UConn James

I realize that this is probably her absolute worst, so.... But still, that can only get so much of an allowance.

The rules have been bent over backwards and anally penetrated in favor of offenses. The league is about scoring now, even more than ever. Either you keep up with the Joneses or you're going to pick in the Top 5 every year.

No stevestojan! You don't want to go in the lots for ~45 minutes. Even after a win.

And then when you see her in real life, she falls from a 9.5 to a 6. Still respectable... but it's tons of make-up and special effects.

Link It's also so fans don't get injured... and then sue the team. Because no matter what the back of the ticket says, there would be lawsuits and legal costs. Easier in the long run to just have staff loosen some bolts. And instead of the team looking like inveterate pricks, we fans get the sense that they actually give a sh-- about what today's win means.

+1 Can we get back a stevestojan = ____ filter? Doesn't necessarily have to be what it was before, but that quote deserves derision.

Peter King just said on NBC the spot in question was in the chest/shoulder area and that the X-rays were negative.

Welker led with his helmet just as much. Byrd was trying to go mid-body in his initial take on the tackle. Welker simultaneously scrunched up his body, which lowered his helmet right into Byrd before Byrd could react. WW is a squirmy worm who scrunches and fools a defense into thinking the tackle's a sure thing... and then he explodes out of the scrunch and that's how he gets 1/4 of his yardage. (Not knocking Welker by any means with that; he's a hell of an athlete!) No doubt that helmet-to-helmet happened, but it was incidental, not intentional. Funny thing, tho, that if I'm forced to point to a single moment in the game, it seemed to be the play where the momentum shifted. The Pats were like 'Sh--, these guys are for real and they're bringin' it!' Then again, this is the Pats* and Welker so I fully expect a large fine.

To be completely fair, he was unapologetic about calling it. The Bahstin reporters asked him about it ~5 times, trying to decipher whether it was a snafu done by a player or coach along the sidelines. BB said it was he who called the timeout. He didn't say there was anything that was out of sorts wrt the refs' timekeeping or anything... just that he took a timeout. Period. Many people are saying it was after Freddie's run. I thought the timeout came after the Buffalo false start penalty, which would have been a clock-stoppage by rule. But, you know, I was [] this close to having a massive coronary in those minutes, so I could be wrong....

Fitzmagic Steve Johnson Fred Jackson WTF more do they need to do? Let's avoid bad feelings, and the longer you wait, the more it's gonna cost.

The Big East is a shell of a conference --- the walking dead --- and has been since at least 2003. This may well be one of the final coups de grace for it in public esteem. My alma mater's got to get out there by any means necessary.

In all this, I guess I'm just looking in vain for a president and leadership who will bring a fiduciary/literal tenor to the phrase "THE BUCK STOPS HERE." One who says if you're looking to live high on the hog at other peoples' expense, when there are Americans going without, then don't bother submitting an application to work in the govt. A president who tells his cabinet that if he hears about an event in their department where the catering cost for a few hundred people is in the $100sK, s/he will be personally cashiered and escorted out of the WH. It's far past time to tighten the !@#$ing belt and that goes for the entire govt.

Word was, in the last few weeks, that FSU is considering --- or people surmise that they 'ought to' --- move to the SEC. That seems pretty difficult now with the $20M exit fee enacted by the ACC. And if it'd be difficult for FSU it'd be next to impossible for Clemson. And it would be truly impossible for UM, which is currently embroiled in scandal and their program faces a potential death sentence from the NCAA.

And who's going to compensate the post office and television stations for use of their services? Oh, wait. Free. So, a quasi-public (that is having hard times as it is) and private businesses should be hood-winked into giving all and sundry the use of their delivery trucks, gasoline, adspace, broadcasting tower electrical transmission costs? Franking privileges for congressional mailings as they exist currently are a burden and a complete waste of paper, electricity and delivery, nevermind a fivefold increase. If pols and candidates want exposure, they ought to decide how they want to send it and pay for it themselves. Pushing the cost on faceless entities is sh--. The idea to make it a free-for-all primary which would determine a Top-2, regardless of party affiliation, is intriguing. But there is no way it will ever be adopted. The major parties want a guaranteed presence in the final election. Why am I thinking that this will only result in a government-class not unlike the foibles of Sir Humphrey Appleby in "Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister" where they are essentially another party committed to slowing down the process and to bureaucratic largess?

