UConn James

The Cowpukes and Chesapeake Drainage Basin Indiginous Persons are starting their own networks. They've got a larger population/fanbase, sure. But they're not as loyal. Nowhere near as loyal.

Walt was walking the dog. The polar bear (he seemed to be a VERY BIG polar bear in the CGI images) attacks him in the circular reed enclosures. Locke and his father save him from above. Locke and Boone go out to try to find the dog. Locke has a jury-rigged dog whistle. Rustling in the bushes. Locke grips his knife. Claire walks out. Her face looked pretty nasty w/ bruising and such. Others here say it looks like the baby is out. I don't know. I didn't see this, I saw the belly as the first thing. But I was a little tired last night....

That's exactly what I was thinking. He said this a few weeks ago. Even tho he is in no position to be making such statements.

Boone's zinger has been long in coming (he did have some put-downs previously in the Why-aren't-you-helping milieu). I don't think it was funny or was meant to be funny. More like cold. I reiterate --- there seems to be a "Lord of the Flies" turn ahead. First it's this, then they're breaking Piggy's glasses. That scene w/ Charlie was one of the funniest I've seen on Teevee in a while. Kind of sad considering that this ain't exactly a sit-com....

Sometimes, especially late at night, that seems a whole hell of a lot more intelligent than someone who chimes in to say 1,300 of our soldiers have died to get the Ding-Dong out of the Do-Da..... <shrug>

When I read this last week, I flashed on "Cast Away" with Tom Hanks flopping around in the rubber raft when he was hearing things that first night. I actually 'ed at that the first time I saw it. I don't know, when I've had experience with "The Mind's Eye" it was always for visualizing something that you desire. Not making up something you fear. And maybe this fits in with the earlier discussion but I think it might just be an explanation goose chase. I think all the people who are looking to figure out the meaning and who think they really do know it, are going to be very surprised. (Just noticed I had 'necessarily' twice in two consecutive sentences. )

I don't now about this theory. It's the Obvious Path the writers are leading everyone down to think more into it than there really is. Then when it is real, people will be surprised maybe? Surprised and confused is something they obviously want us viewers to be. Don't bring any expectations like 'The over-arching experience will turn out not to be real' b/c you're going to be duped by Abrams when he does a quadruple-bluff. The point about the initial focus on the eyes of that week's highlighted character is interesting. Introducing point-of-view? I don't think it's necessarily a case that each person is seeing what they want, etc. I mean, they are, that's what POV is all about, but there's not necessarily some mystical/philosophical explanation of it.

I give Reed one more year. The TEs are much maligned and they're better than many people here think; plus, you're not going to get anything better in the draft or that will ultimately be available in FA. Bradford won't be a cheap vet. McKenzie was a cheap vet who wasn't even allowed to play. Those FAs need to be targeted for specific need areas and not to be plugged ahead in the roster just b/c the current occupant is younger, or older for that matter. That wasn't the suggestion by this poster and I didn't say it was, bro.

See it more among the media types, but a lot of the pols have taken to wearing purple. 50% blue, 50% red Do you own a purple tie? Would you admit to owning a purple tie? Would you wear a purple tie? Sorry. Just trying to shake the peaches.

They're not in Buffalo until 2009. Which will be the first time ever. In 30+ years of existence. Those schedule-makers really are fair and balanced, aren't they?

How 'bout they work with what they've got instead of signing every FA vet that's out there. OL seems to be the only place I'd want to bring someone in if JJ goes. Odds are that a #1 receiver isn't going to play in the slot. Or that a #2 QB who had a part in bumping out a young starter is going to make the Bills situation better. Much as we'd like, they can't sign 53 Pro Bowlers. It's gonna be another long offseason of 'Hey, why don't we sign Brady, Manning AND Culpepper for QB. That way, we're all set!'

Liked the backstory of Walt and his father.... Nice at the end where they bonded a little bit when Walt finally saw that he'd gotten letters all along and the guy did care. :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: Brian, not that this kind of thing doesn't happen lots.... Speaks lots about Walt's dad (don't remember his name) that he at least covered and made himself look like the bad guy instead of saying that Walt wasn't wanted by Brian. Walt's mother's attitude just had me PO'ed. She's the mother, so she can take the kid wherever. Bye. I don't need you anymore, loser construction worker. So what was it that was revealed that was more than ever? The polar bear? We've seen it before. Maybe it was the line from Brian that "things have always happened" when Walt was around. Dead bird when he was reading the bird book, polar bears when he was reading the comic (The Flash --- I actually used to read that when I was a kid).... That's odd about Claire. Her belly was the first thing I noticed that it was her a split second before her face showed. Was she responding to the dog whistle? It's getting more like "Lord of the Flies" with this group that's emerging around Locke and Boone. Walt and his dad now seem to be included. Splitting into one group that hunts and kills, another that relies on intelligence (Jack's doctoring, Sayid trying to figure out the maps).

