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As the season progress the Raps look less and less likely to pick in the top 5. So for fun (since I'm a masochist) i thought I'd look at Raps picks outside the top 5. (left out traded players)
1995 - #7 - Damon Stoudamire Verdict: Lots of firsts for Toronto here. First pick, first rookie of the year, first potential 'star' player, first 'star' player to want out of Toronto, first player to say wanting out was a mistake. Not my type of PG, but all that aside still a good pick
#35 Jimmy King Verdict: went on to have a great career as a wrestling announcer
1997 - #9 - Tracy McGrady Verdict: One of Toronto's best selections in history. Phenomenal player who unfortunately (or for those who dislike him; fortunately) went on to suffer from the disease of chockage and injuritis. At one point considered one of the top players in the league. While a shell of his former self he still finds a way to contribute in the NBA.
1999 - #12 - Aleksander Radojevic Verdict : The start of something not so special. That is, Toronto's relatively consistent ability to make terrible draft picks.
2000 - #21 - Mo Pete Verdict: ok well maybe he already proves my last statement wrong but he's the outlier here. Solid NBA player that contributed. Toronto's iron man, which turned into a wet noodle when he wasn't re-signed. Still at #21 a good pick.
#46 - Deeandre Hulett Verdict: this is what happens when you select someone who played at College of the Sequoias. Yes I looked it up, apparently it does exist. Either that or Deeandre stuck with his complicated and elaborate lie.
2001 - #17 - Michael Bradley Verdict : 5 teams in 5 years. Parlayed that into becoming a kick ass sports agent. Atleast it worked out for someone.
2003 - #52 - Remon Van de Hare Verdict : There are only 2 types of people I hate. 1) those who are intolerant towards others of a different race or nationality 2) the dutch
2004 - #8 - Rafael Araujo Verdict : .................................................. #9 Andre Igoudala #15 Al jefferson #17 Josh Smith.................... Babcock!
# 48 - Pape Sow Verdict : Destroyed the D-league then broke his neck. Thats how things work out for the Raps.
2005 - #7 - Charlie V. Verdict : Ok this is a special year. Not one, not two, not 3, but 4 busts! Great way to start a tear down and rebuild. In fairness to Charlie V. he is still playing in the NBA. Ofcourse he sucks and is terribly overpaid to suck. But he's still playing.
#16 - Joey Graham Verdict : His career can probably be summed up in that Raps commercial with Jose "Joey. Joey. JOEY!"
#41 - Roko Ukic and #58 - Uros Slokar Verdict : I'm lumping them together because no one cares.
2006 - #35 - PJ Tucker Verdict : Spent most of the year in the d-league and then was waived for Luke Jackson. Seriously, waived to make room for Luke Jackson.
2009 - #9 - Demar Derozan Verdict : during last nights game against Washington, Jack Armstrong was discussing how Jan Vesley was athletic and long, but a had no definitive basketball skills. That a player needs a skill in order to contribute to a team. Shooting, passing, shot blocking, rebounding, ball handling etc. Jan Vesley does not have a skill. Not a single one. See where I'm going with this?
2010 - #13 - Ed Davis. Verdict : Good rookie year. Disappointing sophmore year so far. Probably never an all-star, but looked like he would have a long NBA career as a productive player. This year? Not so much.
#50 - Solomon Alabi Verdict : An African brought to America, bought by a white business man and sent to the farm (team). With the growth of the tea party in the US they don't even need to try and hide it anymore.
So there you go, in all its glory, Toronto's ability to make efficient selections outside the top 5. There is a silver lining here I think though. The law of averages would seem to indicate that the Raps are now due for a good draft outside the top 5. Right?

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I went to see the Avett Brothers recently and after the show as my wife and I were walking back to our car, there was a stack of Avett Brothers posters sitting there as a gift for the fans to take home. I thought that was so cool. It was like a personal message from the band that I interpreted as "We appreciate you being here".
We bought a ticket, they put on a great show, we gave them our time, they gave us a gift and were the "Last One to Give".
The next time I think about the Avett Brothers, I will think about how I appreciate them appreciating me and giving me a poster that probably cost them $.25 but had much more value to me.
We have seven "Moments" that we want each guest to experience from the time they hear about one of our events to the time they return home from what was hopefully the best vacation of their lives. The last one is "Appreciate" that's exactly what the Avett Brothers did that night with me.
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Who thinks they kill threads?
Started by Feral Becky , Nov 08 2012 10:37 AM
1504 replies to this topic
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:37 AM
I do.
#2 Guest_zeus359_*
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:39 AM
Me. All the time. I bet there is at least one in my last 5 posts where i am the last poster.
ETA: yes, there is. I think it's because i am that witty that nothing else needs to be said after i post. Yes, that must be it.
Edited by zeus359, 08 November 2012 - 10:40 AM.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:39 AM
I do sometimes.
My latest one was the daycare gate one.
Edited by idignantlyright, 08 November 2012 - 10:42 AM.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:39 AM
The moderating team
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:40 AM
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Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:41 AM
The moderating team
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:41 AM
I do..i'm sure of it!
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:42 AM
Watch this, I'll prove it!
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:43 AM
Just put here to not allow "Studybug" to kill the thread...
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:44 AM
Yep count me in!
#11 Guest_AllegraM_*
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:47 AM
I would like to know who killed the ever so entertaining Going Commando thread. Damn them.
