UConn James

If I ever get to be President, AD is going to be my press secretary. I wouldn't care if he agrees with me or not. Just for the pure-gold putdowns.

Just thinking about Goth Claire, tho. Add yet another time one of the Lostaways have been in car accidents or had loved ones die in other accidents where they walk away. Another thing, re: the message on the bird.... Far be it from me to question the efficacy of it, but as far as putting a piece of paper on the foot with a quick tie, won't it kind of disintegrate when the bird goes in the water or if it rains, etc.?

OK, I dig. That is probably the best way to describe it. So on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the hottest, o' course) she goes from a 15 to a 14.

Mmmm.... I remain unimpressed. That white helmet does not look good with the dark jersey; the dark facemask doesn't mitigate anything, and looks severely out of place with the lighter jerseys. Yet another example of namby-pamby designers who are given an original to work around, they make 20 'tweaks' and thereby change it entirely so they can add something to their portfolios, as they did in the Bills 2001 redesign. When you bastardize details from 40 years of uniforms, remember that you get a bastard as a result. Also, blame our current monstrosities on Donahoe, but also give him credit for overseeing the throwbacks. Those are as near to a perfect redesign as it gets. No piping, no fuss, no frill; just pure tradition. I hope Russ Brandon (Marv has nothing to do with the business/marketing side) gets on the ball and a full-time changeover is in the works soon.

Yes, we (or was it just me?) surmised from last season that Claire was Jack's half-sister via Christian (it was a possibility for the stewardess girl with the tailies... But come on, this is Lost). Locke knew about the C4 and pushed the buttons that he knew/should have known would self-destruct the house. Claire learned about Desmond's seeing ability. I just wonder about all that still. If Desmond knows what's going to happen (he knew exactly where the bird was), why can't he do things to get them off of the island? Or is it more of a thing that he has to wait for things to just happen as they were intended while knowing the future? Still, he keeps saving Charlie, tho. That 'Unstuck in Time' Desmond episode just blows your mind the more you think about it. Laughing playing catch with Tom (who throws like a girl, BTW. Could the reason that Kate 'isn't his type' be that he's got a man-crush on Jack? ). Seems like they have turned him. Or he knows he cannot escape b/c of the sonic Invisible Fence thing. What is weird is that all of the Others know all about the Lostaways' lives before they came to the island (and Locke might have killed Patch Guy to keep him quiet about his being paralyzed --- and holy crap does next week look awesome! Answers about Locke. This show is hitting its stride now). They know their capabilities, details of their past that no one could possibly expect to know, their psychological pressure points to get them to do things.... To wit, the Others wanted Kate and Sawyer not b/c they were 'good people'; rather, they were used to get Jack to do their bidding.

Didn't say it'd be Maybury, but I'd say the crime rate would go down. And, yes, it'd take a while, as I said.

'Nooooo! Not my child!' Welcome to the excuse factory. Lemme guess. Mr. Blake is a Dr. Spock neophyte and the kid never got a spanking or saw a corner as a small child.

Refining the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment by one of the higher courts in the land, thereby creating a precedent that, indeed, it does not apply to militias exclusively (which is stupid --- the National Guard, etc. get paid by the federal govt, whose orders you would be bound to follow) but to every qualified citizen. Yeah, that could be pretty big. Cold, hard liberty actually being delivered to the American people rather than taken from them, usually is. Watch as D.C.'s crime rate goes down over the next couple of decades. When handguns are outlawed only the outlaws have handguns. Now they'll have to worry whether the next person they rob/rape/murder might be shooting back.

This is his schtick following many of my posts in the last 3-4 months. At first it was humorous, then it was annoying, now it's just pathetic that he actually spends time out of his life on this sh--. And if he weren't something of a joke and enigma here on the Wall, someone might actually enforce the Terms of Service agreement. He stalks a lot of people. But, whatever. Water off a duck's back.

Can't say he was wholly wrong, especially pre-Bye-Week switch, but the OL-RB relationship is symbiotic. Add a RB who doesn't know the plays and gives less than a full effort, and of course the OL will look like sh--. Conversely, a great RB can make a sh--ty OL look like worldbeaters. One or the other can cause a D to play on their heels a little more. I'm going to say our situation was more column A than column B. And I'm going to say that the move that was made by the professional evaluators at OBD supports that, as well as the most important stat --- Willis's utter derth of TDs. I'd rather have a guy who will work his ass off to get better every day than a guy who thinks he can skate by with his physical 'talent.' We'll see who was right by next season.

Federal Court Throws Out 30-Year-Old Handgun Ban In Washington, D.C. Score one for reading the the Constitution as it is, not as how gun-banners want it to be! Nevermind that this ban did absolutely nothing to stop D.C. from being the homicide capital of the country for decades.

100%! Actually, 50%. Unless Joe Klecko reproduces asexually.

... in the back seat of a limo. Every day. No joke.

