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I'd consider going if I was in WNY.

That's a genuinely happy day for that guy. I'm happy for him, the coaches and front office, the team, and the fans.

Buy low.

♫ The bills are makin' it happen now. ♫

This is still funny to me.

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It sounds like it'd be a good time.

George Laraque to play Fezzik (Andre the Giant's role) in a live reading of The Princess Bride at Toronto International Film Festival.

The ubiquitous popularity of the monopolistic NFL, which grants their monstrous profitability from advertising and television rights, is provided by an edifice of integrity and righteousness that is advertised and sold, unchallenged. When the situation finally arises that erodes the shroud of these falsehoods, be it cheating, concussion-related wrongful death, economic scandal, Patriot whathaveyou, the popularity and profitability will fall accordingly. However, the NFL PR department will do everything within their enormous power to maintain the pristine image and minimize brand damage of the league. Examine deflategate. It's a violation of the fundamental integrity of the game, and the violation is unable to be kept secret. How does the league look afterwards? "Hey, we did everything we could to punish the offenders, but that was rejected in the court of law. Not really our fault." How do the Patriots/Brady look? "Hey, we didn't do anything wrong, and when we thought we were wrongfully punished, we were vindicated in the court of law." It's a show. It's an episode of Sports Center Law & Order (doink doink). But getting pissed off at this result is rooted in the belief of the advertised, pristine image of integrity in the NFL game to begin with. The NFL advertised and sold that image, and those that are angry, are angry with the actual quality of the product they've been sold. The outrage is the buyer's remorse of a product that the buyer wanted to pedestal as an institutionalized past time that is impervious to fault because, god dammit, 'Murica. But what they bought was the sales campaign by a PR team for a mass media cash cow that is managed by a highly polished team of buffoons and has successfully codified eleven minutes of game action per three hours and twelve minutes of advertising telecast into Americana. If you refuse to buy the infallibility that the NFL self-installs, you don't feel so bad when they spoil it. And that's a perfectly blissful result. Know the league will be shitheads, but don't let it stop you from enjoying a good game. Just hope that most of the games are indeed good. FOOTBAW!

Ball or be balled.

HAY YOU GUYS TALKIN' BOUT MUNCHIN QUCHIS?

Yes. Cuban B.

Watched Wilson at Wisconsin. No Badger fan was surprised that he walked into Pete Carroll's training camp as a rookie and took the starting job. As for his off-field, he's nothing short of an authentically good, intelligent, well-behaved human being. It was surprising how mature and composed he was off-field, even as a junior.

I don't really see anyone in this organization doing anything safely. And that's a 180 from two years ago.

Good, funny listen. That's what I love about our fans. We'll ###### talk with anyone for fun, especially the Patriots- and even team up with fans of teams we're playing against to ###### talk Patriots fans. And it goes right up to where it should: the hilarious blind dick-out trough-shove. And no farther. At the end of the day, everyone has a laugh and no one gets killed like it's Oakland. No one gets spit on like a Boston bar. Burr thinks he would get an auto ass beating in this scenario, but that just isn't the case. We'll laugh and get drunk with him after. Just like he's a Leaf fan. Agreed. I think EJ and Taylor show two very different looks, and that could make opposing defenses have to prepare that much more. Maybe Cassel's a good veteran backup/signal caller, but he's not the #1 going forward.

I remember when 1 USD was about 1.50 to 1.60 CAD. That was awesome. Take the train from NF, ONT to Toronto for like $9. Stay at a great hotel off of Yonge for like $40 a night. Go grocery shopping in Ft Erie for the of it. Get all the GST(?) back because we weren't Canadian citizens.

I think we're all on the same page about this. Best available defender that adds veterancy, buys some time for the kids,contributes on the powerplay, may help a playoff look, don't want more than a couple years, and we have the cap space. Chz, make the call to GMTM.

That was a good one. Am I an idiot for thinking about getting Madden 16 (for PS3) because the Bills actually have a roster now?

This try-to-launch-a-rocket-with-a-hurricane-coming business is pretty fun.

The takeaway from that article isn't that anyone's close to an economical commercial fusion plant, but rather that a decent number of small-to-medium scale experiments at private firms are taking on the challenges of magnetically confined fusion empirically with iterative and inexpensive approaches, despite lacking simulation and modeling capability to correlate their findings to theory. Also, I've met the only scientist in that article that doesn't have a stake in those companies. Still do be wary about science that goes right out to press instead of peer-reviewed journals.

Income Inequality was my favorite. "I know this game is rigged, but that's what's going to make it SO SWEET WHEN I WIN THIS THING!"

Argh. Might be right. I'll wait until the day they announce them, when there's hopefully some stock leftover.