Any newbies or lurkers out there? What’s on your mind?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I’m a newbie. There were 622 people here before me.
Hello b2 and dada. I guess by lenght of time here, you two are the old wise ones in the pond. 🙂
With age does not automatically come wisdom, grasshopper.
Well I’m 54 and I’m still waiting on it.
What is the definition of a “lurker”?
billjpa
someone like me who reads the site all the time but rarely if ever posts.
see ya Pittsburgh!
I take it we’re talking hockey again. 🙂
Maybe now the Versus folks will stop talking about St. Sidney of Crosby long enough to notice there are other players around? grumble Yeah, yeah, I know he probably single-handedly saved hockey in Pittsburgh, but come on gang, let’s not christen him the second coming of Gretzky just yet, okay?
Hoping the Sharks can finish off the Predators tomorrow night without too many of their folks ending up in the hospital…that’s been a rough series.
But he is the best player in hockey… just accept it and it’ll all be nicer for you.
Clearly the young star talent and the “nearing over-the-hill experienced players” were not enough for the Penguins to beat a dramatically more balanced team in Ottawa. That’s a solid team up there, IMO with a great shot to win The Cup. Good luck.
(We’re not terribly distraught over here in Pittsburgh… We’ve emerged from a playoff drought and have the best young talent assembled anywhere in the NHL… Not too different from the 1989 Penguin situation where their inexperience was exposed by Phili in the 2nd round. Had the ‘guins played one of the lesser teams, we might have had a round two, but NJ and Buffalo would have probably exposed them as well, although maybe not as well as the Senators did…)
Only thing on my mind is how to use Larry Johnson’s cogent arguments, next time I go to lunch with the “Wise Old Men”.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/how_many_dead_e.html
I do not want to appear to use the Virginia Polytechnic massacre for political gain. Bur I feel that a point can be made without being disrespectful to the dead, their families and their fellow alums.
Granted, it is a fine line.
and not sure what I think about it:
I can see the possibilities, and for women who are overweight or obese this could make for easier surgeries…but a part of me is reflexively crossing my legs…
of course I’m not advocating anything illegal, but…
happy bicycle day.
Thanks for reminding us. 🙂
Breaking News: GOP Rep. Rick Renzi (AZ-01) has resigned from House Intelligence Committee as a result of FBI raid/investigation. linkage to my AZNetroots diary
Bwahahahaha
Sveet.
Mega-sweet.
Two down. How many to go?
Therefore I am. Lately I’ve been wasting my diaries at other sites on shameless self-promotion.
What’s on my mind right this very moment is history. I’m re-reading Peter Green’s “Alexander of Macedon” for a few refreshers on how megalomaniacs come crashing back down to mortality. I love the way this guy writes: a syncophantic Greek poet is referred to as a “sedulous ape” when he attempts to curry favor with an epic culled from pure fantasy, and Alexander’s lover Hephaistion is obituaried by the phrase “Tall, handsome, spoilt, spiteful, overbearing and fundamentally stupid…”
Demosthenes is also portrayed as one of the more craven and talented beings to walk the earth as well. This whole cast of characters is so over the top that not even Oliver Stone could sensationalize them. Then the king gets poisoned, everything goes to shit, the Macedonians fight like children on the world stage, and 100 years later Rome picks up the pieces.
Though I’m a longtime Kossack. In fact, my UID there is smaller than it is here.