Duck-Billed Catechist

Sure. Is it possible, though, that times could change in such a way as to negatively affect habits or character in such a way that creates dumb kids? It's not really an issue of blaming teenagers, as their flaws would really be the fault of the previous generations, no?

It's the not reading part that worries me. I thought of Em and her friends when I read this in Richard Wright's Black Boy. "I known that not race alone, not color alone, but the daily values that give meaning to life stood between me and those white girls with whom I worked. Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them fix their eyes upon the trash of life, made it impossible for them to learn a language which could have taught them to speak of what was in their or others' hearts. The words of their souls were the syllables of popular

I was going to post something similar, Bobs, but I looked up his range factor for this year and last and they're good.

Ranger Rickshaw

This is an Adam Smith-style situation.

Quest for Fiber

Good King Magic

Unknown Behavior Baskets

I believe that they can be found in the wild.

You forgot to login as Captain Obvious.

That's kind of a bummer.

Carlos Quentin is presently leading the AL in OPS, but is not on the all star ballot.

Anyone have any objections to merging this with the now watching thread? I know one is past tense and one is present tense and all...

Octavio Dotel had five strikeouts in 2 innings pitched yesterday. He's been bad for most of the season, but I really wanted a reason to post this:

http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6403...7c-6ba2f88f732d Wow.

Did you pre-judge the post, though? Also, was the word "Colonel?"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/...he_huckabe.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/elec...interview_N.htm

Once poli sci prof I had once called voter raiding (crossover voters attempting to sabotage the other party's nomination process) the worst thing that's never happened (or never been proven, at least).

Apparently Hillary's tie-breaker comment was a reference to something Obama said:

So Hillary said that her apparent Indiana victory broke the tie in the race? Is this true? Can someone who watched the speech confirm that this was not taken out of context?

His BABIP must be insane this year.

White Sox' starting pitching has been great as of late. Meanwhile, they're losing every game because of the bats. Oy.

I tried again with a non-gmail address and it worked pretty much instantly. Here is the text from the download page (which provides a few details).

Right, providing FLAC's is fairly common at this point, but he's offering 24-bit WAV files or something like that. Mucho bandwidth. Totally uncompressed. I, too, have yet to receive my email back. I figured they are rolling them out slowly to even out the bandwidth demand.