UConn James

I don't think it's a "young man thing" as much as it is an American thing. I was talking about this last night over dinner at a friends'. No one in this country wants to be passed by -- we're too egotistical. On the autobahn, people don't take it as a personal affront that someone is going faster; they just move over and let the other person pass. What should you have done? All that so you could be one car in front of them at the next stop light? You could have been patient and driven the speed limit. You'll get to your destination, what, 2 minutes later?

And that skeptic/cynic attitude is the same reason why there's very little inside information. The boo birds here once drove away a woman who was likely related to Dwight Adams.

Yep. That's what the doctor said I had. Basically, a staph infection.

And if they ask him next week, he'll say it did happen. There's enough blame to go around for a lot of groups involved. Who cares, except the guy who gets rich by printing the Quran on rolls of toilet paper? (I'm claiming a copyright for this idea.) A three-sentence story didn't make people go out and kill; they were doing it before, they'll do it again. Melville isn't responsible for putting whale species on the endangered list.

No, just that a large number of them either won't vote, as in Clinton/Dole, or will vote for a third party anti-everything candidate who in reality doesn't have a snowball's chance. JimBob, There are conservatives. There are liberals. There are Republicans. There are Democrats. The first two are about fiscal matters and tax philosophy, the second pair are about social matters. I'm a conservative Democrat. I realize it's a force of habit, but the labels are not interchangable. I know a lot of Repubs and right-leaning types who say that McCain doesn't impress them. As I hear, he's got some explaining to do about his time as a POW.

Click on the "Track Flight" tab at the top. Under Flight Number type in '815' and press 'Track.' Click on 815 in the first column (there's no arrow that shows up but just click it). A seating chart is shown. At the immediate bottom of it, click on the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 in that order and wait. Is this a fan-site that put this together as a red herring or is this something actually sanctioned by the producers/creators?

It seemed like an awful lot of blood spewage on the cockpit glass to be talons. Some places are saying that in the scene with the bird, that it was shrieking out "Hurley!" as it was flying off. Weird stuff, man. Weird stuff. I'll have to pay attention to all of these little things on Saturday night's re-run.

Am I the only one who thinks the ® sign after a name on lists like that is an entirely apt decription?

And back to the original point of this thread, the administration today promised $50M in aid to the Palestinians. And they're looking to give them $150M via Congress. A PLO flack says it's a "modest beginning" of aid. Well, isn't that nice? Haven't heard much about Abbas since he took office, but that probably falls in the 'no news is good news' category. You just have to hope this money doesn't filter down to people blowing themselves up, but it probably will.

Nominating Jeb Bush in '08 or any other year will ensure a Dem victory. He alienated the evangelicals b/c he didn't send in the National Guard to 'save' Teri Schiavo, he's got a 5-time cokehead for a daughter (and it will dreg up how she's received favoritism in the courts b/c of daddy) not to mention whatever other skeletons he's got in the closet. I hope they do run him. There's been some buzz recently about Cheney running. Agreed about where the Dems should get their nominee from. Some names are Vilsack, Richardson.... There will be others who enter the picture. And I hope Clark runs again and gets in as VP. Anyone with better appeal than Kerry and Edwards.

Pardon my English, but HUH?? That was not an attack on the person, it was an attack on your being blatently incorrect with your facts on scientific, legalistic and moralistic grounds. Your gross misrepresentation of what race is with 'purity' and your belief that 'racial intermarriage' should be outlawed is straight out of the KKK handbook. Most people call that hate, yes. You're free to say what you want, but to others who consider what you say an attack in itself, they can't respond? Don't be surprised when people lash out at you with facts and STFUs (because that's the only way to reason with insufferable idiots before they go on your ignore list). Now, where'd that :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: smiley go when we really need it...? $50 says you're banned by the end of next week, and I won't be disappointed when you're out of the genepool.