My two favorite teams are UConn and whoever beats Syracuse.

"Hey everybody! Come see how good I look!!" Maybe you have to be in media to really get it. Kind of the way "Office Space" was so funny b/c it was so real.

I believe it is $50M in private contributions. They're sticking D.C. with about $20M in security costs that are going to come out of their Homeland Sec. funds. So a few hundred people can do the macarena in ten-gallon hats. This is almost as good a buy as the RVs the Texas HS office bought exclusively to haul around demolition-derby lawn mowers. Hey guys, how's 'bout inspecting a few more cargo containers? Whatever.

So now that everyone's talking about Social Security, does that mean the mess in Iraq is "cooling off"? Don't even think TD won't remember how Drew couldn't get it done against Pitt's scrubs. MM has shown his willingness to make a switch in the rotation to a young guy who's hungry for an opportunity. Likely didn't start JP to let him heal thoroughly. Open competition in camp.

I know a guy who took a digger at five stories while at a party in one of the dorms. Faulty railing, I gather. Coma for 10 weeks. He was a real * in high school. Football/baseball/academic slacker. He was going to play for the U as a walkon. He now has the mental capacity of a 6-year-old. I've seen him at the library and at a BBall court in town, and it's weird trying to reconcile the new person in the same body.

Two 15-year-olds he met in the toy aisle of the Piggily-Wiggily?

I'm sorry, ladies and gents, but I have to say it was our beloved Bills. Since when is being "decisive underdogs" an acceptable excuse for losing the game of games? Does Vegas decide the results? And especially with our O and D at the time that should have showed up much better than they did. It's a cop-out. I'm also a BoSox fan (more in the past three years when finally getting back into it from the strike years), and before this year, I'd have to admit it about them too. It hurts, yeah, but it's true.

Dan Pompei has the juice? Sorry, I just had to. The link doesn't go to a specific story. Who'd you really have in mind? If he declared, I was thinking about Leon Washington out of FSU. Seems to have a complementary breakaway style to Willis, but also the power style of a Henry-type back. Shaud Williams showed something this year. He should get a shot. I don't care that he's a smallish back. That means nothing. Oh wait, it does mean something, a lower center of gravity and makes him tougher for LBs to get leverage on and tougher to tackle. Zeroue is locked up in Pitt, and already has a lot of miles on him. It's a rare RB that can last even more than 5 seasons.

How's 'bout Antowan Smith? Won a Super Bowl the year after he was dumped....

Translation: One team has asked how much Travis currently weighs.

There was nothing in there that couldn't be written by the average 10-year-old with access to a textbook from which to base it. I'm a copy editor by trade and a well-earned 3.9 GPA. I know tone and writing for the affect. I fail to see the genius. Gotta watch out for us racist liberals, yaknow. That admission is quite apparent.

Everybody knows you can't cut and paste any statement that you find in a freshman history/philosophy/etc. text or online. </sarcasm> I'm going out on a limb, I know, but that limb is the size of most tree trunks. Thanks for calling me a racist, BTW. Because we can't have an honest discussion about what effect the diversity-at-all-costs® rather than getting there on MERIT is having on schools i.e. the dumbing-down of America. Imagine a teacher having to spend 5 semester hours a year out of 45 simply replying "HUH?" and furrowing his or her brow when a vocal idiot spews this stuff in class. I've seen it. If you're going to college there should be a reasonable expectation of knowledge so every serious student's time isn't wasted. Black, white, Asian, Martian, administrators let in way too many mental midgets. Even in the name schools. Why don't you call up The Cos' and call him a racist too.

Ladies and gents, I give you the by-product of diversity-at-all-costs on the college campuses of America. Let's accept a borderline retard just because he's black and we can push the male minority student percentages up. Nevermind that this is slowly turning higher academics into a joke as standards decline. Why can't Emeka Okafor be the role model of choice? That guy is just awesome. Maybe more people should listen to Bill Cosby than castigating him for speaking the truth.