UConn James

Out-Jimmy-Cartering Jimmy Carter. New heights of futility.

God, kid. Don't you want your own PS3 by now?

Ditto, except that the wind did a number on my cucumber/pole bean trellis at about noon. The worst part of the storm was having extended family sheltering over, and in that regard this has been the never-ending day from hell. I don't get all those people who mowed their lawns on Friday or Saturday morning before the rain started. There's crap all over their yards again. Tomorrow I'll pick up the branches/twigs that fell (quite a few actually), use the bagger mowers and presto change-o! They'll either have to mow again or wait a week.

Well, I suppose that this is in the same vein of what you expect's going to happen when the obese children stop getting ice cream after every meal....

Seconded. (And that's as someone who hates the genre.) "If you're naked in there, I'm definitely going to look!" Great humor infusion from David Tennant.

Picked up loose items, dragged the kayak up under the deck, and took down the rooftop antennas. There's about $500 invested in my antenna system, as we are in a deep fringe/low signal area. There's also a huge red oak with branches that nearly touch it that we were going to take down this summer, but haven't gotten to it yet. Plus, with 75-90 sustained winds and harder gusts predicted, I just want to avoid that much strain on the lag bolts into our rafters (They're 2x6" spaced 16" which the GC in the '70s said you could drive a truck across) and keep the antennas from getting pummel by swaying or falling branches. Maybe I'm playing it too safe. But hey, it only took ~10 min. to take it down. Put up a small one that I made from copper wire awhile back that I won't be over-grieved to lose. Went inside to try it out and I'm getting a few channels (a CPTV that could probably be picked up with a paperclip) to keep up to date with the storm and have something to watch. That's the first time I've ever heard that particular proverb.... And I worked summers on my grandparents'/uncle's dairy farm! What's the meaning there? Rain coming from all directions?

Right. But they may need to run more lines. And at 10 years old, for co-axial cable, that's about 2/3 of its suggested lifetime. If you're uncomfortable with touching that kind of stuff, then do call someone who knows what they're doing. (BTW, the cheapest way would be to cut your cord and go antenna-only.)

Wait... from where? The U? (Isn't move-in this week?)

He means Maxine Waters, not Maxine, your octogenarian female attitudinal soulmate.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul....

Depending how it tracks and how strong the winds are as it comes up the coast, I may be taking down my antenna pole (~12 feet with a two-antenna set-up) on Saturday.

So, because it's been said before, it no longer applies or is untrue? Fans like you who are willing to let Ralph sweep his dookies under the rug and tolerate his cheap-bastard approach are part of the problem.

And "Wild, Wild West" about 10 years ago. Perhaps that was the death knell for Western/Sci-fi crossover genre, at least? But... probably not. Wait another 10 years, they'll make another with Orlando Bloom as a gay cowboy who has to fight time-traveling robots bent on the destruction of earth because we're causing a global warming epidemic. In all seriousness, though, while Hollywood is on a known-quantity/sequel kick, I'd love to see a "Starman 2" where they can get into what happens with the child. I recently caught the first after seeing that Jeff Bridges "American Masters" program on PBS, and found out he got an Oscar nod for it. Imagine where they could take it today, given the right story. And seriously, tgregg, if you write this, at least let me proofread it. I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa Journalism/English.

Well, what with Twilight, etc., you've gotta take into account the demand price for false fangs and theatre glue....

Taxpayers Should Be Leery Of Warren Buffett's Faux Noblesse Oblige

The returning competitors are 'Coach' and... some other dude. As I mentioned in last season's thread, I didn't watch Survivor past the second season and then I got drawn in.... probably by a mix of Natalie's yellow bikini and the fact that there doesn't seem to be much else on antenna teevee worth watching. I don't watch any other "reality" stuff (I have never seen one minute of American Idol) but I think I'm back onto Survivor. As much as some (aj) will decry it, it would be totally moronic if the tribes don't mutually kick out the returners, especially --- from reputation/word of mouth only --- Coach. Rob seriously controlled that game from start to finish last season. I really liked the Redemption Island angle, and it was good to hear that they'll continue it, only they won't let it get backlogged --- it will be 50-50, one-on-one, two-men-enter-one-man-leaves. When they had 4 of them competing, in the same way that one only has to be the second-slowest to avoid being eaten by the bear, that was a bridge too far.

As a UConn alum /fan, I'd be lying if I didn't say that several one-liners instantly spring up, but I needn't share them. On a personal level, I hope her doctors can provide effective treatments to slow the progression.

