UConn James

I do believe you're over-estimating the sensibilities/intelligence of the target demographic.

Free-range prisoners! or, Since it builds teamwork and bonding --- and could raise beaucoup bucks for states in fiscal trouble --- when does "The Running Man" start and more importantly, who hosts now? Is John O'Hurley available?

I don't need to see Russell's chigger-infested underarms a bit longer. He was undone by his own actions, both so far here (stealing the idol clue) and on past seasons. If he were going to play differently this time, as he claimed, that would've required him to play differently. So far all he's done is get in bad right from the get-go with the guys of the tribe. A winning strategy might've been him approaching the guys, and saying that he's changing his game b/c it didn't work twice previous. 'I've been here before. Rob's been here before and he's great at immunity events, you seen it every time he's been on the show. We need to keep this core group of able guys to win tribe immunity events. If we don't keep this core, we're going to get picked off by Rob every time, guaranteed. We'll pick off the girls as we need to. I'll do my part to help keep us all here through probably 8... 9... maybe 10 vote-offs. Then we go into the merge strong.' He did not use the fear of Rob to any degree. He needed to be the quarterback, but again, he was a conniving little bit--. I wonder what's going to happen when the orange team sees Russell out. Maybe they decide they don't need Rob as much now to counteract Russell. There were portents of this in the sneak peak.

It's against the Terms of Service to post articles in their entirety. Not to mention the illegality of copyright infringement, it really sucks for the writer and the future of content (free or otherwise). Provide a link and, at most, a few paragraphs.

How pathetic was Russell's bloc in pretending that they had the idol? The first part of the prediction proved correct, after a little bit of stutter. They tried to turn Leatherface McClose-eyes. At tribal, the larger group turned in one of the dumbest votes I've ever seen. If you're going to be a bloc, then act as a friggin' bloc. They didn't have their **** together --- half voted for loud-mouth Stephanie, half voted for Russell... and it very nearly cost Ralph. If my math is correct, Leatherface McClose-eyes didn't vote for Ralph; you could see the 'Oh ****!' look on Stephanie's face before the second vote. Wouldn't be very surprised if they don't throw the next immunity challenge just to get rid of her mouth too. They'd still be equal #s at the merge, and it's not like she'll ever be on their side, and most not after a merge. The Redemption Island challenge was pretty weak, but also presented another turn when they lied about who went home for good. Matt vs. Russell. We'll see if Russell's forecast of RI not being a terribly bad place to be comes to fruition for him.

With a nod to Martin Niemöller: When they came for the uber-wealthy, I remained silent; I was not uber-wealthy. When they came for the corporate executives' bonuses, I remained silent; I was not a corporate executive. When they taxed the upper-middle class, I said nothing; I was not in the upper middle class. When they started taxing carbon emissions, I said nothing; I did not produce enough to count (and I compost and burn wood). When they came for the small business owners' profits, I said nothing; I did not own a small business. When they started taxing gasoline through the wazoo, I said nothing; I own a diesel and ride a motorcycle that gets 60 mpg. When they took away Social Security and my 401k, I said nothing; I didn't expect to live until retirement age anyway. When they taxed my $35,000/year salary at 60 percent FICA, I squirmed a little; but I moved into a tent on the abandoned property next door. When they took the bread out of my mouth, there was no one left to say anything in my defense.

The last time a GB LB came to the Bills.... 17 1/2 sacks! ('Course, a few things changed ).

So, are you basically advocating for a DaVinci panopticon so everybody can see everybody and be able to sing kumbaya? And you know what, I retract my earlier prediction that this won't be ruled unconstitutional. Because this is just the sort of thing judges love to do, and that I'm sure some in the Colorado legislature (or is this a federal institution?) would love to spend ten million dollars --- that the state doesn't have --- studying designs for a prison complex that somehow paradoxically keeps dangerous inmates away from other inmates and guards but simultaneously provides intimate contact. And then they'll either say that after ten million bucks, no solution can be found, or they'll actually build something for hundreds of millions and this dude will murder another guard on Day friggin' 2. Because sh-- always seems happen like that, doesn't it?

There we go with that "target" rhetoric that the left wanted an immediate stop of --- except when they use it. Because that's different.

TT wasn't peeing in any cornflakes. That seemed to be a response to wawrow's posts upthread. TT is saying that, contrary to some poster's attitudes here, better uniforms and a better team are not mutually exclusive goals.

