I mean, he hit every reciever he threw to…its just Lane Kiffin’s fault that Crompton didnt know to hit the Orange instead of the White.

I might have to double check but I  think Crompton threw for more UCLA yardage than their own freshman QB.

Forget about being ranked! This was a “must [...]]]> What a helluva QB we’ve got!

I mean, he hit every reciever he threw to…its just Lane Kiffin’s fault that Crompton didnt know to hit the Orange instead of the White.

I might have to double check but I  think Crompton threw for more UCLA yardage than their own freshman QB.

Forget about being ranked! This was a “must win” …a freshman UCLA QB coming into Neyland??

Some ESPN radio guy “naysayer” gave the Vols a 14 pt spread just because of that fact…and I am not going to be as stupid as saying that he jinxed us! Hell no he didnt jinx us, …our QB just sucks boiled egg farts…thats all!

Gimme a break!

Jonathan “cried” about getting so called “death threats” last year…I’ll bet dollars to peso’s that those threats didnt come from southern Cal!

What a #$%^& idiot!

Everyone on board the Lane Train for the SEC Championship?

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The next President, whomever it may be, will not disappoint me. I will not allow it. I have had enough disappointments for the last 8 years to last me two more lifetimes.

I vow to expect nothing and [...]]]> Americans are said to be cynical about politics. Actually, they are presidential romantics. Which is why they suffer serial disappointments.

The next President, whomever it may be, will not disappoint me. I will not allow it. I have had enough disappointments for the last 8 years to last me two more lifetimes.

I vow to expect nothing and maybe, just maybe, I won’t be disappointed.

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I am not going to talk about Tony Stark though…I am going to talk about the Iron Man record held by Cal Ripken [...]]]> Well, that seems to be what is in the media today. I would personally love to see the movie because I was a Marvel comics fanatic when I was a kid (no, …not DC…Marvel)

I am not going to talk about Tony Stark though…I am going to talk about the Iron Man record held by Cal Ripken who surpassed Lou Gehrig in order to claim the mark…which currently stands at 2,632.

I have never been a big fan of this record. Its hard to talk to baseball people sometimes and say that because they will look at you with disgust. But I was watching the game and Carey and Simpson echoed my beliefs on the matter so I thought I would bring it up.

Right now, Frenchy has the current Iron man record for active players…but what does that mean?

Yes, It tells your manager that you will play hurt…that is great. But what about the other guys in the dugout? Like Skip said…the object is to win games…so if Frenchy or Cal…or Andruw was not entirely healthy enough to play then why sacrifice the efforts that the other 8 guys do out on the field so that one guy can have his record entact?

Ripken made “cameo” appearances in order to prolong his streak. He also had back problems…medical problems…along with that huge multi-million dollar contract…and he wouldnt even allow his own team to review them.

How is THAT for a team player??

The “record” was more important to Cal than the “team” was…that is why I am not a big Cal fan…I think he changed the position…he changed the game for that matter…but, from a managers perspective, …thats like trying to win with one hand tied behind your back.

To hell with records, streaks, whatever….that is what is SUPPOSED to make them special…its that the BEST player is in the game to help the team win…whatever happens from there…well, it happens.

…and with no asterisks.

Me?? …well, I would rather watch the movie.

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My favorite

 ”He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”

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My favorite

 ”He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”

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In the comments.

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In the comments.

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I mostly sat on my hands and wondered to myself how the fundamentalist right would react. While I was doing [...]]]> My own initial reaction, and probably a lot of political liberals, to the troubles of Ted Haggard, included at least a small sense of schadenfreude. But the matter is bigger than politics, bigger than religion.

I mostly sat on my hands and wondered to myself how the fundamentalist right would react. While I was doing that, one of my more thoughtful UU sistren was penning a response that really cuts to the heart of a lot of our cultural issues, and makes clear the real lesson from Ted Haggard. listen:

Ted Haggard dramatically illustrates how soul damaging the denial of the blessing of sexual difference is. How different his life would have been had he accepted his own sexual attractions and made decisions about his sexuality that were life affirming rather than so now ultimately destructive to himself and his family.

We’re going to hear a lot of talk about forgiveness and redemption by people on the right as they discuss this case. And surely our hearts go out to Reverend Haggard and his family as they go through these difficult days.

May we pray for God’s grace that perhaps at least some will see how their own hateful attitudes towards GLBT people need forgiveness as well.

Well said.

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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they would not so much strive to vex, as to convince an enemy.

-John Wilkins

I found [...]]]> Just added this one to the list of random quotes that appears in the banner up top (does anyone read those?)

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they would not so much strive to vex, as to convince an enemy.

-John Wilkins

I found that one in Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer. Great Book about Thomas Willis, who discovered the brain, along with his numerous luminary contemporaries, whose work marked the end of the dark ages and the beginning of what some would call the “Age of Reason”. It is breathtaking to see how much was learned, in a single lifetime, by the simple artifice of opening the old peepers and watching how things work, instead of making up pretty stories in the head. Recommended read.

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