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I'm guessing there is a lot more to it than a robbery. That guy is always in trouble.

I would also like to see us less dependent on foreign food, but that isn't nearly as sexy of an issue as oil.

QUOTE(Beastly @ Nov 25, 2007 -> 11:25 AM) Can someone change my name to: The Beast? Beastly seems to plain without Ordonez at the end of it. Heh. Any suggestions could be helpful, I'm not very good with creative screen names. Kapkomet took care of that for you. How about a cage match? The Beast V. Rex Kickass?

People who live "up north" who say they couldn't get into the Christmas spirit down here where it is too warm. Do you remember stories of the three wise men trudging through snow to visit the baby Jesus? GMAB

AJ, tough, big, and quick. Plus, he is probably smart enough to keep all the gear on

Growing up, the Sears Toy Catalog

Holiday Inn for nostalgia and then Christmas Story. And who can say no to Charlie Brown? That was the major TV event of the season growing up.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 09:13 AM) I would be much more interested in some actual changes in policy versus some hyperbole and rhetoric towards a friendly government. Exactly. We have to really stretch our definition of "friend" to include any major oil exporting nation, but the Saudis are about as good as it gets (sadly) and ripping them to grab some votes seems short sighted and not what I'd want from a President. I'd love to be energy independent in 25 years, as long as we still have vehicles and a decent environment.

You may select more than one.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 09:07 AM) Or maybe not so curious after all.... Turns out that if you leave the Senate by the end of the year, you are not beholden to the new ethics rules which prevent sitting Congressmen from becoming lobbyists for two years after you leave office. Always an angle

Nolan Ryan

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Nov 26, 2007 -> 08:39 AM) Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me) - Crow Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Nov 25, 2007 -> 09:43 PM) I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes Too Much Time On My Hands - Styx

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Nov 25, 2007 -> 08:26 PM) so are we talking about surfing or sex? I guess you haven't done either

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 24, 2007 -> 04:48 PM) I always think it's fun with Mariotti articles to go through the records of him. A non-trivial percentage of the time, you can find 2 completely opposed articles on the same issue a few months apart. He just goes after whichever side makes him look correct at the time. Look at the Garland and Cabrera threads, some poster went through that in a matter of hours

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 25, 2007 -> 06:26 PM) I rode on the DC Metro this past week. I was reminded how clean, quiet and reliable that system is. Did a little research though - they get a LOT more money per track mile than the CTA does. And their infrastructure isn't nearly as old either. Yet the assumption is the CTA is corrupt and mismanaged. Which may be true.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Nov 25, 2007 -> 05:22 PM) My wife took our boys to see her father in Branson, Mo last week. He is very sick, so this may be a last time for them to see him. Her and her brother are going to stay another week, so I drove to St. Louis this AM to meet her half way and bring the boys the rest of the way home. Left the house at 6:30 AM, and saw zero cops the whole way down. After we had lunch and loaded up to head home, saw 28! They sure didn't have to worry about too much speeding with all that freezing rain crap coming down! Rain freezes? Hey Kap, ain't that crazy s***?

And just think as THE Leader of Australia, he's about the 1,348 most powerful person in the world

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Nov 25, 2007 -> 05:02 PM) Probably half those 3 million don't pay taxes, or almost nothing, so you can double your savings to almost $70! But another 25,000,000 tourists and suburbanites pay sales taxes, so now it works out to about $1.50!

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Nov 25, 2007 -> 01:50 PM) Back to back Led Zeppelin! Song Remains The Same - Led Zeppelin Same Old Song and Dance - Aerosmith

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 23, 2007 -> 12:10 PM) I don't do Black Friday, but my wife and her Mom picked up a bunch of stuff for the Secret Santa thing we're doing for an underprivileged family. They got toys for the son, gifts for the Mom and Dad, clothes for all three, plus food and sundries, all for under 150 bucks. If you really cared you would have froze your ass off at Black Friday sales and brought home twice as much stuff. But I guess underprivileged kids don't deserve your best efforts. Oops, sorry, I thought you were John Edwards or Al Gore.

a few 2GB USB drives for $12.88

I will agree that the few thousand professional philosophers will pick a fellow professional as the best of our generation. But who is having the greatest impact today and on the greatest number of people? Clearly it will not be someone publishing only for academics. To have any impact, and therefor something beyond theoretical value, it has to be in the hands of the common man. Why does almost every American poet give props to Whitman? Because he not only wrote great poetry, he also made poetry accessible.