Crap Throwing Monkey

Not completely. In recent history (i.e. pre-AIDS), the homosexual culture fostered the attitude in the interest of gay rights that, if being "out" was "good", than being "more out" was even better. That led to situations in larger gay communities were rates and levels of promiscuity were much higher than you'd find in heterosexual communities. That's where there was the big stink in the mid-'80s in San Fransisco about closing the bathhouses in Castro; the gay community saw it as anti-gay in taking away their "right" to anonymous promiscuity. Where stuckincincy is really wrong is in assuming a cultural tendency is in fact a universal biological truth: while it is correct to say that certain portions of the gay community (the most activist ones in particular) valued promiscuity as an expression of homosexuality, it is egregiously wrong to then generalize that to "homosexual = promiscuous". Homosexuals are hardly excluded from monogamy...these days, I suspect the gay community is actually more likely to encourage it above promiscuity, given the immense paradigm shift AIDS caused them.

Agreed. I don't necessarily agree with the policy, but the school as a private school has a right to write and enforce their own admissions policy.

Don't you get sick of repeating that day after day after day...?

Sat behind someone average-sized in the theater, did you?

Truancy, criminality...and they're "protecting" the "children". The Dutch electorate actually believes that?

"Green Lightning" by Billie Lawless. Dancing penises with top hats, was up for five days before Jimmy Griffin ordered it taken down, Lawless sued the city for damages and lost. http://www.robertatkins.net/beta/shift/pub...continuing.html (about 3/4 of the way down). http://www.billielawless.com/green_light.html I could never decide which was stupider...the "art" or the controversy. Dancing neon penisis is pretty damn stupid...but the uproar over dancing neon penises was really damn stupid...but then I think about the dancing neon penises again and think that was really damn stupid...and then I go back to the uproar and reflect on how that was REALLY, REALLY damn stupid...u.s.w.

Moron. You're supposed to cook with it. Don't you know anything?

The drag of the stuck gear can actually adversely affect performance enough that the plane may not be able to make it to NY.

That's a very astute set of observations, actually. Who wrote them for you?

It's not moving northward, just moving a little more north of west than they anticipated. They're saying now it's supposed to come ashore not at Galveston but Port Arthur, 75 miles northeast. Oh, and props to me.

I wasn't criticizing...I was just saying that, given they topic was "what do you know more about than everyone else here", it was a pretty gutsy statement to make. I, too, prefer the opportunity to learn by working with people who know more than I. Sadly, I haven't really had the opportunity in years...not because I'm omniscient, just because for whatever reason no one at my last three jobs has known more than me. Sucks, actually...I feel very stagnated.

I would tend to believe no. The coach's job on game day isn't to watch and evaluate individual performance, but to manage the entire team's effort. Mularkey may not know in a post game press conference if McGahee's poor performance is McGahee's fault or Shelton's for missing lead blocks any more than we do. In fact, he may know LESS about it than we do immediately after the game...the network feeds us replays frequently from multiple angles, but the head coach only has the luxury during the game of seeing the play once from one point of view. In short, I don't think it's unreasonable for the coach to NOT have a whole lot of insight to individual performances 20 minutes after the game.

As a seven year old? I highly doubt you were as weird a child as I was.

Computers? Gutsy assumption...while you may know a lot about computers, the title of the topic is "What do you know more about than anyone here", and there's a HELL of a lot of computer expertise on this board. I was playing with COBOL mainframes when I was seven, and I wouldn't even presume I know more about computers than everyone else here.

I'm pretty sure that drivel has about as much to do with the show as retatta has to do with cooking. It's actually a pretty good show. Smart, tight, well-written, not patronizing to the viewing audience at all...well deserving of the Emmy.

From the NHC update: Do I have an incredible memory for totally useless trivia or what?

From what I've heard: There'll be an impact. Yes. Yes. Look at it this way: between Katrina and Rita, probably 80%+ of the platforms in the Gulf will have had production interrupted by hurricanes this season. That's a pretty serious interruption.

It's called the Howard Dean electoral strategy. YEEEEEAHHHHHHH!

Sounds like he's self-medicating with a little help from Mr. Daniels and Walker.

898????? Holy hell. That's wicked. Someone correct me if I'm wrong (but I don't think I am)...wasn't Gilbert the all-time low pressure, at something like 888?

Stupid !@#$ing media. Yes, it's a category 5...and the media's reporting 165 kt winds. Except that those are flight-level winds. The surface wind estimate is actually 145 kt, gusting to 175 kt. Which is nothing to sneeze at, obviously (the difference between 155mph and 181mph, in practical terms, is negligable to anyone caught in it). But way to report accurately and not cave to alarmism, media. Central pressure's down to 914, too...stronger than Andrew, and into Katrina territory.

It'll weaken before it hits, once it gets farther west and hits cooler water. But as far as I can tell (not very far), there's no shear to weaken it within a few hundred miles, so it's not going to weaken much, particularly not in the next 24 hours. But judging from the satellite photos, it's moving a little farther north than they expected. Not so far north that it's aiming for New Orleans (it would have to do a 90-degree turn right now to manage that), but if its motion stays consistent it'll probably hit about 75 miles farther north up the Texas coast than their best guess right now.

"Hey look at me! I work with 11.4T magnets!" Big f'in deal. How many of you have a high-powered laser in the trunk of your car?

"Supposably"? If I ever meet you, I'm gonna kick your ass for that imaginary word.

The Texans have a cream-puff secondary, though. And even so, the coaches called 19 passes and 15 runs in the first half against the Texans...but then, against Tampa in the first half, they called 13 passes and 8 runs, which is very roughly the same ratio. And I think what most people are forgetting in the whole "pass vs. establish the run against Tampa" debate is that the Bills achieved ONE first down the entire first half. Every other drive was either a three-and-out, save for one egregious two-and-a-safety. Sure, the play-calling sucked, but you're not going to establish anything if you keep going three-and-out, regardless of whether or not you call a run or a pass on first down.