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I do find it interesting to be told to question the truth of all history and science books, all while at the same time treating one specific book as absolute.

I've been trying to think of those guys over the years who have been in the league for an extended period of time without making the playoffs. I can't really think of any who are supposed to be a top line player like this. It's almost always the journeyman or depth forward/defender. I think it does say a lot about Kane.

Not being able to stick in the league so far isn't necessarily a bad thing though. Let's remember that we are talking about a 2nd year pro who has spent that entire time in a strong organization. He's going to get his shot here. They've essentially given themselves another guy at the status of Baptiste/Bailey, another coin flip at being a productive NHLer. Until this team is able to replenish the Murray purge of any futures, these are the type of guy they're going to have to take their shot on. You pair that with what is supposed to be a better system of player development, and hopefully those 50/50 coin flips start to turn to 60/40 instead. Sadly, that's the best we can hope in the foreseeable future.

Pierre should probably try to get the player's name correct when announcing a trade.

It'd be funny if it was O'Regan, just so that Buffalo would now have Eichel's entire BU line.

I went to Black Panther this weekend. I wish it had been a little shorter. I really liked the Killmonger character, but it took too long to get him seriously involved.

Jessica Jones season 2 comes out next week.

I do think the game could turn to 4 on 4 in the distant future. It would take a nuclear labor war to get there though. You're cutting a good number of jobs if you shrink the roster size.

Take away the gun and you're left with a kid who still wants to kill a lot of people. The problem isn't solved, it's only shifted. There's probably only one good thing that comes out of this kid surviving his attack, that they can hopefully expand on on the knowledge of that pathology of a shooter that you mentioned. Then again, I'd imagine that it's completely different than the guy who attacks with no intention of surviving. We never get to study those ones like we can here. It's crazy to see how many times some of the warning signs are ignored or not followed up on closely. My wife's a teacher and she's got a kid this year with a ton of issues way beyond anything she has dealt with in her 12 or so years in the field. The parents flat out refuse to do anything about it due to money issues. You can see the writing on the wall with this kid, going to be major trouble down the road (kid is early elementary school years right now). I'm not saying we have a future shooter on our hands, but it's looking to be another case where help is an option, but it's being ignored. "Not my little angel..."

Did he have plastic surgery to put a face in his crotch?

So is the tone of the movie more along the lines of Winter Soldier? I think that one may have been my favorite of the bunch (and it just so happens to be on FX right now). im going with the hood on Saturday.

No matter what anyone wants to think, there's no simple one off solution to the whole thing. At the very least, while this guy is still alive, they need to learn as much from him as they possibly can. They need to figure out how to better identify warning signs for this stuff and then react to them sooner. I can't offer something concrete here since I don't know enough about it. All I know is that we shouldn't look the other way simply because "it doesn't happen often".

Im not trying to compare the exact numbers of anything here. I only mention Parkinson’s because it was the first thing that came to mind due to personal experience. But whatever, I do think things can be done to help prevent these, things that fall far short of governmental intervention.

They most certainly are a problem that we should be exploring avenues to prevent. Should we not bother to research something like ALS or Parkinsons since they are nowhere near as common a killer as heart disease is? Obviously so many of the ideas out there are far too extreme, but there is nothing to be lost by trying to find realistic ways to limit the number of these events.

The coverage of these stories drive me mad. Do we really need to see picture after picture of crying parents and kids or the incoherent interview with a kid who can't keep her composure just hours after everything happened? Then there's the need to rank each one in terms of body count, encouraging the next whackjob out there who wants to go for the high score. But hey, whatever it takes to keep the ratings up. If anything, all these pictures do is actually make the incident look like it wasn't bad at all. This guy goes crazy with a gun and the end result is a bunch of crying people. I'm not going to suggest they show the real pictures, I just want them to stop taking advantage of these people at their peak moment of suffering.

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Wait, they got the actual guys to play themselves for that movie? How on earth could any respectable film maker, let alone someone the status of Eastwood, think that was a good idea? I'm a bit fed up with the recent trend of turning these events into movies so quickly, but this one takes it to another level all together.

I feel like a kicker has to at least talk to the punter if he's the guy who holds his balls. Otherwise it gets awkward pretty quickly.

Those things are so damn annoying. They pushed all of those add ons pretty hard this year. I don't remember in previous years getting even half of the prompts for add ons that I did this time around.

It's a bit under the radar, but you can add in 5 college hockey championships within that same window. They're due for another 86 year drought.

-Charleston, SC around easter weekend -Wedding in the Baltimore area in April the following weekend -Week-long trip to Cape Cod in July with the wife's family (these "family trips" drive me mad) -Pearl Jam at Fenway on Labor Day weekend We want to mix in a trip sometime in the summer for our 5th anniversary. I'm not sure if I'll be able to find the time or not.

I can't procrastinate nearly as much as I'd like to while maintenance guys are working on the heating vents directly behind my desk.

A new Deadpool trailer is out today. I'm sure that will be paired with Black Panther (after cleaning up the language).

I keep holding out hope that this lady is my mother-in-law and she's trying to figure everything out before she tells any of her family.

The reputation stuff still messes with my head. At first I thought it was saying you only have 985 posts. That's off by at least an order of magnitude compared to your "idiot" count alone.