... that accompanies this article looks a lot like Will Farrel.

Just thought I'd mention that.

Ma'am, what you see on those animals is pure muscle. "Chubby" is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

I had forgotten about that scene. The results of staying up WAY past my bedtime, I guess, but how often does one get to go to a midnight movie with one's teenaged daughter?

I thought Broadbent was brilliant. I also think Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe really know how to act.

And I want Luna's headdress!!!

I'm trying to remember what that meant.

Really, I'm totally drawing a blank. Persons United for More Accountability? No.

Persons Under Medical Assistance?

...does Rush have on these people? What did they do and why does he have the evidence?

Two successive governors of Illinois arrested? One already in jail and the other facing possible jail time? What is in the water there????

My husband is from western PA where, he likes to say, Presbyterians are the most dense.

There really are a LOT of Presbyterians, there, btw.

They are not racist there; they are far too concerned with what two people do in their bedrooms to bother with what color their skin is.

Palin will have her own talk show before the next election. Bet on it!!

You post on page one rocked. Thank you, sir.

Me, too. All of it.

it is the fight of the past 40 years that makes it possible to call you Senator.

Where and how is any of that struggle over?

You are facing an eight year legacy of governmental overturns of what the oldies fought to put into place so that you can run; dismissing their efforts as fossilized is arrogant and foolish. You NEED their fire and their defiance if you are going to be anything other than Reagan-lite if elected.

You have shown you can snap back at your own party; what will you do when the Republican assassins come for you this fall?

I agree with Slackie Onasis (heh) that the Clinton's "Me, too!" obviousness is pretty, well, obvious, but it also points to the fact that even the Kennedy clan is divided about the eventual nominee.

This endorsement war points out the infighting that will cripple the party and hand the White House over to McCain or Romney. Eek.

If I were the Big Shot Told You So King of the World, I would forbid campaigning for the nomination until three months prior to the convention, curtail advertising to an alloted number of print, radio, TV, and web ads and disallow any advertisement that does not reference issues but instead goes for personality.

The books, brilliant and joyously, depict His overthrow and the establishment of the Republic of Heaven.

Really????

A "REPUBLIC of Heaven"?

This tanks any desire I may have had to read the books. Talk about pie in the sky!! As if humanity hasn't screwed up enough republics in its history, now someone wants to unleash them on heaven?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

(This hasn't hurt "Beowulf" at the box office: It was the highest-grossing movie in the country after its first weekend.)

And let those of us who DID like it return home to find and dust off and re-read (or really read for the first time) our college copies of the story with some really vivid images in mind.

An admission like this would not take two pages to make and would take less time to read than Beowulf itself!

That leads to a deeper reason that music in public places gets under your skin. You hear songs that once lifted your spirits employed to sell you a computer.

I place the blame for this squarely at the feet of The Rolling Stones. Start Me Up, indeed.

We just got home from seeing it and I went downstairs and found my old college copy of the story. I will thoroughly enjoy reading this (for the first time I will admit!) with the images and spectacle of the movie firmly in mind.

Don't go see this movie looking for anything other than a good time. Especially when you get to the part that Roger Ebert called "AustinPowerisms". HA!

Oh, and the "creepy, lifeless eyes"? I don't know what movie you all were watching but I thought they were some of the best parts of the characters. Oh well, to each his or her own.

Are you SURE you're straight?

I hear you, though. I hear you. (rrrRRRRRrrrrr!)

....Rebecca, your desire to have a conversation with Rowling a la Tolkien, but that world doesn't exist anymore. Or, I should say, that mode of communication doesn't exist anymore. With the Internet, Rowling's "children", once freed from her head and let loose on a page, are now available in a way that Tolkien's "children" never were. I imagine she is still asserting Authorship as a way of either reining in the lunacy of some of the fanfic or in a truly human way is attempting to keep those she loves next to her. After a decade and a half of creating a world then opening that world to the public, she must be a bit dismayed at the mess the crowds have made on her carpet.

That is one bad ass Mennonite!

Ixnay on the opphingchay!

Ooyay owknaw ooyay isyay isteninglay!

(Although I heartily agree with the above-yay!)

A-rod is going to break BB's record any way. He's 32 and has 500 HRs. Hell he might hit a 1,000.

And what about Griffey? If he'd been healthy these past many years, we would probably be celebrating HIS accomplishments any day now as well.

Here's to A-rod and Griffey making short work of this *record.

I heard that the person who caught (or wrestled according to the video!)the homer ball could get up to 1/2 million dollars for it.

If I had the money, I'd buy the ball, stamp it with an asterisk, and donate it to the Smithsonian.