FlaSoxxJim

I'm another one who really loves Boston. The Freedom Trail is a great way to see the town, and it passes by enough pubs that it easily doubles as a pub crawl route. Really amazing history to see – the grave sites of Samual Adams, Crispus Attucks and others, the Old North Church ("One if by land, and two if by sea"), the site of the Boston Massacre, etc. Anyone into colonial American history will love it. Aussies will enjoy drinking through it. The best beer bar in Boston – and one of the best anywhere, imo, is Anam Cara on Beacon Street. Unbelievable selection on draft and in bottles, and one of the best Belgian selections I've ever seen.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 13, 2008 -> 02:59 PM) I've gone to catholic school my whole life, and not once was I taught to hate. I was a Catholic school lifer as well, and while i was never taught to hate, I was exposed to historic Christian ideological writing that was every bit is extreme as in this Muslim school. Just consider the litany of offenses punishable by death in Leviticus 20: Curse your father and mother? Put to death! Commit adultery? Put to death! Have gay relations? Put to death! Commit beastiality? Put to death! Neighbors think you're a wizard? Put to death! Sleep with a menstruating woman? Bad. . . but not quite kill you bad. Both parties cast out from society. Few modern Christians adhere to these proscriptions to be sure, but they still read the historic passages that lay them out. How is that different from students in a Muslim school reading that the Koran has passages in it advocating that converts from Islam, adulterers and people who murder Muslims can be permissibly killed?

holy cr@p.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Jun 13, 2008 -> 02:00 AM) I will not boo anyone from that 05 team. ^^^ QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 13, 2008 -> 02:06 AM) I won't be at the game, but I'd cheer him if I were there. Why the hell not? Without his dominant first half, clutch September and amazing postseason, we'd be on year #91 without a title. ^^^

:cheers

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 08:34 PM) they aren't just people, they are Islamic fascists that pose a threat to national security. Except a whole bunch of them aren't. The poor innocent saps who got turned in by their neighbors 6+ years ago for a quick buck are hardly the Islamofascists you've been scared into believing they are. The goofball Framers would have been in favor of this ruling.

I'm convinced! I've been backing the wrong team.

"The Tigers, the" ?? What's with all the German?

Bot9, 1-1, thread no lockey. Somebody sleeping on the job?

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 12, 2008 -> 04:03 AM) Bahamas in 2 days, sweet. Have fun. Eat a conch crystalline style (an odd gelatinous digestive gland in gastropods) if you see any fisherman cleaning conch. It'll put lead in your pencil, Mon.

QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 08:54 PM) I'm going to be in LA in a month, give or take. I'm very interested in the suitcase. Yet without the suitcase. . . you'll be unable to pack for the trip! Oooh, delicious irony.

A landmark research finding was published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists working out of the lab of Richard Lenski of Michigan State University published a paper called "Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli" that is being described by NewScientist as "the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait." In a nutshell, Lenski has been growing 12 laboratory populations of E. coli in the lab for 20 years, all of them derived from a single bacterium. The goal was to allow random mutations within each population to accumulate and to see if/how those accumulated mutations resulted in divergent populations over time. This has gone on for 44,000 generations, which is roughly the equivalent of a million years in terms of human generation time. Every 500 generations, Kenski would freeze a sample from each population so if interesting difference did arise he would be able to go back and tease out the whens and hows. Now, patience and persistence have paid off. From the NewScientist piece: Good stuff!

