Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.

'Shindig'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 24, 2005 6:07:29 am PST #112 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

A lot of neo-cons whose roots run libertarian are unhappy about congress and the POTUS.

Hmm, it may be a semantic difference, but I tend to differentiate neo-cons from libertarian conservatives. YNCMV. In any case, it's the folks in congress who've been pushing and pushing this (and the administration) that I was mainly thinking of.


brenda m - Mar 24, 2005 6:13:04 am PST #113 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

And HOLY CARP on the eye bobbing all around.

Wait, what? Do I want to know?


tommyrot - Mar 24, 2005 6:17:03 am PST #114 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Skyline Ranking: [link]

This listing ranks cities by the visual impact of their skylines.

Yay! Chicago is #4!


Kate P. - Mar 24, 2005 6:19:32 am PST #115 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Do I want to know?

brenda, no.


DavidS - Mar 24, 2005 6:19:58 am PST #116 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hmph, SF is down at 32 after Caracas and Makati. I don't even know where Makati is.

Not that the SF skyline is particularly distinguished. Most of the architectural fun around here is in the Victorians.


SailAweigh - Mar 24, 2005 6:23:42 am PST #117 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

This listing ranks cities by the visual impact of their skylines.

Personally, I don't think visual impact is determined solely by the heights of the buildings. One of the things I like about the Madison skyline (from the far side of Lake Monona) is the way the buildings have been purposely placed to draw attention to the Monona Terrace Convention Center and the Capitol building. They put in an ordinance years ago that none of the buildings can obstruct the view of the Capitol, so we don't get anything much above 15 stories and we wouldn't want it.


Fred Pete - Mar 24, 2005 6:24:03 am PST #118 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Schiavo definitely not over.

Gov. Bush and the state's social services agency filed a petition in state court to take custody of Schiavo and, presumably, reconnect her feeding tube. It cited new allegations of neglect and challenges Schiavo's diagnosis as being in a persistent vegetative state. The request is based on the opinion of a neurologist working for the state who observed Schiavo at her bedside but did not conduct an examination of her.

The neurologist, William Cheshire of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, is a bioethicist who is also an active member in Christian organizations, including two whose leaders have spoken out against the tube's removal.

Ronald Cranford of the University of Minnesota, a neurologist who was among those who made a previous diagnosis of Schiavo, said "there isn't a reputable, credible neurologist in the world who won't find her in a vegetative state."

The custody request by Bush was made before Judge George Greer, who has presided over the case and ordered the feeding tube removed last month. Greer planned to decide by noon Thursday on whether the case would go forward. He issued an emergency order Wednesday to keep the Department of Children & Families from reconnecting the tube.


Gudanov - Mar 24, 2005 6:25:57 am PST #119 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Tom Delay's Comments:

“Mrs. Schiavo’s condition, I believe, has been at times misrepresented by the media, but far more often has simply gone unreported all together. Terri Schiavo is not on a respirator; she can breathe on her own. Terri Schiavo is not brain-dead; she talks and she laughs, and she expresses happiness and discomfort. Terri Schiavo is not on life-support.

“She’s not being ‘kept alive’; she is alive. It won’t take a miracle to help Terri Schiavo; it will only take the medical care and therapy that all patients deserve. Mrs. Schiavo is not being denied heroic measures; she’s being denied basic, basic, basic medical and personal care.


Nutty - Mar 24, 2005 6:26:36 am PST #120 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

(In re Theismann, it's true Taylor knew pretty much what he'd just done, and was REALLY sorry and did a lot of "you're gonna need a bigger stretcher" concerned kibitzing as soon as it happened.)

I have watched a couple of different plays where baseball players knock each other out by cracking heads, which strikes me as about the silliest thing you can possibly do on a diamond, barring only losing the ball in your own clothes or getting tagged out due to interference by untied shoelaces.

Then there was the footage of Bo Jackson dislocating his hip in football, and then, like, standing up and walking on it. Which is NOT NORMAL. (They made him lie down later.)


tommyrot - Mar 24, 2005 6:29:07 am PST #121 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Gov. Bush and the state's social services agency filed a petition in state court to take custody of Schiavo and, presumably, reconnect her feeding tube.

The latest I've read is that this effort is going nowhere. I don't have any more details than that.