UConn James

Was it blue, by any chance? Looks like Walter and Jesse were busy....

There's no direct link on the Wheel site, but here.... and here, even tho this really isn't a good-quality picture or angle. Not trying to be skeevy. Just saying, nice pull sailor!

Love this attitude. He is not someone whose mind is always on the money or who'll tank once he sees $. It's all about the football. Have him in for a physical and maybe get something done with an extension in the OTAs.

I'd have to go with this. Service is not mandatory, nor should any demographic group be 'expected' to contribute arbitrary percentages to the military. But I am in favor of military members being welcoming to gays who want to serve. As much as some people were warning that there would be problems to ending DADT and that it might be the ruin of the military at an important time, such is the makings of our military that they have handled the change with such professionalism and proved that it's really not a big deal. More was made of it in the halls of Congress and among the worrywart dinosaur set who think that soldiers might be afraid of homosexual people. Well on us to be done with the useless bureaucratic tonnage and personnel losses this policy caused over 20 years.

I'm just gonna say, Grace F. on "Wheel of Fortune" tonight in their "Military Spouses Week".... Wow. Just wow. That's a lucky soldier.

Actually Dave in Nor !@#$ is saying that because he doesn't like Santorum, most of the country won't either. You know, pretty much the same thing as his Romney-is-rich-therefore-he-is-evil shtick.

Yeah.... The video feed on the ABC site keeps blacking out on me for the last segment of every show I try to watch there. So I got to the part where [yellow-fonted for spoilers] the mother character had been taken underwater and the dude was laying the skeleton in as a replacement of sorts and then *blip*. I'm not so keen on there being so much supernatural stuff so soon. And to keep watching, I'd also have to do a some serious 'suspension of disbelief' to not keep wondering why they don't get the out of there and if they want to come back, then do so with an army (or at least more than a lone security guy who's already displayed an ulterior motive/side mission, a shaman, body armor, a girl who has some kind of limp after a serious leg wound and a guy whose clothes don't magically dry minutes after diving to pull debris out of the rudder, and a bigger boat. I dunno if I'm going to bother catching how the ep concludes. Once Upon a Time is the kind of show I probably shouldn't like based on a description and kind-of reductive soap-opera-ish acting, but I'm enjoying the storyline and how they're fleshing out the tales and weaving them together, both in the fairy-tale world and in the 'real world" of Storybrooke. Wanted to catch Alcatraz. Meant to. But didn't. FOX doesn't always come in for me ( FCC co-channeling here) on the antenna. I'll probably be looking to give it a try when I get some time.

It had been my understanding that if a priest were to reveal in court testimony what was said in a confession scenario, it would be allowable, but that he would have to answer for it professionally (risking being de-frocked) and spiritually. Kind of how journalists have that unwritten rule for protecting their sources --- most judges will respect that tradition, but there's nothing prohibiting a journalist from testifying if they want to (realizing they won't ever work again) or for a judge throwing them in jail for not revealing a source as with Judith Miller. Guess that assumption was wrong. That first quoted Michigan law is pretty clear --- they aren't allowed to testify in the state even if they want to. I don't know how this court gets off on flouting it. Wonder how many states have similar laws?

Frankly, I didn't see an overt political partisanship in the ad. The getting up after a punch and "second half" analogies could well involve a proverbial switch of this country's quarterback.

Hasn't started campaigning? Dude, you must've been hanging out in John Adams' coffin. Obama NEVER STOPPED campaigning. The point that will be made in the general against Obama is that if/when we slide back into recession, bailouts and stimulus are the only tricks in his bag. He is intractable at any other means of reviving an economy and jobs; all he's done is create disincentives for businesses to spend and hire, which is why we're still going to be at over unemployment is still going to be such a problem. It's not unlike the housing mess where Biden himself said that the quickest fix is the Republican strategy; the Democrat strategy is to string the situation out until they accomplish their political goals and then maybe they'll see whether they can fix peoples' problems... most of which is that government is standing in the way of actual progress. I, for one, am not inspired that Obama is prepared or has learned a jot about how to respond to whatever happens next. All I've seen from this administration is hoping in one hand and stevestojanning in the other.

Actually, it's more like, offense gets/can get you to the championship, but defense wins it.

Exactly. Her main drive was to get her name in the papers. And if she couldn't do it through actual talent, it'll be done by offending people. Look, I swear like a truck driver who used to be a sailor. But I don't don't do it in front of kids or in situations where the proceedings deserve clean language and respect. The Super Bowl, where there's every expectation that you will be heard because you're wearing/holding a microphone and the camera is right in front of you with a feed that you know is being watched by hundreds of millions, is such a situation. It's not a secret that profanity and obscene gestures are not allowed on broadcast teevee. No doubt (and I mean NO doubt!) every performer who's onstage has been instructed in this by the NFL. And yet, this one does it anyway because she and her agent think making people see her name in headlines can make her act more marketable. The point --- hire people with class and who don't need to resort to this to become "known."

Doubt it. But... monkey see, monkey do.

I didn't notice it either because everyone at my place was talking, the volume was turned down and I don't think anyone was watching because, dude, it was Madonna. Still, my 4-year-old niece was there and it would be nice if she could watch teevee without being exposed to this trash. I know it'll happen eventually, but we shouldn't have to put earmuffs and blindfolds on to avoid it. I guess some people just need to swear and flash obscene gestures to get noticed....

