Rob's House

I have nothing to add to this. Just thought a few could stand to read it again.

I don't like the options. Do I believe in him? I don't really know what that means. I choose to be optimistically hopeful, but his future's a big ? IMO. If you were asking whether I'd prefer EJ or TL for 1 game it may be a toss up, but for the season I'd go EJ because there's a better chance for him to develop into a quality starter.

I agree that working immigrants aren't really a problem, but there's a better way than amnesty and unsecured borders to strike a balance.

Change monopoly to oligopoly and you can include just about every major player in any highly regulated industry.

Cantor didn't get bumped for being too moderate, he got bumped for being too kitty. Cantor is a big R Republican which has come in recent years/decades to mean socially conservative and fiscally moderate*. This appeals to old people who the party has relied on, but they're the past. The future is the bloc of fiscally conservative and socially moderate* people who have been increasing rapidly in number, but have been left without any real alternative. I suspect and hope this is the canary in the mine indicating the political environment is becoming increasingly toxic for these obsolete candy ass candidates. * where I've used the term moderate I'm referring to what I would consider fairly liberal, but would probably be most widely understood as moderate in our political culture.

I'm proud to say I had a hand in this. People always complain about congress but they like their guy, or they skip the primary and vote party line. Not I or my neighbors. I feel like cranking up the theme to Team America.

Peyton Manning had a pretty good rookie campaign. People look at the INTs and say he sucked, but that's just one stat. Sure, it's an important one, but not all INTs are created equal, and if that's the only hole in a rookie QB's otherwise amazingly productive season, that's the kind of problem you can work on. People forget that throwing for 3700+ yds and 26 TDs was a big deal back then. That'd be equivalent to well over 4000 yds and 30+ TDs now, and INT numbers have trended downward in the last 15 years.

For whatever the causes, and whoever is to blame, the situation people in poverty find themselves in isn't one that others can lift them out of, but one individuals have to pull themselves out of. All we as a society can realistically do is provide the opportunity. At this point I would say the opportunities are there and the greatest barriers to those opportunities are cultural and/or personal. I've learned first hand in helping people in these situations that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. There are a lot of influential voices (many of which are glorified by predominantly white liberal media organizations) whose primary message is to make excuses for those who won't drink. It helps their political candidates, but it doesn't help the kid who rejects opportunity because he prefers the more glamorous thug life, or because he's been convinced that opportunity doesn't exist for him.

Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor. Proof That Germans Have A Sense Of Humor (South P…:

The Coens were at their best in the 90s, IMO. During that decade they cranked out Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. All I consider great movies both in terms of artistry and entertainment value, and they are my five favorite Coen movies. They've made others I consider good to great movies, like No Country for Old Men, Oh Brother Where art Thou, and Raising Arizona, but to me the 90s was far and away their prime. I can understand that reaction if you went into Fargo having heard the hype. Part of what makes it great is the perspective from which they tell an otherwise unspectacular story.

The best is when some sanctimonious ass hole comes behind that guy, indignant because he's not pretending to be personally affected by a random incident any more than he is about the hundred other people who died an untimely death that day that he also didn't know but who he also didn't read about in the news. That's important because once you hear about something like that in the news you have a personal connection to the incident and victims, and therefore it's a dick move to discuss the broader implications on obscure message board sub-forums or among others who also don't know anyone involved, unless of course you act really sad so you can simultaneously show yourself and others that you're a good person because you care.

It's actually Joe's wet dream. The only thing that busted was his nut when he saw the headline.

Maybe, but I'm not buying her dinner and she can't sleep over.

It's been a while since I've seen it so I don't recall all the eye-rollers, but the one that stands out most is the part where the cops are marching in rows into open gunfire, Batman drops in on his bat plane, and rather than opening fire, or flying headlong into the bad guys, he lands, hops out and goes looking for a !@#$ing fist fight. I still thought the movie was fun to watch, but as far as the writing, logic, and inconsistencies go it was comically bad.

Did anyone else think the 3rd Nolan Batman was ****?

I jumped into a quarry that was so high you had to point your toes, cup your balls, and hold your nose or you were going to have a bad time. We estimated it at around 70 feet, so I imagine it was closer to 50. I doubt I could handle it nowadays. Last summer I jumped off a 25' boat house and thought my head was going to implode. Not as young as I once was. Edit: Oh yeah, both, but I prefer the brunette.

I don't know that I'd call it a classic song, but I'm sure some do, and it's a classic remake. Dynamite Hack-"Boyz In The Hood"_ SEMI-OFFICIAL V…:

If we sign him can we just refer to him as Josh?

That's one of the biggest problems right there. I had a broken arm without insurance and couldn't shop around for treatment b/c they wouldn't tell me the price. Years ago I needed MRIs and didn't find out until after I got the bill that the small MRI shop in a strip mall charged less than half what the hospital charged. We've removed price, the invisible hand that finds the optimal point (+/-) between supply and demand, then we wonder why costs continue to rise. We're retarded.

Is it possible that a lower percentage of black folks are interested in engineering?

Interesting philosophy. So it's no big deal when an elected official lies or exceeds his authority because they all do it? If I'm an elected official, particularly a corrupt one, I support this philosophy.

Ah, The Prestige. That's a good one. I think I found Memento more entertaining, but The Prestige seems to me to have more depth. It's one I've watched a half a dozen times or more and I get something new from it every time.

I don't know whether or not this is true. Do you have any way of substantiating that claim? It's relatively easy to quantify the former, virtually impossible to quantify the latter. I'm curious how you drew this conclusion.

And let us not forget John Edwards' version of I Am Woman John Edwards - I Am Woman:

It crossed my mind when trying to nail down #5. I remember wondering how it didn't get a best picture nomination. Of course As Good As it Gets, Forest Gump, Usual Suspects, Dazed & Confused, & Almost Fomous were in the running for #5 too.