SageAgainstTheMachine

I don't think it was supposed to be...

I like it. You can never assume a healthy season for any QB, and we know Thigpen and Gailey are on the same page with one another.

You raise a good point regarding codependency. Here's my opinion though... When it comes to light that Walt took a seat and watched while Jane choked on her own vomit, either Jesse or Walt isn't going to be breathing at the end of that conflict. As usual, Walt will manage to to jitterbug himself out of harm's way, so that leaves Jesse. Just my opinion on the natural resolution of that plotline. Of course, perhaps more than any other show in tv history, we just don't know. When the show's most beloved character (Jesse) shot the show's most likable character (Gale) through the eye, Vince Gilligan sent a very clear message (not unlike Gus) that his job isn't to mollycoddle the audience and bow to their whims.

Most of the time because they're unhappy in ways that even they themselves can't fathom. If you don't feel good, you try to manufacture the feeling. Lots of people who take drugs are able to convince themselves that they're just "partying". Maybe, but they're also trying to fill some kind of void.

I think Jesse snapped at the moment he pulled the trigger on Gale. In that moment, he ceased to be a morally centered (though perpetually troubled) human and become more like a simple organism, a piece of debris on the open waters. When Gus killed Victor, what we saw in Jesse's face was an instinctive bubbling of outrage followed quickly by a recognition of their sameness. Gus killed Victory brutally with a box cutter. Jesse killed Gale quickly with a gun. But what's the real difference? Somewhere, Jesse's humanity still exists. I think we saw a glimpse of that at the end of "38 Snub" when he sinks to his knees in front of the sound system. But the man is irrevocably broken, in any case. Out of all the characters on the show, salvation isn't waiting for Mr. Jesse Pinkman. My prediction is that he's a corpse by the end of Season 4, as much as it pains me to say that.

I like how he says he isn't going to become a "big time city slicker" just because he's moving up north to Buffalo.

You guys can joke about this all you want. I kicked my pistachio habit a couple years ago and it was the most difficult experience of my life. Delirium tremors and all the rest. I tried using lentils as a sort of methodone, but it was no good. I still have to close my eyes and plug my nose every time I pass through the bulk section at Wegman's. Addiction is hell.

Of course, they're all chumps compared to DMB.

Yeah, seriously. The attitude seems pretty pervasive. It's too bad that the (initially righteous) feminist movement took such a turn for the dark side some decades back. I guess you can't learn to respect yourself without learning to hate somebody else .

Killing in the name of Christ doesn't make somebody a Christian. It only implies a severe and profound misunderstanding of Christianity. That guy can CALL himself a Christian all he wants, but that doesn't make him one.

I was more referring to the other two guys. Whenever somebody enters this sort of thread to "ask" who the person is, they're doing nothing but bragging about how their life is too awesome to understand our piddling references.

Yeah, but how else are people going to prove how cool they are if they can't boldly proclaim "Why, I've never even heard of *insert vapid pop culture item here*", under the guise of being curious?

You guys have heard of google, yes? It's great at answering questions.

Thanks for the catch, Levi.

As Forrest Gump might say, crazy is as crazy does. You're trying to apply reason to a completely unreasonable situation.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; androgyny is much more pervasive in our culture than misogyny these days, and worse it's considered much more acceptable. Can you imagine if a husband drugged his wife and then committed genital mutilation on her "because she deserved it"? If he just took a knife and destroyed her vagina? I guarantee you nobody is laughing. What a disgusting video. The women on the show and the ones laughing in the audience can all go to hell.

When you're an insane killer like whoever did this, nobody is "your own people".

Well, I apologize for calling you stupid in one of my posts. It was wrong. I'm still interested in your initial assertion that Wasserman has never been of any value to anyone. That seems to be something you just arbitrarily decided, ironically linking to her wikipedia page which outlines many of the things she's accomplished in her life.

There are pop musicians and then there are MUSICIANS who happen to specialize in pop music. Ms. Germanotta is an example of the latter.

What is there to take a stand about? Which one of the D-bags is being a bigger D-bag? As for your original post, I just read Wasserman Schultz' wikipedia page that you linked to and I'm not exactly sure what your beef is. She graduated college after studying politics and helping lead the student government, and then began work as a legislator in her state and then federal governments. It also seems as if she's trying to help save the manatees. Granted, I haven't delved very deeply into her career and based on this incident with West she appears to certainly have a bitchy side, but what exactly prompts you to claim that she's "of no value to anyone."? Do you actually know that? Perhaps more to my point, if Ms. Wassermann's political views more closely resembled your own, would you have bothered to single her out as being (according to you) useless? As for West, I thank him for his service to our country in the military, and for his continuing service as a congressman. I won't even criticize the somewhat controversial nature of his retirement from the military because it sounds to me like he had the best interests of his men at heart. I respect that. But I'm sorry, when you say stuff like this... http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/08/18/113874/allen-west-islam/ I don't want you as my President. He sounds rather paranoid and xenophobic.

For his overreaction, unbefitting any man in a public office. And for failing to not act like a baby.

My bad if that came across wrong. Frankly, I don't agree with some of what you said in this thread because I think both parties are equally to blame for the conflict, but nothing you said approached the stupidity of the poster who wanted to nominate West for POTUS.

Magox, I would hazard to guess that you're the most rational regular poster here on PPP. I just wanted to say that because this was a pretty depressing thread to read before you chimed in. Two politicians acting like children, but they both get simultaneously anointed and bashed along party lines. Pretty good snapshot of American politics today.

Your coworkers need a thicker skin, or at least a more interesting hobby than NFL training camps, if a lack of football in July has turned them off from football.

Yo, but what if like...the dream world is like...real? And like...the real world has been fake like...this whole time?