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Yeah! Except for little league and senior golf.

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I AM HORRIFIED AND AMBIVALENT I THINK

Two years for me, we lost my dad June 23, 2008. It's still weird, we didn't even acknowledge the day. I'm not sure why not...

Stefan took longer to cook than most.

I'd offer a protip to stuff a paper towel roll with dryer sheets and blow your smoke through it, but my guess is that MA has a fully working positive ventilation system running right next to the grow op

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it lots more times: The media created this situation. Specifically, news broadcasts. In the early eighties, news programming became a profit center for local stations, and scaring people became a really easy way to boost the ratings and therefore ad rates. It's become all about the bumper - get the viewer to stick around through the commercials, and you validate your rates to the ad buyers - "A strange van has been spotted in a local neighborhood - tune in after the break to find out if your family is in danger!!" zomg And, furthering this, no local news station does "reporting" anymore, and no news station has our best interests at heart. How many of those "most trusted news sources" are actually reporters? I can't name more than three in the entire Detroit broadcast market that are actual journalists who've risen through the industry. The rest are all hacks who either look good or can bring an audience with them to a news station. I'm very much for free markets and an independent press, and personally I think those two goals work against each other more often than not. This is a classic case of the market dictating a public service, and the absolute corruption of that public service as a result. James is right - it starts by taking a stand against the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fmq2AWBXMg&feature=player_embedded#!

Yeah as a single gay guy you won't find me babysitting your kids anytime soon. Nor will you find me interacting with anyone under 21 without a damn good reason. And James nailed it - I'll assist from a distance but I won't even think of approaching kids who are alone or are in need. I volunteer at a local gay organization once a week. I haven't had my background checks done yet so the only night I can be there is Wednesday, because that's the only night there are no youth events going on. it's not like I can just go somewhere else in the center when kids are around: nope, I can't be there on a volunteer basis at all on those nights. It's okay if I hang out as a member, but not as a volunteer, because apparently that changes things, somehow. I used to run 12 step meetings at a rehab that had a youth program. I couldn't run those meetings without 2 other adults present, and at no time were kids allowed to be in a room alone with an adult. I'll give you two guesses about how to get what you want from a drug addicted teenager in a rehab, and the first guess doesn't count. It's pretty infuriating to try to help young people when peope are expecting you to rape them or something instead. And I blame the media for this situation. I don't think child sexual or violent abuse is any worse than it was twenty years ago. I think it's just reported more, which raises the hysteria level, which brings up the ratings, so the news media makes money when kids get abused. It's like a witch hunt. So what's happening is this: neurotic helicopter parents are raising neurotic children that need their parents to apply to colleges for them, sit with them in job interviews, move into apartments near their colleges, and defend them against mean college professors that fail them when they don't do the footwork to pass a class. My sister's niece is this way. She's a brilliant chemist who graduated from Purdue two years ago and has a great job at a large chemical company. She's had an incredibly tough time these last two years, acclimating to being an independent adult. She doesn't know how to handle money. She doesn't have a clue about dealing with legal contracts, or about how to cook, or about how to even do basic things like laundry. It's really disappointing. Her parents are STILL propping her up, and won't let her fail at anything. I get that parents don't want their kids to fail, and that parents with the resources to help their kids can certainly ease the way. But people learn by making mistakes and through failure. It's been my experience that the lessons I've learned that have stuck with me have been lessons learned through experience. Having someone shield you from experiencing things is a mistake that's made far too often these days. Now GET OFF MY LAWN

I grew up with two mean sisters who would use the "don't hit a girl" thing against me ALL THE TIME. When I was really young, my dad came down on me for hitting my younger sister, and those bitches found out what he told me. I wasn't safe for years after that. They'd hit, and scratch, and just generally beat the crap out of me and if I told, I'd get it even worse. My dad saw what was going on when I was a teenager though, and gave me shit for taking it from them. From that day on, if one of my sisters hit me, I hit them back with exactly the same level of force, or as close as I could get. My sister once punched me in the face. So I punched her in the face (totally freaked her out. It was GREAT). My other sister kicked me in the nads once. I punched her in the boob (I'm not going to kick anyone in the crotch, I don't fight that dirty). Also, I was on my way to the floor and her chest was right there. What did I learn from this? That I don't have a problem with a proportional response, and yeah, I'll hit a girl/woman if they hit me first. Especially if its my sister.

