Key is done in Tampa. Hooray for Gruden, in my opinion. One of the (few) things I hate about football these days are individuals making a team sport into an individual sport – in order to make themselves more marketable.
I know I’m probably waxing nostalgic in a losing effort to the rising tide of ego and the almighty dollar – but I miss the days when a post-touchdown dance was a rarity, not a way to tie in a Sunday performance to one’s next music video. Goodbye Keyshawn, but not for long, I’m sure. The problem may have been that the lockeroom wasn’t big enough for both his and Sapp’s egos…
Salon has a good account of Rush’s return to the airwaves.
If the above link doesn’t work, this is under the “Just Posted” section of Salon’s home page.
Here’s a negative for Retired Army General Wesley Clark: He supports a ban on flag burning despite his professed support of dissent.
Matt Bennett, Clark’s communications director, said Clark saw flag-burning as a “very, very, very particularized form of dissent that he simply can’t abide. I guess he is carving out a little bit, but not very much. For the most part he is a very strong proponent of civil liberties.”
With a few ditto-head exceptions in the group, I know I’m PTTC, but the reasons Clark is a viable candidate for POTUS are the same reasons flag burning is a valid protest. His actions for this country, serving time and leading soldiers, under the flag are the same actions committed under the flag today in Iraq — only the motives are (questionably) different. Burning the flag is a shocking statement about what is preceived as desecration of this country’s reputation by the administration. Arresting a citizen for expressing their opinion in any non-harmful fashion is a violation of the reasons people fight for this country.
Here’s a little education for you n00bs.
- font-only 1337 translator
- better 1337 tutorial
- google in 1337 speak
from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
The highlights from this study focusing on the cities of the BPB gang:
- 5. San Francisco, CA (which is odd compared to 52. San Jose, CA)
- 7. Washington, DC
- 22. Austin, TX (which is odd compared to 60. San Antonio, TX)
- 47. New York City, NY
- 49. Houston, TX
- 54. Los Angelels, CA (tied with Toledo, OH)
Terry Hughes is an extreme anti-Bush chemical engineer who was arrested and left in jail while his “elderly father succumbed to illness”.
Hughes first caught the eye of terrorism investigators in mid-August 2002, when a “confidential informant” showed them a copy of an e-mail Hughes allegedly sent to someone in Virginia, according to court papers. … The e-mail, which is only partly disclosed in court papers, mentions the author’s “chemical knowledge” and his purchase of an M-16. Hughes denies sending the e-mail or buying the rifle.
“Confidential informant?” he snaps. “There is no confidential informant. Apparently, I sent a threatening e-mail to X, who sent it to Y, who was scared. I don’t know anybody named X or Y. Given the U.S. legal system, you don’t find these things out.”
Isn’t one of the precepts of the American justice system that you get to know who is accusing you?