Edited by AllegraM, 08 November 2012 - 10:48 AM.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:51 AM
I killed a perfectly good one yesterday about a lady who kept chatting to DH's dinner guest, meanwhile DH walked off and no one noticed.
I just asked if the friend was hawt
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:53 AM
Me. I'm pretty much a thread serial killer.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:55 AM
QUOTE (Le-a @ 08/11/2012, 10:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Me. I'm pretty much a thread serial killer.
That's awful, Ladashay
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:55 AM
Aww, thanks Mumto1B2G. Tho I'm not sure if I'm happy to have not killed the thread, or sad that I've been disproven...
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:58 AM
I am. I have also been known to start threads that never get off the ground and sit for infinity with their sad little '0 Replies'
Posted 08 November 2012 - 10:59 AM
QUOTE (AllegraM @ 08/11/2012, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I would like to know who killed the ever so entertaining Going Commando thread. Damn them.
I may have killed that one when I mentioned C strings....
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:01 AM
QUOTE (Cath-In-SA @ 08/11/2012, 10:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I am. I have also been known to start threads that never get off the ground and sit for infinity with their sad little '0 Replies'
Oh, yeah, that's worse than a thread killer. Better to have loved and lost and all that....
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:02 AM
QUOTE (blackcat20 @ 08/11/2012, 11:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I may have killed that one when I mentioned C strings....
not only mentioned them, but provided a photo link so we could all go "..........how does it stay there?"
edited for atrocious spelling
Edited by Ireckon, 08 November 2012 - 11:02 AM.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:03 AM
There used to be a buddy group of thread killers....
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:03 AM
I've found the trick is to get in early. I don't bother responding if there's nothing unique to say about a topic.
Now I'm wondering, who will be the one to kill this thread? Will they be crowned the ultimate thread killer?
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:14 AM
~A2~ is the ultimate thread killer, she posted in the last buddy group thread!
Edited by ~mimo~, 08 November 2012 - 11:15 AM.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:19 AM
I've never understood this last post = killing thread thingy?
Isn't it just having the last word? So you are the winner really.
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:24 AM
Thread killer?
Um, that would be me ....
Posted 08 November 2012 - 11:26 AM
QUOTE (idignantlyright @ 08/11/2012, 11:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
My latest one was the daycare gate one.
Oops, I changed it for you.
The moderating team
So true - and the only REAL thread killers on EB.
QUOTE (Cath-In-SA @ 08/11/2012, 11:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I am. I have also been known to start threads that never get off the ground and sit for infinity with their sad little '0 Replies'
That's why I rarely start new threads.
QUOTE (~mimo~ @ 08/11/2012, 12:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
~A2~ is the ultimate thread killer, she posted in the last buddy group thread!
QUOTE (Madame Catty @ 08/11/2012, 12:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've never understood this last post = killing thread thingy?
Isn't it just having the last word? So you are the winner really.
What a positive way to look at it.
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I've felt a bit out of it this last week. It's not so much Erica arriving but more that I've not been at work since a week past wednesday and to be honest all we've really done is recieve visitors, veg in front of the TV/laptop watching West Wing or some other US TV show or sleep. I had many plans for my time off that included sorting out Erica's room now that we had found homes for all the Kittens that were going, sorting out the livingroom and the garden and with a bit of luck finishing off tidying the bedrooms and making a start on decorating them. So far we've managed to tidy the living room a few times.
I feel at times as though I'm letting Vonnie down by not getting the things done. I can't really blame it on lack of sleep as to be honest since Erica's arrival I'm actually sleeping better as when I'm bnot awake with her feeding I'm actually getting quality sleep rather than tossing and turning every five minutes. I know that physically I'm knackered so it's understandable that I'm not getting it all done but I'd like to think I at least got something accomplished while I've been off other than making sure Vonnie gets through the first two weeks without doing herself an injury running after the kids.
So tonight I sent Vonnie to bed to try and get through her toothache with some heavy duty painkillers. I've kept Erica in her moses basket in the living room where some deity was shining down on me and she slept all night and will probably wake up soon for her last feed of the day. This has meant that I could throw on Henry Rollins Shock and Awe DVD on teh laptop in the kitchen and get some stuff done in there. Managed through most of the dishes although theres a few bits and pieces I'm leaving until the morning, repotted all the seedlings we had into larger pots and managed to find space for them in the kitchen. Rearranged the top of the freezer and sorted out a few completely filled cupboards and drawers. Yes its boring I know but it makes a hell of a difference to my life now I can get to alot of things.
With a bit of luck I'll finish off what I started tomorrow and if the weather holds I'll get the grass and hedges cut tomorrow. My god I'm getting domesticated
Got talking to my brother earlier tonight and he's got me thinking. Doing HR admin for the goverment was never where I seen myself when I left school. To be honest if I'd got my degree or HND that I went for I wouldnt be doing a job I'd enjoy either. The arty side of designing websites I really enjoy but can never put enough time or effort into anything I touch to make it great. Photography and such things always struck a bell with me but I neverfollowed them up but now I'm at a stage in my life where I don't think I could feasibly jump ship and try and find something I enjoy even if I wasn't very good at it or needed qualifications to get into. I have responsibilities now that I never dreamed of having anytime soon several years ago, and wouldn't change that for a second, but I can see the employment rut forming ahead of me and I don't know if I should be trading in my scooter for a 4×4 so that I ride out the rut and come out better off on the other side or take the next side track and see where that takes me.
