I think what my former coach Bill '3 yards & a cloud of dust' Curry was saying was that it was 'inexplicable' that UL's defense was sucking so much in the first half. Especially after you've seen Michigan get beat at home by a 1-AA team.

Will be at the UK - Kent St. game. Historically, UK has been known to take a MAC team too lightly & end up getting whomped. I hope we don't take the 'big head' into this game against the Fighting Hippies.

I'm an ex USAF person & we used 'troop' at times to refer to a single airman (sometimes we just got tired of saying 'airman' or 'soldier' all the time & would come up with alternatives, such as 'troop').

So, this troop says you can use 'troop' to refer to a single...troop ;-)

emaust30 asked: 'I understand the politicians supporting this ridiculous mess called The Iraq War but what about the reporters?'

Toeing the party line puts you in line for some of that sweet, sweet thinktank money.

Gwool came up with this gem: 'You want to push conservation, jack the taxes on the energy sources. In Economics text book parlance, that is called assigning the non-pecuniary costs -- or externalities -- back to the market. Gas pollutes. Transportation erodes the highway infrastructure (bridges are in that pile as well). We also focus and spend money in the middle east zone as a result of the dependence. Taxing the bejeezus out of the product would handle all of those externalities.'

You know Gwool (I hope) that raising the tax on gas/diesel hurts lower income people all out of proportion to our wealthy overlords.

Unlike Europe, there is no great system of public transportation here in the USA, nor are our population centers as close as they are across the pond. Thus, we working class Americans are tethered to our cars in ways that the average European can't really understand.

We need to find a way to reduce consumption of fossil fuels in a way that doesn't accelerate our trip to the poor house. I don't know how, just that raising the tax on fuel by $1.00 or something like that isn't the answer, IMO.

Pronounce 'Chace' anyway? Like 'chase' as in 'oh another car chase'? Or maybe Cha-chay is the way? I'm thinking 'Chachee' as in 'Joanie loves Chachi' is not the way. Or, it could be like Cha-kee with the hard 'k'.

Oh, my mind reels with the possibilities.

Some jerk whose handle is 4 or 5 tildes has stolen your shtick!

I don't mind tough, 'nasty' ads from the left. Think we need more of them. The 'Betrayus' ad was just lame. IMO.

There are more artful ways of highlighting the General's shortcomings without implying he is a traitor by using a 6th grade rhyme of his name.

Glen asked: 'I defy anyone to watch this hour-long program and identify anything at all that would be different if the interview had been conducted with a Soviet General by Pravda, or if the interview had been conducted by a U.S. military spokesman. There are no differences, except that -- with a Pravda interview or one conducted by one of Petraeus' subordinates -- the deceit would be less.'

I am going to opine that the Soviet version of this would have been done in Russian, with cyrillic writing. Plus, they would have had a couple of pitchers of water & some little flags.

There, how about that?

Paul R. thank you for re-posting that. I have read articles about that war (and some of the other clashes between the Europeans & the Indians) & time after time the Indians work the same kind of tactics to devastating effectiveness:

They stage some kind of blatant attack & then get all the colonists to chase after them. The Indians lead them on a merry chase until the settlers get to the ambush point, at which time a whole lot more Indians fall on them & usually kill just about all of the pursuers. Same tactics were used by the Mongols.

It's like the colonists are always led by Col. Homerdiah Simpson.

in this story was the torture of that poor moose. The assholes who did that should've been shot, IMO.

King remarked: 'John Madden likes to point out, during the inevitable shot of Archie and Olivia Manning in the stands of a game one of their sons is quarterbacking, how miserable the couple looks, and how unhappy every parent of every football player looks during every game. They're thinking about very real dangers.'

I watched the Colts/NO game & they showed that shot several times. One of the things I noticed (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that Mrs. Manning seemed to be eyeballing the camera every time with a disgruntled experssion on her face.

To me, one of the things that gives her that 'miserable' expression is that she doesn't like being on TV or doesn't like the press or something like that.

I'm sure they are always concerned for their son, though.

Don't usually do this, Glenn, but you have word 'censorsing' in the subtitle on the main Salon page.

Like your story, keep on giving them hell!

I also commented on the picture when originally run. I wonder if the poor sheik had any idea his picture would be taken when he was being polite to the Chimporer.

Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't publicize our allies in Iraq so much. I think Al Qaida, etc. seem to also be able to navigate 'the internets'.

I liked the cartoon & my 81 year old mother just loved it. She couldn't stop laughing.

For the record, neither of us are overweight.