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There are two possible explanations for that.

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I don't understand why the Cambridge police have to go beating on black professors if there are privileged white kids dressed like that around. I mean, who's going to complain? They're asking for it.

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no shit. you've been whiffing like a mug.

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More like

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/g...di_daler_m.jpg

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i keep getting email meant for you. maybe it's a facebook thing? here-


Good Day

I wish to retain an attorney that will assist my company in collecting
funds that are owed to the company. My company has been in business for
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purchase, paid for and accounted for by our company and the seller,
(company name) and the goods were supposed to be delivered to our port. It
has been over 5 months and we have not received delivery or notification
of re-adjustment in estimated time of arrival. We urge for our funds to be
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advice on your fees and retainer agreement and any other information that
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Thank you and I await your prompt response.

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Seen this weekend at the Orange County Fair.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...p/IMG00164.jpg

My Next Trip
 

Another reason to visit Moldova - http://www.milestii-mici.md/eng (world's largest wine cellar with 2 million bottles). Although they probably have so many because Moldovan wine tastes like what one would expect.

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Now I want to make that.

Chocolate Covered Bacon
 

I had some at the Minnesota State Fair last year. It was pretty good but overpriced. Easy peasy to make at home with a choice of recipes:
http://bacn.com/recipe/chocolate-covered-bacon/
http://www.yumsugar.com/1813878
http://www.grouprecipes.com/75710/ch...sprinkles.html
http://www.delish.com/recipes/cookin...almonds-recipe

And when you're not in a chocolate mood (ha!), there is basic Pig Candy:
http://www.wchstv.com/gmarecipes/pigcandy.shtml

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I re-watched Happiness this weekend. If you haven't seen this movie you really should. It's a wonderful story about modern relationships, and how hard they can be to maintain. Watch it as a double feature with the director's break out film "Welcome To The Dollhouse," a delightful examination of the problems associated with coming of age in modern suburbia.

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It's hard to express how thrown I was by this post. Articulated thought, correct punctuation, and an apparent absence of guile or snark. It's so out of character for Hank to write this way that I was about to post "who are you and what have you done with Hank," but even that trite joke doesn't capture it. This post is the equivalent of the phone call declaring that "this is Flaming Dragon. Simple Jack is ours now."

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Happiness (which I also really liked) is a movie that can seriously fuck with your head. That's what's happened here.

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I think I find out about tooth on Friday.

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the Tigers play 1 series in Fenway? that's screwed up. the same with NY?

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It's a set up. Do not... I repeat, do not, watch Happiness with the kids.

The last scene with the dog licking the railing is one of the nastiest moments ever committed to film.

But yes, it's a great movie.

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worse than fido kissing the mommy on the lips a moment later?

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See also, Gummo and Kids.

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I can beat that. Try Bobcat Goldthwait's Sleeping Dogs Lie. It's actually supposed to be really funny. Disturbing as hell, but funny.

I assume you've seen Shakes the Clown, the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies. A modern classic.

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i watched Happiness thinking a writing teacher would say "too many tangents.

the balls of the movie- a guy makes a quirky low budget (Dollhouse) that makes bucks- so he is given a budget, a chance to move towards the mainstream, and he makes Happiness? you know some money people were looking at the early cuts of the film thinking "holy crap. daddy and a Tiger Beat?"

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As I've said many times, you would need a microscope to detect the shit I give about professional athletics, but I am prepared to say that this is bullshit. PGA officials must have some paper-thin fucking skins, I'll tell you what. I think an NBA or NFL player has to basically threaten to rape an official's family before they'd get fined, right?

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They put the final pairing on the last day of the tournament on the clock??? That is totally fucked up. Yeah, the fine is too.

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It was silly to put the final pair on the clock in a tight battle and a fine is pretty much nothing to Tiger. But remember this is golf, the sport where the players are supposed to call penalties on themselves.

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Particularly because it was the other golfer who was evidently disadvantaged.

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remember, these guys make millions of dollars because of television and when the last pairing is so far back it screws up coverage.

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What does this have to do with sports?

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Jesus Christ.

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She's going to need some serious spiritual intervention because of course the way to make yourself look more employable is to get publicity for being lawsuit happy.

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My favorite part is her emphasis on her attendance record. I seriously did not know that there were normal colleges that kept attendance records as part of a student's transcript.

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Does this lawsuit really bother you? I'm not saying it has merit, but it doesn't seem all that far-fetched. (At least, if you ignore the tinges that the article gives it.)

I'm familiar with low-end schools that charge huge amounts of money while making lots of promises about job placement, and tout the personal assistance they give to each student through their wonderful career placement centers. Sometimes that stuff is in writing, but often it's promises and representations made by the admissions reps -- whose entire job is to get students to enroll, because that's how these schools make their money. (In contrast to universities that bring in money through research grants, gifts, and investment returns, in addition to tuition.)

Sometimes the schools really do provide the services -- especially, the critical placement assistance -- that they promise, and sometimes they don't. The CNN story sounds like a pro per lawsuit brought by a student that may or may not have a real claim, and it's hard to tell because she's pro per and the article makes it sound like her only complaint is that she didn't get a job. A real lawyer might have made the lawsuit, and the story, more about her not getting the placement assistance she was promised.

In California at least, this sort of conduct by schools -- lots of promises, especially oral promises, by admissions reps -- led to a regulatory scheme that requires all kinds of disclosures to prospective students, with heavy emphasis on the %% of graduates in recent years who actually found jobs. (And, as in so many cases, those disclosures are often rendered worthless by the complete failure of most people to read things they have to sign.)

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I'm not sure about this but I wouldn't be surprised if attendance records were required by the Dept of Ed, as part of the effort to make sure that all the govenment money used to support these schools, through student loans, actually has some benefit to the students.

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you know tiger is happy to pay the fine, right? he was fucking with all his comp's brains. "They put us on timer, which was really unfair to Paddy."

implication being, timer doesn't bother me, so if you're matched with me you better play quickly so we don't get put on timer. the guy is the king of mind games.

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Not so fast:


The Economist

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Man, I'd have been f'd. I wouldn't have been last in my class (ug and ls), but I'd have been Phi Beta Skippa, for sure.

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It's almost like they read my mind.

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Oh, they don't give a shit about you. The feds want to make sure the school is actually providing classes that students care to attend. If not, then that tends to increase the risk that the students (1) won't get jobs, and (2) will default on their loans.

You have to keep in mind the level of the schools we're talking about here. People who end up at Monroe College didn't exactly light the academic world on fire in high school or junior high, and just getting them to show up every day is a challenge. And if they don't, they aren't generally making up the work by reading the textbook or the Nutshell or whatever people used in law school to get thru their exams.

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I (pretty evidently) know *nothing* about Monroe College. But if it's (basically) a modern trade school, then $70k for a degree (ba or otherwise) is too much; and if it's something more, then it seems her expectations of placement assistance are misguided.

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I think the final pairings on Saturday and Sunday should be able to take as long as they want as a benefit for playing the best going into the day, so I agree with you.

But NBA players cannot criticize refs. Quick trigger there too.

TM

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but, to be clear, and so as not to offend Sebby and Flinty, Florida coastal is a fine law school, with some position re. accreditation.

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Hanks, we've all acknowledged that it was grossly unfair they didn't grant you tenure. But it's been 8 years now. Most people in your shoes have moved on.

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Now we know. In other sports news, John Madden owes Ethan Albright an apology.