Crap Throwing Monkey

John Madden's leaving the booth?

Judging by the grammar, probably someone here.

If so, hit it harder next time.

Can't you just go out boozing and whoring like a normal adult when you want attention?

No, I don't think they really care. But I don't think this is the result of some grand conspiracy to save Wilson $3M either. And just the perception of bumbling management is enough to slice several millions in value off the franchise.

Three hundred thousand? Wow, that's like...almost a million.

Yeah...I care about my image...that's why I have the screen name "Crap Throwing Monkey".

None of the above. I want ICE. I mean, if the organization's turing into a farce, let's go all the way with it.

Breaking news: George Siefert's podium was just spotted at the airport!

I know it happens all the time. It happened to me. And I had absolutely no problem proving it. $$$ But in this case...there's nothing to prove. Speculating that RW !@#$ed with his own multi-hundred-million dollar asset to convince one man to leave so he could save $3M? I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the perceived value of the Bills franchise has dropped by some $20M over the course of the last two weeks. It's a nonsense speculation.

I heard a rumor on WGR that the podium's thoroughly exasperated with this sh-- and is announcing its resignation at 4pm anyway.

It's called "constructive dismissal". Make someone's life a living hell until they quit. And it's illegal as hell.

This fantasy of yours wouldn't be nearly as disturbing if you didn't keep showing up at my door in a tux...

Try Trevor Dupuy's "Hitler's Last Gamble"; despite the title, it's written largely from American archival information (basically, Dupuy's intent was to take the reams of documentation available - the Bulge is the best-documented battle in history, including the Gulf War - and write a comprehensive single-volume history). It's not seriously hard-core staff study or PhD dissertation reading, but it's not exactly easy, either. It's very informative, though, and well-referenced and not too long either (maybe 400 pages). Parker also has another book, "To Win The Winter Sky", that deals specifically and exclusively with the air campaign of the Bulge. Probably not what you're looking for (almost certainly, I'd wager. Far too specialized.) But it's a fascinating read nonetheless, from a "this is how things happen in the real world" perspective.

Where's the "Jesus Christ, no one gives a sh--, you need to get a life" option?

But...why? Not just "every year"...but every year on the last day of the ritualized "stoning of the devil" ceremony. Yeah, I know, renouncing Satan is a big deal in most religions...but can't they do it without killing people?

Wow. That's a damned near oppressive percentage. I wonder how many of those are actually against persons. Sure, Mickey broke out the murders, rapes, and assaults...but what about the others? I'm sure certain acts of graffitti and vandalism are counted as "racially motivated criminal incidents"...but is ALL of the rest against property and not persons? I also wonder what defines a "racially motivated criminal incident". Is the definition a broad or narrow one? Some would say a racial crime is any crime where differing races are involved, whereas others would say explicit evidence of racism is necessary. I suspect the determination here did not tend to either of those extremes...but given that your selection criteria can drastically affect the outcome of any statistical study, one has to wonder nonetheless. And a related observation: one also has to wonder and the conspicuous absence of four criminal acts involving almost 3000 murders in 2001 that one can easily argue were racially motivated.

Probably mommy and daddy. Dropped him on his head one too many times when he was a little child. I wonder if this maroon submits a recipe for fried noodles and eggs into evidence?

So "oppression" is a relative term now?

Olivier did. That's what started all this. While your example is a very good one of racism in this country, it doesn't even BEGIN to demonstrate (and you didn't say it did, I know) olivier's observation that blacks are "oppressed" in the US. All true. As RunTheDamnBall said, people fear difference...when they aren't simply ignorant, like my parents. "Oh, I hope those blacks don't buy the house behind us...all the drugs and wild parties..."

What the hell? He's suing because he's too !@#$ing stupid to turn off the computer and walk away?

Yeah, I've got about a half-dozen suggestions. You looking for hard-core military history type stuff, or more first-person "greatest generation" social history accounts? John Toland's "Bulge" is probably a good place to start, though I hate Toland in general (and "Bulge" in particular - reads too much like a touchy-feely children's book). Danny Parker's "The Battle of the Bulge" is very good, as I recall, but it's been a while since I picked it up. All the other books I have are serious (and seriously dry) military studies I don't think you're asking for... P.S. Ambrose is sh--. Ambrose is far more interested in erecting monuments than he is in writing history. If you want to feel good about our fathers and grandfathers, read Ambrose. If you want to learn something, read someone else.

Doubt it. Even if an HMO springs for the cure of a disease, they still collect premiums. Though there may be a cash flow argument following your line of thinking...don't really know, though, since health care is an industry I neither work nor invest in.

I think that confuses "systematic" with "societal". It is not built into the justice system (i.e. it is not systemic) that black first-timers get harsher sentences than white first-timers. Rather, it is a reflection of societal mores in this country in general. "Systemic" implies a legal structure designed with bias inherent...such as Nazi racial laws, for example, or apartheid, or Afghanistan under the Taleban.

I didn't say that. (Hell, I'm upset by it.) But what we were talking about was not racism, but the "oppression" of minorities in this country. Someone please explain to me how the minority I, as a pasty-white upper-middle class caucasian male, am "oppressing" is driving a nicer !@#$ing car than I am.