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Probably the main difference between the PT and OT is that in the originals, Lucas went out of his way to give us reasons to like and care about the characters. The PT just introduces characters and assumes we'll care because we know what happens later. Anakin is little prick through two prequels and you have a hard time imagining him *not* going to the Dark Side. Doesn't seem like it'd take as long as it is or that no one saw it coming miles away.

He didn't really 'sum up' the contents of 7-9, he just changed the contents of 6 so that 7-9 were unnecessary. They made the decision that Leia was Luke's sister *after* they were done with Empire Strikes Back. The original plan was that Luke would go bad in Jedi and his sister would show up from some unheard of place in space and eventually save the day. Of course, the movies were originally going to be a lot darker. But then Lucas decided to mail it in with Ewoks and (inexplicably) another Death Star so that everything was wrapped up with Jedi.

That was close. I was almost worried there might be some substance to the argument.

Damn, what the hell are we going to do now? Does anyone else here know everything? We have to find a way to survive this crisis. Everyone start listing things you know about and maybe together, as a team, we'll know as much as UJ did.

It's more than that. You go to journalism school and you come out with less perspective (and more idealogy) than you had before. It's not like I got my BS in mechanical engineering and had even less understanding than when I started.

You think that's bad? The Daily Texan (official newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin) used the occasion to compare Auschwitz to what our troops are doing in Iraq on their Opinion page. Daily Texan Online No mention of the mass graves in Iraq but they do make a connection to Iraq..... Read it all and marvel at the stupidity. I'd love to know where they got 200,000 from. There was that one study released just a week before the election that said 100,000 but its methods were very questionable and almost every other study gave figures an order of magnitude less than that. But, hey, whatever. Again, you have to wonder what journalists are actually qualified to do. They basically just write about things they don't understand (economy, politics, war, etc.) and they actually have to go to college to learn how to do even that.

Exit France. Head for Berlin.

Um.....uh.......um......BUSH LIED!!!!

Yeah, the change isn't big but what else could they have really done? That logo is pretty much set in stone. Hopefully they did more with the actual uniform.

Obviously it's just a preference but I can't stand ESPN's TV guys. It really seems like their intent with every game is to point out star players and tell us why we should like them - over and over. I don't find them interesting at all and I never feel like I'm getting any insight.

I loved hearing the stuff about formations and plays. You never get to hear that stuff from the zombies on CBS, FOX, and, especially, ESPN's crew of flunkies. I don't mind that AVP defended his ex-teammates. It was his first year and he still probably hangs out with a lot of those guys.

Or maybe the voters were pissed that he accidentally helped W win.

Unfortunately, the producers make most of this up as they go along so don't expect any good answers to those questions. Originally, season 2 was supposed to end with Nina with the guy on the boat who ordered the bacteria hit on Palmer but they decided it didn't make enough sense (her getting there so fast after being released). I've read interviews where they're actually proud that they don't know how the season will end when they start filming the first few episodes. Probably explains why the second half of each season is never as good as the first. I'd feel better if they didn't try to tie this season into the other 3 because it'll be impossible to make it all make sense.

I saw the Nina/Yelena/mole thing coming because it was the only way they could surprise you to end the season. The only 3 choices left for 'mole' were her, Mason, and Tony. Tony was the red herring for the entire first half of the season and Mason was just too obvious.

To be fair, the Bills special teams never practiced that season either so it all evened out.

How in the hell could I type that without knowing that I was setting everyone else up big time? The brain cells aren't firing in my dirty mind tonight.

Or helping Barbara Boxer figure out a way to prove that Kerry won. Did anyone else catch Boxer now saying that she was a victim during the hearings for Condolezza Rice? That Rice shouldn't have attacked her for, um, attacking Rice's respect for the truth? Frightening.

I've lived in Austin, TX, for less than two years and occasionally a "y'all" slips out. It's embarassing. Luckily, "pop" is still what I drink all day and I still speak twice as fast as everyone I've met from Texas (astonishing considering I have so little to say).

How many hand signals are there in the world anyway? Not that many; there's only so much you can do with four fingers and a thumb. Anyone remember Vanilla Ice's weird handsign? It was "live long and prosper" but with your index and pinky fingers folded down. It's impossible. Oh yeah, to the extreme.

Other problems: It's not funny, it's way over the top, and it makes use of a pair of strawmen to make it's point. So it's par for the course for Tom Tomorrow.

The other day I saw the episode where George and that other guy (who said he thought Jerry was "phony") were fighting over a parking spot in front of Jerry's apartment. The punchline to the episode is that everyone is coming to Jerry's to watch some boxing match but they miss the entire fight due to the parking issue. Anyway, when Jerry finally turns on the TV to watch the fight, all he catches is "....9......10!" and the fight is over. The voice on the TV really sounded like Larry David's.

Atlanta is my second choice. I'd like to see the Steelers win because their fans are so much like us (so is their city). OK, yeah, they have a bunch of championships already but they support their team as hardcore as we do. Atlanta is a really lousy sports town overall from what I hear, while NE and Philly have some of the most obnoxious fans of all time. I could stomach Philly winning the SB just because I like Donovan McNabb (and his Chunky Soup) so really anyone but NE will be fine with me this year.

You think that's bad? Check out this one: Linky These guys are great because (1) they're totally serious conspiracy nuts and (2) the handsign they identify as the University of Texas is completely wrong. It's not like the UT sign is a big secret or anything.

Good one, but we can at least sort of explain that one away because Kramer has new goofy ideas every week.

I was at the first game in Buffalo after that game. Varada scored in the first minute but the goal was called back! The entire crowd booed for the rest of the period, basically every time play was stopped, and I really thought there was going to be a riot (something similar to the Pacers-Pistons a couple months ago). Ah, memories of Buffalo....