UConn James

Dude, like three out of the five are under age 16. One of them is 14.

A lesbian trapped in a man's body, perhaps. I became one of these when I saw the Adrianne Palicki - Emmanuelle Chiriqui striptease dream sequence in Elektra Luxx.

FYI: It is only for DISH customers. But it's very cool that AMC is doing this for the fans. Link

At this point, he's not even trying to disguise it.

I'm thinking it's either Portman to help with a crucial Ohio, or my personal favorite current guv, Susanna Martinez, even tho in the media she's sworn off any hope or desire to be veep (those things are always subject to change if / when the nominee calls). Highly doubt Condi. I don't think Romney wants such a direct connection as that. I'm not sure he really needs a veep to lend foreign policy cred... just one that has a history of talk AND action re: certain of the red-meat issues. To wit, Romney has a Europe jaunt scheduled for later this month to flex the FP muscles. Not sure this would be necessary if he were planning on running with Condi. Important for him to have these introductions and re-introductions, no doubt tho, to show and remind Americans that it's not just Obama who can speak with other countries. (And gosh, would be nice after four years to not have a leader apologizing, bowing and kissing *).

I saw on BB's Facebook page that with the DISHNetwork satellite service and AMC negotiations broken down, the channel is doing a livestream of the episode on their website on Sunday night.

To clarify, the role of conner is being filled by conner. Just... under the latest moniker of "fjl2nd." Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

That's different!!!

AJ, I don't get where you're hating on Federer for the post-match comments. The interviewer asked him WRT the Slam titles and regaining #1. It did not come from out of the blue. She asked him. And even if she hadn't, I think he's well within rights to say that he was proud of these accomplishments. I'm not a fan of his, but you've got to respect that Roger worked his ing ass off playing tourneys everywhere to get back #1 when a guy his age would normally be taking it slower and resting b/w majors. If there was anything, I think Murray put a little dig about Federer's age, and Federer said that Murray would "probably win at least one" major. That was a little backhanded, I thought. It would've been a nice bone to throw to the Brit crowd and a Murray who was very emotional to say something like 'I really hope Andy can finally deliver a home win for you. I think he has an excellent chance to. Just... not as long as it's me he's playing against for it.' (The last part would have to be delivered right, with obvious good spirits). I think that would have gone over with a crowd amd a player that was very disappointed having waited so long for this chance. Anyway, I'm not going to hate on him. RF became the first father to win a major in a very long time (or is it, ever? I forget). Thirty years old in a sport that's very unforgiving when the next gen of younger, faster and stronger comes up all too quickly. And I'm not sure how you could look at those twin girls and hate on him. That kinda melted my heart a little bit. What will be his legacy? Will he be considered the best ever? I don't know. If he can play a few more years and deliver some more against the likes of Djokovich and Nadal, yes. That'll be very difficult, tho. How do you determine eras in a sport with turnover like this? I think it's more of an overlapping Venn-diagram-like thing more than lineal determination. RF and Nadal will be two of the best ever who've kind of had a draw in the time that they've competed against each other. Nadal will have a lot to do post-Roger to draw even. Just my $0.02.

Try filehippo.com. I've been having lots of crashing with the lastest 11.3. I'll live with it until the next update, I guess. Should come along soon enough. A quick primer for those using Firefox... Link.

Seems so. People (read: Independents who haven't made up their minds) don't really start paying attention until the kids go back to school. Until that time, until the debates, until the calenders flip to November and people have to look themselves in the mirror and ask whether they really want to re-elect a profligate spender who is in over his head on how to get the economy moving again.

Women's Junior champion Eugenie Bouchard. (She is 18, for the record.)

New heights of futility!

Then again, if this semi-final keeps on the way it's going, lookit the head-to-head.

He called it a tax there as well. The point being that the bulk of reform should be done in the statehouses, according to each state's needs and facts on the ground, with a short leash of accountability. It should not have been force-fed to every state whether they wanted to eat this bloated piece of federal trash or not. You just can't seem to get it out of your head that just because Romney had input on and supported the plan in Mass (tho, as he said, it wasn't perfect) that mandated insurance... that this means he must support a national plan doing the same. As I wrote in another thread, Romney gets that a suit tailored for Peter Dinklage isn't going to fit Andre the Giant. You and most every other liberal A) can't see this fact and 2) preposterously keep trying to tag this on Romney because you so desperately want it to be so.

