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QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 06:38 AM) I actually get both Esquire and GQ. I think they are extremely similar, in terms of presentation, content, viewpoint, etc. In fact, unless I am looking at the cover, I can't really tell which of the two I am reading at the time I am sitting on the crapper. I enjoy GQ very much as well, however, because they are kind of an international brand, i can't log on into it from Brazil. BUT, I still think that Esquires featured content: fiction and interviews, top GQ, however, GQs regular writers are probably more entertaining. For instance, the dude that writes about job and interviewing etiquette. I learned a lot.

QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 02:29 PM) This has some good information on it.. : http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/c...e-a-revolution/ Well duh. I don't think anyone is saying the US isn't doing ANYTHING to try and keep this moving, however, this at-best-revolution but at worst serious recrimination of the ayatollah's regime, was not created by the CIA and will not be finished by the CIA.

In reply to whoever, that all-black charter school really isn't rooted in racism. Programs trying to reach out to high-risk black youths have tried all lots of different ways to educate them. In Harlem, an all-black charter school (and it was also targeted ONLY at males, no females) found tremendous success. The theory is that the way we teach in schools creates a huge cultural divide for these specific students. Consider many of their situations: besides many in single parent, low-income homes which are well documented, many of these kids have poor diet and hyperactivity, and when they get to school they are needed to sit in a desk for hours listening to someone talk that they don't identify with. They had black males from the community come in and teach, and in a setting of their peers there was less self-consciousness and also less acting out as a way to hide that. In Columbia, Mo. a community organizer was trying to put together a school like this for the high-risk black males there, specifically for those who had dropped out, and after looking at all of it I fully supported it. I think outside-the-box ideas like this should be embraced and implemented where practical.

It's important to remember that right now one of the best things the U.S. can do is to stay out of Iran. If we try and mettle the regime will claim the "Great Satan" is out to get Iran and the people will unify against a foreign enemy (at least, it will take the focus off of the unrest at home). We really need to let this play out and one of the best ways to foster this movement is to stay out.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 04:41 AM) The CIA really has f***ed around a lot in Iran though. A good 99% of me though thinks that of the things the CIA can f*** around with in Iran, manifesting civil protestations and popular upheaval isn't one of them. Coups? Sure...but this is far too democratic for the CIA.

And I really don't even think it's close. Best fiction Best interviews Best drink database Clean presentation I love this magazine. I have a backlog of them for when I get home. But I read them now online, and their web site is fantastic, as well. Yep.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 01:48 AM) Can we all agree at least that Tim Tebow is a giant tool, regardless of this issue? Jorts are inexcusable.

free speech is about government, so unless the FCC says that they cannot put this add on, it has nothing to do with free speech.

The sox have had an incredibly healthy pitching staff for years now. Yes, danks missed some time, but i think most teams would give their left ... to have the short term injuries the white sox had. Didn't anyone tear a rotator cuff? Need TJ? The mets are jealous.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 11:50 PM) To someone facing the same choice as the Tebow's faced, and my heart goes out to them, there is some value in the message. Perhaps seeing what other women (perhaps couples) have gone through may be of some help and assistance. I'm surprised Soxy does not see any value in examples, both pro and con. Seeing others that have been through the same thing someone is facing can be wonderful support. I thought that is one basis for group therapy, but I may have been sleeping that day in class. Do you think someone with ALS might look towards Lou Gehrig for some inspiration? Someone with a terminal disease reading about Brian Piccolo or Walter Payton. From cancer survivors to weight loss champions, there is value in that. If the debate raises awareness regarding birth control and unwanted pregnancy, it has served a useful purpose. I have no words for those that believe abortion is a reasonable form of birth control. I do not believe someone should have to give up their rights of free speech because they are famous. Who are you to tell someone who to vote for? Who are you to share your opinion on a message board? Who are you to speak about anything? You are a human being and you should have that right. Just as we have the right to ignore you. Tim Tebow is someone who has an opinion and by stating his opinion, he can make a much bigger difference, good and bad, than other people. I believe he should be careful in how he uses that power, as I would say to anyone else. Who are the athletes that advocate for staying in school, not smoking or doing drugs. Isn't that a personal choice? I can't believe this ad gets people more upset than all the violence towards women on TV and in video games. Urging a woman to choose life over death -- Bad. Killing or raping a few women for hours in a video game? Cool And it's not like he's a random spokesperson. What a shame that so many toss away our right to free speech so easily. free speech has nothing to do with what a private company decides to air on the most watched tv program of the year.

QUOTE (DaveBrown85 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 11:18 PM) those dogs are actually pretty good THANK YOU! I love 7-11 hot dogs and taquitos. 7-11's are awesome, I seriously missed them when I lived in Missouri, and currently, I guess.

