FlaSoxxJim

Way, Jermaine! Need some more now.

That's rock and roll for you. When Mary Jane's Last Dance came out, it was striking how much the verses followed CSNY's Almost Cut My Hair, and even how much the Mike Campbell and Petty (outro) solos sounded like Steve Stills' guitar lines from that song. Am/G/D, arpeggiate the chords a bit and you have either of those songs, and apparently this Chilli's song too.

Finally! Time to get it back.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ May 22, 2006 -> 08:35 PM) Bastard squirrel. Man, they need to cut that outfield grass. . .

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ May 22, 2006 -> 08:32 PM) run you bastard squirrel! they'll fine you $1,000!

Frank is one thing, but Crosby's HR just ticked me off. Damn good thing Payton's ball stayed in the park. And now Ozzie's gone?!?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 22, 2006 -> 02:35 PM) Fun with spit takes. Yessiree, that was a good one.

QUOTE(samclemens @ May 21, 2006 -> 05:38 PM) http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/21/D8HOCUJ81.html sorry...there are corrupt democrats, too. Yes there are. Hopefully he goes down hard for it.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 20, 2006 -> 01:15 PM) You think it might involve holding "people of interest" for years without interrogation? Regardless of what the riot in Gitmo was about, what's happening there is a national shame and against every ideal that this country is supposed to stand for or respect. Agreed, absolutely and completely.

Make it a good one!

A CNN report also suggested the suicide attempt was staged as a decoy to draw guards in to be attacked, so I'm not sure what the real deal is right now.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 19, 2006 -> 08:21 AM) What a stupid statement :headshake I do think $200 is too low. That will create way too much auditing. I'd be comfortable with something around $500. If we elected someone that could be swayed for $250, we're already in trouble, $250 might be enough to sway congressmen if it was $250 worth of in-kind services - like prostitutes and such. . .

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 18, 2006 -> 04:32 PM) Of course there are a couple answers Classified secrets? No Classified illegal government activites? Yes Finding non-classified sources and intimidating them into silence? A big no. ^^^^^ That pretty much covers it, except to say that abusing a provision of the Patriot Act to get at journo phone records in order to do the intimidating is also something we should all take issue with.

Happy B-Day, fellow beer enthusiast!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 18, 2006 -> 12:13 PM) Ok, this sort of thing drives me absolutely nuts. I'm sitting at the Table of Contents for Nature, the volume for May 18th, 2006. There's no paper by that author, and as far as I can tell, no article on this subject. Bad citation info drives me crazy as well. It's actually in the May 17th (yesterday) Advance Online Publication. Here's a link to the full text: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/...ature04789.html Now my dilemma: do I stay here and read the paper, or do I get my ass out the door and head across the state to get to the Trop in time to watch some White Sox BP?? Tough choice I know

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 18, 2006 -> 12:00 PM) I applaud Bush and Co. for their honesty in this nomination. He's a military guy and they aren't hiding it. No they certainly are not. And it was very shrewd to have Hayden testify to the Intelligence Committee yesterday as well. It blunts some of the questions that he is going to face during the confirmation hearing, and it also puts a big honking "Classified" stamp on everything the Committee heard yesterday. That means that many questions that yesterday would have been speculative and fair game are now off the table. The one question I want (but don't expect will be) asked is, was there some incarnation of the warrantless domestic spying operation in existence prior to 9-11. Early reports suggersed there was. If so, it would undercut all of the smoke and mirror overtures about Congress authorizing the program with the AUMF because it would have preceeded it. Not that I expect we would get an answer to the question if it was asked either.

QUOTE(juddling @ May 18, 2006 -> 11:19 AM) Human Ancestors May Have Interbred With Chimpanzees :headshake Then again.....if the lighting was bad and if there was alcohol back then.......... Just after thier divergence from a common line, proto-humans and proto-chimps would not have looked all that different, and there likely would have been ssery similar courtship cues. In time, divergent behavior would start to minimize the number of incorrect pairings - basically the alcohol and bad lighting instances you suggest. The most intriguing assertion of the study is that we are more likely the descendants of the hybrid line and not of the pure protohuman line. Like I said, I need to see the primary literature before I have a real opinion on it.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 18, 2006 -> 10:38 AM) What do you have to hide? Hoffa, maybe.

Intriguing, and certainly possible, but I don't exactly follow why inerbreeding would only reduce tthe apparent age of the proto-chimp-derived X chromosome and not all of the somatic chromosomes passing back and forth as well. Need to find the actual research paper to get a better idea of what is really going on. I agree completely with the London researcher quoted in the news story about species starting out with "fuzzy" boundaries and becoming "real" (reproductively and then genetically isolated from related lines) ovver time. "We probably had a bit of a messy origin" sums it up nicely. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6051702158.html

So did the Russell Tice testimony to Armed Services happen yesterday. I haven't heard anything.

QUOTE(DePloderer @ May 17, 2006 -> 06:51 PM) and I thought I could sneak that in unnoticed. At last a cultured American. Rumpole of the Bailey passes for culture?!? Sonuvagun, I'm downright highbrow. Actually, when I saw "She Who Must be Obeyed" I immediately thought it was an Anne Rice Akasha reference.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 18, 2006 -> 10:00 AM) did you hear the one about the funny college professor? neither did I Yeah, but if you thought your grade depended on it you'd be laughing your ass off.

Good stuff.