Ach forgive me, I'm at the stage now where I'm too tired to sleep but I've got enough caffiene in me to ramble. *shakes fist at the 2L bottle of Irn Bru*


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TOWSON, Md. - A balanced team effort led the Tigers to a 58-45 win over Maryland Eastern-Shore on Tuesday evening in the Towson Center. 12 of the 13 Tigers who saw time in the game scored at least one point as the Tigers (8-2) won their fourth straight contest and improved to 5-0 at home for the first time under Coach Joe Mathews.
"I'm very pleased with the overall effort tonight," said Mathews. "We came out very focused. I thought we shared the ball and got different people involved."
Mathews added, "It was great to get the freshmen in and get them minutes. They work very hard, it's a great young group and they need this and to see what they can prove."
The two teams battled early as sophomore guard Tanisha McTiller hit her seventh three-pointer of the last four games to make it a 12-7 game with 14:44 to play in the first half. UMES (2-6) would score the next five points, to tie the game at 12-12 with 10:14 to play in the half. The two teams continued to battle as Chelsea Sanders hit a jumper at 4:37 to pull the Hawks within one point, at 18-17. Senior guard Sheree Ledbetter hit a pair of free throws at 3:13 to start a 14-0 run by the Tigers to close out the half. Ledbetter had six of the Tigers' points during that stretch that sent the home team into the break with a 32-17 lead.
The Tigers shot just 29.6% from the floor in the first 20 minutes but went 15-for-17 from the foul line during that time. UMEs shot 22.2% from the floor and made both of their free throws. Towson held a 27-14 lead on the boards in the first half.
Towson scored the first three points of the second half to extend their lead to 35-17 with 18:59 to play in the game. McTiller scored four straight points to give the Tigers a 43-19 lead with 15:44 to play. The two teams traded baskets over the next several minutes, with 11:26 remaining in the game freshman forward Nicole Hamilton-Carter hit a pair of free throws to make it a 51-28 game. The points were the first of Hamilton-Carter's career. With 6:42 remaining in the game, freshman guard Kaula Jacks hit the second of two shots from the foul line to put the Tigers up 57-33; it was the largest lead of the game for the Tigers. UMES closed the game on a 12-2 run to make it a 58-45 final score.
Towson shot 44.4% from the floor in the second half and finished the game shooting 35.6%. UMES shot 27.3% from the floor in the second 20 minutes and finished the game shooting 25% from the floor. Towson held a 46-36 advantage in the rebounding battle.
In addition to the balanced scoring attack, eight of the Tigers played at least 18 minutes in the game. McTiller led the Tigers as she had 14 points and four rebounds while senior guard Krystal Parnell chipped in with 11 points and four assists. Redshirt sophomore forward Nyree Williams led the charge on the boards with 10 while adding five points.
The game marked the end of the career of Tiger senior guard Meredith Kennedy, who started the game nursing an injured knee. The teams traded opening buckets to begin the game, with Kennedy scoring the final points of her career. Kennedy was then removed from the game for the final time.
"It meant a lot to me. It really means so much," said Kennedy. "For me personally, it was closure. I didn't want my last time on the court to be when I was carried off. I was really nervous I was going to miss that layup. Just being on the court with my teammates one last time, I'm so proud of them. "
Jessica Long led UMES with 11 points and five steals in the game while Porsha Barr added nine points and seven rebounds.
Towson is now off for nine-days for finals and will return to action on Thursday, Dec. 22 when it travels to Delaware State for a 6 p.m. game.


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September 28, 2011
Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy had a great idea. He would create an agency, the Peace Corps, to send idealistic young Americans abroad to spread their wealthy nation's know-how among the impoverished peoples of the world. Lately, public schools in the United States have taken JFK's idea and turned it around. Why not invite the impoverished peoples of the world to come here to enlighten us? America is still the planet's wealthiest country, but it is no longer, by international standards, a particularly well-educated one.
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February 15, 2011
Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, who was a driving force behind that administration's Africa initiative, writes plaintively about GOP cuts to programs he helped create: Senegal is conducting indoor spraying campaigns and providing effective, new combination drug treatments. Volunteers are going door to door in impoverished neighborhoods, instructing women in the proper use of nets. The result? From 2005 to 2008, mortality among Senegalese children ages 6 and under dropped by a third, with reductions in malaria playing a major role.
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Sargent Shriver passed away on Tuesday, at the age of 95. His is not a household name, at least to my generation. But it should be. Shriver established the Peace Corps. He launched and ran key programs of the War on Poverty. He worked with his wife to create the Special Olympics.
Hillary Clinton's Naïve, Muddled Approach to Development
August 23, 2010
Does the Obama administration have any idea at all what it wants out of its development efforts? In a recent speech at SAIS at Johns Hopkins, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Washington's new six-year, $63 billion Global Health Initiative. She was at pains to differentiate the administration from its predecessor—yet one more recapitulation of a by now familiar trope, but one that is particularly disingenuous in the case of global health, where the Bush administration's record actually was very good.
Conservatism Is Dead
February 18, 2009
An intellectual autopsy of the movement.
