UConn James

Normally, selling pieces of the old field to fans might be a nice gesture and even be a little income to the county to offset what they spend on RWS. (I'm assuming the county owns the old turf --- they paid for it). However, in this case with a decade of failure on that turf, I just don't think it'd be pulling in a lot of buyers.

Maybe you ought to try prunes.

Well, I don't know about "love," but it's one that has an important message that a lot of people just don't get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jgUcxMezM

Same here. It was entirely unintelligible. They cut off the graphics at the 3rd turn --- this is usual --- which made it all the worse.

Have to show some appreciation for that national anthem. For a long time I've wanted to hear someone (with the voice to handle it) put the emphasis on those words, "... that our flag was STILL THEREEE!!! O, say..." and that girl hit it. As usual from female singers these days, the rest was a Whitney Houston/Elmer-Fudd-sitting-on-a-blender vocalizations, but, given that, it wasn't bad. Was that Brandi? On edit: It was Jordin Sparks.

3 hours of buildup for 2 minutes of real action.

If Bin Laden had been taken alive and held, do you have any idea how many Westerners would be kidnapped and threatened with beheading? Also, remaining Al Qaeda leadership today officially acknowledged that BL was killed in the raid.

Per the verbal description, the left side of his skull was blown off. As I wrote above, everyone would see it, whether they want to or not; there's no stopping its distribution once it's released. We don't need this photo in the national consciousness.

"Greater openness" does not mean that anything 50% or more of the public wants to see is released. The photo would become ubiquitous. Everyone would see it eventually. Whether it's published in papers, used in avatars, hung on dartboards, etc. Everyone would see it. The second it's out there, the toothpaste would be out of the tube and its use would be uncontrolled.

It doesn't happen often, but I agree with Obama's reasoning. Like Marv Levy's old phrase to "Act like you've been there before [and you'll get there again]" after reaching the endzone, there's no need, as O put it, to "spike the football." Releasing a gruesome death photo is too much like what the people we're fighting do. Just another example of people these days feeling they have a right to know everything about everybody.... It's not going to help me or anyone else sleep any better --- quite the contrary.

Yes. That was pertaining to the plastics scope, as Pete was mentioning....

Just finished the string of "Breaking Bad." Wow. That's all I can say. Well, no. In addition to my earlier comments, I'd just like to add that one of the touches that make this series awesome, besides the writing and acting, is the camerawork. I believe there's been more time-lapse work in this than I've ever seen before, and it makes for some great, original establishment shots. Walt really is one of the more interesting characters on teevee now. He's got an obsessive streak a mile wide, a knowing smarminess to him that is simultaneously off-putting and what makes him something of an anti-hero. This Season 3 arch was just terrific, as things seemingly got more stable for Walt and Jesse, they're now into something that's a thousand times worse than anything they faced before. The quiet kingpin, Gus, is similar to LOST's Benjamin Linus character in a way.... Anyway, since the 'cooking' started, there's an unpredictable self-destructive bent (e.g. stomping on the gas and closing his eyes on the highway) whenever there hasn't been a self-preservation bent. And Walt's late-in-the-day realization that his actions aren't nearly as benign as he thought they were, nor are they now as easily rationalized away. There have been lots of times when he's had no pity for people who've brought things upon themselves, yet the shooting of the kid really brought something out of Walter. And as hard as he is on Jesse, he's been there as a kind of protective father figure / still acting as a teacher.

As I remember from the time, that BPA "scare" was related to thicker plastics e.g. Nalgene bottles and some brands of baby/toddler containers.

Usually have a glass of cran every day or two. Studies suggest it's also helpful against prostate problems. I have not had kidney stones, and am also thankful I haven't had the "D_____ stomach" that plagues that side of the family.

I've been a Coke (especially Vanilla Coke) addict since an almost daily 20-oz vending machine bottle at the U. There've been periods where I've laid off of soda for a few months at a time or had one only occasionally. I can't recommend a diet in "empty calories" for everyone, but I'm 6'1" and about 160 and remain active so I burn it off. It's much more important to stay away from over-processed foodstuffs that's calorie- and saturated fat-dense, and then sit on ones' ass (not a coincidence that many nutritionally horrible foods tout easy or fast preparation and then, surprise surprise(!) its eaters are too !@#$ing lazy to get up and move), than carbonation and simple sugars. We're headed now into lemonade and iced tea season. With a family history of kidney stones, I really ought to be drinking more (tap) water, tho....

