John Adams

You're right. Credit scores are a better measure of character than driving records. A momentary lapse of judgment on the road does not mean someone has bad character while months of credit card spending that can't be paid back is.

You bet. If we paid the workers building the house 50 cents an hour, we could really lower the price of a house.

I know right? I mean: Who better to govern the economy than people who can't manage their own lives. Yeah, because most 30 year olds have 300K to buy a house.

I know another one where a guy built a boat big enough for every animal on the planet because god made a flood to kill everyone except for the boat creatures.

Trying to get 100M to Haiti--any any tangible form (dozers, excavaters, food, medical) won't happen for months. Yes, the world has the resources to help...but there's no way to get most of those resources there. Even in the US, it takes a day or two to get help to people in need after a disaster (see Katrina, not that it stopped people from blaming Bush for it). In Haiti, there's no way to get them the help they need as fast as they need it and thus, this will get so much worse before it starts getting any better.

Are you the same Ken Crippen who wrote The Original Buffalo Bills: A History of the All-America Football Conference Team? If so, that's a great book!

Yeah, because otherwise the Pro Bowl is an AWESOME TV event!

You checked the bill and reached that conclusion? Please remove yourself from voter registries immediately.

Love that your research message is to check Snopes instead of the actual bills.

No. He's calling you poor. You didn't get that because you're retarded.

Learn more. Work harder. Isn't America great?

Kelly works for the Bills.

I am not sure how McClaim fits into this defense but if they pick him, I would not complain.

In 1963.

Strom Thurmond was a Republican. No blood in the streets.

Not at all but you and others seem to know everything that's going on. I hear a story that doesn't add up and await more info. The mob says that the Bills should trade Marshawn now over this. Get the pitchforks.

I love a callback!

Kind of different remarking on someone's skin color vs saying that the country would have been better off if it stayed segregated, no? This is a story dredged up--remark happened during the campaign.

Glad to be graced with so many experts on this situation, which doesn't have even a scent of truth.

Right. I suspect the story is total BS. Like you, I want to dump Marshawn not for character issues, but because he's not that good.

If Cowher doesn't start collecting coaching pay this year, he runs the risk of not coaching until 2012. He wants to coach...just not in Buffalo. But he's got limited choices. Now Wilson backed him into a corner where he has to say something. Frankly, if the guy isn't interested, fug him. Give me Billick, who wants to coach in Buffalo (And is in the same boat with respect to waiting until 2012...but isn't getting big time TV talking head money).

Funny so many of you believe this. Sounds like BS to me.

Much of that makes no sense though. Avatar is a movie kids can see...but it's about adults getting killed. To make it "real," you'd have to show people yelling "F---" a lot and having their guts ripped out. Is it a sell out to dampen the language and whitewash the violence so more kids can see it because it's not R-rated? Is that really a sell-out? Not in my book--I see that as making a fun story available to more people. Is it business? Yes--but it's also art. Cameron wanted to make a movie that more people (people who won't watch gruesome violence or language) could see. I mean: is Sesame Street a sell-out and not art because many urban street corners have drug dealers on them but there are none on Sesame Street?

I disagree. Something also gets lost when someone does their art without regard to their audience (see, eg, performance art, Yoko Ono, etc). You shouldn't sell short that there's an art to appealing to many people. The reason Speilberg's movies work is that he portrays families, their little moments, and the things that join people--in a way that many people can relate to. If everyone could do that, we'd be buried in movies like ET. But not everyone can do what he does. BTW, that's not to put down the original acts--some of them are great. But let's be honest: most people who do art for themselves suck rooster. And they justify their crappy art by saying that they don't sell out.

Isn't shouting down people at meetings a traditional left-wing tactic? Why is the tactic a problem now?