Crap Throwing Monkey

How DARE you compare Coy Wire to Our Lord Savior Tedy Bruschi In All His Glory. I've never seen Wire get blocked to the ground on a pass rush, then crawl forward on his hands and knees to just miss touching the QB's foot mere seconds after he throws the ball. The only thing Wire and Our Lord Savior Tedy Bruschi In All His Glory have in common is: The Lord Bruschi had a stroke. Wire plays like he has one.

Which the media would report as more barfights, because it sells...

What's wrong with Coy? They boy can hit. Usually well after the play. And usually his own teammates. But he could hit.

I'd respond to to this post, but Mel Kiper hasn't analyzed it for me yet...

Actually, I think nodnarb understood the satiric nature of the post, but still held it up as an example of a typical level of TSW intelligence.

As I recall, it was at the time. But hindsight is, of course, 20/20.

$450k for emotional damages? $40k for medical expenses? $1.2m punitive damages? That'll get reduced on appeal. As badly as that company's management needs to be taught a lesson (namely: that they're !@#$ing idiots), the award's excessive as hell. What I'm really wondering is: where is that lady's pride? Whatever happend to simply saying "sh--, no, this is degrading and humiliating." and walking away, instead of allowing yourself to be the victim and suing over it? Have we really reached the state, as a society, where people can't even walk away from degrading treatment? This is one lawsuit I feel secure saying would never have happened if the plaintiff had even a shred of self-respect to begin with.

Given the tradition of referring to ships as "she", and Clinton's well-documented dalliances, they ought to name a fleet oiler after him.

Nick's having a birthday today? Damn, Levy sucks!

Horseshit. No one maintains a 10% net margin in a competitive volume business like gas sales. I've bet a tank of gas that someone divided Exxon's profit last quarter by the dollar amount of gasoline sold to get that number, without even considering whether or not that profit was actually generated by gas sales. In other words, someone divided nine billion in profit by gasoline revenue, not total revenue. Just because...well, because they're not reporting news, they're pushing an agenda of "Big Oil Bad".

What I'm saying is that, given the current vogue, they'll probably name CVN-21 after a living politician and name the next amphibious assault jeep carrier Enterprise. As is the current vogue. Whether it makes sense or not. Because it's how they do it currently.

I don't think they'd name an LPD "Enterprise", anyway. It's a "carrier" name, that, like "Hornet" and "Wasp", they might use for a "baby carrier" - a new class of LHA or something. Though the idea of naming LPDs after cities...yeah, sure, whatever. Used to be capital ships were named after cities, not 'phibs. Of course, used to be that subs were named after fish, not states.

Best thing I can say about them is that they make the Bills' unis look better...

Realistically...when you compare the total number of hours people spend driving in this country every day with the total number of hours people spend driving impaired every day...how is this remotely cost-effective? Out of every hundred times a person starts a car, how many times is that person drunk? Maybe three? The other 97 times out of 100, people have to prove they're sober to start their own car? I'm all for taking drunks off the road...however, I'm not for the idea of forcing innocent people to prove they're innocent to participate in a perfectly legal act. Plus...it makes me wonder, can't you just blow canned air through the thing to get the car to start? Or hell, just appoint a "designated blower" to start everyone's car for them. Only reason that doesn't work now is because there's a person standing there watching when you personally take the breathalyzer test, and can differentiate between you, someone else, and a tire pump.

They can't name another carrier Enterprise until they decommission the current one. Given the rich history of the name, there'll be another USS Enterprise...however, given current naming practice, they'll probably name an amphibious assault ship Enterprise while CVN-21 is named the USS Bill Clinton.

Thought it was "I'm a little teapot short and stout...shovel folds in, shovel folds out."

Let me guess: nuclear physicist?

Wonderful beer.

I thought I'd resort to the gimmick Of writing you a birthday lim'rick... But then I decided not to, because I'm !@#$ing lazy. Happy birthday. Hope you get lots of tupperware, you pansy.

Three words: Human Growth Hormone.

Yeah. Don't you think Coulter defending McCarthy is a little...I don't know...biased, maybe? Plus...what's wrong with being an American Communist?

"Are you now, or have you ever been, a Communits? And don't lie to me, you friggin' commie!"

Realistically, any conversion of anything to a liquid fuel - even oil to gasoline - is going to end up a net loss of energy. Second Law of Thermodynamics. You don't create an energy source by going from coal to electricity, or oil to gas, or corn to ethanol. You just make it more transportable (it's a lot easier to burn coal at a centralized location to generate electricity and transport the electricity to a home for heating purposes, than it is to transport coal itself to a home for heating, for example). Ergo, I think the argument that there's a net loss of energy converting corn to ethanol is a fallacious argument - there's a net loss of energy converting anything to anything. That does not mean, however, that the net loss of converting corn to ethanol is actually economical, which is probably what you meant. My strong temptation is to say to this: so what? Ethanol isn't being added to increase fuel efficiency, it's being added specifically to decrease smog. If we end up burning more gas in the process...well, who cares? Most people will think lower pollution is equivalent to burning less gas anyway, and thus the circle of ignorance is complete. The real irony would be if adding ethanol to gasoline reduced efficiency by 10% while reducing smog by 10%...which would basically make the action a net wash. As I've heard repeated numerous times...but figured was too technical for this crowd. "Bush bad! Oil companies bad! Ethanol absorbs water!" doesn't have quite the same ring to it...

You pull really hard. Ankle joints aren't engineered to be that resistant to being pulled apart. Yeah...because they're friggin' chimpanzees. Monkeys are consummate escape artists. And they typically don't read the California regulations on exotic animal handling, so they don't know they're not supposed to escape.

My wife's office - one of the three biggest real estate law firms in DC - does fine without administrative assistants. They have secretaries instead.