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Except that in one state, someone would be charged w/ murder and in the other they would not. Kind of puts the notion of common law at nought, and common law is the basis of our (and many other) country's legal system. What happens if a woman who lives in Alabama goes to, say, Oregon to have an abortion? Does she get charged w/ murder once she sets foot back in Ala.? This is something that requires a national standard, and w/ the contentiousness of the issue it was ruled correctly back in the 70s that those who choose to have an abortion can do so, and those who don't can do that as well. It'd be nice to have individual states do their own thing, and I'm sure it's been looked at in depth by people smarter than us and it just wasn't feasible b/c of the common law. Nevermind that it's extremely rare for the high court to go reversing big issues like it for the same reason why many of the programs started/decisions made by a previous president aren't immediately changed when a guy from the other side is elected.

Despite having played some at WR as a frosh, it is not the position at which he made his bones. See Scott Frost and Eric Crouch why using a 2nd might be too high. I'd be leery about taking him in the 3rd, and more likely in the 4th or early 5th. A performance at the Combine or informal workout is to be taken w/ a grain of salt.

Ahh yes, the Ritual Deflowering of the Altar Boys.... Sorry, there's some figures like the pope who have such appeal when you read about his life (and I admit I'm drawn to the pagentry and the idea of the confessional --- something that truly fascinates me), and then there's the reality of what the system allows and covers up, the pope included, for not coming out much stronger against this pandemic than nine paragraphs in the liner notes of one of his inaudible speeches in 2000. And a steadfast refusal to admit wrongdoing and make restitution to provide for counseling, etc. For a lot of people, these things are very hard to reconcile.

Uhmm, I don't think there's anybody out there who says, "Woo Hoo! Don't use condoms because abortion's GREAT! F^%$ YEAH!" There's only those who believe that barring access to desperate women will lead to what there was back in the day w/ back-alley and creating two tragedies instead of one. Likewise, Dems aren't shouting that teen sex is a great thing either (with the possible exception of those Dems who are horny 18 year olds). It's just a matter of dealing with the reality of hormones and that no matter how much you try to push slogans into them, they're still going to have erect penii. If you believe the curriculum should be more than abstinence-only and uhh-sex-is-for-losers campaign-yeah-that's-it then I can only say watch how you vote.

I think the highest ever recorded was some Russian guy with a .75 bac. He was concious and walking too. Unbelievable. If you've been drinking and get pulled over: A) refuse the test 2) Thank the police under your breath for possibly saving yours and other drivers' lives, no matter how well you think you can drive drunk and III) Learn your lesson, and learn it right good. Back in the '60s, my dad was hit by a Puerto Rican guy who when he approached the door, the smell of alcohol was obvious and the guy bleeps out in probably the only English he knew, "Ha ha. No insurance. Ha ha." Suffice to say this guy got tap-danced on. Cop comes up just as my dad and a passenger put the guy back in his car. Cop looks at the guy slumped over the wheel, picks his head up by the hair, slams his face back into the wheel, and says, "I think you guys better get outta here...." Street justice. Those were the days.

No crap. If you smoke, you may as well eat a lot of what's bad for you but tastes good. 'Cause it's not gonna matter if you eat well.

I think people are paying a lot of attention to TE position b/c Mike Mularkey is a former TE. Is there any specific insight people have re: how MM would want to use a TE in the offense? Or is it just b/c of the above fact a surmising that TE is uber-important to him and so we must trade for the Fuggin' Solja hiss-elf. I think the roster has a pretty good set of TEs. Campbell has been quite a find. Euhus, who TD picked in the 4th round last year probably heavily w/ MM's input, was making some really nice plays before he was injured. They'll both be back and ready to go when the games count.

For all of the people who are so outraged over this and saying that it will drive down business at bars and restaurants.... Patronage is up by about 10 percent in MA since they started the ban. And how they used to have problems getting help? Not any more. I guess you need to retreat to the last bastion that these are private businesses. That's a point I understand, but maybe once the owners see the statistics, they might magically see the light of the almighty dollar and do it themselves.

If you would enroll in police officer training, you would be going and at some of the guys who wear the shield. Sixty percent is a failing average where I come from, and an extensive drug use history should be a disqualification, but whatever. Has me thankful that the Constitution establishes "innocent until proven guilty," even tho that's sometimes not very comforting if you're not famous/rich. (Note, this does not mean that LL isn't a POS.)

Don't apologize, it takes about a week to analyze all the stuff in an ep. It's a very densely-packed show. I doubt the nuclear theory. The castaways have been there about a month as well, and they're all right. Boone and Locke went right there for two weeks straight and didn't show any effects. And then, why didn't it kill Rousseau, who's been there 16 years? The hatch looks too big to be a feasible nuclear bomb (they hadn't even unearthed it all, so it goes deep), and it doesn't look like the pictures. One thing I've been wondering about for a while now, what the hell happened to Rose (the black lady who maintains that her husband was still alive)? She was prominent in a few eps and the camera hasn't seen hide nor hair of her in the second half of the season. What gives? And, don't Boone's wounds look similar to the ones he imagined Shannon having? Or is that just the make-up department? Also read that this show had the most expensive pilot episode ever for a television show. Cost $250K just to transport the fuselage to Hawaii. Paid off tho, this show is going to have big-time syndication deals (when it can legally start doing them) and DVD sales.

