UConn James

Somebody put a lot of time into that. Definitely some things to think about; esp that cabana-thing shaped like the I Ching and the metal spheres that look like the ones the Dharma people were using. Still, I think the leap he's taking on the theory re: they've been cryogenically frozen and placed there, etc. is a bubble off plumb.

They don't make QBs like that anymore.

Jim Kelly went to a NASCAR race the weekend after Hunter died. Different people have their own ways of dealing with their grief, either by throwing themselves into their work or distracting themselves and I make no judgments. But yeah, seeing Parcells docile and weepy (his face just looks like droopy PlayDough), it might have been better for him to sit this one out.

Call the Better Business Bureau and report what happened. Especially with identity fraud being one of the fastest-growing crimes.

Or, "General Motors Engine Specifications." (Especially when they have designs where you need to take apart half the engine and be triple-jointed just to be able to reach the oil filter, for those of us who are too frugal and untrusting to let another man touch your car except for major repairs.)

They tried it a few years back, and apparently the ratings suffered or the Left Coasters complained louder b/c the game started at 5 their time, even tho the population of the U.S. is overwhelmingly concentered East of the Mississippi/Continental Divide/ midwestern topographical feature of your choice. Likewise, I almost never make it to halftime. Games often last to 12:30 - 1 a.m., and it's ever creeping longer now with them adding in more commercials.

#$%^ NO! Steak and potatoes, heavy construction guy here. Just that, given the choice, why would anyone be staunchly opposed to being "just friends" with a woman? Try being less hostile, chief. Shoot. I could use some laughs.

When I worked at a high school, they did a photocopy of my license. That seemed to be more for the purpose of thoroughly checking out who they hire, which I would be leery if they didn't do in such an environment. Don't know why a fuggin hotel would take it. Tho in Europe I believe they keep copies of your passport or something, so Interpol knows exactly who's staying where. Or maybe that was from one of those spy movies... I don't remember. This being America, if that was one of their requirements for staying, on principle I'd just leave. People are standing up for our privacy rights less and less as we all become bleeting sheep to the new security age.

Villanova??? Pf-shhaw!

Especially women friends, because women are better than men. I've had some very good friendships, even if just sitting next to someone during a semester (*ahem* Sue Bird *ahem*) with girls/women about whom I had no intention of romancing (tho most were beautiful in their own way), I simply liked them for who they are. Good friends with my brother's quasi-ex-girlfriend --- where "the timing was just off" b/c he was away lots after 9/11. I don't know what it is anymore that people of the opposite genders can't really be true buddy-friends anymore. You ride on the roads, go to the store and it's all women hang with women, men hang with men. Or maybe it's just b/c I live in a state that allows civil unions?

Doubtful they "glossed over" JP. NFL coaches live by the "assumption is the mother of all f----ups" credo. There is tape review, I'd say our opponents since the switch have focused on Holcomb, but they still probably give JP more of a slice of time than they do for most other backups. That figure sounds about right for first-team O snaps. Doesn't the backup generally run the scout team? I think that's probably helped JP. To mimick how the other team's QB plays and what their tendencies are. You often add some of the good stuff to your own repetoir.

How much do you think they game-planned for one vs. the other? With our special situation at QB, I'd guess 70-30. Still, a game-plan is a plan like any other and the best laid plans are often useless 5 minutes in. KC had halftime to make adjustments. How 'bout giving the kid some credit?

I think the ???s are probably in the case of a torn ACL, severe diahrrea, or the RJ classic "Questionable: Rear end." No matter what, barring injury, you mean. (The above was said immediately prior to knocking on all kinds of wood. Oak, maple, ash, pine....)

Just go, and when it starts in, just say, "Sorry, I'm just not into white chicks right now."* This is what Amy Sederis used to do with guys who'd hit on her. *This only works if she's white, o' course. Probably wouldn't work to substitute any other things, or you get called the b-word.... Or you could change it to, "I'm only dating Italian girls right now" and go down your list.

We've got our solution. Put Holcomb's brain in JP's body. I've got Dr. Frankenstein on my speed dial.... Today showed that the struggles earlier weren't all JP, and that what issues he had, and has still (like a soft touch on short passes), aren't too much to overcome. Watching from the bench probably helped him realize that he needs to distribute the ball and not be afraid to go with short dink-and-dunk passes every so often to keep a D honest. This amount of time on the bench was probably opportune. If he's benched next week, it starts to be a detriment to him (see: Tim Couch). There will be some mistakes as he gets experience. I accepted this going into the season and I still accept it now. Time to find out what we've got rather than settling for mediocrity disguised by garbage-time-like comp/att ratios from Holcomb.

