I cannot believe I missed your post on Jeff Mitchell. I also cannot believe I lost track of where he went to play pro ball. So now I’m in a win-win situation. And Darrell Jackson is injured, although he’ll play. This should be the super bowl game. I will be thinking about you (and my several friends in Hendersonville who would likely draw and quarter me if they had any idea I wasn’t simply cheering on the Panthers, no questions asked).

I had been wondering who the mystery person is who’s building the big house over on a lake in an orange grove here on the edge of the Green Swamp (one of the last groves not yet completely bulldozed out this way). Jeff is about as orange and blue as a human being can be. The Goldenrod place must be over on Bear Gully. For any Felbernaut who doesn’t understand how important this can be, even to liberals who understand what is being done to our civil liberties, the globe’s ecosystems, and any vestiges of sanity in US foreign policy, I can only say (well, hell, I have no idea what to say).

Sorry, Ann. At least I put on a ski mask while I’m typing posts like this one.

Towelhead Saturday Night Live? Love it.

Keep going back to “Billy in the Darbies” (Billy Budd): But aren’t it all sham?

I wonder when the CIA got so desperate to be seen to be doing ’something’, anything, that 80% collateral damage became acceptable. But you’re right, David - it was a US terrorist attack. Utterly unacceptable by pre-Bush standards. Kinda like Iraq all over again, in miniature.

When we stoop to their tactics, then we’ve lost something really important, even if we did pop their media organizer. I wonder just how Bush/Cheney/Rice think al-Jazheera have played this - imperialist terrorism? or the good ol’ US of A surgically lancing a boil? Or do BCR just see al-Jazeera as Towelhead Saturday Nite Live?

You do it with such elan. That’s got to count for something. ‘Course they’ll also see Hasselback/Jackson.

I guarantee the boys with the toys have run any number of wargames with “tactical” neutron bombs, and since we have a huge black budget, I would shocked to learn that we don’t already have the damned things, if not at least all the precursors. Only reasons for not using them are either pr related or some other consideration I’m not aware of. Just think, eliminate all those pesky people without destroying any infrastructure.

OK, back to envisioning Gators chowing down on Blue Devils (kind of like oddly colored habeneros, I hear, and Gators like it piquant) in the title game.

Ann, sorry to hijack the thread. I’ll try never to do it again. It’s just that it seemed to need a little shot of energy. Speaking of which -

The dynamic duo of *Steve Smith* and *Jake Delhomme* is coming to your Football Dome (Doom?) this weekend. DON’T MISS!!! your chance to tell your future ***grandchildren*** that YOU saw them in the FLESSSSSH!!!

Oh, sorry, I guess I did it again, didn’t I?

We need (and progressives include) football fanaddicts, but I’m ok with the gridiron diversion being shortlived, even though it was fun to momentarily kidnap the thread (but not rendite it).

Regarding the horror at the homicidal terrorist attack on a party, it seems to me to be the equivalent of being told Al Capone and some of his henchmen were invited to a party and blowing the building and the attendees to smithereens. On this score, I’m still trying to figure out the substantive difference from the attack on the Twin Towers. Seems to me the difference is essentially numerical, even if we did take out some al Qaida militants. I can already hear all the rationalizations regarding the differences, but I don’t buy them. This was a misguided terrorist attack, whether or not we had intelligence indicating we might take out some al Qaida leader resulting from misguided addiction to whiz bang technology and amateurish intelligence gathering.

Maybe we could just hit the entire region with some neutron bombs.

Intelligence (with a capital ‘I’) and intelligence don’t seem to have an awful lot in common these days.

I am a figurative house divided. Western North Carolina is my other home, but it is a Gator catching those passes for Seattle. Orange and Blue blood is way thicker than water, so I’ll almost surely find myself cheering for a Gator. Both quarterbacks are worthy opponents. Seattle vs. Charlotte is a tough call, dammit.

Cooper, I can only beseech understanding. I am certainly ok with How ’bout them pammed Danthers?

On the other hand, how can one not love The Bus?
When I lived in NYC, I used to catch the Bettis. It was the downtown on Madison, as I remember it, and on the late night run the damned thing sometimes got airborne. What a ride (I ain’t makin’ this up).

Gator basketball team on a roll like we’ve never seen before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Duke v. Florida in the championship game…