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I'm reading The Sling and the Stone. Parts of it have scared the crap out of me. I may make the notion of non-geographic organizing principles into a post.. how robust a concept is the nation-state, really?

In the junky fiction category, I enjoyed much of Anne Rice, so I tried an Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. I rejected it with extreme prejudice. Truly awful. Avoid, avoid, avoid!

A band I just discovered recently is the Drive-By Truckers. and luckily, they have quite a few releases, so I can dig into them.

We Own the Night kinda bit. Eastern Promises was quite good, but if you're looking for a good Naomi Watts role,this aint it, she's a wallflower. Viggo Mortensen is great, as are several of his gangster clan. I liked Black Snake Moan, but I don't think most folks will buy the premise. Clint's WWII pair? Letters from Iwo Jima was quite good. Flags of Our Fathers was a bit tedious.

I REALLY liked 310 to Yuma. This is another one where folks may reject the premise, which is basically that the bad guy, played by Russell Crowe, is a sort of an omniscient, enlightened godlike character. It's sort of as if a greek god (not necessarily known for their perfect or christian moral enlightenment, BTW) visits Earth in the form of a skilled bandit to bedevil(or enlighten, your choice) a stubbornly Christian moral in Christian Bale.

Anyone betting on the basis that Tom Brady may miss the super bowl ought to have their head examined. If you are a betting man looking for a sleeper pick for someone to score a touchdown, at good odds, I have a couple.

The Patriots have had a penchant for playoff touchdowns on surprise choices. Here are two. Junior Seau has been blocking on as a fullback in goal line running situations all year, and hasn't come close to touching the ball. That could change, if not on a handoff to the FB, on a play where he sneaks to the corner of the endzone.

Steven Spach was signed near the end of the season as a 3rd tight end, and has mostly been playing only in 3 tight end sets where we run. I don't think he even has a catch. That too could change,

Depressing:
My local PBS station was running a pledge drive last night, featuring the Folk Music concert that they held a couple of years ago. It's really nice, and I enjoyed it a lot. Nostalgia, pure and simple.

But if you come across it, bail out before the end. They move from "This Land is Your Land" into a song that Randy Sparks wrote after 9/11. Hearing that really took me back to the days when, as the song puts it "today, we are all Americans. Shoulder to shoulder, now the circle is complete." And we were -- and not only in the United States. The whole world said (in the words of the President of France) "We are all Americans today."

It was a moment in time that could not last, of course. But what a tragedy that it was exploited for short term advantage. An opportunity pissed away, to put it bluntly. What might have been, if that moment of unity had been used to build something solid for the world. As I say, depressing.

We'll never know how things might have unfolded if we had invaded only Afghanistan, with ongoing widespread support.

I won't pretend to know, or insult anyone with a hypothesis built on pure imagination. I do know that whatever we did, other nations were bound to revert to self-interest pretty quickly. What that means is everyone's own mileage.

I don't want to reopen the pre-war debate, obviously many folks felt that the Afghanistan response wasn't even proportional, and so off we went as we did.

Are the Oakland Raiders the most dysfunctional team in professional sports? I think it is sad, really, because the franchise has so much history. I loved the Raiders of the 70s, but today they are more like the Saints of the 70s.

I guess Raiders fans just have to wait for Castro, I mean Al Davis to die.

Todd, are you guys out in MN liking Al Jefferson at all, or just ignoring the T-wolves? Big Al is becoming more of a low-post savant every day. Whenever i catch a Big Al highlight on sportscenter (he went for 39 and 15 the other night) he looksmore like, ironically, Kevin McHale every time I see him. The bro has mad moves down low.

Yeah, Raiders could hit. A Quarterback that could kick field goals. Well, look how far the Dolphins have fallen.

Nothing on politics tonight other than this note to Obama. I guess McCain is planning to bomb and Obama will talk...

Chavez is claiming the US and Columbia are planning to attack. Just the move one would expect in twisting things to over come his political defeat recently.

Surprising that several Western defense leaders are calling for a NATO policy on nuclear first strike to conventional attacks. Don't fret, Russia has already declared their intention to do so a while back and recently in public.

Who would have thought the UN would praise political progress in Iraq? Who would have thought the French opening a base in the Gulf?

Anyone see that UFO recently down south? Or Cloverfield?

Should be a great game between NY and NE.

Funny doctored clip on Letterman using one of Bush lying clips. Opps...Nothing political, it was funny however.