Defending Sarah
November 05, 2008
It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon in October, and, as Republican Representative Chris Shays drives between churches in his affluent Connecticut district, he is talking about the possibility of being knifed. "Rahm Emanuel--if I got a knife, it would be in my belly," he says, referring to the combative head of the Democratic Caucus. "With Nancy," he continues, alluding to the House speaker, "it would be in my back." He then goes on to tell a story about an encounter that took place two years ago at the House gym.
A Fighting Faith
December 13, 2004
On January 4, 1947, 130 men and women met at Washington's Willard Hotel to save American liberalism. A few months earlier, in articles in The New Republic and elsewhere, the columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop had warned that "the liberal movement is now engaged in sowing the seeds of its own destruction." Liberals, they argued, "consistently avoided the great political reality of the present: the Soviet challenge to the West." Unless that changed, "In the spasm of terror which will seize this country ...
February 11, 2002
As we walked along Timbuktu's sandy streets, past mud mosques and houses, warm winds from the Sahara whipped dust over the city, obscuring the sun and stinging my eyes. The wind did not bother my guide Muhammad, however.
The Revolving Door
July 09, 1977
There is realty only one industry of any consequence in Washington, DC. Whatever else that goes on spins in some orbit around the federal government. So when an incumbent President is turned out of office, the revolving door starts spinning too. Nobody leaves town, they just trade places. It occurs at every level. Members of congressional and committee staffs who spent the last several years developing legislative programs and engaging in "oversight," as it's called, have now moved with the new administration into the agencies they previously oversaw to direct the programs they created.
The Essential Sargent Shriver
March 28, 1964
Sargent Shriver chose the Farmers Union convention in St. Paul as the stage from which to blow his first bugle in the war against poverty. It seemed a natural selection for a militant visionary. There are few places left to seek the embers of evangelical populism except in the vaults of the Farmers Union. And yet, Shriver's words were unexpectedly prosaic. His prepared speech used incense for no altar except the taxpayer's dollar, incantation for no angel except individual initiative, exoicism for no devil except the boondoggle. Nothing could have been imagined less in key with his audience.


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One of the great pastimes of summer 2010 is unravelling, explaining and debating Inception. Which is the main reason it is such a big hit: repeat business. (The movie's so good that the Chinese government is allowing it to play there, a rare honor for a Hollywood picture.) Here are some recent popular memes:
Did composer Hans Zimmer rip off Edith Piaf? He tells the NYT how he used "Je Ne Regrette Rien" for his main theme. (YouTube video comparison is below.)
What is Inception really about? It's pretty obvious that you can apply it as a metaphor for making movies. This blogger argues that Inception is really about director Chris Nolan's anxiety about delivering a blockbuster.
What happens at the end? Does the top topple? Is it all a dream? Only Inception costume designer Jeffrey Kurland knows for sure. He reveals key info in this interview in Costumes on Film:
COF: How much does costume reflect the inner machinations of the plot, particularly in a film such as Inception? For example, Cobb's children are wearing the same clothes at the end of the story as they are in his dream 'memory' throughout the film. Is there something to be interpreted here?
JK: Costume design reflects greatly on the movement of the plot, most significantly through character development. Character development is at the forefront of costume design. The characters move the story along and with the director and the actor the costume designer helps to set the film's emotional tone in a visual way. In a more physical sense the costumes' style and color help to keep the story on track, keeping a check on time and place.
On to the second part of your question, the children's clothing is different in the final scene… look again…
UPDATE: Apparently, Nolan got his idea from a Donald Duck comic.
Here's the Zimmer music comparison:
In this College Humor video, the Inception team gets confused about what they are doing.
Brian | July 27, 2011 6:55 AM
Why, thank you!
(Took you quite a good while, didn't it?)
Karoline | July 27, 2011 5:14 AM
Very good post, thanks for sharing with us !!
Brian | September 7, 2010 8:27 AM
You're right, Ivan. I didn't get it.
I didn't WANT to get it. I didn't care enough about the "turmoils" of the pathetic characters or their outlandish motivations or the ridiculous situations to want to get it.
I'm never going to get it.
Oh, and I also don't like artistic genius slapped in my face. I prefer it to seduce me and enchant me.
Ivan | September 7, 2010 5:43 AM
Nolan made a great film in Inception. I don't understand why some people can't recognize artistic genius, even when its slapped in their faces. I am a FIRM believer that those who criticize this movie simply didn't get it.
The whole idea of planting an idea, and how that tied into the turmoils of Cobb's (DiCaprio) character was ingenious. Nolan took a mystery of the mind (the dream) and created a masterpiece that the creators of a movie like, say Deja Vu could only dream of. I liked that movie though.
Saying the movie is all tricks is a clear indication that you didn't get it. People always hate what they don't understand.
Crow T Robot | August 3, 2010 6:16 AM
Inception is all tricks. It's not storytelling. It's plot-telling. DiCaprio's character arc is just an excuse for Nolan's clever twists and turns.
And since good studio films (ones that tell a real emotionally resonate story) are very rare to come by these days, audiences are reacting to this complicated movie as if it were a smart movie. It's designed primarily to tickle the brain. Like a video game. And for some that's as good as anything.
Even if I'm not a fan, it's hard not to argue that Nolan is the zeitgiest filmmaker of the moment. His humorless, sexless, literal-minded aesthetic is striking a major chord culturally.
Brian | August 3, 2010 6:04 AM
Wake me up when THE EXPENDABLES opens. (I wish Ellen Page was in THAT.)