Where is "God" Smith?

Has been. Not exactly burning down the house with these 40-, 30-, and 20-yard receiving games. Eric Moulds should have been worried about Eric Moulds' play earlier this year. I think he spoke up b/c he doesn't like JP very much. He didn't work with JP in the offseason like Evans and Reed did; JP didn't look at him very often in his four games probably b/c he wasn't on the same page as Evans & Reed... and guys get resentful for that (e.g. "Just Gimme The Damn Ball"). If he wants to stay here with #s like he's putting up, he needs to take a BIG paycut. And I don't see his ego doing that. Roscoe is the Young Turk, as is TD's MO for replacing aging players.

Either that, or he chugged 2-liters of Pepsi to impress the guys during practice and really had to pee.

Oh. And.... It might behoove everyone to remember that these first 6 weeks of the season comprise about two days on the island. Wouldn't be surprised if the whole season only takes up a couple-few weeks in island time. Don't make the mistake of applying real-time. Desmond hasn't been gone that long. It's been about 4 days since Claire had the baby (dead on about her losing the baby weight quickly), Charlie's gash on the head already has a smooth scab.... And thinking about that now, Charlie is acting so possessive of Claire and the baby b/c in his estimation, he's invested a lot in that relationship being their physical protector twice (Ethan, then Danielle), their Bjorn-maker, and their peanut butter purveyor. Then I've been thinking, the whole episode was Shannon taking proverbial shots to the stomach --- Her father died, her stepmother stole her inheritance money (think of "Sense and Sensibility" in this regard), accepted to a dream internship at perhaps the one thing she was apparently good at and couldn't go b/c stepmother bought off Boone (probably the only person she had left to trust) with the job, stepmother pushing her out of the house at her dad's wake.... To what her personality shifted to, how much can you blame her? A person can only take so much until it just becomes easier to be a stereotype, and then shut down. I've gotta hand it to the writers for their intricacy here. The shot (or stab) in the stomach at the end was merely a literal act of what had happened metaphorically in the flashbacks.

Yeah, he went somewhere to sleep for fuggin month. Sure as sh-- what I'd do after three years of 4-8-15-16-23-42 every 108 minutes.

To me, the "evasion from reality" is in seeing Holcomb as anything other than a below-average QB who is very long in the tooth by NFL standards. Losman was named the starter and only got to play FOUR fuggin' games. KH has better comp/att numbers... whoop-di-do. Hasn't produced any more scoring, which is what actually matters in this league. I'd rather play the guy with some upside; and find out what we've got this year rather than repeat this crap next season and turn one season wandering through thwe woods trying to find our QB into two, three, ....

That's just the way Sayid is. Same was he shot himself so Nadia could get away, why he fixed the computer when he didn't know what it was for, why he tinkers around with the radios, etc. He's trying to be useful. I'm a lot like that myself (minus the shooting myself in the groin part). On the island, a thinking person has to find some kind of project or something to do or you go crazy. I think we see a change in this. And whatever A-L did after the crash that we're going to be have next week, it doesn't do crapola about the fact she just shot Shannon. I don't think Sayid just lets it go after a few eps. He did that with Locke (even after Shannon told him "Locke killed my brother. Can you do something about that?") b/c he had no proof that Locke did it intentionally. Here, there's a smoking gun.

Is there some kind of guarantee that any oil gotten from ANWR will have to be used in the U.S.? If not, it's not a solution to our impending energy crisis; it simply gives companies the right to drill there and then sell it to Japan, etc. like we do now. I can see the points both sides make. I lean more toward the side where any production we will see isn't going to be for 10+ years. If alternative energies aren't fairly widely commercially available by then, then we really are pitiful and we'll deserve whatever happens (b/c much of the holdup will have been backroom politics). AD, it's desolate b/c it's supposed to be desolate. That's what a (p)reserve is.

In that episode, the guy's name was Rutherford. It had also been established that Shannon's father's name was Rutherford. This was guessed at last season, and solidified in the Jack-centric ep earlier this season.