NEWSWEEK HAS THE STORY its in code though Go to newsweek.com. While on the home page, do this: Longform decoder ring: Press up arrow, then up arrow again, then down arrow, then down arrow again, then left arrow, then right arrow, left arrow again, right arrow again, then b, then a, then enter In shorthand: up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-enter via Reddit If the site is infiltrated, here's a screenshot.

Hey James It all started when they renamed the network, at that time they said they were going to branch out into wider audiences than strictly sci-fi. I don't watch the channel anymore- the only thing that's been even remotely appealing has been Caprica, and that's not even really great. Maybe you SHOULD write some sci-fi!

I am very happy to know she's safe. Vive la France!

England is doomed.

LOL SOMEBODY GET THIS MAN A SPORTS TEAM PRONTO!

West: Okay I'll clarify that "runs on Android" really means "not the closed ecology imposed on Apple users by Apple" and that I think Android/Chrome stand the best chance to really win the market for web applications on tablets. Also, and I think this is really important to Eric, Android is open source with a wide playing field. Microsoft and Apple are not going to win the H.264/HTML5 market. Apple just recently pulled the rug on any developer NOT using Apple tools. This is pushing those developers who were hoping to use Flash or other non-webkit tools on the iphone/ipad OS to Android as the platform of choice. Apple consistently refuses to allow any app that duplicates existing functionality in the app store (which is why you don't see anything like Firefox or Chrome for iphone - they don't want to step on Safari's market share). We're not there yet but you're going to see a real house cleaning in the Apple app store and a significant rise in the number of apps and maturing products for the Android market. So yeah, I say "Android" like its a good thing because I, as an iphone user, don't like being tied to AT&T as a cell carrier, don't like having Apple dictate how content will be presented to me, and I really don't like the way Apple treats its developers. They did this before. It was right around the time Steve Jobs got dumped on his ass by John Scully. Apple would have been long gone had Steve had his way then, and they're headed that way again.

Wow Mark, you caught Steven's stress level, his change of "tone" and his apprehension about JP really well. This was a good chapter! Do it again baybee

Wait. HP will be coming out with a tablet with WebOS that will likely meet some of your requirements, things are still kind of fuzzy there what with the Palm buy and all. More importantly, 3rd quarter this year we're supposed to see this: ADAM Tablet No idea what the pricing will be BUT: - Runs on Android - About the same form factor as the iPricey - Runs on ANDROID

When engineers own dogs

Engineers rule! With slide rules! Or a TI89! But check THIS thing out, it handles your cardinal grammeters for you! With magneto reluctance and hydrocoptic marzal vanes! Gotta watch out for that sinusoidal depleneration, though.

Is there a high concentration of napalm storage depots and flamethrowers in Mississippi? Your average MS southern boy might need a little something extra over a gun, what with that bad aim and all :::runs away::: (I like Mississippi even though I spent time in (gag) Meridian in the 80s... And I'm really looking forward to your take on WWZ...

Galaragga is a stand up guy who displayed real sportsmanship in the way he's dealt with this whole thing. I've got a lot of respect for the way he's handled himself (baseball players handling themselves..get it?) The umpire has owned up to his part of it and I don't think he's going to be an umpire for much longer. Selig is a jerk for not reviewing the situation and giving Galaragga his due. And Galaragga got a new car out of it! http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2010/06/03/sports/doc4c08397d2ff5d967042412.txt

So sorry to hear this, James.

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I really liked SLOB. I want a sequel. Ernest Hemingway said that you can keep writers block at bay by not putting down all of your ideas at once. Hold off on a few and the muse will be fed. I never did trust that guy.