I sat in on talks by him a couple of times back in the day. He's a very strange dude, just odd.

we could come up with some sort of national Do Not Gamble (or other vice) registry that people could voluntarily sign themselves up for (during a moment of strength); and then make it very difficult to get yourself off the list, requiring a notarized document, 7-day wait, etc. That way, people who know they have a problem could be prevented from participating without infringing on those who have a fully reflective & conscious desire to do so.

Just dreaming, I know.

and/or, in meantime, commenters please embolden your linkie-tags by wrapping them with the [b] [/6] thingies.

And this has probably already been mentioned, (aside from the apparent absence of a 'your comments' list and a permalink for comments, which i assume are in a state of becoming)
* but i have also noticed that there is no "parent" link underneath a comment to guide reader back to the comment it was replying to
* and number of comments/new comments tallies line disappears when you open up a diary into full mode (plus comments shown).

how to do the "Recent Diaries" like the old site, just waiting for WetherMan to give me the go ahead to upload it.

As far as the story submission -> vote -> front page process, post something in the suggestion diary. I think MA is pretty set on it.

to get my wife with child and attempt to father number 300,000,000 or will that event happen sooner?

I literally am having a hard time believing what I'm seeing. I was expecting da Bearssss by 30 - 40 points at halftime.

Any bets that the '72 Dolphins will be drinking champagne next Sunday?

That's an acquired skill too. But Leinart is already better than I thought he'd be EVER.

The top two defensive rookies in the NFL, hands down, are from Alabama.

Mark Anderson is 2nd in the league in sacks with 6.5.

Demeco Ryans is 3rd in the league in solo tackles even though his team, the Texans, has already had a bye and the only guys ahead of him have not had bye weeks.

A 3rd rookie from Bama, Roman Harper, started at strong safety for the Saints until he went down for the season with a knee injury after last week's game. Harper had 27 tackles in the 5 games he played in and was getting a rep as the Saints' head-hunter.

strips the ball. How many turnovers?

5:00 minutes to go.

10 Lets Go Bears!
20 GOTO 10
Run

So, I guess we needed a punt return. Yes!

...but he took it like a man. I watched the after game interviews and he was a brick...no flinching, still supporting his team, personally took the blame for the blind-side tackle and fumble.

And he sounded smart...which of course he is.

Let me be brutal here...some of these guys in the interviews are painful to even listen to, they can't put together a sentence, it is embarrassing.

Say what you want about Matt, I'm on his side...and I liked the way Kurt Warner behaved on the sidelines in support also.

Two stand-up guys.

Best Wishes,

Traveller

...that she would be held up as an example by the other side of the kinds of resistance which they would respect. That might have given her a legacy, a way that the conflict could move from violence to nonviolence to some kind of reconciliation.

My conclusion is that neither side wants peace, really. The costs are too high.

Barney, of course.

I called this Tikriti or Malooki fella over there yesterday, and I looked him right in the eye and said, "Stretch, those bombs and whatnot are just unacceptable, and we're gonna hang with 'ya."

(and gal, Laura, heh heh) talk on the radio. You're radio talkers! Now I had some of them internet guys in here last week, but they use too many big words. Don't like that. When you guys talk, you get the juices flowing. We need that. We need that ol' Democracy juice flowing everywhere if we're gonna get them Iraqis to do what we tell 'em. So keep up the good work! I bet Bill Clinton never invited you guys in here. Hey, you wanna see Saddam's gun?

(The story we definitely won't be hearing about in tomorrow's traffic jam.)

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Bragg; he wasn't impressed. Doesn't surprise me, the Army's as PC as the New York Times. Unfortunately.

I think based on what I know and have heard that Peters has it about right, good effort but too PC. Another example of Ken's infamous pendulum -- the Army went too far into the "Big War" routine and in the effort to correct that with this FM, overswung too far into the small war dogma. It'll get sorted in a few years and get about right.

The good news it that, in the interim, the kids on the ground will work it out; they always do.

Democratic chances in '08 if they spend a lot of time investigating "handling of port security and the threat of nuclear smuggling; computer privacy; climate change; concentration of media ownership; the new Medicare Part D program,[...] the secret meetings of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. [...] Halliburton and alleged rip-offs and contract abuse in Iraq [...] the Bush tax cuts [...] the Patriot Act and domestic wiretapping" plus impeachment? If not, would they still do it?

Investigaton suggestions from this article. More on that in this diary.