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I actually have a pretty long list of substantive reasons not to like her. The Beavis and Butthead stuff I just feel like she set herself up for because I find the "everyman/everywoman" act so shallow and obnoxious. So when it's brutally shot down I can't help but to laugh. It's about time. Now let's get someone in there I can have healthy agreements or disagreements with, like it should be.

I just finished my assignment finally, ended up writing about 5 pages on what should've been a simple weekly assignment. I think that's about it for poetry, on to the Mark Twain and whatnot. I don't so much mind that. Stories > poetry.

Google is my friend. I always have to make sure I'm interpreting it "correctly." They say poetry is open to interpretation, that's a crock, I have a tendency to be WAY off because it's so god damn cryptic. Langston Hughes is probably my favorite poet because what he writes is so simple to read. The thing about Shakespeare is that if you can understand what he's saying, it's actually really good, esp. the stories. I was pissed when I had to read Othello because it was so long, but the plot was great. It just took me forever to read.

It's always great when I'm in the car with my 11-year old stepdaughter and some explicit advertisement for some male enhancement formula comes on.

American Military University, an online school. Literature isn't for everybody, especially POETRY, I always feel like it's being forced down my throat.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 08:19 PM) Apparently someone, if you're reading it 150 years after it was written. I hate it. Give me just about any other class than literature, damn, I already took one and it has no relevance to my major. Fortunately this is the last gen-ed class I have to take, I've been putting it off for a while.

While I kinda like most of my classes, I HATE the literature class I'm in right now (American Literature from the Civil War to the Present). Literary analysis blows. I just got finished reading a Walt Whitman poem about a male bird who lost his female companion and stayed up every night singing about how he wants her to come back but she is gone, probably dead, then the narrator asks the bird if he'd been singing for him all along instead of the mate. ... wtf, who cares?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 03:36 PM) Urlachers interception was actually piss poor coverage. An even semi decent throw and that is an easy TD for the Pack. Urlacher is f***ing terrible. The problem is that he's pretty much being wasted with the way they're playing the scheme, and also the absolutely pathetic D-line play is making it worse. A bad D-line makes everyone on D look worse in the Tampa 2.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 03:54 PM) We didn't want to give him $2 million a year. Cheap a**, Angelo. Ayanbadejo didn't leave because of money, he left because he could play more LB on the Ravens. Angelo might be many things but "cheap" isn't one of them. Hell, look at basically the whole D.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 03:48 PM) I often used to talk about how overrated Hester was. Look at the Bears history of return guys, Hester was the best and most explosive but the Bears scheme had a lot to do with that (Azumah, Mylbrn, Rdub McQuarters, etc). Ayanbadejo leaving probably isn't a coincidence either.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 03:39 PM) I don't buy that. They were a dominant team for a long long time with Cowher. More like in spite of. Think of all those times over the course of about a decade where they were good but just not good enough, he was holding them back. I tried arguing against this with some Steeler fans on another board and got shot down on all fronts. They were relieved to see him go.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 03:35 PM) Like I said a long time ago, one of the worse WR's corps I've ever seen. We had Lloyd with two random games but the WR's have been downright abysmal (look at the drops and lack of ability to create seperation or make really good catches). That was known coming into the season... the real disappointment has been on defense, the only ones really earning their paychecks out there are Lance Briggs, Alex Brown, and to a lesser extent Mike Brown and Dusty Dvoracek. Everyone else has been ranging from mediocre to pathetic. Oh, and Devin Hester doesn't even exist anymore apparently.

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 02:36 PM) Would blow by wad if we hired Cowher. Ask a Steelers fan about Cowher... he isn't all that, the only reason they don't hate his guts is because of the Super Bowl season.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 12:17 PM) With a new ballpark and potentially a solid-looking fanbase there in D.C. (I think lobbyists will survive the economic downturn quite well), they probably have a decent amount of money to spend if they want to. I know you're probably joking here but a large chunk of the DC job market is gov't employees and contractors. That would include me.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 10:39 PM) It amazes me that a lot of people don't see him as the best player in baseball still. Best offensive player, probably. Best position player, I'm with DukeNukeEm and going with Hanley Ramirez.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Nov 11, 2008 -> 03:59 PM) anybody with me on that? No, looks like you're on your own for the most part here.

QUOTE (Steff @ Nov 16, 2008 -> 12:01 AM) I stand corrected. No surprise there's one in every crowd. I'm that asshole.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 08:43 PM) Not going to happen. The country won't elect a 72 year old... duh. She'll be in her late 60s.

QUOTE (Steff @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 09:50 PM) I don't recall one person "laughing" about it. And I don't think anyone was happy to see her "fail". I did. I don't recall what I said in this forum exactly, but sorry, it was funny to be seeing people saying that whether it was true or not. And if she fails, that means the gimmick is over, and a real politician can take her place.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 06:37 PM) Must be an echo in here. Heh, yeah, that was more of a reply to Alpha Dog's post using the same logic. If Obama successfully does 2 terms and has Reagan or even Clinton-like popularity at the end (not out of the question) then those are some hefty coattails to hang onto, you have him campaigning for you and so on and it's almost like running as an incumbent or a VP. If not, well yeah, that about torpedoes any chance of her ever running again.

QUOTE (Disco72 @ Nov 15, 2008 -> 10:29 AM) You are assuming the Japanese companies would want them. The Daimler-Chrystler merger was a disaster (I know, that was a German company), but it showed that clashes in corporate culture, business practices (e.g., the relationship with suppliers mentioned earlier in this thread), and national cultures can create an unworkable situation. Corporate culture being s***ty management clashing with non-s***ty management?

Or, maybe just maybe Obama doesn't fail, gets re-elected, finishes his 2nd term relatively popular the way Bill did, and she has a major advantage going into 2016.

LOL at Sarkozy's comeback.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 14, 2008 -> 02:17 PM) The funny part is that AIG is getting such grief in the media about a $400,000 get away, when it would take exactly 8 autoworkers, not even getting fired, but just taking the wages of their Toyota counterparts to make up that same money that AIG wasted, yet no one is even talking about the payroll as a source of their problems. We are talking about 123,000 employees times $50,000 is $6,150,000,000 in extra costs! We hear about a CEO taking home an extra $10 million in compensation, but six BILLION dollars is only mentioned on the blogs? Come on. This actually is one of the set-ups into arguing in favor of universal healthcare.

Isn't Danks supposed to be like CF Jesus ala Brian Anderson?