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Can someone explain this commercial to me? I've seen it many times now and I'm still trying to figure out why it's funny (or if it's even supposed to be funny). Specifically, the Esposito reference. Brian? Phil? Disclaimer: I have never even been to Boston (or Nashua), and I am not conversant in Boston sports lore. However, I do understand capicola.

If this surgery becomes popular, maybe it'll pick up his name as a nickname the way another surgery is nicknamed for Tommy John. "Colon surgery." Uh, never mind.

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I agree with these four, though not necessarily in this order.

I'm a big fan of Grant-Lee Phillips, both on his own and in GLB. Would love to have seen one of these GLB shows, but of course they aren't playing anywhere near me. I did see Phillips play solo a year or so ago, and he was fantastic. Highly recommended, if you get the chance. It does appear that Mighty Joe Moon was released on vinyl, at least in the U.K.

One of my favorite albums of all time. And yes, I mean all time.

My older brother helped to mold my taste when I was still in high school and to some extent in college, but since then my influence on his taste has been at least as great as his influence on mine. (I got him into the Pixies in the late '80s, and that's steered the subsequent development of his taste as much as anything else.) We have a LOT of common ground, but have also diverged a great deal. Which is cool, because those divergences give us stuff to share with each other, even if it doesn't ultimately take. We haven't lived in the same state since 1986, so divergence was inevitable.

I love Ozzie, but if he gets fired this year, that will be perfectly OK with me. That said, the Sox will likely awaken from their slumber at some point. The question is whether that will happen early enough in the season for them to get into the race.

Neil Young with Bert Jansch, Fox Theatre, Detroit I'm one of those people who paid an insane price, but I'm also going to be fourth row, center section. Let's just say that I have paid more for a concert before, but this is probably #2 in terms of expense.

Atlanta's a damn good team. They worry me. I really hope the Bulls haven't been looking past them to the winner of Boston-Miami. If they have, hopefully game 1 refocused their attention on the task at hand.

Just some stuff I read somewhere: "Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live.'" - Ezekiel 33:11 "Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the LORD will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them." - Proverbs 24:17-18 So all of those who cheered and waved flags to celebrate bin Laden's death must not have been Christians, right?

This is a good point. I may be tall, but I don't muscle my way past people to get closer. If I'm up front, it's because I showed up early.

I will not apologize for either my height or my desire to be closer to the stage.

Inane threads are the engine that drives any message board worth posting on. The next Wilco album should be called (Clean Version).

I still don't know anyone (personally or online) who successfully scored the Big Star vinyl. I'm hoping someone did, because I'd like to know how much it was retailing for. The current eBay prices look kind of ridiculous ... I just want an idea of how ridiculous they really are. My take (two stores): Television - Live At The Old Waldorf San Francisco, 6/29/78 2LP white vinyl Bob Dylan - Brandeis University 1963 vinyl LP Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power Live In The Hands Of The Fans vinyl LP Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Gotta Get That Feeling / Racing In The Street 10" vinyl

Wildly irrelevant quote, but whatever. You're pretending that the Danes have somehow sacrificed "freedom of choice." If you actually ask Danes about this, they won't know what the hell you're talking about. Their society works. Ours doesn't. If you prefer ours, that's your right. Personally, I'd prefer to make ours a lot more like theirs.

You have an odd concept of "freedom." Ask the Danes if they feel like their freedom is impinged in any way. They pay astronomical taxes, but they also get free healthcare, free education including university, a stunning array of well-funded social welfare programs, ample funds for infrastructure ... and all of these taxpayer-funded benefits allow them a degree of freedom that Americans will never know. Denmark is basically a socialist country in many ways -- certainly in terms of its welfare state -- yet it's also consistently at or near the top of the list of countries whose residents are

You're confusing socialism with Soviet-style communism. Also, you're concentrating solely on the calamitous events of 2008. The (relatively) unfettered free market, which gained considerable momentum during Reagan's time, led incrementally to the 2008 meltdown, though its onset was significantly expedited by the policies of the George W. Bush administration.

I'm for raising taxes drastically on the wealthy, closing loopholes on corporations (for example, those who incorporate in the Caymans to avoid U.S. taxes, and so on), raising a shit-ton more revenue, amending the Constitution to eliminate "corporate personhood" and guarantee Constitutional rights only to human beings (not corporations), and (among other things) repairing the nation's infrastructure, which is crumbling at an alarming rate, which would actually create hundreds of thousands of jobs, if not millions, not to mention the positive ripple effects it would have across the rest of the

It amuses me that there are people who would seek to pair Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. If you really think Paul and Kucinich are politically compatible, maybe it's time for you to do some reading and puncture some of the mythology that's built up in your brain around those two men. They certainly agree on a select few issues, but they're diametrically opposed on most of the others. I have no doubt that Ron Paul is a principled man who only wants the best for his country. That said, I also think that his economic philosophy is preposterous and would only further cripple the national econom

Or labels, anyway.

This. It's just the way the world works these days. Good for them.

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