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↵Some media folks are applauding CBS for taking a stand against Tiger Woods consistently making up his own rules. SI's Jon Heyman tweeted Monday morning: "good for cbs for turning down tiger's 5-minute interview. even in disgrace, he still thinks he can control folks." ↵↵
↵The fact of the matter is, he can. He's Tiger Woods, and the media is the media. Who really needs whom in this scenario? ↵
↵As we always do in situations like this, there has been much discussion about the questions Rinaldi and Tilghman each asked, and who did a better job with their time. Don Van Natta of the New York Times (via Richard Deitsch's Twitter) thought that Rinaldi "did a much better job than GC's Kelly Tilghman," and offered: ↵↵
↵⇥The Tiger Woods interview is extraordinary, but I'm stunned ESPN agreed to 5-minute time limit. ↵↵That's precisely why I'm stunned CBS didn't agree to the 5-minute time limit: someone else would. If ESPN and Golf Channel are getting 5 minutes with the athlete at the center of the biggest story in sports – and gossip and news – why is 5 minutes not better than nothing for CBS? What point is CBS proving by turning down this interview? Are they setting a tone for future interviews, taking the loss on Tiger Woods so they can stick to their "integrity" for the next big exclusive? Why wouldn't CBS simply trust one of its reporters to get the information they demand out of Woods in five minutes? Five minutes is plenty of time to ask something, and if you believe Vince Doria – ESPN Senior VP and director of news – five minutes was enough time for Rinaldi to ask every question ESPN had planned. ↵
↵To that end, what questions were asked? I've put each question side by side, in order they were asked, with Rinaldi's coming first and Tilghman's following. If there was a follow-up or reaction, I've put that after the original question. There are no answers here, as Tiger stuck to his talking points – Buddhism, rationalization, private matter between he and his wife, it's in the police report – in both interviews. Let's look at what 5 minutes can get you (H/T Ryan Ballengee for much of the transcription): ↵↵
↵⇥Rinaldi: 1. Tiger, what's the difference between the man who left Augusta National a year ago and the one who is about to return? ↵⇥↵They asked similar questions about specific factual events, but Rinaldi spent the rest of the time trying to get inside Tiger's head with questions about his low point and his views on marriage, while Tilghman seemed more interested in his thoughts on how the rest of the world will view him, including how his deceased father would have dealt with this and how Woods plans to, eventually, explain this situation to his kids. ↵
↵⇥Tilghman: 1. Tiger, you've been a master of control your entire life. How did things get so out of control? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 2. For a lot of people, the spark of those bad things is Nov. 27. Early that day, what happened? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 2. Were there moments you thought you should stop, but didn't? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 3. Why did you lose control of the car? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 3. For a man who's so disciplined physically and psychologically, why couldn't you say no? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi :4. If it's a private matter, why issue a public apology? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 4. The Masters is a demanding stage on its own, let alone for a return of this magnitude, how do you know you're mentally prepared for this? (Follow: How do you know you'll be ready for the Masters?) ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 5. You've said you've made transgressions. How would you, in your own words, describe the depth of your infidelity? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 5. How will your therapy affect your 2010 schedule? I'm assuming you'll have more in-patient therapy ahead. ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 6. You…you said you were in treatment. The simple question is: for what? (Follow: What did you see?) (Follow to that: Who was that?) ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 6. You went from becoming recognized as the greatest golfer in the world to becoming a punch line. How did that make you feel? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 7. Why not seek treatment before all of this came out? (Follow: How did you learn that? How did you learn it?) ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 7. America was concerned when the world's greatest golfer was lying on the ground with no shoes at 2:30 in the morning, bleeding, what happened that night? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 8. How do you reconcile your behavior with your view of marriage? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 8. How did you crash the car? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi:9. Given all that's happened, what's your measure of success at Augusta? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman:9. It's been reported that members of your team, your inner circle were involved in your misdoings, is it true? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi:10. What reception are you expecting from fans? (Follow: How much do you care?) ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman:10. What is the state of your marriage with Elin right now? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 11. Eleven months ago, here at Isleworth, I asked you, 'How well does the world know you?' What's your answer to that now? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 11. If your father were here today and looked back on these last 4 months, what would he say to you? What do you think he would say? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi:12. In the last four months, Tiger, what's been the low point? (Follow: An example?) (Follow referencing talking to his wife and mother: What was that moment like…either one?) ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 12. For the 12 year olds and the parents out there who looked at you as a role model, what do you have to say to them to make them believe in you again? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 13. What was your wife's reaction when you sat down and had that first conversation? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 13. How will you explain this to your children, one day when they're old enough to understand? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 14. I ask this question respectfully, but of course at a distance from your family life. When you look at it now, why did you get married? ↵⇥↵⇥
↵⇥Tilghman: 14. Based on all that has transpired, what do you want your legacy to be when all is said and done? ↵⇥
↵⇥Rinaldi: 15. How do you reconcile what you've done with that love? ↵⇥↵
↵⇥Tilghman: 15. I noticed you're wearing a bracelet, can we see it? What does it mean? (Follow: When did you start wearing it? Will you be wearing it during the Masters? For the rest of your life?) ↵⇥
↵Tilghman also had a seemingly sterner tone with Woods while Rinaldi offered more deference. To be fair to Rinaldi, the set-up for the interview – standing in what looked like a gazebo – was incredibly awkward, and Rinaldi's soft-spoken style does lend itself to be more of a friendly sounding board than interrogator. In addition, with Woods' transgressions being committed against his wife – and countless other women – Tilghman may have consciously taken a more direct tone. ↵↵
↵Both interviews featured 15 questions, plus follow-ups when needed, which speaks to how short Woods was keeping his answers. Surely there was more each person would have wanted to ask, and working a subject for 20 or 30 minutes allows for many more opportunities for them to slip up and say something they would not have said during the first five minutes. I will say this: Rinaldi missed a golden opportunity to catch Woods after he asked about why he got married. Woods offered, in part: ↵↵
↵⇥"Why? Because I loved her. I loved Elin with everything I have. And that's something that makes me feel even worse, that I did this to someone I loved that much." ↵↵Rinaldi replied with a question about reconciling what he's done with that love. Perhaps if the interview had more time and there wasn't a PR person (I'm assuming) waving his arms to cut the interview off, Rinaldi would have explored why Woods said "loved" her – past tense – three times without saying "love" once. But time constraints that did not allow a proper follow-up still would have been no reason to pass on the interview. ↵
↵Did CBS Send The Right Announcers To the Right Sites?
