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If I recall correctly, most 7th grade guys are usually just thinking about the best strategy to use to hide their spontaneous boners while walking between classrooms between bells. Put a book over it was always the old standby, I believe.

I think the next round question should be something a little more serious. I'm thinking: Who would kick whose ass – Marvel Superheroes or DC Superheroes?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 03:11 PM) Turns out it was just a Boehner in your pants And curiously enough, both of those things can help you get DeLay'd.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 02:44 PM) The Hill on Boehner's lobbyist connections. Yeah, he felt quite at home on K Street.

QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 02:51 PM) thanks, i think it was the bioaccumulants that did me in before Gotcha. Basically the notion that you are going to get near-instant measurable levels of some contaminant in tissues a couple of links up in the food web is flawed. For fish to show an accumulation of a toxin they are taking in through an oral route, the toxin has to be taken up by organisms at a lower level on the food chain, and that toxin has to pass up the chain to ultimately accumulate in tissues of top predators. It's more or less the same for shellfish, even though they are suspension feeders lower on the food chain. They have to filter lots of microalgae in order to accumulate significant tissue quantities of the contaminants.

QUOTE(bmags @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 02:24 PM) i understood like maybe 4 words of your post jim Uh, sorry. Basically, I agree that the term "toxic soup" was thrown about rather casually, but I think the author cherrypicked the indicators that best conveyed the picture that N.O. was flooded with water that wasn't overly polluted. I've been in lots of water that most people would not willingly go into – stagnant mangrove marshes, mosquito impoundments, and whatnot - and it doesn't much phase me. But then again I've developed a couple of contact dermatites as a result of some of these outings too. And that had nothing to do with coliform, or any sort of contamination. Knowing the sheer volume of petroleum and industrial pollutants and human waste that had been released when the city flooded, you couldn't have paid me enough to get me to go into the N.O. floodwater unless human safety demended it. Despite what the man who suggested we spend too much on HIV research has to say about it.

I thought Blunt had it in the bag. At least according to Blunt he did.

While I'm always going to take anything written by the author of very slanted The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS with several grains of salt, I agree that term was bandied about in a very ill-defined manner in the post-Katrina reporting. That said, I think a couple of the indicators they looked at were inappropriate. a couple of weeks after the impact, looking at evidence of elevated toxicity in fish/shellfish is probably of marginal utility since it would take considerably longer to see a bioaccumulatory effect. Looking at the soils is the right idea, and not surprisingly, there they saw some elevated levels. What he doesn't include is any indication of what levels the contaminated floodwater contained at the point just prior to its discharge into Ponchartrain. I'm anxious to see those numbers. And of course I hope Ponchartrain proves to be as resilient as this preliminary report suggests. It's already a heavily urbanized system that is completely different than what it was 200 years ago, and quite possibly the slug of contaminated water from Katrina is going to be just a blip.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 11:38 AM) The version I heard on the radio yesterday reported that 3 had died. I saw that number as well, but I'm just trying to imagine how many dogs it would have talen to move 20kg of drugs and wondering what the fate of all of those animals was.

Given the long-time use of human "mules" to swallor condoms full of heroin and cocaine, and surgical implantation of same, I'm not the least bit surprised. I wish the story went on to say what happened to the dogs here at the other end. Were the drugs humanely removed and the dogs restitched and sold or put up for adoption or were they just gutted and discarded? Hopefully the fact that they were purebread dogs with some intrinsic value (despite surgical scars) means that they were spared and wound up as pets somewhere. But if they got 20kg of heroin into the states that way, that is a whole lot of puppies.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 09:20 AM) Something like this?: http://www.download.com/Wave-Shredder/3000...tml?tag=lst-0-1 No, I think he's looking for a package that will convert songs into simple midi or videogame-style 8 bit versions. I think that is a tall order to get there from a full blown song, but if you have a file with the musical notation (or an existing midi file) for a piece of music then you could do it.

I taught AP Biology and science research at the public high school level, but I also had to take on a couple of sections of 10th grade slacker biolgy to fill my day. That group never failed to amaze me with their lack of effort or evidence that any sort of learning had taken place in the first 10 yeears of formal education. Ond day I had to send parental permission slips home so that the students could see a "sex education" video later in the week. A safe as milk, fairly useless presentation (from a biology curriculum standpoint), more on character development, respect, and responsibility than on sex per se. Anyway one kid (who later in the year came back from Christmas vacation with a gunshot wound in the leg from his cousin :headshake ) raised his hand and asked why they needed parental permission to see the tape. His words: "What are they going to show, some dude eating out a chick's box?". He got a detention, but it was all I could do not to spit-take when I heard what was coming out of his mouth.

