Your posts remind me that I've not yet explored the reaches of YouTube. Merciful heavens.

Stupid fucking French kids.

**obligatory "prices will never fall in seattle!" comment**

Oh, and I love Sondheim's A Little Night Music. It was one of the first musicals this little Hoosier Homo bought on tape.

Bush is doing all he can to make sure we stay in Iraq... FOREVER!!! Not like we did not see this coming down the pike for quite awhile.

So America, enjoy your never ending occupation of Iraq. It is the one thing we will give to our grandkids and to their kids.

@ Michigan Matt, try this Youtube link for some more great entertainment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8&eurl

Sounds like plain, old robbery in the case of Sean. Tragic. Miami is one rough city ( over 300 murders.) They will, undoubtedly, bust a cap on your ass.

97% of people (who happened to vote in an internet poll) are against the ban on spanking. I'm appalled. I am surprised it's not more even.

No way was that Sean Taylor incident a "plain, old robbery". Sounds like a deliberate hit to me.

In the leg? I dont know Doug. Maybe, but it sure doesnt sound like it. Home invasion robberies go bad all the time, and people get shot in Miami every single day. even the dogs are armed to the teeth there.

Yestiddy's US Conference of Mayors-commissioned national report showed the housing crisis will cost Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area $1.8 billion in economic loss, and that's just next year only. Portland gets a $300 million hit in 2008. Impact on tax revenue? Hmm. Buckle up.
http://usmayors.org/uscm/news/press_releases/documents/mortgagereport_112707.pdf

Wow. Bush got two client states to sit down together. That takes real skill.

Re: spanking. Aren't there occasions like when a swat on the butt is the only thing that a two year old will understand to keep the tot from running out in the street?

2 hours later...

What, is the Stranger staff out doing real work now? Where's the love for Slog?

@13

no.

most 2 year olds speak, you know, with words.

@ 10 - this is twice in the last week his house was broken into... in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Miami. Not random.

robbers rob nice neighborhoods. thats what they do. if u break in a home in liberty city or opa locka, 1 youre not getting nothing, and 2, you will be shot.

Taylor's house was broken into a week ago and a knife was left on his bed. Sounds like a warning shot to me.

Then this latest "robber" broke into the room where Taylor, his wife and kid were hiding, then shot Taylor twice. Robbers don't do that. Hitmen do.

awwwwwww is it Just me or did not that beiung a tears to my eye

@ Michigan Matt

What part Of MI? i love that 'state?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Lhw4M-GTg

Quote from the article:

"A separate index that covers 20 U.S. metropolitan areas dropped 4.9 percent in September from a year earlier, with 15 metro areas posting declines. Only five metro areas -- Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Dallas, Portland, Ore., and Seattle -- showed an increase in prices, but S&P noted that the pace of the rise is decelerating."

@18 - spot on

@17 - I'd say robbers are much more likely to break into an average house or slightly above average - the access in likely much easier than an extremely nice neighborhood.

@19--I live in the Ann Arbor bubble.

OK fine, but sometimes words do not work. I've seen mothers give gentle but firm swats on the tush to curtail a brat's tantrum in the supermarket.

It has to be left up to the parents. There's a difference between spanking and child abuse. Child rearing is not the government's business. So some poor overwrought mother swats her kid and goes to jail?

ann arbor - '93 - sept.
driving auto with ichthyasaurases and
T-rex and accessory abstract underwater painted - stencil-freehand-
packed auto en route to Seattle

- radiostation from ann arbor to Grand Rapids youth hostel to drink this new weird shit i picked up - Ricola -as in coughdrop - Tea -

----full listening of a new release star to fini on AA radio station-------- IN UTERO

thnks for the memories - GO WOLVERINES!

Ann Arbor is a whore! Go lions!

oh they all suck, SeMe. I'm more a Spartan fan actually. Though when Interlochen Music Academy gets a gridiron entry I'm switching allegiances, or until the novelty wears off.

All my sympathies are with Taylor's family at this time of their tragic loss. But after reading about this sad event, I can't get passed Taylor keeping a machete near the bed. Deter an intruder by threatening to hack them with a machete?

And Dan, when did you become such a snow bunny? Can I get you to sign my cast at the lodge?

Penn State does not, I repeat, does NOT suck.

Beaver Schmeavers! To the the truth I was haunted by the Mountaineers as a tweebat undergrad. They fans invaded the pitt campus on game day, and chanted in the streets "Penn State Sucks! Pitt Swallows!" not exactly nautilus pumping male models either. more like Kelly the punk in Bad News Bears.

scrreeeeeeeech....not my point owhever,

i'm seriously considering a scrathc of acreage and seceding to toronto after crossing the Mackinac Bridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELoVoJiZb0

Since the government has done such a bang up job keeping kids away from truly abusive parents, it sure makes sense that it's turning its attention to the scourge of spanking.

@14

It's Tuesday. They're getting the paper ready.