I hadn't heard about it. People could definitely get the wrong impression. In the common logic, ski mask + liquor store = robbery. Why the guy got arrested for it is just beyond me. It's a lot like the guy (in Ohio, I think) who actually got put on the sex offender roll b/c he grabbed a girl's arm to say 'WTH?!' after she still wasn't paying attention after he almost hit her w/ his car when she stepped in the road. The only reasoning might be that in times like these, we can't have police responding to bogus calls (read: a waste of tax $) that were prompted by the actions of idiots. But then, you'd have to jail everyone who calls 911 b/c they have a fuggin' headache. To me, there was no crime, and there certainly shouldn't have been a punishment, even CS. Jokes, freedom of expression, fashion and cold weather gear are evidently illegal in CT, don't you know.

Which is why, except in rare cases, all the cool kids DON'T sign RBs for bigtime $. Cheap, adequate (or better) replacements can be found in the draft.

"Reign Over Me" looks like a very good movie from what I've seen from the preview and read a little bit about. Good to see Sandler get away from the Billy Madison-type movie; if he could put in a half-way decent performance (and I think he has that potential, playing someone who is just completely... lost) Cheadle can carry the rest. Hopefully not too much psychobabble, but there are a lot of people still recovering from and trying to reconcile what happened on 9/11, in varying degrees. Could be a great movie. This is from someone who's actually gone to the theatre once in ~ the past 10 years b/c Hollywood has mostly put out crap.

From the preview, that looks like an enormous Invisible Fence system. Tho, I don't know how the 'monster' c/would be connected to it.... Perhaps when it's tripped, the black cloud appears. We shall see. But yes, for all the people bitching about not getting any answers ("Wah! We want all of our storylines wrapped up in 30 minutes like 'Leave It To Beaver'! Wah!"), they're coming. As Lindelof said, the answers are going on a downhill-speed trajectory now. And frankly, I won't really mind if they don't end up explaining everything. Part of what makes the show great is trying to figure it out for yourself what the hell happened. Yep, I believe that's the course they were given by Ben. Who knows if it was legit. I fully expect to see Michael and Walt again; perhaps as early as the end of this season. No idea what language the two guys were speaking in the finale last season. But it does appear that's what was being referenced. Weird thing is... it was during the Cold War that Sam Toomy and Leonard were there and now there are people from the Russian area. Perhaps all along it was some sort of secret co-op monitoring program. I have read that we will be seeing more of that station with the two guys in an shortly-upcoming ep.

Yep. Great ep, and it should get things moving at a faster pace, one would hope. Nice mappage Sayid got toward this purpose, but I also think he's keeping the patch guy alive for a reason (not just the whole conscience thing). They were obviously inviting comparison b/w Sayid-as-captive to the ep from S1 where he interrogated Nadia.... shoe on the other foot kind of thing. I don't think he did torture the woman, but it is entirely possible he did. Weird about that cat. Stupid for Locke to blow the place up w/ all the comm. equipment there; Sayid might have been able to use it. Patch guy shot Ms. Clew(?) b/c she told him to. Looked like she also told him to kill himself, which he was going to do. This would obviously be to keep them from giving up information about the Others in any interrogation. Sure shows the devotion to keeping the secrets.

Well, as someone posted upthread, BUSH BAD! The admin has really pissed off a lot of farmers with this, and sent IT depts into a bit of a tizzy spending countless hours for something that will have minimal-to-no impact. I could more easily forgive them if they didn't actually go out of their way to create problems.

So, for those of us still on Win98 (still good as a browsing computer), I guess we have to do it manually?

What Would Jesus Drive?

Perhaps with any (late) comp picks coming our way.... tho I don't know if there are. I think they'll be announced pretty soon. Next year will likely be a bonanza for them. Losing Clements, Fletcher, et al.

Agree with the timeslot. If they're so afraid of Idol, put LOST on a different night. How'd that 'staying away from the competition' work for "Grey's Anatomy"? They went up against CSI:Vegas and they're wiping the floor with Grissom's 'stache. --- So, last night was filler. But it was a nice comedic filler. Good to see Cheech. And for as much as Hurley said he hated his father for leaving, he kept the Camero... which was their link. And it's kind of a turn for bad-things-happen-to-me Hurley. Hope. And... someone told me that Hurley was in a light-blue VW mini-bus when the weird-looking kid found out he won the lotto (don't know about that; I'd have to check). Roger the workman died on a beer run.

I'd definitely reserve a porcelin throne for thineself and stock the room with reading material suiting your particular interests. When my dad got his, they did an up-periscope and a down-periscope (he joked that he hoped they changed cameras ). And yeah, the doctor told me if I ever wanted to punch him in the face, that was the time b/c even tho he was upright and talking and everything, he wouldn't remember a damn thing. Then, the doc gave him a certificate for being "A Perfect A--hole."

Yup. Last time I bought a jersey of any kind was ~10 years ago when I was a stupid kid with a little disposable income (and back then, it was ~$100). It doesn't make much sense to me now to spend a month of grocery bills on something you'll probably wear 4 times a year. The coup de grace for me came when, at a family party, a distant cousin's husband showed in full Cleveland Browns regalia. I thought, "Is that really what I look like when I wear that sh--?" If you go to a game, all right. But I'd rather get a simple retro T-shirt for a few bucks, slip on some sunglasses and go casual-cool.