↵In a word: no. We mentioned last week that CBS was putting Gus Johnson and Len Elmore at the host site with no truly compelling games. Despite that fact, the team got to call Syracuse, West Virginia and two games with similar seeds (one 7-10 game and one 8-9 game). A suggestion would have been to send them to an upset-ripe host city like, say, Spokane. While it turned out that Spokane didn't have any major upsets – both games on Sunday were 4-5 matchups – the site did have the closest games. Here's a breakdown, by CBS crew: ↵
↵Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery – Providence
↵First Round Point differential – 7.25 ↵
↵Second Round Point differential – 11 ↵
↵Games decided by three points or less – 2 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 1 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 2 ↵
↵Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas – New Orleans
↵First Round Point differential – 11
↵Second Round Point differential – 19 ↵
↵Games decided by three points or less – 2 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 1 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 2 ↵
↵Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner – Oklahoma City
↵First Round Point differential – 11.5 ↵
↵Second Round Point differential – 7 ↵
↵Games decided by three points or less – 2 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 1 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 2 ↵
↵Spero Dedes and Bob Wenzel – San Jose
↵First Round Point differential – 6.5 ↵
↵Second Round Point differential – 10 ↵
↵Games decided by three points or less – 3 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 0 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 3 ↵
↵Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg – Jacksonville
↵First Round Point differential – 15.25 ↵
↵Second Round Point differential – 16.5 ↵
↵Games decided by three points or less – 0 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 0 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 2 ↵
↵Gus Johnson and Len Elmore – Buffalo
↵First Round Point differential – 16.25 ↵
↵Second Round Point differential – 15.5 ↵
↵Games decided by three points or less – 0 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 0 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 1 ↵
↵Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel – Milwaukee
↵First Round Point differential – 14 ↵
↵Second Round Point differential – 6 ↵
↵Games decided by one three points or less – 1 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 0 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 2 ↵
↵Tim Brando and Mike Gminski – Spokane
↵First Round Point differential – 9.75 ↵
↵Second Round Point differential – 2 ↵
↵Games decided by three points or less – 3 ↵
↵Overtime Games - 1 ↵
↵Upsets (by seed): 1 ↵
↵By the numbers, Johnson and Elmore were saddled with the least competitive site that featured just one upset – a 10-seed over a 7-seed – and an average margin of victory of 16 points. Nantz and Kellogg had an average margin of 15.67 points, but in that came two blowout victories by the No. 12-seed Cornell team that's one of the best story lines of the first weekend. While Lundquist and Raftery got upsets of a 2-seed and a 3-seed – and nearly a 15 beating a 2 –Harlan and Bonner called the moment of the tournament so far, when Northern Iowa upset Kansas. Dedes and Wenzel had three big upsets and four of their six games decided by 5 points or less. ↵↵
↵While Brando and Gminski didn't get any huge upsets – as a site with two 12-seeds and two 13-seeds may have projected – they got the most competitive games overall, including an amazing Sunday double-header with Michigan State and Maryland, followed by Purdue and Texas A&M going to overtime. One's left to wonder if we would have gotten better play-by-play than "Hot time, Summers in the city" and "it may be spring, but Summers is blossoming," to illustrate the hot hand of MSU guard Durrell Summers, had Johnson – or anyone other than Brando – been on the call of these games. In his defense, maybe Brando was just trying out for CSI: Spokane. It is CBS, after all. ↵↵
↵The CBS NCAA Regional Announcing Crews
↵CBS is sending Gus Johnson and Len Elmore to Salt Lake City, traveling along with Syracuse from Buffalo to call the Orange against Butler as well as Xavier against Kansas State. ↵
↵Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg are staying with Duke, as they follow the Blue Devils from Jacksonville to Houston where they play Purdue. Baylor plays St. Mary's in the other regional semifinal. ↵↵
↵Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas follow Kentucky from New Orleans to Syracuse as they take on Cornell. Bilas said on Selection Sunday that he expected Cornell to get to this game and give Kentucky fits, so it's a good job by CBS to have him on the call. The crew will also call West Virginia and Washington. ↵↵
↵Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery – who solidified their status as the best crew in the tournament this weekend – get the only region without a No. 1 seed. The crew travels to St. Louis to call Ohio St. play Tennessee and Michigan State play Northern Iowa. ↵↵
↵Rocket Riding Bulls?
