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Fair enough. The cost savings of tort reform may be minimal to non-existent. How do we control costs?

Kevan, how long have you been a Vikings fan? You can't possibly be predicting a Super Bowl win. The other shoe always drops for us. Predictions like this only jinx us!! Favre is 40, he's only half way through the season. Let's keep things in perspective. Were are the pre-2004 Red Sox of the NFL.

Help me out here. How do the current Democratic bills, lower costs? They will extend coverage, which means covering riskier people, which drives up costs. The "public option" will supposedly increase competition, but as coverage expands, will this be all that meaningful? Here are 2 ideas to lower costs: 1) tort reform, 2) ban TV and Internet advertising of prescription drugs. There was a time when prescription drugs could not be advertised on TV. They have hugely expanded the demand for their products through clever marketing.

Pretty typical for rock criticism. This is a bit more eloquent than most.

QFT, bobbob, I would've hated it in 9th grade too. It's a funny, great book.

Online or at a store??

If you think the writing is bad in Da Vinci code, don't go near Digital Fortress. Ugh...

"There's no basement in the Alamo!" - Jan Hooks in Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Maybe Scarnella has confused Phish with DMB, or possibly Spin Doctors.

I remember listening to YHF MP3's before it was originally released. I was driving back from a Bob Mould concert in Omaha with a friend. This was on his Modulate (Carnival of Light and Sound) tour that incorporated a lot of electronica. I kept on thinking how much better Wilco incorporated dissonance and electronic sounds than Mould did. I'm pretty sure it was that evening that Mould went from being my favorite to Wilco. BTW, it makes great listening for late night drives.

This decade was really owned by Wes Anderson, Clint Eastwood, and (like the 3 previous decades) Martin Scorcese. I think Eastwood's output (volume & quality) make him the winner. Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Changeling (my favorite of his this decade), and Gran Torino all are great movies.

Beltmann, I'm curious what exactly do you teach? I think I would love to sit in your classroom. If you're as eloquent in your classroom as you are online, it'd be a treat.

The Metallica set is incredible. Can't imagine what they did w/ Sweet Jane, but can't wait to hear them shred White Light / White Heat.

Great show on ACL. It aired on my PBS affiliate last night.

Read a bad review today.

Excellent! The kid playing Paul McCartney looks like Frank Whaley did 20 years ago.

Not quite as annoying as this:

The Vikings could just be pretenders. It's a long season, they've had a fairly easy schedule so far, and Brett's not young. That said, they looked better against the Steelers than I expected they would. Having been a Vikings fan all my life, I just keep waiting for the shoe to drop.

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Freddy Mercury & David Bowie - Under Pressure.

I've been known to ask my jr. high students in their classic rock t-shirts to name members, songs, or albums of the artists on their shirts. It's amazing how little they know. Even w/ the Beatles revival, many kids IN Beatles shirts can't name more than 1 or 2.

I Write the Songs - Barry Manilow

Excellent. Glad to have that fixed.

Another firefox issue. In the newer versions, if you drag a tab, it will open in a new window. As I browse around quickly on my laptop, I'll often accidentally pick up and drag, opening it in a new window. This has become annoying. I can't find a way to turn this feature off. If anyone knows, I'll be most appreciative.

Funny that a Tin Machine thread just started here.