"A comet is, of course, frozen bodies of ice and dust formed over 4.6 billion years ago---or created 6,000 years ago, depending on whether or not you're wrong." ---Jon Stewart

"President Bush is urging all nations to cut off aid to Hamas, including $234 million dollars we were going to send them. In fact, to make sure the money doesn't get there, he's putting FEMA in charge of it." ---Jay Leno

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 08:06 AM) That same crappy armour that saved Woodruff's life? That s***ty stuff? It's amazing the rhetoric, from both sides, of the spectrum here. The same crappy armor that a Armed Forces Institute of Pathology report said have failed to prevent torsoand shoulder damage that side panels could have prevented, yes that body armor. Neither the Pentagon's claim that "soldiers have the best body armor available" nor its claim that what they are using strikes the right balance between weight and mobility jibe with their current scramble to send 230,000 sets of new side armor to Iraq this year. It seems like the sticking point was the additional $260 the side armor would havve added to each set and/or the contracts the military has witth certain suppliers. And they say you can't put a price on the value of human life.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 2, 2006 -> 12:07 AM) Martin and Berke Breathed were friggin' Gods to me. I used to want to be a "stripper" (as Opus called it), and those were the guys I copied. For me it was all the early EC guys, including Davis and Kurtzman on the (eventual) comedic side, and for the horror and sci-fi/fantasy stuff Will Elder, Bill Severin, Wally Wood, and my favorites Al Williamson and "Ghastly" Graham Ingles.

So, do you think the public will even be awake enough to yawn if it turns out that Scooter Libby's obstruction of justice trial is hampered by yet more obstruction of justice on the part of the adminstration? Kind of makes you wonder how much document deleting went on on the missing 12 hours between when Abu Gonzo was told by Fitzgerald that all evidence should be preserved and when he actually got around to officially telling everybody to preserve all evidence, eh?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 07:28 PM) Once the Homeland Security Bill has been renewed, Internet surfing as you know it will be tracked by what the FBI calls a "non-intrusive method." The FBI says you will hardly notice anything different. For a demonstration, click on the link below: http://users.chartertn.net/tonytemplin/FBI_eyes/ So why is there a pair of boobs following my cursor around the page?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 10:23 PM) A most important day to remember! God bless Don Martin. Yes, Don Martin is an institution. But he's no Jack Davis.

QUOTE(samclemens @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 08:38 PM) hardly. iraqi gov't officials wouldnt have a job if it wasnt for us. whether they support iran or not, they arent stupid enough to become allies with iran. edit: oh yeah and we are way too powerful Yeah, right. :rolly This was from back in May. A handful of people noticed. http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/...rrent%20Affairs And this was July. . . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8497845/ November. . . The Mullahs never could make inroads in Iraq so long as Saddam was in power. So, we can at least feel good that we've united the Shia of Iran and Iraq. We're well on the way to becoming the Godparents to a brand new l'il Iran Junior, eh? But don't ever say anything negative about the predictable situation we've formented in Iraq. That makes you an "isolationist" you know.

Yeah, it doesn't phase or much surprise me that the Pentagon felt the need to write a vaguely threatening letter, but I'd agree they have better and more important things to do. The cartoon pretty much nails the sentiments doming from the administration though. It's about the level of compassion you'd expect from the guys who would rather threaten soldiers with punishment and loss of death benefits if they use the good body armor that they paid for themselves instead of using the crappy stuff the military provides them.

Western Union man Bad news in his hand Knocking at my door Selling me the score Fifteen cents a word to read A telegram I didn't need Said she didn't care no more Think I'll throw it on the floor Got your cable just today Killed my groove, I've got to say, Hey Western Union! Da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da

QUOTE(DukeNukeEm @ Feb 1, 2006 -> 04:16 PM) Rush But to be mentioned in a " You forgot to put that post in green. All Boston songs sound the same, with too much processing on Thom Sholz' guitars and too many Brad Delp vocals piled up on each other.

Here's another cartoon causing some stir this week: In the world of Bushspeak where if you don't agree that the war is going 100% you are an "isolationist" and that the global economic outlook is not 100% rosey you are a "protectionist," I'd say the cartoon is right on the money.

Ooh, that is good! Did you catch the irony in the clip closing with the rush logo from the first album – one of two that Neil didn't play on??