uncool2pillow

Hopefully anyone who votes other on either questions will post to explain their vote.

I thought about adding that, but thought "other" would suffice.

All this political discussion has been interesting and a bit more diverse than I expected on a Wilco board, I'm curious!

1. Workbook

I'm not sure, ask Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin.

I think the segment of the population that votes on SCOTUS issues (abortion, guns, gay marriage, etc.) will almost always vote for their party of choice because many either don't understand precedent and the principle of stare decisis or don't trust the court to respect it. Those who want their guns will still vote Republican, those who want to take them away will still vote Democrat.

No doubt the founders provided a context of the necessity of militias. What is the historical basis to say that owning guns to prevent crime would've been considered crazy by the founders?

On a semi-related note, does anyone watch the Morgan Spurlock show, 30 Days? This week, a woman against gay adoption lived with a gay (male) couple who had 4 kids. She would get so upset when people would question her beliefs that all of these gay people she was around shouldn't have children. The only justification she had was her religious faith, which is fine. But faced with the prospect of the lives these kids would be living without gay people being willing to adopt them, she still said it was "wrong" even though she admitted they were great parents. It was funny and sad at the same

The Supreme Court has lifetime appointments because they are supposed to ignore the day-to-day whims of the masses. I have no idea about the constitutionality of this case and won't bother to read this decision because it doesn't really interest me, but if they were to "punish" Exxon for an oil spill that happened nearly 20 years ago because of their massive profits today, I would completely lose faith in our court.

My introduction to the Replacements was - like most of the music I like - through my older brother (though, I'm proud to say, I turned him on to Wilco). Around 1986, he bought me Hootenanny because he'd heard a few good things about him, then browsing the record store, saw that Hootenanny had a song called "Buck Hill". That's a ski hill in the Twin Cities where we learned to ski. The Replacements song is a surf-rock instrumental. I always imagined it as a theme song for a show about a spy/porn star.

I might be interested. How much of a time commitment is required. I used to do fantasy football, but got tired of trying to figure out who the 14th best tight end in the NFL is.

In spring 1989, I read a review of Bob Mould's first post-Husker Du album, Workbook in Rolling Stone. I'd heard of them, but never listened. I bought Workbook and listened to it at a friend's house. His folks had a top-notch stereo system, which probably added to my appreciation of it. That was 19 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the most powerful musical revelation I've ever had. Every once in a while I go to RS's Web Site to re-read the review that led to the most important musical discovery in my life.

That was one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen.

This is the best parenting book that I've read. One of the authors of that also havs one on teaching that guides much of my classroom management style.

Carlin was one of the smartest, funniest people. I lean conservative, so I disagree w/ a lot of his politics. However, he was so damn smart and funny, he always made me appreciate his point of view even when I disagree w/ it. He will be missed. I hope he's wrong about the afterlife for two reasons. 1) Just to shock him, 2) So we can all hear him again.

I'd be curious how old your daughter is. My 3-year olds love watching the trailer on the computer and we're probably going to take them to the theater for the first time, too. They've been to live shows before, but not to a movie theater. I'm a little worried about their behavior and attention span bothering other viewers.

I usually ignore EW because of this, but c'mon. Give them SOME credit. Crumb at #14?? That's sublime. That said. I think Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson's masterpiece, not Rushmore; and it didn't make the list at all. In fact, I like Bottle Rocket better than Rushmore. Overall, I think EW deserves some credit for the number of indie movies on that list. Excluding Titanic, it's a pretty fair top 10.

I didn't know the WHO's stance on this. My wife was unable to nurse because we have twins and, being born about 4 weeks early, and probably a host of other reasons (lack of rest, lack of time to pump) her milk never came in great quantities. I am very open to nursing in public. It never really makes me uncomfortable w/ infants. But when we had some friends over, her daughter, whose age I don't remember but she was at least 2 maybe approaching 3, would push up her mom's bra and demand food. In retrospect, maybe my problem was more with discipline than with breastfeeding.

I liked Charlie Wilson's War. Philip Seymour Hoffman is an acting god.

We keep resisting the urge to get HBO, I think between all the quality shows they have + Tivo, we'd be glued to the TV. Looking forward to renting the John Adams DVD though.

We've had a new computer w/ Vista for about 3 months now and haven't had any problems. Crossing my fingers...

We had a friend who breast fed a little too long. My feelings on the subject is that when they're old enough to ask for it by name, they're too old to have it.

Here I am on my local Fox News affiliate commenting on an assault that took place at a nearby park. I was also interviewed by the NBC affiliate and they put a lot more footage of my cute kids. They have yet to post their video online.

I'm running Firefox 2.0 on Vista. What problems did you experience when you upgraded? Just no mlb.com video or were there other problems?

I always thought she was a softie. Let Cheney, Bush and Rice off the hook too much.