↵He may not be riding bulls, but Raghib "Rocket" Ismail will be broadcasting the Professional Bull Riders on Versus this season. Per the company's release: ↵
↵⇥He spent a lifetime playing football, but all it took was eight days for Raghib "Rocket" Ismail to fall in love with the sport of professional bull riding. In 2007, he was filming the CMT series "Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge," and unlike the other contestants, he wondered what possibilities could lie beyond the reality show. ↵⇥↵Ismail is a correspondent for the program, doing a story this past weekend that, per the PBR comments, was hit or miss. Clearly the PBR is trying to tap into a different audience, which seems to be offending some of the traditional bull riding fans. As commenter "redskid43" wrote: "i loved the rocket in football, but really do not need one more non-cowboy voice in the broadcast booth. must be the suits in the mix trying to figure out what the fans want to see. HOW ABOUT MORE BULL RIDING AND LESS BS," which if you extrapolated BS to its full and literal meaning, would make a pretty hilarious t-shirt. ↵
↵⇥"Even though my body hurt like never before at the end of the eight days," he said, "I really enjoyed the experience, and if it wasn't for my wife nixing my plans, I probably would have – after that show – found a ranch somewhere where every month or so I could go out and practice up on a lower-tier bull." ↵⇥↵
↵Vin Scully is Bruised, but Back
↵Vin Scully fell last week and was hospitalized, but thankfully it was nothing serious and the venerable broadcaster was back to work this weekend, leading his broadcast, via transcription from the LA Times, with "It's time for Dodger baseball," and then said, "If you don't mind, I'd like to take a moment to say I'm sorry to have caused the accident that caused so much concern." ↵
↵⇥But Scully, who also received five stitch-like "staples" to close a cut in the back of his head from the fall, said, "I do appreciate that immensely and humbly, and I guess that's why I'm embarrassed to put them through anything at all, especially when it was so simple and harmless." ↵⇥Scully explained he'd been fighting a cough and, while reading in bed Thursday night at his Hidden Hills home, "all of a sudden I felt one of these big bronchial coughs coming up, and I thought I would get to the bathroom. I jumped out of bed. Bad idea. I got dizzy." ↵↵Nobody will blame Scully if he takes it easy for a few days, or weeks. Then again, nobody expects him to. It's good to have him back on the air so quickly and hopefully, no worse for the wear.↵
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By now you've probably read the stories or seen the reports about the hostage situation that occurred last night at the Howard Hughes Center in Westchester. In case you haven't: Armed dudes tried to rob the Nordstrom Rack. Someone called police. LAPD officers surrounded the shopping mall including a theater where patrons were watching the hyper-violent Gangster Squad. Two robbers maybe drove off in a white Ford Explorer. 13 or 14 people were either detained as hostages or locked themselves into a room. One woman was sexually assaulted by the robbers. In the wee hours of the morning, a SWAT team stormed the store. They found the hostages and discovered the robbers had escaped. The robbers are still at large. At least that's what we think happened. The police are still piecing it together.
Aside from the pressing question of "Who bothers robbing Nordstrom Rack?!" here's the real story: Before most (though not all) big-time news outlets (we'll be kind by not mentioning names) had even geared up to report this, scanner junkies like Venice 311 and (our favorite) LA Scanner were already tweeting about the standoff and cracking OJ Simpson jokes (you know: white Explorer, fleeing on the freeway).
Both Venice 311 and LA Scanner don't tweet details of police operations lest they put officers in harm's way. But as sooon as it was over, Venice 311 had details. Last night and in the wee hours of this morning, if you wanted to learn immediate details of the fracas, you were better off forgetting the local news and checking Twitter. Aint technology grand?
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Penny-Wise/Pound-Foolish Budget-Cutting
Press reports say that Congress is about to enact a nominal spending cut of 10 percent in the U.S. Government Accountability Office budget. The mind-boggling stupidity of this action is frankly beyond comprehension. Anyone who knows anything about the budget knows that the GAO is the primary source for detailed analyses of government programs. If Congress really wants to cut the budget without just taking a meat-ax to every program regardless of the consequences it needs the GAO desperately. It is the strongest ally any budget cutter could possibly have. GAO analysts know the ins and outs of government programs better than anyone in Washington. Its database is filled with decades full of reports recommending savings that would have saved trillions of wasted dollars over the years if they had been followed. Instead of slashing GAO's budget, Congress ought to be increasing it.
"The mind-boggling stupidity of this action is ..."
... exactly what should be expected from an institution controlled by today's GOP.
(And from right-leaning Democrats like Ben Nelson, who crave the label of "moderate" without caring one whit whether the policies they're pursuing are recognizable as moderation).
Insufficient demand
Just heard your CNBC interview on Yahoo!Finance. Insufficient demand IS the problem and the private sector is obviously not being crowded out of the labor market. As you say, we need to increase demand via government spending. At the same time, we need to introduce an excise tax on consumer purchases of durable goods. I would start it at 2% and raise it steadily to 15-20%. That would provide the revenue increases needed without resorting to raising income taxes. It would also help close the trade gap. Cutting government spending will only decrease demand and increase unemployment, which appears to be exactly what the master manipulators want. What we do not need is to destroy our nation's government or encourage the rich to abandon us for greener pastures.