Link Perhaps Roger Goodell should also consider eliminating the Super Bowl halftime show if they're just going to hire two-bit youth-pop acts that are 85% dancing, 13% costume and 2% music.... Acts who see the most-watched event of the year as a forum for pedantic stunts to establish their brand via "obscenity" publicity, rather than as a forum for showing the world a graceful display of their talent. M.I.A. wasn't the headliner but saw this as her opportunity to steal the headline, knowing that extending a middle finger and saying the F-word gets tons of press the next day and for months and years. And... it looks like it worked. Apparently, getting known by performing well and being a good singer is too difficult. So, these hacks look to shock value to get their 15 minutes of fame/shame and a little wad of money. Memo: Real entertainers don't need controversy and fluff. In the future, get real professionals who have ability to handle the situation with class like Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, etc. And then limit the performance to these professionals, rather than inviting all and sundry who will be looking to make a name for themselves in the 'negative publicity is still publicity' milieu.

Good thing nurses don't have to take the Hippocratic Oath!

Must've been a really special bottle of spray-paint to go back for. This a real loss to society, I'm certain....

Too bad it couldn't be like that in every other game. Which, to me, smacks of a huge need for more consistency. Especially WRT pass interference. Moore clobbered that dude while the pass was still ~3 feet away. No call. McKelvin a few times this year (I believe the most obvious one was in the second Jets game iirc) played the WR perfectly in every respect. No physical contact. But he got flagged because he "didn't turn his head" as the announcers said. Which is BS. The strange and wildly varied application of pass interference gives WAY too much power to refs (this season more than any other)... and IMO, is the league's dirty little open-secret of how they keep games close and "exciting."

Two words: Joe Klopfenstein. It happens. Doesn't mean Belicick isn't a first-rate peckerwood, but it happens.

I'll be your proofreader. (Don't deny it. I've read your posts.)

Yep. It seemed like whoever wrote and directed had such a dislike for Thatcher, that they tried to temper it by making her something pitiable. And so it was less biography than a 'Look how the mighty have fallen!' uppercut. The interspersing timeline and flashback narrative style doesn't allow for us to get an undistracted glimpse of her glory years. There's always this slap in the face that the woman is now senile, physically seeing her deceased husband and thinking she's still the PM. But even then, they took to task that metaphor of the "Iron Lady," careerist, giving her own children the cold shoulder, and the requisite "shop-keeper's daughter" quips. It would be like a film of Ronald Reagan's life concentrating hard and viewed through the extrapolated, exaggerated prism of his secluded Alzheimers' years that few people would even be able to speak of --- but that would be more appropriate, given that some of the signs did show in public. There weren't more important things to focus on that happened in her longest reign as PM? They had to assault her with this, during her lifetime? Yes, some people get old and some people develop dementia, but the decline is not the most important part of someone's life. I fundamentally disagree with this period of Thatcher's life being used as the basis. I suppose the excuse would be that it's a "King Lear"-like drama that focuses on the final fall of its subject, laying out where he'd gone wrong and the ignominy of no longer having power coupled with the loss of wit and vigor. But Shakespeare with a quill and moving his players, this was not. The performances were good with what they were given, but it's a shame that Streep and Broadbent were used so ill here. No surprise that Hollywood gave it a political nomination. As Sean Penn himself said after he won for "Milk" in 2009, God knows they can't resist lauding "commies and homos." And, I would add, the cutting-off-at-the-knees of strong women who happen to be politically conservative --- just about the only thing most Academy members do judge to be an unnatural abomination. Frankly, it looks like they hope to use the cachet of "The King's Speech" win last year (Firth's performance aside, something I was very disappointed with, given the screenplay's reductive and overwhelmingly fast and loose portrayal of history) and hope that a film about a British upper-cruster's personal battle with disorder can catch lightning in the Kodak _______ Theater a second time.

A landslide? With those numbers? The +5/6 polls are from PPP, Democrat pollster, and NBC, a Democrat network. The rest of the recents show a tie --- with Obama having the soap box of the presidency and Romney still duking it out for the nomination. With the electoral college and the changes from the census? And those are with a SOTU "bounce."

I guess I'll try it out.... I have been watching "Once Upon a Time" from some of the "LOST" writers & producers. Can't wait until AR and Survivor come back because otherwise network teevee is a wasteland. Memo to teevee execs --- TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

Do you say that to every inanimate object you encounter, too?

You don't get how 100% of those profits are being sent to China, based on designs and trademarks that Americans are trying to defend? Instead of it going to NFL players (who get 49% iirc from the CBA), teams, the league, and from there distributed to jewelry makers, tailors, sprinkler system installers, bookstores, universities, etc., etc... that cash instead goes out of country. It leaves. Less money in the economy. This one bust was over $4 million and we're still half a week away from the game. This is just NFL jerseys. Can you fathom how much is sent over there for untold other products, that were created by someone else, but that they're not profiting from, and part of the reason why prices are driven so high is to keep a company's profits level while legitimate sales slip because so many are buying from illegal producers/sellers?