UConn James

Better than people I know who've lost $300 in the past 6 months in their so-called safe John Hancock mutual funds. Right now, I'm building up a fallback fund. Then I think I'll start burying my surplus in the backyard; it'll be safer. I also honestly don't plan on living to retirement age.

What would be the ramifications of this? We will be less able to buy products from other countries, we'll have to produce more things here in the US (production of tangible goods is something I feel we should do more of, b/c as a people we are losing our sense of purpose in a service/pampering-driven economy), bartering might get back in style, more localized economies.... Five years ago in an econ class I predicted this would happen. I'm no worldbeater in econ tho. Anyone who can chime in? I don't get the financial services and people who erupt into absolute panic over infectious paranoia and the smallest things (e.g. what happened when the S. Korean manager uttered "diversification" during lunch). It's a big part why I want nothing to do with the stock market, etc. I don't get what can suddenly make a dollar worth less in a matter of minutes b/c someone isn't as "confident" anymore. I also don't get what happens to the dollar you invested before everyone's confidence suddenly dropped (we need to send them to that kindergarten class that uses the purple pens for grading, I guess) --- did it evaporate or disappear? Or is it fancy, legal theft?

Barnum never said that. It was actually David Hannum, a sideshow rival. Dr. Z is good at breaking down plays while telling what happened and which stats are important (there was an article last year where he pointed out one guy's version of the QB rating that did make more sense and was compiled based on viewing every play of every game) and what they really mean. As for when he gets into prognostication, that's where everyone has their own opinions, usually based on 20 percent fact and 80 percent 'I think X might happen, so I'll fit them in here; what the hey.'

The precise wording of the commercial: "They survived on Luck.... They survived on Instinct.... But on the other side of the Island.... They'll discover that everything happens.... everything happens.... everything.... everything happens for a REASON."

So, if I buy a woodsplitter and after I use it and say, "Well, I think I've got enough to last the winter for me," the likes of Jerry Jones can rush in my house, and slap down some documents saying that b/c I don't use the woodsplitter to start a firewood business where I can make $175/cord in a market share that demands 20 cords a year (for which to maximize my profits and sell "We Heart Wood" T-shirts, I'll have to advertise to end), I am required by contractual statute to sell the woodsplitter. The point being lost on him that IT'S MY WOODSPLITTER! and I can manage it however I want. The state of property rights in America is hanging from a cliff by the fingertips. Jerry Jones is the man in black shoes (joined by the men and woman in black robes) who steps on its hands.

It should be, you miss a week, you lose one finger. Miss a second week? You lose two fingers!

Maybe she's a FFS protege and she's still typing her first post....

Nope, they use the seashell thingy from "Demolition Man." (They never explained how that worked, did they? Stallone just sh-- in the corner.)

Link You've gotta be !@#$ing kidding me. And, sociology is the most useless major ever. I had classes w/ some players for UConn (sat next to Sue Bird in French ). Some of them took classes seriously, some not. Why do they bother calling them student-athletes? And, why don't they have some kind of program where the kids who don't want to do the academics can elect not to, receive a stipend and not waste everyone's time and enrollment/registration slots?

Well, to be fair, he did help sell its soul for the almighty dollar.

From the desk of Tom Donahoe:

I'm sure everyone will still watch when it's LA playing NY every week, b/c no one else is in a big enough market to deserve an NFL franchise. F%¢#ing ¢%¢$^¢%er!

You aren't going by the AP stylebook and dictionary definition of "destroyed." Destroyed means pretty much nothing is left standing. The WTC was destroyed. The Superdome's roof was damaged. The steel gridding is still standing; on the face, it does look pretty bad in that section, but who knows. They may just need new canvasing (probably not, tho). The engineers will do the postmortem of how it held up and what to do going forward. The language they used to describe the damage, especially "blown off" in the commonly used lexicon (which conjures images of an entire roof, framework, trusses and plywood in the next county over), was craptacular, as usual.

I wonder if the peoples of the world will send all kinds of money, aid supplies, and other such help to the U.S. I guess when you're the "world's lone superpower" everyone else is quick to feed at the trough of our kindness, but when the tables are turned....

Twenty monarchs/presidents/"presidents"/dictators-for-life with control over money enough for hundreds of millions of people, while hundreds of millions of people starve and serve their rulers' whims and sexual appetites. And people wonder why Africa is such a $%^ing mess. Still, 100K boobies must be a sight to behold. Then again, it's the boobies of the National Geographic variety....

No more a spoiler than saying that 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 are numbers that you say when you count b/w 1 and 100. Aren't 3 and 7 and a bunch of others retired too? If those were the exclusive retired numbers, it might be something, but... On the most recent commercial I saw, it said "On the other side of the island, the survivors will discover there is a reason for everything that happens." Hmm.

That probably looks a lot worse than it actually is. My point was that the steel girdwork is still standing; it's the canvas and sheeting that's gone. The reports were that part of the roof was "blown off." The reactionaries were essentially saying that when half of the shingles blow off, a roof is utterly, utterly destroyed, even tho the beams are still standing.

Maybe it's God's way of saying he wants more open-air stadia.

Wow. Whenever hurricanes hit, I'm always reminded of the parable about the man who builds on sand and the man who builds on rock.

Well, let's make the minute distinction here. I can understand how Pete Hamill writes, "The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a 'good murder'; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes, break on their editions." It's like being a firefighter; you can't prove your mettle w/o a fire. It's kind of a dark way of thinking about it, but bad things in general are going to happen regardless of your existence, and they just want to be there to cover it. Doesn't make it sound less callous when it gets into specific case like you give, tho.

Well, if the cameras go on them, and everyone in the U.S. can see that they look pretty, they might be bumped up to the national broadcast and all the struggles and sleeping with the 70-year-old station manager will be WORTH IT!!! <GASP!> Truth? What's that?

Not the most stable construction material in the world, that's for sure. In light rain, there were leaks at Gampel Pavillion during games when I was at UConn. The thing being that the reactionaries with microphones are turning "might" into "has" when it's just not the case.... yet.

Oh, well, canvas ripping is almost the same as the canvas's rigging structure becoming unattached from the stadium's walls and hurtling across the state.

T-80, please change the headline. It's not true. .... Yet.... (Do they have Ms. Cleo in the studio?)

As I posted in the Katrina thread... "David Muir on ABC says the Superdome isn't holding up very well. Roof is leaking like a seive -- waterfalls -- and people are being moved to the endzones where there is some protection via the overhead seating in case the roof caves. There's still several hours before it moves through. Not good." -- Is there confirmation that it's actually blown off? The reporter, who covers weather events, said it was leaky all through, and it was like it was raining inside the dome, but they haven't cut in to say anything about part of the roof being gone. Then again, FAUX News is the only outlet that's Fair and Balanced. In fact, they're so balanced, they don't want to offend Untruth, so they put that in too. Anything to get people to stop and watch.