Rob: 'I've got an alliance with Grant, with Natalie, and with Andrea. All these guys have to do is talk to each other. But they don't.' The requisite family contact episode has Mike electing to reward the people who front-stabbed him and his Purple tribe, and for all his Jesus-speak, he's very much looking forward and trying to buy some favor among Yellow members who will become jury members... with the hope/expectation that he'll be the returning player from Redemption. Right now, it makes the most sense to me, from a 'keep interest/drama alive' standpoint, to reintroduce the RI winner as the 4th remaining player. That would ensure that no one could use a hidden idol anymore, that the Yellow alliance would be pretty much shattered, and to dangle the possibility that this Purple player could win immunity or two and then have a Purple-dominated jury, along with butt-sore Yellows. Still, Mike's move didn't seem to rub Ralph or Steve the right way. Steve got his final reward... and it just didn't look like he even tried on the challenge. Like they said, he's lost ~ 40 pounds, and he was just ready to go to Pondarosa. Phillip had better hope for his "upper body strength" / "elder statesman of the tribe" type of immunity challenge to come next week. He's gotta sense that his time might be coming, and Rob's spidey-sense is going off that Phillip has something in the works.

Add in the BP spill and releasing numbers they knew to be wrong. You know... we're really not far off from Orwell's "1984."

It's for this reason that I really appreciate that the Red Sox owners decided to renovate/add on to Fenway rather than build some new monolith.

I, for one, didn't think that penalty was nearly enough. Taking a taxi for a couple-mile jaunt while the others playing by the rules have to hoof it through steep terrain should have been an automatic last-place. I did believe that was Kent's intention --- get there via taxi and hope that just one other team is too winded / tired to get there before their 30 minute penalty was up. Perhaps, to fulfill his wish from earlier in the day, Kent ought to have punched himself in the face.

Myself, I would have taken the opportunity to stuff his mouth full of it. Just for my own personal knowledge / satisfaction.

Probably more unnecessarily than is justified. I'm sure Clinton and the military at the time was under a similar dread of a repeat of Carter sending forces into Iran, or what happened to him in Somalia. And at the time, they went with the less risk, but less-certain bombing. This has been in planning since last September, when they learned the location of his hideout. And last Monday, Obama was also given the option of a drone attack, but chose the SEAL invasion. And at this point with what OBL has done, you'd think any president would choose an active assault and go in with the elite team and not go with a relatively passive attack and allow for another possibility of survival and escape.

I've read that the remaining helicopters --- two were apparently detonated on-scene, on purpose --- were engaged by Pakistani fighter jets as they were leaving. They weren't told about this mission because of tip-offs that have happened in the past, and so, they were responding to an airspace invasion. I won't be surprised by the Pakistan govt claiming foreknowledge to, as you said, save face. Also wouldn't be surprised by us backing up this claim. They've got to assure their people their military is capable (i.e. imagine that being Indian invasion team at, say, a nuclear site), and the U.S. can hardly afford to embarrass Pakistan, even as a one-off high-level catch like this. That SEAL team was no doubt expecting to lose guys, either from OBL's people or from a somewhat "friendly-fire" incident. And it's a testament that these guys willingly and frequently accept this degree of risk. It wasn't announced immediately, as such. He was killed last Monday. And yeah, as this sinks in, the feelings get complex, especially for those who were on-scene or knew someone who was killed on 9/11, the Embassy bombings, U.S.S. Cole, etc. Celebration like we saw last night is understandable, but it misses the mark a bit. It's not as if the GWOT is now magically over, like some cartoon where once the head bad guy is defeated, all of his toadies/henchmen go *poof* and disappear in smoke.

Huh. I didn't know the cable itself could do that.... I actually got a no-name $4 HDMI cable from amazon.com for hooking up my laptop to the HDTV and it's worked perfectly.

So glad Kent finally was sent packing, as a result of his own stupidity / brashness. The episode started out with him saying repeatedly that he feels like 'punching someone in the face today.' And in the kitchen challenge, I was so rooting for him to take a first swipe at Big Easy. Zev and Justin obviously aren't from WNY or NE, from that shovel-out on the Matterhorn. Bad form! Really looked like they would lose after that. That chocolate gnome challenge was pretty cool. I'd always wondered how they did things like that. The mix-up was a little unclear and I was feeding the dog during that part. Did they settle what happened there? Looked like Big Easy was saying that Vixen took the wrong gnome from the freezer b/c Flight Time had already done a feet section, and she'd been behind b/c she was going slowly and then suddenly she was all caught up. I just wonder if the taxi ride that shouldn't hadn't occurred, would there have been a possible penalty for that? Kind of similar to when the Globetrotters took the wrong bag in Japan, and yet, there was no mention of the malfeasance. They had video to review who took what, right? So, here in the penultimate airing of AR, I was happy to see the Pinks take their leave, and we now have four teams left that have played well, fought through adversity, and I wouldn't mind seeing win... well, "played well" minus Flight Time's display of his public urination skills.

I'd imagine that could happen any number of ways. Loose wire connection, bad weld, fried.... You've got two other HDMIs, right? Is this going to be a problem for how many HDMI devices you use? It may not even be worth paying to investigate at an appliance repair place, given the life span of these things. Just goes to show that in cases of electrical device problems, it's always helpful to do some basic process of elimination experiments before assuming that you've got a dead product. I would expect that an explanation is in order to the lad... and an apology & make up treat if any punishment was given. I admire that he did "confess" when he knew that might result in some negative things --- do remind him that you're proud that he had the fortitude to take responsibility. So many kids these days would've never said a word.