Mazel Tov! Garrison Keillor's ode to premies (and bear in mind, esp. for the meaning of "crappie," he's Minnesotan ).... I believe it's called "Jeffrey's Poem." When I first saw you, kid, you were tiny and thin And slimy and red and your head was mooshed in. I said to your mother, "He looks kind of sloppy, And a pound fifteen ounces ain't that big for a crappie." But something about you, the look in your eyes, Said you fully intended to grow to full size. They slapped your backside and you let out a cry, And I said, "We will keep him, at least we shall try." Some babies are born in nine months, by the clock, Some babies are born, and they sit up and talk. Some babies are born and no doctor is there, But some babies come in on a wing and a prayer. Poor little fetus as big as my hand. Poor little fish thrown up on dry land. Who came in late March though you had till July, Too small to live and too precious to die. They shipped you across to the big Neonatal Intensive Care Unit's computerized cradle. And attached you to wires and stuck you with tubes Monitored closely by digital cubes. And thanks to the latest neonatal therapeusis And regular basting with greases from gooses And your Mama's milk intravenously fed You did not fade away, you grew up instead. We'll always remember the months that you spent With tubes everywhere and hooked up to the vent And the trach in your neck, the wires attached, Sweet little baby only half hatched. I'll always remember each doctor and nurse in The NICU who helped make you a person. The kid who crash-landed, was carried away, Survived, and turns two years old today.

Go to the tent aisle, and ask the gentleman for one that reads, Sleeps 8. Happy B-day.

Then, there's the times when I've witnessed BBall and FBall players go into the library to pretend they're reading articles on Shakespeare only to really be furtively look at porn. The NCAA should really come up w/ an option to compensate players the equivalent of tuition for athletes who just aren't interested in anything to do with scholarship. The classroom really suffers from people who don't want to be there and the sh-- they pull; and yes, I was in some "Jock-heavy" classes. That, or require much higher academic standards than being able to write and fill in the bubbles for your name on the SAT. What goes on now to keep players in when any other student would be thrown out is an effin' joke.

I was thinking the same thing, only w/ a added. The Giants from the first believed that Dayne was a big, power RB. But w/ Dayne, it's like they bought a bottle of shampoo, and when they opened it, toothpaste came out. Dayne has the size to be a power rusher, but that's not how he does or can play. Fassel and Coughlin were both exasperated that he wasn't the type of player his size dictated he should be. That and Dayne has been something of a head case, thinking he's all that and a bag o' chips and what everyone else is saying is wrong. Maybe Shanahan will get something out of him.... Probably not.

Hey! I resemble that!!.... No, actually, my stickwork's good. Right top-shelf is my only weakness, like everyone else in the world who's right-handed. All this aside, a bigger net, smaller pads (or rather, enforcing the rules re: this), and either a bigger ice surface or getting rid of the two-line offsides would make the game great. If the players can pull their heads outta their butts.

A relative has an '02 Shadow Spirit 750. Says it rides nice, handles nice. Good cruiser. He's itching to ride, but just waiting for them to sweep the roads up here.... "I don't want a pickle / I just wanna ride on my motor-sickle."

I hate it. But then again, I play goal.

Tell me this is b/c it's 1 April.

God protects drunks and fools. He qualifies on both counts. We don't convict celebrities in this country, don't you know.

Fifteen-year-old kids read?

Yeah, I have flashbacks to Jeff Burris when I watch punt returns, but that's like always using the bad china while the new set is in the attic. What's the point of having a guy like that if you're not going to use him where he can make a big impact? He can't get hurt on any given play at CB? Can't keep him preserved in amber, yaknow, and if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.

Just shows how much of an impact can be made when you devote some resources to the ST rather than leaving the backups to learn and fend for themselves. I mean this especially for London Fletcher's blocking and having Clements returning punts, which he did awesomely in college, iirc. DeHaven always seemed to rely heavily on Tasker and Pike to take care of things and it all fell apart when they were declining and retired. Wouldn't mind seeing a 2nd devoted to one particular further upgrade....

Other than possible exchanging the salary of Henry and Shelton, and restructurings to make that do-able, I'd say the Bills are done w/ signings until the draft, which w/o a 1st, most of which won't break the bank and won't count toward the cap. I think it was a very productive and rationally-approached signing period. For all the guff TD gets in the media and on this and other boards, he did a very good job.

At least it's salad dressing and pies instead of bullets. Part of the left's problem is that some of their better leaders have a propensity of getting shot by the right. If you can't win the war of ideas.... My Nostradamus prediction is this gets sent to PPP inside the half-hour.

Went to a match shoot last night for the first time in about 5 years and scored a 205/300. My slow fire was nice but rapid fire was almost laughable.... Any advice to get a steadier hand w/ the High Standard or is your main expertise in shooting cats instead of targets?