I was going to say Irish catholic for god's sakes, but I didn't (kind of), okay I did!

Tex, Obviously all people are in agreement that we want to reduce the situations where abortions are wanted or needed, however, the difference between people who advocate for choice, perform abortions, and have had abortions vs. people on the other side of the rest of your messages, is that they've been the target of harrassment and extreme violence. And yes, I think it's silly for the Tebows to say that since I didn't have an abortion and didn't die in pregnancy, you should take that chance that you might die because that's what I believe in! f*** that noise.

I don't think it's a secret the reputation that Boston has had.

will this qualify as another terrorist attack under Obama

I think a couple of you are underestimating how much things changed last year.

Good question.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 05:01 PM) GOD HATES PESTICIDES!! haha, this was pretty great

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 03:06 PM) The rich guy from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" who leads a revolution of rich people who decide they don't want to contribute to society to punish the government for being so intrusive. You know, I ought to write the sequel to that novel, where Galt gets bailed out by the Feds. you should write the sequel where 60 years later the magical inventions her completely moral industrialists magically created still are not even feasible except through the imagination of a russian immigrant. Oh, and also where the social democracies doomed to fail actually maintained the same amount of growth. It would be dynamic. I would keep the deranged sex scenes though. No one confused ole Ayn for a prude!

The thing that pisses me most off about these republicans though is they really just aren't concerned about governing. At all. From a chemical standpoint, they just want to lock onto the receptors to prevent the dopamine from latching on and making us happy.

No I understand you, but the whole "trash the bill because it isn't want I wanted" crowd just drives me nuts. You are absolutely right about Kaine and them pushing out Dean. I was so happy we were done with DLC but it looks like they will have the keys again.

it makes me so f***ing pissed in these articles when someone mentions frank thomas as a roider. And yes, I'm confident it's cub fans trying to make a false-equivalence to Sosa, but it's still just so ridiculous. Thomas wasn't even a true power hitter int he 90s, and then when he started swinging for the fences HE TOLD US HE WASNT CONCERNED WITH BA ANYMORE EDIT: sorry, it was in the comments.

I know. But I've fought for everything too, but i was under no illusion that it had a final point, the way so many did. And I continue to fight, even here in Brazil for gay marriage rights. It's a strange country, it really ISNT catholic anymore, people aren't religious, but the disgusting social dictating the church did hangs true. But slowly they make progress, we hold awareness meetings, the more they show their faces the better it will become. Big Brother, a huge show, just had it's first gay castmate. Anyway here's my email to TPM. These are my thoughts. In the summer, i was just laughing at the people saying Obama had to dictate, this HAD to go through the legislature, but now, now is when he needs to dictate. email: Well, I'm sure you are bombarded with emails about now. But I had to. What drives me crazy is that Massachusetts, the go-to for liberal thought, has done this to me/us. And I have to think, did they not realize that for the next two years 1/2 of their votes will now be controlled by Oklahoma? I get the appeal, I do, really, the "ohh, he's just like us and understands our problems" thing...but the guy will be the newest member with no power, and is in a party controlled by KY and SC. Does it matter he's pro-choice? No. Those battles in the health care bill about this don't matter, because he won't vote for it anyway. Does it matter he's a moderate? No, he won't vote for anything. So congratulations MA, you are now in common bond with the south. Who cares about if she was awful, she's a vote, if the past year (the first year our Congress has had to work in 40 years) didn't convince you that that is ALL a senator is and nothing more, then you deserve it. Thanks for handcuffing the country, much appreciation. And to my fellow progressives in general, I'm just shocked and appalled at the little fight in all of them. You thought you won? It's ALWAYS easier to stay the same, even if it's awful. You can show a meth addict how much more put together his/her life would be clean, and it wouldn't matter, they know their life now and think they can handle it. And our rationale is to hand it back to republicans to teach the DEMS A LESSON. Brilliant. You fight tooth and nail for progress. You got a democratic majority. But that was made up with conservatives...you support them to pass what they can, and then you fight for more liberal members to pass what they can, and so on. Progress. When you fall on your face you are still moving forward (thanks courage wolf). But instead, we whine and cry and say OHhhh but Obama's just a shill for the corporations, waaaaa. We are the children hiding behind our mother's dress, hoping she fixes everything for us and then throwing a tantrum when she doesn't. Put on some gloves and get to work. And better, try working with a dose of reality. I'm disgusted.

Rex yr supposed to be the fighter to make me fight.

I hope that massachussetts realizes that from now on 1/2 half of it's votes will be what the f*** ups of oklahoma find prudent, and not what they have shown to care about. But it's okay, i'm sure he's a real nice guy that's just like you!