Not to mention that the death penalty is an immensely important prosecutorial tool in plea bargaining. When capital punishment is off the table, they can lose the ability to plead a potential capital crime down to murder 1 and life in prison... so it becomes a matter of life in prison that can get pleaded down to murder 2 and the possibility of parole.

I guess I have to repost this: 1) What does this line of argument have to do with anything? The United States is not a Christian / New Testament theocracy. 2) Actually, there were several exceptions to the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" commandment. The Lex Talionis / "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth." War / National conflict. Self-defense. Granted, these were in the Old Testament, but.... 3) Do you really want to get into that argument? They are people each doing their part in a long chain of upholding a system of laws. If you don't like the laws, then try to change the laws through the proper channels. How in the world could you condone killing people for their discrete parts in adjudicating a capital case? You would hope for that? What is wrong with you?

1) What does this line of argument have to do with anything? The United States is not a Christian / New Testament theocracy. 2) Actually, there were several exceptions to the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" commandment. The Lex Talionis. War / National conflict. Self-defense. 3) Do you really want to get into that argument? They are people each doing their part in a long chain of upholding a system of laws. If you don't like the laws, then try to change the laws through the proper channels. How in the world could you condone killing people for their discrete parts in a capital case? You would hope for that? What is wrong with you?

Trust me, I do go ballistic over DoD spending. The attitude in bold is the problem.

Anyone who thinks there will be substantial change even 50 years from now is delusional. I could see players in the big-time sports maybe getting a stipend. But dude, most sports run break-even or at a loss so a uni can comply with Title IX. If forced to pay beyond whatever percentage they give in scholarships, programs will be cut.

Both the quotes from the auditor and the story imply that these were the line-item costs per foodstuff. He said that they spent $16 on each of the muffins. It then says DOJ "also" spent $600K for the event itself. There was no weaselly language like 'If you take the total cost and divide it per muffin/per cookie/per coffee....' So, we're left with... someone needs to be slapped / publicly flogged. We need people in D.C. who will say that the public-money feeding trough isn't going to be filled as much starting NOW, and departments had better spend the $ on the necessaries rather than the perks and frills.

Link The federal government needs more of your money! C'mon everybody, pass this bill!!!

Pac-12 says no further expansion So Texas, TT, OU and OSU will be staying Big-12(10). Looks like Missouri might be best served to stay there and for them to poach 2. Frankly, I think it would be best for TCU to pull out of the Big East and join that. And if Missouri stays, the SEC will have to look elsewhere to get to an even number... provided A&M still moves there. Geez this gets complicated! Maybe 16 is too big. Maybe 12 or 14 is an optimal number. Regardless, with what's happened, I still don't feel it's possible for UConn to stay in the Big East with whatever permutation is put together. We've got a little bit of time, as BE officials say they will be enforcing the 27-month wait, so PITT and Cuse will be staying thru 2014/2015. So, some of the pressure is off --- but then again that may not be a "good thing" b/c that can often lead to procrastination and getting stuck in a situation. Sometimes it's helpful to be dancing with bullets at your feet to realize what you need to do. Anyway, it looks like, again, it was just a couple of dominoes that fell and only a couple that are still teetering, rather than the whole board going.

According to this article: 1) WV applied to and has been rejected by both the ACC and SEC. 2) Missouri has an offer in hand from the SEC. 3) Mountain-West and Conference USA are in football-only merger talks, with the intent to get a BCS berth. But one of the best points made in it is that the rumored Big 12-remnant and Big East merger would create a conference that is seriously spread out. It's one thing for football where there's 1 game every weekend. It's quite another when a women's field hockey team has to endure (and budget/pay for) travel of 2,000+ miles four times a year multiple times during the school week. It's much different from more traditional regional conference match-ups where travel is more limited. This is one of the more serious concerns I've had, where it would be more prudent for UConn to join the ACC in a pod-conference with BC, Syracuse and, say, Rutgers. Limited travel time and cost. Retains regional rivalries where games can be attended by both sides for a fuller arena (consolidating and maximizing attendance where they can is especially important these days).

Secret recordings raise new questions in ATF 'Gunwalker' operation Giving evidence to those under investigation, missing evidence from the Brian Terry murder scene.... Walk on, people. Nothin' to see here!

AJ, the last number I think I remember hearing WRT purity of Walt's meth was 97% in one of the early Gale episodes.