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QUOTE(Y2HH @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 07:09 AM) Bad assumption. I've been to a LOT of games this year, soxfest, and I've even sat in the scouts a few times. I own 5 Sox pro-jerseys amongst many other items. Nice try, though. And I'm not pissed off at this team. I love KW and Ozzie and this team...but I'm not just going to forgive and forget the years of futility because of one year. Like I said, put down the Koolaid...one year does not a good owner make. :P :P I don't think I said the ownership was amazing. I said, or implied rather, that people should only complain when they are contributing to the Sox. Increasee attendence means more money for payroll. So, I find that when season ticket holders b**** about the payroll it's more valid than a lot of people on this site that go to maybe two games a year. That's my point. The payroll is, I think, a reflection of the money that is taken in. And what about all the years the Twins beat us with a lower payroll. No doubt that money-wise Pohlad is a waaaaaaaaaaaay worse owner than Sox owners.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 06:43 AM) The Bulls (not talking about letting Jordan, Jackson, etc. walk away in the end), but the Bulls championship seasons make what he's done with the White Sox even WORSE. He couldn't have had more money to spend on the team due to the profits (enormous profits) carried in by the Bulls. As a team owner, if I have one team making tons of cash and winning championships, I take some of that money to make my other team just as successful...he didn't, instead of waved white flags or went on strike. F him again. Man, you're so pissed off! It must be hard to sit through all the games you must go to. I assume you're complaining about payroll because you hold season tickets and have for a long time. Because, I mean, complaining about payroll and not buying a substantial amount of tickets would just be silly!

Oh man, I wish I had Comedy Central just to listen to Jon Stewart.

Hell yeah and woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 02:50 PM) that's what I thought, but you have heard people say cliTORis, haven't you? Yes, and it drives me insane.

QUOTE(winodj @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 02:38 PM) *hides his sparkly bracelets* Of course, not! Shut up. Anyway, if my kids turn out as thoughtful and nice as you, then I'll have done a good job.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 02:45 PM) the real question is: is it pronounced CLIToris, or CliTORis? CLIToris

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 02:22 PM) Ummm, excuse me??? I have two kids, one is a 2 1/2 year old boy, and I would NEVER do that with either of my kids. But I guess I have no fear of my son turning out gay, as I just laugh as he runs around in high heels and his sisters dress-up clothes. Man, it's not boys fault that girls have cooler clothes and stuff like that. Those clothes have to look cool even to little boys. I was in Target at the Dollar Spot a week or so ago and there was the cutest little two/three year old boy, and they had all of those bright beads and stuff like that. And this little boy picked up some sparkly pretty bracelets and says in this really sad voice, "Bracelets are for girls, so I can't have them. Right mom?" Obviously, I giggled, but man, I'm pretty sure some sparkly fun bracelets won't turn a kid gay.

QUOTE(zach23 @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 01:36 PM) Everyone knows about the Clitoris, it is a great bar down on Wacker. It is upstairs from the G-Spot club. The place is owned by a guy named Hyman. Are you sure? I thought Hymen went broke?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 01:22 PM) There's a big difference between not knowing and NOT CARING! AMEN.

I'm going back to Chicago for a long weekend and was trying to figure out how to best get my cat home (too long to leave her alone), and I was just going to put her in my laundry hamper since her little vet cage is way too small, but then, at Big Lots today I found a cheap big carrier. Which means, hopefully, she won't be whining for the whole 11 hour drive. Hurray!

QUOTE(Pauly8509CWS @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 01:18 PM) Sorry, the whole pool thing seemed funny to me. EDIT: Not the situation that happened at the pool, but the choice of words... Crap, sorry. I mean to finish it off with barrel, but dating barrel doesn't sound right. Looooooooong day.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 01:03 PM) the fact that there's something like 100x as many berve endings in the clitoris compared to the penis. QUOTE(Steff @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) Jim.. how in the heck do you remember so many details about so many things at the drop of a hat..?? Nerd.. Steff, how could anyone ever forget that WONDERFUL little factoid?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 12:38 PM) Notice they are almost always guys I couldn't imagine how difficult dating is for women and gay men. People suck. Most men aren't evil like that, but the few definitely taint the good apples in the dating pool.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jul 14, 2005 -> 12:01 AM) Can you name a case where the book wasn't better than the movie? Duh, The Passion of the Christ. . .

Nobody tell Tom Cruise.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jul 13, 2005 -> 10:23 PM) Eva Mendes. Is. So. Hot. Someone's watching Jay Leno. Doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb though. . .

Vertigo, not the first part of the ending, but the final FINAL end.

Maybe they could bring some water to the Fox Valley farmers next. . .

