The Czech Republic

I love my friend who went nuts upon arriving at college: "Castro is more educated than Bush. Cuba will rise above America because they will be educated." I'm going to create a drinking game based on his use of the word "educated" and die of alcohol poisoning. When I stop posting at TSM, you'll know why.

Thing is, I cannot name anything that Moon's church has influenced in terms of the Times' coverage. -=Mike Yeah all I can come up with is just the conservative slant. It's not like there was a front page saying "New Studies Show The Unification Church Is Super-Great" or anything, but I'm still just sticking with the Trib for my newspaper needs.

Yeah you probably did. There was a kid in a rainbow Denver Nuggets shirt!

I had always seen McGwire as the "bad guy" in the home run chase, but he was a Cardinal and I'm a Cubs fan, so duh. Then I looked back years later and realized both of them weren't so bad after all compared to Barry Bonds.

I don't think that they hold random-partner mass weddings in the Washington Times newsrooms like Al Franken says they do, (ironically, in Lies And The Lying Liars That Tell Them, "well it was a joke this time! it's satire!") but I am skeptical of a newspaper run by the Unification Church.

Yeah we're talking about universal grammar. We watched some video a few days ago about Chomsky and the whole "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" thing, and it had George Carlin constructing sentences that were grammatically correct but semantically nonsense. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going down to the softball field to beat up Hitler's widow." "Hey, could you hand me a few more anchors? I think I can fit at least two more in my back pocket."

I've been frequenting Taco Bell a lot more often lately. In fact, I'm eating their food right now. What is the difference between a gordita and a chalupa? I'm having both and cannot discern.

I should be able to trip Vince Carter and get HIM thrown out.

Who is Nickelodeon's target audience with these?

Meh. I don't feel it's that legitimate of a paper. However, the Christian Science Monitor is a good newspaper.

He's like the milk man, you know.

You make it sound so easy.

I'm taking a linguistic anthropology class this semester, and I think Chomsky knows his stuff when it comes to that, and I respect the work he did. But when it comes to foreign affairs, I gotta say he's out of his element, and at times, just a total blowhard. My anarchist friends seem to like him, though.

On 60 Minutes, Jose says that not only did steroids increase McGwire's already substantial strength, but also improved his demeanor and personality. In a related story, Scott Steiner asked "then what did I stick in MY ass?"

It was great watching the Purple Parrots get knocked out before the first commercial, time and time again. I think I only ever saw them advance to the second round twice. I was a fan of the Silver Snakes myself.

Don't worry, nobody here actually calls it that. But yeah, naming rights can go to hell nine times out of ten. I maintain that the Phillies should drop the "Bank" from their name and play in Citizens' Park, because the people of the city paid for half the place.

I remember when Patrick Roy conveniently retired and everyone was like "oh, fuck him! He's trying to distract everyone from the Stanley Cup Finals!" and I was like "good. the finals are New Jersey and Anaheim." btw I <3 Mark Cuban. He's sitting there, sees the camera is on him, and starts making a spectacle of himself.

ESPN color commentator: "now Nowitzki and Webber, they are not power forwards. They are called power forwards, but they are not REALLY power forwards. Malone defined power forward, he was a real power forward. He was a power forward." AHHHHHHHHH

Why do the Maloofs feel the Kings need their third arena in the last 20 years? Arco is supposed to have the best home-court advantage and it can't possibly have been built more than 18 years ago. I mean, Chicago Stadium lasted forever.

"the rest of you remain seated" the 23 1/2 break goes way back to Max, though. Mariotti and Paige are both good columnists, I think/

A Reggie Miller marathon on ESPN Classic would be some pretty good stuff, like that miracle comeback against the Knicks. Their Stockton marathon was good.

I don't think they hate each other, Jay and Woody. I figured it was schtick.

My Playlist. TLC - Unpretty Dexter Freebish - Leaving Town Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack Lara Fabian - I Will Love Again Amber - (The Way I Feel Is) Sexual Matchbox 20 - If You're Gone Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone Eiffel 65 - Blue Goo Goo Dolls - Iris Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch (Eiffel 65 mix) Blink 182 - Adam's Song Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode Sonique - Feels So Good Eminem - The Real Slim Shady Destiny's Child - Bugaboo Crazytown - Butterfly oh, what a night.

Do you know something we don't?

He sure is. No more than Henry Kissinger would be in the field of linguistics.