...were the ones I wasted reading this piece of crap. Mike Madden now owes me five minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

...is Al Gore. The contempt the right holds for the man runs so deep that if the former VP released a statement saying the Earth revolves around the Sun, they would still mock it.

Speaking as a veteran of the US Army, I absolutely loved the camo business suit and the haircut. Colbert's willingness to sacrifice his locks was an incredible show of solidarity with the troops and put his credibility light years ahead with the guys on the ground. Note to all the other celebrities and performers who make the trip and donate their time and talent to support our troops with the USO: Go that extra mile, it'll grow back.

Because I was caught stealing $5 while working a volunteer job around age twelve. And I thought I would absolutely die from the shame. The experience made me a much better person. I wouldn't change a thing about how it happened.

you are black.

I have tickets for her show tonight in Raleigh. The counter on my iTunes shows "People Got a Lotta Nerve" has been played dozens of times since she posted an early download of the single back in Feb. I picked up a copy of Middle Cyclone at my local coffee shop where it sat next to the new U2 album released the same day. I noticed her bin was empty the very next morning and several times since then, while U2 has remained safely in stock (for whatever that's worth.) She played live over in Chapel Hill a couple of years ago and I was in awe how such a huge voice emanates from this petite woman with absolutely zero effort. It was as if just she opened her mouth it literally and filled the room.

Quacking like a duck for a thousand words in a vain attempt to show you are not a quack.

My first flight was from Indianapolis Intl to DFW in September 1985 on my way to US Army basic training at Ft Sill, OK. I visited the observation deck and was gobsmacked at the rate of arrivals. I recall there was always another plane on approach maybe 60 seconds behind the one that had touched down in front of me. All day, every day on one runway at one airport. It gave me a real appreciation of just how many people are in the air at any given moment. Today you see nothing but the three or four gates in the vicinity with a new plane every half hour or so. It's no wonder people have so little patience for the inevitable delays and gate changes. So many travelers today have no concept of how many aircraft are coming and going at these airports.

I loved getting on the train a few blocks from my apt in Portland and riding right up to the terminal at PDX. Same thing on the return trip. After you clear baggage claim you are practically already home.

I haven't been through there in several years because I now avoid it like the plague, but connecting in Kansas City was one of the biggest travel fiascos I have endured. Step off the plane, walk ten feet and you're outside security. If your flight leaves from a different gate than the one you landed at, see TSA again. Need to use the restroom or get a bite? security screening yet again. I swear you should wear a radiation badge for all the xrays you absorb from one round trip through MCI.

Anya wrote:

...colleges are not subject to any sort of oversight as to whether they allocate aid to serve students on the basis of need rather than merit. So they could take the extra Pell Grant money and give it to a specific student...

Your statement is exactly 180 degrees wrong. Pell grants are paid directly to the student which is why they work so well and is the precise reason they would have an immediate effect on spending.

and she has *NOT* withdrawn her name.

peacelove wrote:

1 out of every 150 Americans were on the mall today. 2 million people, 0 arrests.

However, one criminal did escape in a helicopter.

...and I hate him for it. He was constantly making an ass of himself in a similar fashion as the LW and I find myself behaving like him way too often. His father was cut from the same cloth as well. Of all the crap I've had to unlearn from my upbringing, this is the one I just couldn't wash off. Many have simply written me off as unreasonable. Now that the LW's children have started agreeing with him, I fear they too may already be lost. I have no children of my own yet, so there is still a chance for it to end with me.

You are not wearing that jersey out in public, are you?

and a hot dog for less than a mortgage payment to see Larsen's perfect game. I stopped loving baseball the day my best friend broke his shoulder in a bike accident and missed pitching our Little League championship game. This was the same day my issue of Sports Illustrated arrived announcing Dave Winfield had just signed a six million dollar contract, officially making it cheaper to build the bionic man than to hire a star outfielder.

Our team lost that night...

I think we all did.

it would have been highly unfair to the Republican ticket to, right before the election, bust the junkie-mother-of-the-teenage-boy-who-knocked-up-the-Governor's-daughter. This woman's conduct has absolutely no bearing on Sarah Palin's credentials. Weren't there already enough rings in play at that Republican Circus? Sure, Karl Rove would have wet himself and ran with it had the roles been reversed. But isn't that exactly the kind of politics we are all dying to see go away?