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Yeah, sucks. I'm going to William Elliott Whitmore instead.

Because lowering taxes in the end might give that person a worse country? You are right, but I often think the greater good and the individual's best interest are closely related unless you have millions and millions of dollars.

Duh. Everybody knows your music is only good if you are friends with the right people.

I know first hand that Paste is typically a little behind (okay, a lot behind) their subscriber base. Give it time. It's virtually free, yo.

I thought they were calculating all along, for what it's worth. I was surprised sparks didn't start shooting out of her ears. Evil robots aren't capable of anything genuine.

And then they go with that awful Mellencamp song....

Depressing.

Yeah, that is the tough part. They get pretty much their entire team back and nobody will look twice at them. We'll see, though. Hard to turn them away if they go unbeaten. The Big 10 always has a couple good teams, so maybe a win at USC and Michigan and whatever other team becomes competitive will be enough. And another negative effect of this, the SEC will always argue for a team to be in the title game after what one loss Florida and two loss LSU did to the supposed best team in the country. I favor the SEC by a large margin so I can't say I mind this too much, but it could provide some

You could argue, but you'd be wrong. Here's to hoping they don't let OSU into the title game again next year, no matter how well they perform against their cream puff schedule.

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I said sub-500. I didn't say 7-9.

First season was good, second lost me after a couple episodes. Every episode is pretty much the same, and his cheesy inner-monologue kept getting worse. Plus, his sister bugs the shit out of me.

Take Favre off the Packers and you have a sub-500 team. Take Brady away from the Patriots and I'm convinced you still get 9 wins. I won't argue that Brady didn't deserve it, but I don't think it would be fair to totally discount the year Favre had, either.

As much as I hate Tom Brady, that one can't be denied. I was happy to see Favre get a vote, though.

I will take the bait. A horse could have coached that team to 13 wins. Mike McCarthy deserved it far more.

These songs are pretty good. Better than most of Cassadaga at the very least. So is the plan to go into the studio or does nobody know or what?

This is exactly what I thought about G.W. The American people, as a whole, continually challenge any tiny bit of faith I want to place in them.

There is probably a Days Inn in the suburbs somewhere. I'd stay there.

To ammend my post, I should have said everything will be available as a digital download. There will still be people who buy discs of whatever kind, but I'll get by with HD On Demand or whatever. Kind of like I do now. I should also note that I almost never watch movies at home, so I pretty much only care about this for video gaming purposes.

Why aren't we just working on making video downloads a reality? Why would I buy a different format player when I'm almost certain everything will be digitally distributed in less than three years?

If you take away the Iowa caucus/primary, all we'll have left is the Field of Dreams. No state can survive on the Field of Dreams alone. Ummm. In all actuality, Iowa being a leader in anything is straight up wrong. We're all white, all Christian, and at least half in-bred. How can we choose anything?

That one was intense. The hardest bit in the game by, as you said, a large margin. You need some excellent long-jump skills and a lot of luck. And yeah, I'm not sure twelve stars in an hour is too many. If you've played Mario 64 you know all of the controls so you can kind of plow through the intro and those first couple galaxies.

I second this request. Good cover art on that one, too.