As Roberts noted, the ruling was narrow. Is there anything on why the parents chose an "emotional distress" suit over, say, defamation of character for a private individual/s? The FA doesn't protect libel. As it stands, as much as everyone hates it, this was the right decision based on the scope of the case. WBC was on public property, had a permit to demonstrate and no one was physically injured. Can't sue somebody just because they say cruel, stupid things. Now, please, somebody blow up the WBC already.

A poster on the Chris Creamer logo site posited this uniform set based on the descriptions: Link

I've only recently been getting to catch up on some movie-watching and writing up the nominees. The blog is mostly where I dump some random musings, quotes, clips, etc. The scene after when they find the body hanging from the tree is one of the biggest " WTF??? .... " moments I've ever experienced in a theater. "You are not LaBouef!" Thanks, tgreg. You like the Sabres color-scheme, no? I only watched "The Kids Are All Right" but I just thought it was a great take-off / turn-on-the-head of an old theme. The dialogue was real-life --- something a lot of other movies could learn from. I could've lived with "Inception" getting it; that was very well-weaved. I just didn't like "The King's Speech" and its deviations from history/reality. Bertie's therapy with Logue began ~10 years prior to what they showed, Churchill supported Edward VIII just about until the abdication, among the other notes I made on it. It's a dumbed-down re-vision of history. Dude had 40 years to get the story right, and that's what he came up with? As I wrote, Masterpiece Theater's 2002 treatment was much better, IMO.

I think I'll have it on my blog within the next few days. Have a feeling I'm going to be seeing it a lot, just as I've seen "cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" about 32,539 times with my niece....

They donate quite a bit to PBS. You always hear "The David H. Koch Charitable Trust" after NOVA, Frontline, etc. So, I guess they must be pinko leftists.

For my money, it deserved Best Picture far more than The King's Speech. Shameless plug... My blog reviews on all 10. (I cut-and-pasted some of what I wrote here on TBD in Mark's threads). Having just snuck in "The Kids Are All Right" on Sunday before the awards, I have to say that was probably my #2.

BTW, small nit-pick, tgreg.... it's "pock-marked."

Yep, heard this when he first came to the U. Another victim of the stereotype absentee father, likely mixed in with a little steroid/TBI-brain. Glad he made the best of his time at Storrs.

I liked this more recent design better. (Slightly NSFW) Link

Appealing to their vanity seems to be the new direction of anti-drug campaigns targeted at kids and teens. Can't say that's a bad strategy....

Yes, there's one more scheduled for April. It's being commanded by the husband of the congresswoman who was shot in Tucson (he hopes she will be at the launch).

Bloomberg: Rhode Island's School Board Fires All Providence Teachers They say that most teachers will be re-hired. Per interviews on the RI teevee stations, this is also being seen as a way to wipe out seniority and tenure in the teacher unions. Must be those BIG BAD Republicans who want to break the unions! Oh wait... this is happening in THE most liberal state in the union. Providence has had liberal Dem mayors since time out of mind. Granted, they elect RINOs as governors (currently, former U.S. senator Lincoln Chaffee) in a theory that it'll provide some check to the legislature's spending. It doesn't. It can't. They've got it bass-ackwards. If you want a check on spending and maintain leftie social issues (I would be fine with this in CT), you elect a moderate Republican leg. and a Dem governor. Now, like many states, they're facing catastrophic debt incurred from many years of salaries, benefits and promises to public workers. There is squeaking all across the country from the gravy trains coming to a stop. The unions can threaten and cry for more grease for the wheels, but the simple fact is they've used it all.

I was under the impression Walter doesn't use his own product....

No. That meant that for a matter like this to be unconstitutional, it needs to be declared unconstitutional. It hasn't been for as long as the practice of prolonged solitary confinement has been in use.

OK. I'll bite one last time. Insofar that the current actions of the warden have not been deemed unconstitutional, it's been going on for 27 years under oversight, and there's been other similar cases in the past. It is constitutional. Some people, you included, are saying it's not --- that doesn't mean that it's not. I'm not "quitting" this argument. It's reached its final point of my participation, that it's a matter of opinion, and I've stated mine. Your participation probably isn't complete b/c you won't be satisfied until you state your opinion using the same or different words another thousand times. Because you and your kind think that this cacophony of repetition makes your argument correct. Bye now. (Hmm. Maybe I should find a psychologist who says government taxation makes people go insane....)