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Do you have be 21 for a CHL? I know UNTFlyer's on campus every day and so am I. Being as objective as I can be, and trying really hard to suppress my "Those derned kids and their fancy electronic gadgets!" attitude, I'm going to say that I observe 21-year-old students to be significantly more mature and responsible than 18-year-old students. They've kinda' been there, done that on the over the top binge drinking, they're more prone to do their homework because they're tired of school and ready to get the hell out, and they're more likely to do their drinking on Fry St which is actually off campus and replete with its own rules and regulations. If I really think about it, a doped up, drunk student is more likely to go on a crazy rampage in the residence hall than a classroom. It's a long walk from Kerr to Curry man, and I'm about to get to level 6 on Crazy Mario Poofy Fluffers! On campus itself, I have so far smelled booze on students twice. Both were in the morning, and both were obviously hung over and unwashed from the previous night's proclivities. I'm sure their heads were pounding a little to hard to be brandishing a weapon. I did have a couple classes this semester that were mostly freshman, and all I can say about that is I'm amazed that they're even able to speak. I mean wow. Was I like that at 18? Probably, but wow.

That's what I thought too, but it's for businesses with more than 100 employees. How do you define very small? I've worked for a couple joints that were maybe 30 people, and there was always paid vacation. Of course, I would never take a full time job that didn't offer it, but that's just me an my pesky compensation negotiation skills.

Slacker!

Just to be clear, for anyone against government intervention, you were totally for pulling the plug on Terri Schiavo right?

So you're saying that no matter how whacky and almost certainly fatal it is for a 13 year old child, that they should be free to choose?

Pete Rose is banned from the game of baseball and the HOF for life for making sports bets, it's as if Buck Weaver never even existed for even being on the same team as some guys who fixed a series, and we want to let Michael Vick back in after running a dog fighting ring? Man, something ain't right with that.

Send them to those Pacific islands that are slowly disappearing as a result of global warming. They can do anything they want as long as it doesn't involve phones, the internet or airplanes. Then, when Al Gore flings his magic fairy dust onto the Arctic Circle, they will die a slow and agonizing death by rising tropical beach.

How many bowl eligible teams were left out this past year? 2? Aren't they adding another game next year? Doesn't that pretty much mean that the planets have to align a certain way, two butterflies in China would have to get their flapping wings entangled and Todd Dodge would have to go to an all I-formation offense for a 6-6 team to ever get left out of the post season again?

If I'm doing my math right, that's a helluva lot of time and money to be putting into a maximum yield of 3.5 million gallons of ethanol that will get about 85% the mileage of gasoline. The math I did was 800,000,000 pounds of surplus watermelon divided by 20 pounds per = 40 million watermelons. Each watermelon yields 0.7 pounds of ethanol for a total of 28,000,000 pounds. There are 8 pounds in a fluid gallon, so 28,000,000 divided by 8 is 3.5 million gallons.

I think it was along the same lines as the safety issues with the Explorer back in the 90s. The very things that made the corvair unsafe were what made it a popular car. You take away the steering shaft and spike-like instrument panel knobs that were impaling drivers, and you've given up almost all of the style. What's left besides a reasonably priced and reliable vehicle? That's not gonna' sell! Remember too that this is where the push for seat belts came from. But since manufacturing legislation was still a decade off, they weren't gonna' hurt their image putting those things in a car! As to why they brought about the Vega? Man, I don't know except to say that pretty much all cars from the 1974 era just absolutely sucked. They didn't yet know how to deal with the catalytic converter and it showed.

That was all Ralph Nader's doing back in the 60s. I believe it was the Chevrolet Corvair that put him on a pro-consumer rampage. The free market was pretty pissed off at him for that. There was a book written on it called Citizen Nader.

Wow. God DOES love the Muslims! How else would you explain the existence of the Saudi and Taliban authorities? Kim Jong Il? Pretty righteous authority figure! And 5...4...3...

