Yay! for the Delay indictment.

ita, why are you wearing pleated pants?

Lisah, I thought the same thing as you did about the TAR comment. lisah "Natter 39 and Holding" Sep 28, 2005 10:03:02 am PDT

I had actual work to do today. It was kind of exciting.

Rumor has it that Dreier was picked because Delay expects to get the Majority Leader post back and Dreier would be an easier person to wrest it back from than other candidates.

All the more reason to root for TX-22 to eject him from office. If DeLay didn't have so many tendrils up the asses of the Texas GOP, maybe someone would bounce him in the primary. Not as nice as getting a party switch, but still worth it to get the corrosion cut out of American politics.

The scary thing, though, is that when they are cornered people like DeLay do some dangerous things. Stand clear, everyone.

As for Frist, he probably won't get jail time, but it could squash his 2008 plans if he has to pay a massive fine. Martha went to jail for something similar, though.

The ultimate trifecta would be getting Rove nailed on the Plame scandal. Alternatively, it would be Santorum being caught having sex with a turtle.

why are you wearing pleated pants?

Because I like them. So there.

IMDB also reports that the James Bond decision will be made soon (yeah, right), and that the front runners (this precise minute) are: Pierce, Daniel Craig, Henry Cavill, Sam Worthington, and Visnjic.

I gotta say -- Cavill's not quite a Backpfeifengesicht -- it's more of a backhand slap he's crying out for.

tommyrot, the problem is that I need the data divided by sex, department, degree, and title and then I need the median of the data for each group.

Huh. I thought Brosnan was out of the running?

Yeah, if I were Brosnan, I'd be pissed to be "in the running."

Speaking of the NHL controversy, there's this bizzare kerfluffle involving the visitor's locker room at Nile Kinnick stadium. [link]

The pink visitors' locker room at the University of Iowa's stadium is making some people see red.

Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the athletic department to do away with the pink showers, carpeting and lockers, a decades-long Hawkeye football tradition.

Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

''I want the locker room gone,'' law school professor Jill Gaulding told a university committee studying the athletic department's compliance with NCAA standards, including gender equity.

For decades, visiting football teams playing at Kinnick Stadium have dressed and showered in the pink locker room. The tradition was started by former Iowa coach Hayden Fry, a psychology major who said pink had a calming and passive effect on people.

The CommanderBond.net site claimed that Sony executives will be meeting with Eon Productions execs next week in London, where the decision will be made. It said that while Pierce Brosnan had been removed from the running months ago, he now not only is being considered to star in the 21st Bond film, but that he is regarded as the frontrunner. "A senior Sony executive has told a member of the Casino Royale production team that the new Bond will 'probably' be Pierce Brosnan," the website said.

I used to use MSAccess and I wish I could help but my MSAccess skills are rusty. Well, not so much rusty as the neurons have completely rusted out and fallen off my brain like an old tailpipe.

"A senior Sony executive has told a member of the Casino Royale production team that the new Bond will 'probably' be Pierce Brosnan," the website said.

For what value of "new", exactly?

God, people are stupid.