Hey TB, have you read a book called The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier? I'm reading it at the moment, and I was wondering what you thought of it.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
billytea - May 01, 2008 10:18:52 pm PDT #4621 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
javachik - May 01, 2008 10:26:34 pm PDT #4622 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Lori, when I had to visit a clinical site in Huntsville, I visited the space center and ended up having a pretty damned good time!
Typo Boy - May 01, 2008 10:38:47 pm PDT #4623 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Billytea have not read it. I admit the call for "carefully calibrated military interventions" is one I find suspicious, but can't comment until I read it. Unfortunately, my schedule is full until July.
billytea - May 02, 2008 12:20:01 am PDT #4624 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Billytea have not read it. I admit the call for "carefully calibrated military interventions" is one I find suspicious, but can't comment until I read it.
Yeah. His position is rather better principled than, say, the current administration's, being focused on preventing genocidee, internecine civil war and/or state collapse (such as Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Somalia), but it still carries the risk of going wrong, and keeping governments committed to higher-minded principles may be an even greater challenge.
Still, for all that I'd have preferred to see (for instance) intervention in Rwanda.
Tom Scola - May 02, 2008 2:10:11 am PDT #4625 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
José Canseco loses his Encino mansion to foreclosure: [link]
Jesse - May 02, 2008 3:39:05 am PDT #4626 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, did you know you are no longer being a scofflaw with the flying with the lighter in your pocket?
I did! Thanks.
msbelle - May 02, 2008 4:15:36 am PDT #4627 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I got info on department birthdays from the employee who used to have my job - she gave me her calendar, I copied the dates.
I had yesterday as her b'day. I got slammed in the afternoon and so did not go get her flowers as planned (not everyone would get flowers, but she is the ex-admin and when I asked the boss, he said to get something). So, this morning I run early to get a nice bouquet. I take them to her apologize they were not here yesterday - BLANK STARE. Apparently, what I read as her b'day on her calendar, was her DOG'S b'day. good lord. I hope I can still get reimbursed.
Sophia Brooks - May 02, 2008 4:18:14 am PDT #4628 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Apparently, what I read as her b'day on her calendar, was her DOG'S b'day.
I am laughing so hard right now! That belongs in a movie!
msbelle - May 02, 2008 4:21:18 am PDT #4629 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
seriously, who puts their dog's birthday on their calendar with first and last name!??!
ok, if you do, I am sorry, but you get a big SERIOUSLY?!?!
Stephanie - May 02, 2008 4:22:15 am PDT #4630 of 10001
Trust my rage
I watched Grey's Anatomy last night and that show has just gone down hill so much. I totally would not miss it if I took if off my Tivo.