What's making it difficult for you to respond is that you're trying to tiptoe through your philosophical field of bullstevestojan. The 'tacit endorsement' of the SCOTUS ruling didn't come out of Romney's mouth. And in all the mess that is politics and media today, the actual words/writings/doings of a candidate is about the only thing I somewhat trust as to what they really think. The campaign flaks, the pundits, the MSM... they have very little credence. Romney is calling it what the SC's majority ruling itself called it --- a tax.

Care to provide a link to these instances? Should be easy since they're so numerous.... I live in NE CT and have always watched Boston news via antenna. I never saw Romney say that the Mass plan should be used nationally. He always said it shouldn't and can't because of basic differences of demographics, infrastructure, geography, income, etc. Granted that he said parts of the Mass law could be used in federal legislation. Parts is parts. Hey, my laptop and digital camera have an SD card slot; that doesn't mean my camera sh/could have a quad-core and surf the Internet. Not NEARLY the same as giving it steroids, adding in ginormous tax increases, creating another massive bureaucracy in 2,700 pages that no one read, out-and-out bribing senators, and adopting it. The USAToday op-ed libs like to link to doesn't say what they want to think it says.

Lots of top seeds getting smoked so far. Nadal, Federer was on the ropes before gutting one out, Wozniaki, now Maria gets ousted. With his half of the draw pretty much cleared, this has to be Andy Murray's best chance to fulfill on being the Great British Hope. If he can't do it this year, he's not going to get a better shot. And to my eyes, I don't think he's on; just a body-language thing.

Why does it have to be reconcilable? Reconcilable to what? The Massachusetts health care plan was tailored for Massachusetts. There are some measures that might be applicable to other plans, but Romney said at the time and since that the Mass. plan shouldn't and couldn't work in other states or at the federal level, for the same reason Peter Dinklage's tux would not fit on Andre the Giant. Two words he has to say during the debate: States' Rights.

+1 Sam Gash didn't have much in the way of stats, either. I don't think anyone in the NFL would say that he wasn't a hell of an asset when used in the right system. But then again, FBs have gone the way of the dodo as spreads and 5-wide have become more the norm. Bear in mind BillinNYC's post on how Buddy Nix has been building this team and what it means WRT CoreyMac. Bill was arguing that we may be seeing less of the spread and more of a run offense, balance-wise, especially toward the later season (where IIRC, three out of the last four games this year are at the Ralph). If this is Channix's vision --- and I'm not saying it is b/c, as for myself, I don't believe Chan is going to veer much from the type of offense he ran last year where he had them throwing much too much --- it bodes better for CM. We'll have to see.

For me, it'll always be Calvin & Hobbes. But for ones running currently, C&H creator Bill Watterson is a HUGE fan of "Cul de Sac" by Richard Thompson. (Ever the recluse, Watterson even surfaced publically for the first time in 16 years with a painting of the character Petey which he donated to a Parkinson's charity for auction*.) I discovered it late last year and, tho I'm a late-comer, it's been a gem. Especially the strips where Alice takes to the concrete manhole cover dais for a special performance. * --- Richard Thompson unfortunately has Parkinson's and earlier this year had several guest cartoonists come in for a week each while he was undergoing treatments.

Can someone make some popcorn? Looks like someone is itching to get banned so he can start using the new handle he created ~6 months ago.

Actually, this writer says Roberts' decision cut the Commerce Clause right across the hips. American Thinker: The Chief Justice Done Good by Dov Fischer, adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School One can argue that the hundred-year era of citing Wicker and slipping things in under Commerce is now largely over, and that these measures will have to be called what they are --- TAXES. Let's see how many pols touch that third rail. WRT the second quoted graph, no matter how many Democrats stay away from the DNC in North Carolina, anyone running for Congress with a D behind their name is irrevocably tied to Obama, Obamacare and the 'I'm only going to eat the rich!' promise that every tax-and-spender soon breaks.

So there's a bit of showmanship. I dunno. That kind of stuff works wonders getting women to watch Dancing With the Stars.... No matter what kind of stuff comes up, vouchsafe that it's NEVER far from most peoples' minds that the economy is reeling / nowhere near where it should be even after the recession b/c businesses are scared stevestojanless what redistributive entitlement Obama is going to railroad through next.

AJ et al: IIRC, AMC re-upped BB for two seasons of 8 eps each to finish out the story. I know people have a tendency to cluster artificially shortened seasons together under one number, but literally and technically S5/this year is not the end. Which... I dunno. Since there's not much BB left, I prefer the scenario to be two smaller snacks that I can enjoy each bite of, rather than a whole meal where you stop tasting the food after the fourth bite. I think Gilligan made the right call in this regard. YMMV.