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 03:07 PM) So where do you get gyro meat? The neighborhood Greek joint does a 1/2 lb platter with a side of sliced pita and tzaziki, so I bought a platter and cut up the meat for the dish and had the pita and sauce as a bonus.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 01:04 PM) I was at Borders and couldn't decide whether to pick up 8 Men Out or Moneyball last night. Eerie. So which one did you get? Did you spare Michael M. Lewis or did you kill Eliot Asinof?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 01:08 PM) Lets keep crushing Zoolander. Is it true he can't read good?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 11:30 AM) So i just got back from a cruise a couple days ago and i got to try a lot of things i hadnt had before (Mahi mahi, lamb, king crab legs etc...). Anyways, i'm not much of a fan of scotch, but i ordered a JW Blue Label on the rocks during the last night cuz it was cheaper than i'd ever see it in the US and let me just say, it was awesome. Absoutley no bite to it at all. So smooth. I dont know how many people have had it or not, but if you havent i'd recommend trying it sometime. Do yourself a favor and try a true single malt and you'll be in heaven.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 10:03 AM) BTW, that reminds me...where's Kap? Didn't he repeatedly say "Mark my words Hillary will be the nominee"? That was until "Inevitability" changed its mind. "You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 10:55 AM) what's a hindo? Some cr@ppy Indian import car, I think.

You know those nights where you're absolutely craving breakfast food for dinner? Lastnight was one of those nights, and I tried my hand at cooking something called the Greek Hobo that I saw on that Diners and Dives Food Network show a few weeks back. Grilled, hand-grated hash browned potatoes topped with grilled mushrooms and onions, gyro meat and eggs, and the whole thing topped with melted feta. Wow. I have a new all-time favorite breakfast meal. Opah!! :headbang

Great book and great film. Sad to see his passing.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 08:49 AM) They had a poll on MSNBC last night that said even now, 22% of Hillary supporters plan on voting for McCain, and only 62% currently plan on voting for Obama. Heck, that 22% may all be working-class white male Hillary supporters. No female Hillary supporter who is actually looking for forward progress on womens' rights is going to vote for McCain. Also, there's so much time until November for the hurt feelings of the Hillary backers to heal, I see it as a huge relief that less than two weeks after her concession almost 2/3 of her supporters are behind Obama.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2008 -> 09:55 AM) Windows Vista works fine with Boot Camp, so I'm not sure what you even mean when you say that... Gaming on a MAC is harder, yes, but NOT because of hardware concerns, it's simply because most games are Windows only. Games like World of Warcraft run native on OSX and run great, games that do not have a native client for OSX, you can simply boot into Windows XP/Vista and play them, and yes, you CAN boot into Vista via Boot Camp. The point is simply choice, nothing more, nothing less. I do agree on the overpricing of Macs, however, but that doesn't concern me since I get everything at 25% off, which is probably cheaper than most people can buy regular PC's. I'm a Mac diehard, but i do get the artgument that yoiu're better off going Windows for miost pure gaming systems. The much wider variety of homebrew options for graphics cards, overclocking/cooling, etc., make that a logical choice. That said, when my kids play online MMPGs like Toontown, they play like absolute $hit on my wife's PCs (XP and Vista, including a branc new laptop), and play flawlessly on my MacBook Pro.

QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 10:18 PM) I'd hate to say it but, if a Sox-Cubs WS were to happen, I think the Cubs would win. They have fate and an even 100 years on their side. The hundred year thing is not something I'd call on their side. The Very Cosmos have it in for the Cubs. Fate will let them sniff a championship, but the very balance of the Universe itself depends on a cosmically monumental collapse of the team just shy of that goal. All the Cubdom talk about "a hundred years of futility" are destined to turn into talk of "the first hundred years of futility" by the end of the season, no matter how well they are playing at the moment.

QUOTE (SouthsideNorthsideFan @ Jun 10, 2008 -> 08:54 PM) ...not a sox fan here, but no fair-weathered cheerleadin' a$$clown either. I don't believe in the Cubs doing $h!t till it actually happens. What I'm sayin' is if this actually happened - no worries. You could count on the sox sending the Cubs home with their tails between their legs just like in '06. Ah yes. . . the big series back in Nineteen-ought-six. I remember it like it was yesterday. . .

It's not worth a skirmish, but I just don't see 'radio personality of the year'-type awards as being on par with being a perennial Polk Award recipient when that award is specifically given in recognition of one's contribution to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting – not just for garnering marketshare. Moyers is very up front in his personal motivation and bias, particularly later in his career: Certainly I see the American media landscape more as Moyers sees it, and I know we're not exactly eye-to-eye on that.