Crap Throwing Monkey

Thank you, Debbie, for deigning to toss crumbs from your ivory tower to us lesser mortals...

It's actually a representation of all the trigrams in the I Ching. It's been around...oh, maybe five thousand years. http://www.chinesefooddiy.com/IChing.htm By the way, I don't agree with the BS spouted in the page. It's just the only image I could find...

Jacksonville? WTF? Relocate an expansion team a decade after their creation to a different market? Clayton's an idiot...

The whole episode was a self-introspective hallucination after he was shot. The key being: self-introspective. It was character exposition, expanding on House's psychology. Nothing more. And it was really weird and hard to follow...but VERY well done, considering. I don't see how a TV series can do that kind of thing any better than they did last night, frankly.

Collision, not liability. Your liability covers damage you cause to others. Your collision coverage covers damage done to your car. That goes straight back to English common law, so it should be identical in the US and Canada. And I'm once again amazed you've survived in this world as long as you have...

Perhaps you're correct...but it doesn't make it any less stupid. Foreign policy isn't necessarily fiscal policy isn't necessarily domestic policy...and the specifics Dobbs mentioned are pretty damned unrelated. I can generally understand how one goes from our foreign policy vis-a-vis the EU to free trade to strengthening/weakening the dollar...but how the hell do you jump from immigration reform to Iraq and back?

"Freedom of non-repugnant speech." But then, I've come to expect such stupidity from you...

To be fair, the kind of character she's known for playing (aggressive and bitter) doesn't really do her justice. When I saw her on Leno, her actual personality was so vastly different from her typecast roles I didn't even recognize her. And I thought she was more attractive for it.

Which brings me to my next point: most people should spend more time worrying about their own driving, and less about everyone else's. I don't need every single idiot on the road to police my driving; I need them to police their own.

I can at least discuss immigration policy without mentioning how badly the Iraq policy does or does not suck. Dobbs doesn't even manage that much coherence.

So is the issue that the protesters were burning the flag, or that they were on the field? Because until now, everyone's been talking about how he stopped people from "burning the flag". Suddenly, you're making it about them being on the field. And while I agree that they should have been stopped and removed from the field for being on the field...isn't this just a transparent bait-and-switch? "Well...burning the flag isn't really the issue...it's being on the field..." And what the hell? You're more liberal than I am? Why am I arguing the liberal side of this discussion against you?

It's also interesting, because Dobbs is usually coherent, and that column read like something we'd find here. I'm still trying to figure out why illegal immigration, tax policy, free trade, and Iraq are all linked by anything other than "Well...it's Bush's fault."

The irony being, Rick Monday fought to protect freedom of speech as a Marine, then inhibited it as a ball player. Sorry...but if you want true freedom of speech, you have to allow people to burn the flag. Otherwise, you're just a hypocrite, and therefore eminently qualified for public office...

The Baltimore-DC area breeds left lane drivers, because 1) the expressway network has right and left exits, which means you occasionally have to drive in the left lane for your exit, which breeds the habit, and 2) Too many people in the Baltimore-DC are are !@#$ing stupid (or cab drivers...but I repeat myself). I don't mind people driving in the left lane as much as I do people doing 50 in a 65 while talking on the cell phone and reading the paper in the left lane.

You're right, it does have nothing to do with surface temperature. It does, however, have to do with gravity and friction: gravity pulls a glacier down the slope, friction retards it. There's evidence - pretty good evidence, easily as good as any global warming evidence, i.e. not conclusive - that the glaciers in Antarctica are accellerating not because of snowfall differences or surface warming, but of subsurface warming - basically, tectonic activity or something warming the ground under them, creating a lubricating layer of water, accellerating the glaciers. Given the overall geology of Antarctica (i.e. the glaciers tend to flow towards the water), that means increased iceberg calving and decreased Antarctic glacial coverage - the two biggest pieces of evidence typically used to promote global warming. Which is not to say global warming is a crock of sh-- - we know the planet can go through climate cycles, we know we pump pollutants into the atmosphere, and we have some hard evidence that the pollutants we put in the atmosphere can have global effect. It's just to point out that what's usually passed off as "evidence" of global warming is 1) horribly ambiguous, and 2) horribly simplified - such "evidence", as it is, is the visible culmination of a wide variety of complex interactions having almost nothing to do with fossil fuel emissions.

Actually, it's a pretty common unit of measure for a solute. And makes more sense than a strict volume measure, since alcohol and water (what blood mostly is) mixed together have less volume than the liquids measured separately (i.e. if you have a cup of water and a cup of alcohol, and pour them together, you get slightly less than two cups of the mix). It actually makes more sense to talk about grams of alcohol in a liter of blood.

Rats...

Nah. It's not really a customer service topic...

And the Antarctic ice cap is shrinking, as the movement of the glaciers speeds up... ...except that, for the glaciers to move faster, they have to be heated from the bottom up (causing them to float on a thin layer of water, which acts as a lubricant and causes them to flow faster). Which is fundamentally imcompatible with the theory that the Antarctic ice cap's shrinking is caused by atmospheric warming. That's hard science. You can look it up. Give me a little time, and I can tell you where. But hey...what's a few major theoretical inconsistencies between panicky idiots. Did you know it was actually a missile that hit the Pentagon on 9/11, too?

No excuse. I deserve to be piled on for that...

Ah,soyou'reboycottingapostrophes.Illdolikewiseandrefrainfromusinganyspacesinmypostsfromnowon.

This is supposed to be in PPP? Seems like more of a consumer forum topic.

In the general grammatical context of the board, though...he's actually pretty good.

Actually...as sad as "President Bush" is, I do honestly believe that "President Gore" or "President Kerry" would have been even more tragic. Please...will someone run that I can vote for rather than against?

What? Could he be any more patronizing? Jesus Christ... Someone needs to tell him, too, that taking Bucky Gleason seriously is a symptom of clinical insanity.