" him a timeout. He took a timeout after Freddie's run when the clock was about to start again, plain and simple. That he was yelling at the refs had nothing to do with it. There's plenty of real reasons to dislike BB. We don't need to go making up stevestojan. That's what NFL coaches do --- they're poker players.

VIDEO: Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate Freudian slip much???

I realize that this is probably her absolute worst, so.... But still, that can only get so much of an allowance.

The rules have been bent over backwards and anally penetrated in favor of offenses. The league is about scoring now, even more than ever. Either you keep up with the Joneses or you're going to pick in the Top 5 every year.

No stevestojan! You don't want to go in the lots for ~45 minutes. Even after a win.

And then when you see her in real life, she falls from a 9.5 to a 6. Still respectable... but it's tons of make-up and special effects.

Link It's also so fans don't get injured... and then sue the team. Because no matter what the back of the ticket says, there would be lawsuits and legal costs. Easier in the long run to just have staff loosen some bolts. And instead of the team looking like inveterate pricks, we fans get the sense that they actually give a sh-- about what today's win means.

+1 Can we get back a stevestojan = ____ filter? Doesn't necessarily have to be what it was before, but that quote deserves derision.

Peter King just said on NBC the spot in question was in the chest/shoulder area and that the X-rays were negative.

Welker led with his helmet just as much. Byrd was trying to go mid-body in his initial take on the tackle. Welker simultaneously scrunched up his body, which lowered his helmet right into Byrd before Byrd could react. WW is a squirmy worm who scrunches and fools a defense into thinking the tackle's a sure thing... and then he explodes out of the scrunch and that's how he gets 1/4 of his yardage. (Not knocking Welker by any means with that; he's a hell of an athlete!) No doubt that helmet-to-helmet happened, but it was incidental, not intentional. Funny thing, tho, that if I'm forced to point to a single moment in the game, it seemed to be the play where the momentum shifted. The Pats were like 'Sh--, these guys are for real and they're bringin' it!' Then again, this is the Pats* and Welker so I fully expect a large fine.

To be completely fair, he was unapologetic about calling it. The Bahstin reporters asked him about it ~5 times, trying to decipher whether it was a snafu done by a player or coach along the sidelines. BB said it was he who called the timeout. He didn't say there was anything that was out of sorts wrt the refs' timekeeping or anything... just that he took a timeout. Period. Many people are saying it was after Freddie's run. I thought the timeout came after the Buffalo false start penalty, which would have been a clock-stoppage by rule. But, you know, I was [] this close to having a massive coronary in those minutes, so I could be wrong....

Fitzmagic Steve Johnson Fred Jackson WTF more do they need to do? Let's avoid bad feelings, and the longer you wait, the more it's gonna cost.

The Big East is a shell of a conference --- the walking dead --- and has been since at least 2003. This may well be one of the final coups de grace for it in public esteem. My alma mater's got to get out there by any means necessary.

In all this, I guess I'm just looking in vain for a president and leadership who will bring a fiduciary/literal tenor to the phrase "THE BUCK STOPS HERE." One who says if you're looking to live high on the hog at other peoples' expense, when there are Americans going without, then don't bother submitting an application to work in the govt. A president who tells his cabinet that if he hears about an event in their department where the catering cost for a few hundred people is in the $100sK, s/he will be personally cashiered and escorted out of the WH. It's far past time to tighten the !@#$ing belt and that goes for the entire govt.

Word was, in the last few weeks, that FSU is considering --- or people surmise that they 'ought to' --- move to the SEC. That seems pretty difficult now with the $20M exit fee enacted by the ACC. And if it'd be difficult for FSU it'd be next to impossible for Clemson. And it would be truly impossible for UM, which is currently embroiled in scandal and their program faces a potential death sentence from the NCAA.

And who's going to compensate the post office and television stations for use of their services? Oh, wait. Free. So, a quasi-public (that is having hard times as it is) and private businesses should be hood-winked into giving all and sundry the use of their delivery trucks, gasoline, adspace, broadcasting tower electrical transmission costs? Franking privileges for congressional mailings as they exist currently are a burden and a complete waste of paper, electricity and delivery, nevermind a fivefold increase. If pols and candidates want exposure, they ought to decide how they want to send it and pay for it themselves. Pushing the cost on faceless entities is sh--. The idea to make it a free-for-all primary which would determine a Top-2, regardless of party affiliation, is intriguing. But there is no way it will ever be adopted. The major parties want a guaranteed presence in the final election. Why am I thinking that this will only result in a government-class not unlike the foibles of Sir Humphrey Appleby in "Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister" where they are essentially another party committed to slowing down the process and to bureaucratic largess?

Not to mention that the death penalty is an immensely important prosecutorial tool in plea bargaining. When capital punishment is off the table, they can lose the ability to plead a potential capital crime down to murder 1 and life in prison... so it becomes a matter of life in prison that can get pleaded down to murder 2 and the possibility of parole.

I guess I have to repost this: 1) What does this line of argument have to do with anything? The United States is not a Christian / New Testament theocracy. 2) Actually, there were several exceptions to the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" commandment. The Lex Talionis / "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth." War / National conflict. Self-defense. Granted, these were in the Old Testament, but.... 3) Do you really want to get into that argument? They are people each doing their part in a long chain of upholding a system of laws. If you don't like the laws, then try to change the laws through the proper channels. How in the world could you condone killing people for their discrete parts in adjudicating a capital case? You would hope for that? What is wrong with you?

1) What does this line of argument have to do with anything? The United States is not a Christian / New Testament theocracy. 2) Actually, there were several exceptions to the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" commandment. The Lex Talionis. War / National conflict. Self-defense. 3) Do you really want to get into that argument? They are people each doing their part in a long chain of upholding a system of laws. If you don't like the laws, then try to change the laws through the proper channels. How in the world could you condone killing people for their discrete parts in a capital case? You would hope for that? What is wrong with you?

Trust me, I do go ballistic over DoD spending. The attitude in bold is the problem.

Anyone who thinks there will be substantial change even 50 years from now is delusional. I could see players in the big-time sports maybe getting a stipend. But dude, most sports run break-even or at a loss so a uni can comply with Title IX. If forced to pay beyond whatever percentage they give in scholarships, programs will be cut.