I challenge Pac Man/Kurt Godel to submit to a genetic roots test here. If he thinks there is such a thing as a purebred human, boy, he's got another thing coming!

You'd do well to read "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes. He found out some really interesting things about lineages by using DNA sequences. Most people who actually believe in the concept of race go by outward appearances that belie any actual make-up. "We are all a complete mixture." But go ahead; keep spewing your hate based on what is a social phenomena.

So basically, they'd cramp her style. Probably a much better situation than her actually having the kids and raising them, from the sounds of it. It was her choice. No one ever said that people have to make sensical decisions. But to be honest, I don't want to be in a place where my decisions are based on other people's ethos; let me make my own mistakes and live with the consequences. People in this country really have to stop worrying about and delving into other people's personal problems and start dealing with the ones that actually matter in the macrocosm.

Add to that there is no gene for height. It's a combination of several different traits. But I must be wrong, b/c no one is as smart as Pac Man. Natural selection merely says that the most advantageous traits will, over time, become more prevelent, but not that all others will disappear. The statistical curve can get very steep, but it's not very likely that blond hair, blue eyes or a dimpled chin will be wiped out of the gene pool, especially in a population as big as humans. Nature loves variation and frequent turnover. I didn't read all of the posts, but how in the hell did it get from We shouldn't give foereign aid to talking about genetics. Just goes to show the common devolution of these topics.

I was working on a lakeside stone wall last fall and in Nov. I got a very bad infection in my nose and on my upper lip, tho I didn't really know what it was until the ER on Night Three when the pain was just unbearable. If lip size is what makes Mick Jagger so desirable to the ladies, well, I was twice as sexy as Sir Mick. I was wearing gloves, but I guess you just have to wash your hands very well. It really isn't anything to screw around with. We're a society that has become too 'smart' for its own good. Thanks, antibacterial soaps, sponges, countertops, etc. that leave only the superbugs crawling all over hell's half-acre b/c they reproduce and spread exponentially. And it's nothing that just one person can do anything about.

There's some really good discussion here. J.Coli, I can actually dig your reading, and I don't think there's a hole based on the 'American' accent. Look at the space shuttle crews. Very plausible. Absoltuely. That music was a great accompaniment to those scenes. Just a very simple, hard pound on the piano keys and the reverberations. It was really beautiful. They employ a full orchestra. And it pays off in the affect. As Hurley was walking back with the dynamite group, he kept repeating the Numbers. I took this as him invoking them for good luck (they won him the lottery...) and then he finds them on the hatch and if he didn't sense it before, now he knows something is horribly freaky about this place. Callous remark of the night: "Dude, you've got a piece of Arzt on you."

Well, they thought blowing the hatch might save them. Fear makes people behave differently. And it's understandable that they would slow down and be mega careful after Arzt was blown up. Not a slip-up of the writers; it's their story. I don't necessarily think that the Others stole Walt b/c he's SuperWalt. The people on the island are baby/youth-crazy. Kind of like our culture is that leads to people stealing others' kids. And yeah, I think Ethan was one of the Others sent to infiltrate the Lostaways. But on the island, why do they need to steal other people's babies? To keep up the population for members of their group? If anyone's seen the movie "Waterworld" they're kind of that ilk. I don't think it's that the monster can be invisible. It is invisible. Then again, it does have the Predator heat wave thing going on, so maybe you're right. Did you see it inhaling and exhaling the black smoke? And what slothrop said with hot air currents? Dude, no way. The sheer schematics of something that actually controls that? It ripped out trees. His other theory about the hatch being a submarine is a distinct possibility. The camera didn't pan that far down. But the stairs below the first few rungs are broken. Meant to say that about Sawyer. He'd better not be shot badly; he's turned into one of my favorite characters. They're about 15 miles from the island. The Others guy said "What are you guys doing out here?" If they wanted Walt so badly, they would have gotten him on the beach. I think it may just be a diversion to get them to go back, b/c they don't want anyone discovering the island. There's a repeat of the whole two hours on Saturday night at 8. I'll be watching. Whew! Best show on TV.