There have been two alcohol related elections in Frisco this decade. One was to allow the sale of beer and wine for off premise consumption, the other to allow on premise sites to remain open until 2AM. You have no idea how bitter it got around here. The public smear campaigns against those in support of the measures was something out of a Kafka novel. You personally may not want to ban the vices, but as a group, whoa howdy! So it really comes down to liberals wanting to control your environment and body and conservatives wanting to control your mind and morals. Neither is the job of the government IMO.

Life is all fun and games until someone loses a do-jang!

I feel you to the extent that I used to travel as much as three weeks out of any given month. I learned to carry my checkbook and a roll of stamps with me everywhere I went. I checked my balances and due dates online, and wrote checks on the go if necessary. It was especially important since my company imposed a requirement that we use their American Express corporate cards for our expenses. We had our own names and credit ratings attached to those cards, so it was really important to pay off the $25,000 or so a year I spent on it in a timely manner. It was inconvenient, but so is keeping a supply of freshly ironed clothes in an environment where you're even never quite sure what time zone you're in. Edit -- I was never without a computer, but if I had been, I would have traveled with a list of phone numbers to check balances and due dates. Another inconvenient step, but it sure beats getting finance charges tacked on.

Just to prove a point, when I was getting documentation for my marriage license in Korea, I had to go to the US Consulate to get a Consul signature on a declaration of marriage. He stamped it with this red ink thing called a do-jang (signatures are worthless on Korean legal documents. do-jangs take their place) and explained to me that the wife and I would be officially married when his Korean counterpart put his Korean do-jang on the document. This was to take place over a month before the wedding. I asked what good the ceremony was and he said, "The ceremony just keeps your family members happy. God himself could come down and perform the ceremony but you wouldn't be married because God doesn't have a do-jang." On the plus side, I got a bonus 6 weeks of not living in sin!

What a cultural hegemonist you are! Is it beneath you to study and communicate in goatlish?

I bet Adam and Steve would throw an amazing reception. No rubbery hotel chicken breast and rice from those two! As for the goat, I'd tend to think that's a bad idea. You'd be out working all day, trying to make a living, and she'd just sit at home watching Oprah and getting fat on garbage and furniture. It's doomed to fail!

Off topic question for Rudy and/or Emmitt. Am I really obligated to carry my license with me at all times? One of the charges the officer threatened was failure to provide ID. Really?

Why the hell would anyone need a pickup or SUV? Once Obama takes all the guns away, we won't need the vehicle space for rifle racks.

That video really makes it appear as though the officer simply has a personal problem with the demonstration. It's hard to tell if he's even on duty since he's in uniform, but he drives up in an unmarked, apparently civilian vehicle. The girl wasn't too bright with the "Just wait until the next commercial" part though. If there's anything I've learned in my life, it's that disrespecting an officer, especially in the presence of others, will almost certainly result in you being cited for something. As for the original confrontation, maybe the officer was sent there by dispatch. Maybe the group had been denied a permit for the performance. Can't tell all the details. The end product from this angle though, looks like a case of an officer feeling that his dignity was being threatened and invoking the sacred law of "You will respect my authoritay!"

Yes, and the official reason given was his fear of flying. I guess it had nothing to do with his horrendous commentary?

Actually, I just had Taco Cabana for lunch that day.

Going into the last week of the regular season, UCI has won the conference championship with a 20-1 conference record, and is a near lock for a national seed, meaning they'll host both the regionals and the supers. On an unrelated note, when I went to the baseball site on Friday to tune in to the game, it directed me to a university-wide fund raising campaign. Before I talk about that, let me state that as far as alumni and community support go, I put UCI on the same playing level as UNT. Last October, the administration began a 7-year fund raising campaign. The goal? $1 billion dollars. Money raised in the first ten months? $466 million. If you go to the site, it gives you a choice of donating to the general fund or to the specific department of your choice, including athletics. For the general fund, the allocation to each department is explicitly laid out. With no football program, the athletic program has $20 million allocated for capital building projects, equipment, and scholarships. I don't say this to boast. I say it to show that it can be done if it is well organized and properly marketed. I'm going to find a way to make UNT aware of this.

Brilliant!!