Wonder what I'll do with all that money I get to blunt recession? Pay a months medical insurance or credit card debt....hhhmmm, depends on that Super Bowl game. I'll take Giants and six points.

Peace...

Thanks for letting me rant yesterday kritter. It's just that I'm such a hopeful person and after reams of the same gloomy in the box predictions, I'd just love to hear some of that can do Reaganism Obama talked about.

I tried making stuffed chicken breasts. It was good, except I overdid the salt and pepper, so the taste wasn't delicate like it should be. The same thing happened a few months ago, when I made what would otherwise have been not atall bad matzoh ball soup.

This afternoon, we went out to a new Japanese place at Slaughter & I35 for lunch, called Haiku. It was really good (no salt balance problems there).

The kid finally got another tooth, after being pending since before Christmas; now he has even more teeth coming in; he's up to three (including one opposing pair that he'll no doubt enjoy using on us).

I guess Raiders fans just have to wait for Castro, I mean Al Davis to die.

Same story for us 'Skins fans. Dan Snyder's first or second season, he had a great 'skins team on the field - Norv Turner coaching, Brad Johnson tossing, incredible talent all over the place. Then he fired Norv Turner (why? because he 'only' made it to the playoffs? too good?), lost Brad Johnson, and proceeded to alienate the rest of the talent. Now the team's mediocre.

I won't pretend to know, or insult anyone with a hypothesis built on pure imagination. I do know that whatever we did, other nations were bound to revert to self-interest pretty quickly. What that means is everyone's own mileage.

I want to believe that we'd all have joined hands and sung Kumbayah together in perfect harmony until our throats bled, and then lived happily ever after.

I want to, but I don't.

Gees....just when you thought we had one less problem in the world, this

Would Obama or Hillary send troops to defend neighboring countries aganst military threats by Chavez? oooo that's a good one.

One can't help but remember what went on in the world when last power was transfered from one Party to another. I can't help but wonder whaat's in the works.

Joining hands is still a long way off. I can't wait for McCain to ask Obama why he introduced a bill to the Amnesty Bill that would have prevented employers from checking the Status of workers ( a verification conditon Clarke supports) and would have sunk the compromise even faster. Gees...I can ask so many questions media is not asking now.

Any bets on SC?

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Busted a gut watching "Enchanted". Brilliant movie.

Dealing with a start up where the head is a little stressed out. Sometimes he ignores 30 years of video experience so I end up re-inventing the wheel, show him the new wheel, and lo and behold I'm using the same old wheels.

Girlfriend's daughter skates on a AAA hockey team "in development" which means everyone gets ice time. Except someone forgot to tell coach who is unclear on concept as well as unclear on half the aspects of coaching. Coach and 2 of the assts are rejects from other programs. Coach has a thing against the kid's Gretzky style of playing. She's really good in the mix though and a good defenseman. Going into tournament they play a scrimmage against a really good team and get whupped. Coach, doing something you ONLY do in the NHL, decides to move people around, all of the sudden kid is a forward on the third line. Hasn't played that position in 4 years. Coach doesn't play her in the next tournament game until half way through. She scores a goal her first time out. I'm laughing my head off. Turns out it's only one of a few goals scored in 4 games. But the idiot pretty much plays her for 2 minutes for the remaining three games. One of her friend's, the goalie, had to try to stop a hundred shots on goal. She really rose to the occasion and stopped 46 of 48 in the last game. Didn't get MVP for that MVP performance. Everyone's proud of her.
Anyway we're all pissed at the program. Pissed off at the coach. Pissed off at the asst coaches for promoting their kids who did not score a single goal despite twice the ice time as everyone else. In one game this moron pulled the goalie when his team was ahead 6 to nothing, ostensibly for practice. We had someon from the outside put the kids through drills and he said basically what everyone was tinking, the coach's practices aren't up to snuff. Meanwhile all of us parents are apologizing like hell to the other parents, embarrassed as hell at man-child. Maybe management was talking about HIS development, not the team's.

One of the other kids was also benched and the mom pulled her and is suing. Hockey is an EXPENSIVE sport. The organization's in for a treat. She's like a pit bull who documents EVERYTHING and wears her opponents down.
Anyway, it proves my long standing prejudice against organized youth sports, they're great for the kids as long as adults aren't involved, except for snacks and transportation and post game pizza.

Geez 5 years ago I only got excited about the occasional Shark's game. Now I'm a hockey dad.
I provide snacks and transportation.

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