Return of the lobotomy? Lobotomy Back in Spotlight After 30 Years By LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer 41 minutes ago The lobotomy, once a widely used method for treating mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, is generating fresh controversy 30 years after doctors stopped performing the procedure now viewed as barbaric. A new book and a medical historian contend the crude brain surgery actually helped roughly 10 percent of the estimated 50,000 Americans who underwent the procedure between the mid-1930s and the 1970s. But relatives of lobotomy patients want the Nobel Prize given to its inventor revoked. The lobotomy debate was discussed in an editorial in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. Lobotomy was pioneered in 1936 by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, who operated on people with severe psychiatric illnesses, particularly agitation and depression. Through holes drilled in the skull, Moniz cut through nerve fibers connecting the brain's frontal lobe, which controls thinking, with other brain regions — believing that as new nerve connections formed the patient's abnormal behavior would end. Moniz, already widely respected for inventing an early brain-imaging method, gave sketchy reports that many patients benefited and was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949. The procedure was so in vogue that Rosemary Kennedy, former President Kennedy's mildly retarded sister, had a lobotomy in the 1940s at age 23. She remained in an institution until she died in January. Other doctors used a more primitive version than Moniz, punching an ice pick into the brain above the eye socket and blindly manipulating it to sever nerve fibers. By the late 1930s doctors were reporting many lobotomy patients were left childlike, apathetic and withdrawn — not unlike the depiction in the novel and movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Use eventually waned with the advent of effective psychiatric drugs in the mid-1950s and the growing use of electroshock therapy. Modern views of lobotomy have led to a call to pull Moniz's Nobel prize. "How can anyone trust the Nobel Committee when they won't admit to such a terrible mistake?" asks Christine Johnson, a Levittown, N.Y., medical librarian who started a campaign to have the prize revoked. Her grandmother, Beulah Jones, became delusional in 1949, was lobotomized in 1954 after unsuccessful psychiatric and electroshock treatments, and spent the rest of her life in institutions. One member of Johnson's campaign, retired nurse Carol Noell Duncanson of Marietta, Ga., said her mother, Anna Ruth Channels, was lobotomized while pregnant to end chronic headaches in 1949. Channels, described as a brilliant and vivacious woman, was sent home incapacitated, Duncanson said. "The woman could not feed herself, she could not toilet, she could not speak and she was combative," Duncanson said. Channels eventually re-learned those things but remained childlike and unable to care for her daughters, who spent years in foster care. Her husband abandoned her and she lived the rest of her life in a small West Virginia town with her mother, who was resentful and ashamed of her, and an abusive brother, Duncanson said. "She never had a life after her lobotomy. She had nothing," the daughter said. Johnson, whose grandmother died in 1989, several years ago started the Web site psychosurgery.org to build a support network among families of lobotomy patients. Then she and group members began urging removal of an article on the Nobel Web site praising Moniz and saying he deserved the prize because there were no alternative psychiatric treatments at the time. The Nobel Foundation refused to remove or change the article. Now Johnson is asking Nobel laureates to support her campaign to strip Moniz's Nobel. "There's no possibility to revoke it," said foundation executive director Michael Sohlman, who could not recall a Medicine Prize ever being challenged. "It's a nonstarter." The Nobel charter has no provision for appeal of a prize awarded, he said, and the foundation ignores such criticisms, as it did when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Peace Prize was challenged. Meanwhile, journalist Jack El-Hai recently published "The Lobotomist," about the chief U.S. proponent, neurosurgeon Walter Freeman, who did roughly 3,400 operations. He developed the icepick technique. In the New England Journal editorial, Dr. Barron H. Lerner, a medical historian and associate professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, wrote that the procedure was a desperate effort to help many of the 400,000 patients confined to U.S. mental hospitals at mid-century. He said a small number of patients became calmer and more manageable. "I think the numbers that were harmed were quite substantial," Lerner said in an interview. "It was way overused, and it was used in inappropriate circumstances — retardation, anxiety, headaches." El-Hai began his research eight years ago after meeting a relative of a man committed to a mental hospital for epilepsy around 1930 and later lobotomized. As he got into his research about Freeman, El-Hai wondered, "What led this undeniably gifted and compassionate doctor to champion a brain-mutilating procedure and why he stayed with it so long, past the point of reason?" El-Hai said patients no longer felt strong emotions and their behavior changed immediately, which was Freeman's goal. But he concluded Freeman was driven to be a showman.

QUOTE(CubKilla @ Jul 13, 2005 -> 03:05 PM) If you actually read the article I posted you'll see that the money was already earmarked for medical research. I was going off of that information. I'll go back and add that for empathesis. If it will placate those crying foul--put it to a vote. It will pass. Or better yet, ask the research community how the money can be best spent and I'm sure they'll tell you the need for stem cell research. We have at least one poster here who does stem cll research, and I'm sure he could enlighten you as to why this is the best option, both for the state and for the furthering of our medical knowledge and ameliorating our chances of finding cures for a plethora of genetic and contagious diseases.

Desert Island cd's 1.) Running on Ice--Vertical Horizon 2.) Immaculate Collection--Madonna 3.) My Aaron Copland cd 4.) Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club--Beatles 5.) Greatest Hits--Hank Williams Currently (and constantly) playing on iTunes Sugarland's cd American Woman These Boots are made for walkin' (Loretta Lynn version) Picking Wildflowers (Keith Anderson) Anna Nalick's cd a couple John Denver songs These words (natasha beddingford) and a variety of songs by early 90s country singers Some current and old school rap/hip-hop

QUOTE(TheDybber @ Jul 13, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) Was that an invitation? Uhhhhhhh, sorry for the confusion, but no.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jul 13, 2005 -> 11:10 AM) any glimpse is a good glimpse. never forget this. Maybe I'm jaded because I can look at mine whenever, but, come on. Seen one seem 'em all.

QUOTE(sec159row2 @ Jul 13, 2005 -> 11:07 AM) this idea is unreasonable... how does the city expect to enforce this ban without any corruption? will they send out inspectors? they can't inspect every wooden porch how will they inspect every bar? what happens if they go into englewood bars and not gold coast bars??? this plan is just trouble waiting to happen... what's next ya can't drink beer in bars? if smoking is that bad for you WHY IS IT LEGAL AT ALL??? btw I'm a non-smoker this will only hurt the city cause the smokers will go to the suburbs, and the corruption/payoffs will further tarnish the city... what if a bar advertises itself as a "smoking bar" ya don't want to breath it.. stay out.. it is important to note that aldermen/alderwomen still smoke in their offices in city hall, and smoking in office buildings has been banned for a few years now... aren't there more pressing issues facing the chicago city council It is easy to enforce--I've never seen any trouble with this in my time in New York. Nor do I understand how this would play into corruption. And, given the rising cost of medical care, and it's effect on taxpayers, I would say that it IS a very pressing issue for the city and its constituents.