@hudsons1: Ah, Kurt Bevaqua, 1975 Bazooka Bubblegum Blowing Champion.

This kid's a shoo-in with Alph Tau Omega this coming year in Austin.

Christ, you could land a Chinook on that forehead. I'm astounded that Dick Ebersol hasn't hired this guy.

@Hit Bull Win Steak: That sounds like a Panda to me - this name has the additional bonus of encouraging the Chinese Nets fans to stick.

@xsbs: That's an exceptionally weak argument. Having two legal definitions of the same legal state is not only redundant, it's costly, potentially twice as costly. Is there any other reason that you can state to do this?

@xsbs: You're making the same spurious comparison as before. The law is malleable, changeable. A person's race or incurable physical disability is not. Once again I ask, why have two separate legal mechanisms for the same legal state? If the state of "civil union" is exactly the same as the state of "marriage",…

@xsbs: If, by your definition, "you can define things that are slightly different with different words", you have by default admitted that they are not equal. The union of two people is a legal structure - why should it be different between any two people?

@xsbs: You're referring to genetic differences between people, and trying to correlate that between different legal definitions, which humans create and define. That is a spurious comparison. If the legal mechanisms you are talking about are exactly the same, save for the title, then why have more than one?

@xsbs: I think your point only works if you refer to all unions between two people as "civil unions", thus eliminating the term "marriage". It's either that or using "marriage" to define a union between two people. Equivalence ≠ equality.

Here are the sellers getting their Craigslist pics. NP by the way.

Who Will Save Your Soul, fake wildlife photogs?

Fabregas is a member in a Happy Mondays cover band, and Messi (and reportedly Puyols) have been moaning incessantly about getting him on their side without any effect. "With Cesc on stage with us, we'll be bigger than the Beatles" is the common refrain.

@EvilDroidClone: Shit on a stick - I'll give the manhole covers on the street a wide berth after watching that.

@YankBoffin: I'd say also the numerous crewmen that got sucked into the turbine might have been a bit of a problem.

I know that pretty much all the Bengals want to be Jefferson, but which one is Maggott?

Ahmadinejad is just pissed off that unlike himself, Paul the Octopus is clearly the people's choice.

@David Hume: Don't feel too bad - the Vatican declared them fish so people could eat them during Lent. So really, it's just a furry shark with buck teeth. Kill that mother with extreme prejudice.

Evidently "Calvente" means "horribly deceptive Spaniard" in English.

@AzureTexan:

I thought Redick was a basketball player, not some fucking born-again nu metal lyricist.