Actuallky, I think most would. It's kind of a natural human social trait to help, even if reaction time just leaves you grasping air. There's usually at least an attempt. Don't you mean, "Dave in Nor Fu--"?

Does this marginal difference even matter, really? It's just another schmoe who, by a rather small-percent chance, if he does pan out within 4 years, the front office probably won't be allowed to re-sign. The new CBA's rookie contract rules are going to absolutely kill any last iota of hope this franchise has under Ralph Wilson's ownership.

Overdorf was hired to do what he's told. Even if it's a vague intimation without names of specific players being mentioned (which I seriously doubt). If you think Ralph isn't still meddling with the team, no matter what his physical health is, you're sorely mistaken.

More marketing and having a fall guy to impale on the sword when the natives get restless. Like that line in "Clear and Present Danger," Jim Overdorf can't tie his shoes without say-so. He was hired to do what he's told. I can't personally put all the blame on him for that. He may not have a clear "cut/trade Player X" but he definitely has a hard number that he needs to reach below. We finally need to identify and speak against the root of the problem rather than hacking at the branches. And in no uncertain terms, the root is Ralph Wilson's method of ownership.

Craig Ferguson (of the Late Late Show) had a standup bit where he posed his methodology for broaching sensitive subjects. 1) Does this need to be said? 2) Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now? Any journalist worth his salt knows the fine line of when to pull back on his/her punches, but it's inexcusable to not ask the question and not tell your readers what you've found out. Now, your coverage subject(s) can think what they want about it, they can be whatever degree of angry they want to be that JW disclosed that the Evans move was a salary dump commanded from higher up and executed by Overdorf (it just had to be at the instigation/blessing of any combination of Littman or Brandon as the go-between for RW) rather than it was a strategic FO move by Nix or a competitive football move suggested by Gailey. And even if Nix didn't want to say anything beyond what he did so as not to piss off the natives who bankroll and whose asses are in the seats of the sports entertainment franchise he's a part of, we've all suspected this for a long time. Correction: we've known this for a long time, unless you were a complete moron or living under a rock. Now it's down in black and white. But how pissed off can they be when they know it's true? This did need to be said, it needed to be said by someone in the Buffalo media to finally, definitively call a spade a spade, and it needed to be said now (in fact, it needed to be said 8-10 years ago) because Ralph ought to have a glimpse of his final legacy --- as the cheapskate owner who kept the Bills in town, yes, but who slowly skinned the buffalo alive so he could sell the hide piece by piece. With the league politics, the increasing on-field interferences with what used to be a wonderful game, and the fact that there are 11 minutes of action in a 3-hour game, last season was the first where I skipped watching several games, did something productive with my afternoon instead, and didn't mind a whit. This team gets this year and next offseason to prove to me that they give a **** about winning. If I don't see much indication of it, I am through with spending any coin or any time on this team until it has new ownership.

To be more precise... Ralph Wilson's pinch-the-nickel-'til-the-buffalo-***** economics. It's been said before, by me and by others. This team won't be allowed to get better until Ralph dies and his bean-counters are gone. Whatever happens with this team post-Ralph, I'm at the point where I just want it to happen and to be done with this limbo.

It's par for the course of how the entire organization is run. Whatever talent this team manages to find and/or nurture goes elsewhere, they can't attract (or for whatever reason, do not want) talent in free agency (and when they do spend, overpay for known mid-grade mediocrity), and so far it's been a landing spot for college coaches looking to get re-acclimated to the pros because actual winners don't want to work for someone with Ralph Wilson's ownership style. You know, people get mocked here for suggesting that Ralph doesn't like to spend. And whatever rationalization you want to make for why he doesn't spend money getting talent is crap --- at the start of the season, the fact remains that we don't have talent. And it's not only about the $. I wish that were so, because then $ would solve the problem. The problem is the mindset of how the franchise is run. That if the basics are set up --- not the worst, but not the best, something will provide the spark. We've been waiting on the spark for 11 years now, and the only thing they're doing is continuing to wait, hoping that talent will somehow create itself. And the worst thing is how they're screwing with what good we do have on OL. Wood and Levitre are something that should have been built around where they were. Instead, yet again they have to try to make chicken salad out of chicken ****. So you go ahead and respond to this post with a snarky "Ralph is cheap" response, but the fact of the matter is we are the NFL's version of the Kansas City Royals / L.A. Clippers, and he's done little or nothing to change that.

Buried in the piece: Dude, off. OK? Just off. I thought you and your ilk believed in the liberal utopia Ponzi scheme called Social Security. You want everyone to collect from it, but don't want everyone to fund it? Gee, that's a surprise....