If you want originality and good shows, ABC has brought along some very good programming and there looks to be a few very good non-'cop-drama' series next fall, too. Whoever's in charge over there is doing an awesome job. I don't think it's that Hollywood/entertainment industry is out of ideas, it's just that there's a big nostalgia kick. That happens during and after a time filled with uncertainty --- as a people, you look back and adopt things from when tiems were good. All of the ones listed by Grant are either from the American Pastoral '50s/'60s or the Big '80s. There's nothing wrong with nostalgia, just that it's completely taken over the culture to the point where little is advancing. And most of it is really crappy in quality, with people getting money thrown at them b/c they're sexually attractive according to whoever determines that. W/in 10 years, the American economy will be little more than retail and pornography and it will be one endless circle-jerk.

I hadn't even thought of that. You think the guys in the boat are the Others? Are they survivors from other crashes? I would suppose they live on another island, but where do they get the fuel for the boat? As far as the writers saying it would be a "Who shot J.R." moment, well... not quite. We all know that there will be no answer to the questions for a long time after season opener. The dynamite explosion killing Arzt caught me totally by surprise. I had a glass of water up to my mouth and was about to take a sip and boom! It clinked on my teeth and I sat there for a minute going . The pre-explosion discussion kind of gave a nod to some of the criticism of the show, that was actually laughing at until the explosion. Jack vs. Locke. "If we make it to tomorrow, we're going to have a Locke problem." I don't know anything about a connection with that bird. The Monster? Did anyone get a clear look at what it was? I don't know what I saw; it was like watching heat waves or the "Predator" invisiblity thing. The part where it breathed in the dynamite smoke, and was it killed? The thing drawing Locke into the hole looked and sounded like a chain, actually. But what was clear is that Locke went from that look of complete awe in that early ep to one of complete fear pretty damn quick. I think it's now safe to say that everything Danielle has said is wrong. Esp. the monster being a "secuirty system." I really need to see these again; probably have to wait for the DVDs. What is that? You think they lead to the same place?

Make it every week on Wed. The dough option on a breadmaker is awesome. You forgot, it's the FREEDOM. Half French-Canadian by heritage. Say what you want about the French-French of the past half-century (not of the WWI, where they were wiped out as we sat on our butts), they deserve it, but that's where quality bread was invented.

I think the point being made is that filibustering is not unconstitutional b/c the specific procedure for voting is not written in. Is it unconstitutional if they start the vote-count from Wyden to Akaka rather than Akaka to Wyden? It goes to the Senate Rules that govern the minutia of how a vote is conducted, which is not so much the Constitution. Inside of the S.R. is a provision for a filibuster. Both parties have spoken out of both sides of their mouths on the rightness/wrongness of filibustering judges. In the consideration of fairness, if they want this to end once and for all, have Bush renominate all of the 65 judges that were blocked in Clinton's term and remove the filibuster on votes for judges (not that it makes it fair, b/c there's a lot more Reps in there now) and then have a vote on Bush's current 10 that are being blocked, except that the slots would be filled by those 65. That, or leave things the way they are and quicherbellyachin'.

In the repeat of last Wed's ep that was on last night, I was watching the Jack-MRod scene in the airport bar and I was flashing back to the scene with Sawyer and Jack's father. If anyone has them Tivoed or on file, are they similar, especially in how the buyer of drinks asks, after learning the others' names what they're doing in a bar so early? Can't wait for tonight. Makin' French bread pizza from scratch.

There's your answer. After the 2nd round, it's rare-to-never that a rookie contract will even count toward the cap. Usually $400K and trickles down to $250K in the 7th. Rest assured (or not, as the air of many of your posts is reminiscent of JP-Era), the Bills are not doomed.

Kim Jong Il is still hungry and his minions need energy to goosestep. Maybe we can poison the carrots.