Has to do with GAO's report
Has to do with GAO's report on for-profit colleges. The colleges didn't like it, hired a metric ton of lobbyists, and are now attacking GAO.
The GAO is a major source of
The GAO is a major source of relevant factual data; ergo...
Ah, but Bruce! You assume
Ah, but Bruce! You assume that people will ever take the time to read the reports that the pointy-heads put together.
They don't really want to cut
They don't really want to cut the waste fraud and abuse. The wfa is there because corporate America lobbies for it.
If your goal, as is theGOPs,
If your goal, as is theGOPs, is to make sure government doesn't work, what better method than to deprive it of information?
That's the point. Get rid of
That's the point. Get rid of anyone who can provide facts. Facts are pesky things that just get in the way of the desired ENDs. Truthyness that supports ideology is all that's required.


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Rob Corry should have read this before he went to the game. )
By Patricia Calhoun
MMJ Patient Numbers Near Record High
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Child Protection Ombudsman under fire
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Cop Tim Kelley busted for child porn
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The ten best states for hippies
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Dear Stoner: We're flying in for the Eagles game next weekend, and I want to get stoned before I go in. What's my over-under on that?
Green & Black
Dear Fans of a Lesser Team: This question has come up a few times, actually. Yes, you can get stoned before the game. But as a tourist, don't go waltzing into a dispensary expecting to score a bag of herb. This has nothing to do with your ugly Michael Vick jersey: Recreational sales don't start until next year. If you can't find it from a waiter or bellman, you'll do fine in the parking lots by the stadium...even if you're not in orange.
It may be a cliché, but Mile High Stadium doesn't just refer to the altitude. Along with the wings and ribs that people are smoking in the parking lot, there's always plenty of ganja floating around as well. Just keep your eyes and nose open. But if you do light up, don't be a dumbass and exhale in the face of the Denver police officers who walk around the facility or trot by on horses. Smoking marijuana is illegal in public, and will remain so even after recreational sales become legal next year.
Tailgaters aren't the only ones lighting up, either. I still remember hearing the click of a lighter and smelling the sweet, skunky odor of ganja as my seat-neighbor sparked up a roach at my first Broncos game years ago, and at least once a game, I catch someone using a stealth vaporizer pen or one-hitter in the smoking section. Not that we here at Ask a Stoner would ever suggest or perform such illegal things. Wait, yes, we would.
Go, Broncos!
Dear Stoner: The Navy yard shooting rampage was a setup by president Obama so he can make stricter gun laws! Facts are 49 percent nationwide in gun violence. Americans are convinced gun homicide soars despite the plunge in gun crimes! Who do u ask is to blame!? Pharmaceutical companies that provide anti-depressants. The Navy yard killer had an honorable discharge. The Navy confirmed that he had psychiatric care for a serious mental illness, hearing voices and, of course, taking anti-depressants. This is our time, potheads, to stand up and blow the government's pharmaceutical companies out of the water!!! I have newscasts of the shooting! Please spread the word!
Aly Minyum Chapeau (via Facebook)
Dear Aly: Thank you for bringing some much-needed crazy into my otherwise much-too-sane week. Please stay high — you're much more entertaining that way.
Rob Corry should have read this before he went to the game. )
Dear Stoner: Has anybody ever told you that you look like Michael Nesmith, of the Monkees?


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The Dixie Chicks have experienced a 20% drop in national radio airplay, after the statement made by Natalie Maines at a London concert last week. Natalie told a British crowd quote, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President is from Texas." That statement triggered a wave of anti-Dixie Chicks sentiment across the country.
Here in Lubbock, a sign on the tailgate of Debbie Hilburn's truck reads: "Natalie, just so you know, we are embarrassed that you're from Texas."
It goes on to say: "God bless President Bush and our troops."
"This is in no way a reflection of the Maines family," said Hilburn. "It's just my way of expressing myself, just like Natalie expressing herself. In my opinion, we need to support our President and stick together as a nation."
A local T-shirt store is also capitalizing on Natalie Maines' comments. The front of a newly displayed t-shirt reads... "Texans against the Dixie Dorks." On the back it says: "Hey Natalie, don't mess with Texas, or George W. for that matter."
If you would like to buy that shirt, you can find it in Campus Design at the South Plains Mall.
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Tigers Abused in BCS National Championship Game (via CMO Pete RaggRADIO.com)
I may have a wired sense of humor but I found this video wickedly hilarious. I gave it three thumbs up. Yeah I know.... The 2011/2012 BCS Championship is so 1990's after what happened last month. But if you haven't seen this video, it is well done. I'm extremely PO'ed that I didn't come up with this idea first. ROLL TIDE!
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According to Adam Schefter on Twitter:
What does this mean? I don't know. No more details available yet, not even any conditions. All I know is that this means most of us will be really happy (Concessions made by Mikey Boy) or really depressed (status quo, here we go!).
Bengals expect HC Marvin Lewis now will remain in Cincinnati. The two sides expect to resolve any issues within next 24 hours.
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Has Norman Lear found God? I don't mean, has the television pioneer become religious, I mean: maybe the guy has really uncovered Who and What God is.
I read his blog on Huffington Post and kept hearing a little voice saying, "Yeah, yeah," and then realized that little voice was my... read on