John Adams

My wife uses that term a lot on tech-related issues.

Starting at 180 and dropping, 170, 160, 150, 140, 130, 120, 110, 100, 90, 80...Palin territory. On run-flats, you are OK and encouraged to drive on them. Not on a cross-country trip but a drive to Philly is supposed to be no problem. For the Prius, it's easy carrying spares. Damn things ride on black Cheerios.

Oriental Retard

The time is now 10 o'clock: Do you know where your children are? (How unbelievably creepy that was.)

-20 points on your SAT. The guy had 2 flat tires. You carry 2 spares? That was the point of the salesman's pitch. Wacka?

Things I don't see or hear anymore: Commercials.

TO is in great shape but man the turf toe is one of those lingering injuries. It rarely just goes away. Luckily it's almost a month until the season starts. Regrettably, he has little chemistry with Trent yet so these weeks off are terrible.

With run-flats, you can drive a hundred miles at 50-60mph. That's the point.

I see this all the time--mostly at the Jersey Shore.

I also have the run-flats. I loved the sell job for those. "Had a client run over a chunk of metal going through the Lincoln Tunnel. Car got a flat and alerted him. So he drove to Philly to our dealership and guess what? He had not one but 2 flats. Can't fix that with a standard spare." I still like a spare.

Tempura bacon!

My car has no spare tire, let alone a donut.

The bug races sound a TV makes when it is not on a channel with signal. SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

You can't take an apology? You truly are a !@#$ing !@#$. Wonder why you think the world sucks? Go look in a mirror yourself you classless douche.

I love your avatar. That you recognize yourself in it makes me say this, honestly. Sorry for popping off. I mean, not sorry in a way that we should sing Kumbaya around the campfire but sorry in a way that means I should buy you a beer.

Come on pop pop, pontificate on Johnson for all of us.

So what you're saying is that there was some built-in excuse for awful behavior? Raping, and underage sex were OK because society craved more kids? In your pre-Johnson glory years (which I guess was about a decade long...before Johnson and after the worst of the industrial revolution), most of the behavior you're complaining about (high skirts and loose morals) was not talked about. You thin Catholic priests just started fiddling with boys in the last 15 years? You think domestic violence is rising because people are worse now? You think DWIs weren't happening? Substance abuse was something solved by a visit from your brother? Negative. We're just not hiding behind your idealized white picket fence anymore. Oh yes: Please lecture us all pop pop.

That's not true except in some disneyfied 1950s TV land. For most of recorded history, the situation was much worse than it is now. Do you think sexual mores were better in the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, or 1800s than they are today? Set aside the nice Victorian "notions" for a second think about this before you answer. The average person in those eras was doing a lot worse things than having sex on the first date, with people a lot younger than we see now. I know this is part of your world-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket mentality but stop and think about some of these things some time. Just because you see something bad in the world doesn't mean it's always worse than it used to be or that things were once upon a time so much better. Tieing the death of your fantasyland to Johnson is really a stretch.

Here's a fact: Eat less than you burn and you'll lose weight. I have never met one of my NE Philly clients' parents who didn't understand what food was bad for them, what food was good for them, and that had any valid excuse for why they ate crappy. And as a guardian ad litem, I have to ask those questions. In the end, the single moms I work with eventually laugh and just admit that they don't want to do the work to prepare a meal. So maybe they had bad role models. They definitely have little money. And in the end, it's laziness that prevents them from cooking a decent meal for them and their kids. But there are always cigarettes, cable TV, and booze around. And when I advocate that their kids be removed from the home (which happens occasionally) I always point to that conversation and the luxuries that the mom can afford instead of feeding their kid a good meal. Buck up and stop making excuses for people. Have some faith in them. They can fix things themselves--outside influences are influences--in the end, they choose their own path.

Me too. Cause I'm so rich that I can afford $10 worth of chicken.

He was giving an example of how you can work to make anything taste good. You can cook a chicken breast and mix it withjarred sauce in less than 10 minutes. Add a vegetable (even frozen) a chunk of bread and some milk and you have a nice meal. 15 minutes tops. And it's not like all 15 of those minutes require you to stand over the stove. You can get it started and still watch TV. You people who feel the need to make excuses for fat people should have a little more faith in them.

Bull. sh--. I work with some of the poorest families in North Philly. Some have no furniture. You make excuses for them but I haven't met one yet who didn't have time to cook a meal. Not one. But I've met a ton of them who have cable and watch a ton of TV. I blame the individual. Sorry that I have faith in people like that.

I forgot to address that point in his argument. I want him to tell me that a McDs burger tastes better than a grilled (or even fried) homemade burger. In terms of price, one lb of ground beef (a pound--that's a giant burger) costs maybe $4...and the roll perhaps 30 cents. Takes what? Maybe 5-10 minutes to prepare? So yes: It's simple.

Rick Reilly did a column about Tiger's poor behavior last week. Tiger's antics are no secret and I'm not even particularly attacking him. Lots of the greats were sore losers--it's part of what made them perform so well. I am a huge Jordan fan but he was an awful loser. Once in practice, he forearm shived Steve Kerr in practice (I'm talkin' 'bout practice) because his team was losing the scrimmage. Jordan was nuts. Belicheck is like that too.

Subtle.