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Very hard to Firebomb an ocean, and reports to the contrary I am told it is hard to fish that way too.

Look on the bright side, you get to keep your looks.

Generally they were sacrficed to appease YHWH for personal or communal sins. I think in the end YHWH decided he didn't have much use for this system.

$2.75? I think these illegal theaters need to be shut down. It is because of guys like you that I am paying $8.50

Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Dove Merchants.....

Start a thread with Jesus, abortion, firebombing, and homosexuality in the first paragraph and wait for ferment...

Ed always seems to be one of the last Buffalo sports reporters to ever give up on coaches or general managers. So if he is lurking here, I am not sure if he is posting here... BTW Eddie, you always seem to defend the gimmick plays that go wrong as a decent ideas. A gimmick play that goes wrong is always the wrong idea.

Hold on a second. There is no way that The Gospel accourding to Rambo is canonical. It may have all gone down just as Sly said so, but that doesn't mean we have to believe it.

I think those Japanese were just plain sneaky. Whoopee cushions are still big sellers there too.

At least we got to see Roscoe Parrish throw a pass this year. That just about completes everything I wanted to see in 2005.

Hi Ed! If you lurk here, see if there is anyway you can get Jodi Johnston bumped to prime time. She's model skinny but still pretty hot for a local news reader.

How did we ever get stuck with this guy? His pronouns don't agree with his antecedents.

slow down, this is for charity.

Miller looked great.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day, you took it away....

I think Spezza is the one that should be pissed the most. He is one of the top 10 players in the world in my opinion. Sabres just looked confused last night. In the end, this loss may let a little pressure out, they seemed tense and unable to get into a flow. I hope they start Miller next. (of course I have fantasies about a new Sauve/Edwards rotation. ) It was a great run, anyway.

The airing of grievances is the worst part of Festivus. Let's go right straight to the feats of strength. (may I suggest dwarf tossing?)

If this is the kinda thing Ron needs help deciding I think he should just follow the Cornell team. I have had email from all over the world this week with the message: "What the hell is going on with the Sabres"

I would hope that nobody would pass this on as a condolence thread. Isn't it a breaking news thread? And you would think that people in the Colts organization would have a little more sense than to try to do so.

Good post. I actually think what the Bush administration tried to create was not so much an adversarial relationship with the press, but a market where access was used as capital. Print things favorable to the administration and you are rewarded with greater access, print things negative about the administration and access disappears. Case in point: Helen Thomas. A market was created where reporters had to weigh their stories against not the straight story but the capital of access. Flame the President, rightfully or wrongfully, it would compromise future access, praise the President, rightfully or wrongfully, it would gain future access. I think this actually worked by design for much of the first term. But now they have so many outsiders in the press corps that the Administration has very few believable outlets to convey their message. I think Bush got a lot of mileage out of this reward system. But Clinton was simply so cocky that he thought he could convince anyone in the press pool of anything, that access to him or his ideas was far less prized. In his second term, as much as Clinton spoke, the press began to believe he was irrelevant because power shifted in congress, and finding out the story from Clinton was a non-scoop.

Against the Bettors: This board is a curious collection of people: I am no judge in the matters of taste but there was a time when children like some of ours were left to die on windswept cliffs. Tempus Fugit - Memento Mori For the Bettors: I am thinking that the line probably stays the same, and at the same time think that Irish Novelist Samuel Beckett would have liked that question.

Tough question. But if it can be called a National Pastime I don't see why it can't be both.

Jury could be out on that statement. I do hope it works out well, but a prolonged civil war or a theocracy is not out of the realm of possibility in Iraq's future. I have seen quite a few references to post-war Japan and Germany, but very few people talk about the weak democracies of pre-war Japan and Germany and what those led to. A weak democracy is fertile ground for tomorrow's totalitarian. You could also look to Lenin's overthrow of the provisional government in the wake of the Tsar. Once a government is formed, the real trick is keeping moderate factions in power without a strong lurch to the religious right, or to some type of Sunni nationalistic left.

Ivanov's story is pretty wild. I think Uncle Joe pulled support so he got financing from the the American Society of Athiesm, and he inseminated Chimps with human sperm in Africa to try to create the Humanzee. Clive Wynne is coming out with a book about this and had a brief op-ed in the NYTimes on Dec 12th. (but I don't think I can hotlink.)