The Senator

to showcase the talent of this marvelous poet and musician....

Nice try, Trent - how's Dakota doin'?

I have always been a HUGE Trent Edwards fan.

They are both assclowns.

Do not meddle with

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think - A.E. Housman

That would explain a lot. I've said before, I like Locker but one thing that concerns me is that mostly I've seen rushing hi-lites of him running his way out of trouble, rather than solid passing play. I'll have to make a point to watch him more closely this season, I guess. (The 'spread' thing doesn't really bother me at all - almost all NFL teams use some variation of the 'spread offense', some less sparingly than others, and I expect we'll see much more of it in the years ahead.)

Back at ya, darlin'!

That would be very telling - I believe the penultimate preseason game is typically when the regular-season offense is installed, yes?

Say it ain't so, Joe! (Looks like games on Sirius 125/127 - link)

I didn't even know that either one of them could dance.

The roads are safe, and so am I, hunkered down for the evening with a 1.75L jug of small-batch, hand-crafted, Pinnacle French vodka, fresh lemons, a good, sturdy, comfortable on-the-rocks glass, plenty of ice, and gallons of spring water. Blood pressure is a reasonable 150-over-96, and have taken 2 aspirin to preempt the angina. Looking forward to seeing if we're any better with the O-line intact, if the return of some injured players will bolster the D, how C.J. Spiller looks as a starter, and to getting Fanning-Fan Edwards out of the game early so we can all get a good look at what Brohm can do. My prediction: Our Brohm-Bomber-Led BuffTown/Lower Canada Football Bills -- 51 Former Baltimore Fly-by-Night-to-Indianapolis Immature Male Equines - 3 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSZny!!!!!

If you're in line to buy one quick-pick for tonite's Powerball game, there will inevitably be someone in front of you playing 50 daily numbers. (Interesting thread - so if you tie a piece of toast to a cat's back, buttered side up, then drop the cat from a reasonable, non-injurious height, what happens?)

Hah! That's a good one. Yes, of course fate is fate...when your number's up...etc., etc., but certainly one needn't tempt fate. Surely you'll agree that you are much more likely to be trapped on the 80th floor of a burning skyscraper if you happen to work on the 80th floor of a skyscraper, yes? That is why many of the brokerage firms that were caught in the 9/11 WTC carnage will no longer locate their offices on the high floors of an urban skyscraper. Just seems more like good, cautious, prudent, common sense than paranoia, to me anyway. JMO.

How can anyone not love the USC Songbirds ???

Actually, I think that's what determines whether it's indecent exposure (which I suppose you would then use to determine the legality)

Meh, he was an a-hole when he was with the Red Sox and, by definition, an even bigger a-hole when he was a Yankee. (Don't think he was juicin', tho, while he was in Boston and Toronto.)

Only problem is that, by the time that happens, Fanning-Fan Edwards will have thrown 4 picks and the Colts will be up 28-0.

Where's Marv sittin' these days?

Well the atmosphere of impending doom has subsided greatly since 9/11 - I can't remember when the last time I saw what 'color' today's 'Terror Alert' is on the TV news - but I'm sure if we had an outbreak of anthrax scares on campuses across the nation, the Class of '14 would be more 'paranoid' than a Belfast parking valet.

How's your valve? I think you may have enjoyed the book a bit too much - don't live your life vicariously thru IJR, or you'll be running around swinging a plastic sword and wallowing in your own flatulence!

Always nice of SKOOOOOOOOOOOBY to provide a link for and excerpt more than 50% of an article that I could easily read myself by going, oh, say... HERE

You should just change your screen name to I think the non-chalance you mention may reflect a lack of understanding of the real history and culture of that era. Imagine growing up in world where the US and USSR have several thousand thermo-nuclear warheads pointed at each other, where the US foreign policy doctrine toward the Soviet Union is aptly named 'MAD' (Mutually Assured Destruction), and the the real possibility of every major US city being instantly and simultaneously annihilated truly existed at the whim of one rogue Gen. Curtis LeMay type... Take a close look at how Kennedy and Khrushchev were 'at the brink' of global destruction in 1962, or how Lyndon Johnson campaigned in 1964 before you call it "paranoia"... You and those younger than you are fortunate to have been born at a time when atmospheric nuclear testing had already ceased, and to have grown up in a time when sanity finally prevailed, efforts were well under way to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons once and for all, and Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush had brought about the demise of the Soviet Union and an end to the Cold War without firing a single shot or missile.

I'd give it a try.

Is 'A Confederacy of Dunces' required reading in grade school these days?