HAHA I have no idea what is up with Pedro. he's a welcome addition to the Phillies. . .anytime!

yeah well you just cheered for the Mets, dude. that's awful.

lulz. stella, we all have our prejudices. only bigots turn them into hobbies. you're a bigot. thanks for playing!

I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, the Dude, takin' her easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' it-self, down through the generations, westward the wagons, across the sands a time until-- aw, look at me, I'm ramblin' again.

"Eccentricity is as American as fried squash and rhubarb pie, and is something we should tolerate. But, we generally do not tolerate eccentricity in the workplace. The Army is not only a workplace, but also a home, an extended family. If weird cousin Hasan want's to sit in living room and jack off by rubbing a Randall Fighting knife up and down his wee-wee while watching DVDs of Love Boat, it has crossed the line from eccentricity into "gee, maybe we ought to do something." oh dear, I nearly peed. too funny.

in the 8th or 7th grade we were asked to imagine ourselves as 40 year olds and either draw or write something. I don't even recall what class it was. I drew a headstone. figured I'd be dead. what kind of question *is* that, you know?

Philly, yo. I'm kind of fatalist about the environmental degradation thing. people bitched when the Cuyahoga River caught on fire. people bitched when the Nashua River was different colors depending on the dyes being used upstate. those things were fixed. on a global level? who knows. in this country? we have enough sensitive people bitching to keep things honest. we have enough regulations to keep things clean enough. and in my little engineering field, regulations have become worse. just look at that PA DEP BMP Manual. unreal.

"Mary Cheney's colleagues did have some things to add. "She has told people within the firm that she wants to do something with her father," said a source within Navigators Global. "It's going to be a firm like Kissinger Associates." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100703982.html