I was just reading about the muscle repair issue with respect to Rick Ankiel. Back when he was still pitching, he had Tommy John surgery and as part of his recovery, his physician had used HGH to aid in recovery, but at the time, it was not a banned substance and Ankiel has been open about it, so he never suffered any penalties or backlash because of it.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Barb - May 07, 2009 11:05:30 am PDT #18445 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
JZ - May 07, 2009 11:16:21 am PDT #18446 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
And when you send that letter Trudy's recommending, be sure to cc it to someone at every tenants' rights group you've spoken with (if you can get specific names, that's even better), and a lawyer. (I had to do something similar once, and I cc'd a tax attorney friend of my mom's--the rental co. won't know who the lawyer is, it'll just scare them stupid to see that menacing "Esq." at the end of the cc list.)
Matt the Bruins fan - May 07, 2009 11:17:06 am PDT #18447 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I didn't realize pot counted as a performance-enhancing drug. (Re: Manny Ramirez).
I guess it could be for Kobayashi...
I finally out-stubborned AT&T and their assorted ill-informed collection agencies after a year of demanding erroneous payments for phone service at my former address. Long story short, while I can be worn down to the point of surrender by apathetic bureacracy, people who slur my character and make threats when I'm in the right better plan on wearing thermal underwear when they collect from me because Hell will have frozen over.
lisah - May 07, 2009 11:21:46 am PDT #18448 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GC!!!
Fight the Power, tommyrot!
msbelle - May 07, 2009 11:23:15 am PDT #18449 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
go ahead and cc Chuck D on that letter too, tommy.
lisah - May 07, 2009 11:27:10 am PDT #18450 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
go ahead and cc Chuck D on that letter too, tommy.
can't hurt!
Calli - May 07, 2009 11:30:35 am PDT #18451 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Way to go, Matt!
flea - May 07, 2009 11:31:32 am PDT #18452 of 30000
information libertarian
Flava Flav would be totally unhelpful, though.
Why is it not Friday, people?@!
Trudy Booth - May 07, 2009 11:40:58 am PDT #18453 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
You're in Chicago. You might include Ditka.
Steph L. - May 07, 2009 11:55:07 am PDT #18454 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
tommyrot, I *think* that your landlords would have to take their (non)case to small claims court, which incurs very minimal costs compared to a Court TV trial. And -- I don't know if Illinois is like this, but it is the law in Ohio -- if you win, your landlord has to pay your court costs.
I am down, because of sad newspaper and people-I-know medical stories (face transplant, prostate cancer, melanoma). Why the world gotta be so sad, man?
I can't even express how much the face transplant story has fucked me up in the head. Big big BIG time. I wish I had never clicked on the Newsweek link to the story.