RuntheDamnBall

Haha. Yeah, a bit of a blues snob. Sometimes I want to punch Clapton in the face.

Man, how can you get raw blues out of a stack of Marshalls? Give me Mississippi Fred McDowell, recorded in his living room with a bottleneck slide and an acoustic any day of the week. SRV was good, but some of the guys who invented the genre are just criminally ignored in favor of the white guys who appropriated it for greater gains.

While we're talking Ry Cooder, his album with V.M. Bhatt, "A Meeting by the River," wouldn't be a bad desert island choice either.

I really prefer the Gabriel stuff, to be honest. As for any of Collins' work I find it hard to divorce the good stuff from the adult contemporary garbage. As for the one CD, right now I'd still take "London Calling" by a nose.

Man, sorry I missed Chloe kicking ass. Thanks, guys.

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Here's what I got: Jack sees Marwan in the club with his mini camera robot, but Secret Service guys have blown their cover to come pick up Jack (Pres. Logan sent them). Marwan is onto them, sees the camera, runs downstairs with his men and when Jack and the CTU agents follow them down, a bomb Marwan has set to block off the escape tunnel goes off. Logan feels bad and incompetent about all this, so his advisor enlists the help of Palmer. That's where my VCR sh-- the bed. Can anyone help us out after this?

Can someone inform me as to what happened in the last twenty minutes? My f---ing VCR stopped taping.

Especially that fancy store-bought dirt. That stuff's loaded with nutrients.

That's great for you then, because you do get to have Henry over those two guys. Works out perfectly for all sides.

I think it's pretty much agreed that he can't hold out. What he can do is make things miserable for the team. However, if he has ANY smarts at all (which is truly up for debate) he will sit back, relax, jump in when his name is called and keep quiet. That's the only way he gets anything close to what he feels he'll be worth next offseason, and a starting job. That said, I'm still hoping he finds his way onto the roster of a team whose RB blows out his knee in camp, preferably for a conditional '06 pick.

To Clayton I say, "shut up, Nerdslinger."

Come on, Lindell is automatic from within 15.

I agree with your argument, but what would you say if Kevin Gilbride was still running this offense? That guy is still in football, for no apparent reason.

Bingo. I think we can tag him next year if we really want him / want some kind of value for him.

From what I hear, they are willing to investigate, so long as the Dems concede to the watered-down ethics rules. Complete BS. This is a classic example of Republicans changing the rules to come out winners, rules that they instated to take down a Democrat (one who was admittedly crooked) but also would apply to DeLay in this case.

Hopefully that one would make it to the Supreme Court. Tom DeLay is an awful, awful human being and I will be really pleased if he is sh---canned.

I really don't think I could trust that a man who was literally a mouthpiece for the President wouldn't sense a bias against his side. This is funny because between 9/11 and the war in Iraq I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find much negative criticism of Bush, and this was precisely during the heart of Fleischer's tenure. But of course, when the story was an "independent" counsel searching for real estate improprieties and coming up with blowjobs, the media were far more fair and balanced. You're a smart person. You know the media takes sensation and runs with it. They do it with both sides. It doesn't matter who they vote for because 1) both parties are drunk with power and money and 2) both parties use the media just as much as the media uses them. I do think there need to be serious quantitative studies about how the media presents itself and its stories. I am certainly with you there.

Costas, Jeanerret, Michaels, McEnroe for tennis, Berman, Howard Simon's in there too I suppose. But man, we definitely do not have those great radio voices that sports used to be full of. It's a shame.

where do boxer briefs fit in? Comfy.

Am I right to infer that this might be partially because the NRA serves two functions? One as the consumer organization you speak about and another as a voice of the gun industry/lobby? I just wonder if the profit the gun industry enjoys from entertainment coverage might be at odds with the interests of responsible gun owners. And perhaps the media and interests of capital like the gun lobby are trying to deflect the blame onto each other, thus to one the other is the bad guy, instead of both being complicit. Again, this is speculation; I am not an owner myself and am not at liberty to confirm any of this, more interested in the discussion, honestly. It's probably for another thread and again I'm sorry I opened my mouth about it.

Darin, I'm sorry I said anything about guns because it obscures my point, and I half-knew the backlash over one line would weigh more heavily than the rest of what I thought were good points. 1) I never said that the gun industry is the problem. I just meant it profits in the same way from a culture of fear. I don't think that can be denied, and if you do I suppose that's just our difference of opinion. 2) In the same posts I lauded responsible gun owners. What else do I have to do to make it clear I am not against the second amendment or responsible gun owners?

You are probably right on that account, I don't have the numbers either, it is just a general perception I have and it probably does rest more on the media. That said, one has to admit the gun industry certainly profits from the glorification of guns in movies and TV and it would be nice to see the NRA step up and say something about it (or have they?).

I think we can agree the media climate is pretty different from 1992 in every way. Post 9/11, significant deregulation of media, and so forth.