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I can't tell the difference from one brand to the next.

Quick passes Vachon as the all time leader in wins for the franchise. Congrats, Quickie. I think he needs another couple of shutouts to pass Vachon in that stat, also.

"Pissing off professional athletes and then whining like a baby when they refuse to talk me ever again: the TJ Simers Story"

i agree.

the raiders are already talking to his people.

fair enough, as we beat use a couple of weeks ago in some tournament.

Snuck into another house, didja?

Nice recovery, although you're not fooling anyone. But it's okay. We don't judge here.

It's okay. We're a football school.Crap.

I wonder how much they manipulate voting results. I haven't heard anything specific, but I wonder how they're involved in counting votes and reporting results.

That was interesting.

They've been searching an area the size of Colorado. Several planes in the area searching.

Fixed.

Crimea, the first domino.

And the centers and forwards all look like they're about 28, herein after referred to as the Greg Oden effect.

the next presidential election is hilary's to lose. unfortunately, she'll win.

Tiger Woods withdraws from Arnie's tournament due to back issues.

the only thing missing is a big giant Gulf Oil sign behind the hot dog stand.

looks like it's all done now. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/17/290788338/u-s-and-eu-ready-sanctions-crimea-asks-to-join-russia

taco bell used to use it. i liked it.

probably stickboy's.

i'm okay with the school asking the kid to keep the lunch pail at home. you want to de-escalate the situation. however, i hope that the kids who did the bullying are appropriately punished and counseled for their actions. at some point it should be okay for this kid or any other to bring whatever the heck kind of lunch box they want and know that they're okay to do so.

being in a private school and private school system, we are not required (yet) to teach CCSS. we count that as a good thing because we've heard almost nothing but complaints from other teachers about them. our big emphasis has been on Differentiated Instruction, with our system paying for x number of teachers to attend the big convention in las vegas every summer. i went a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, but it can be overwhelming. the amount of time required to invest in grading and reporting (we saw an example of a report card that was insane, to say the least) was prohibitive. there are several good things about DI, most involving more than one way to skin a cat, and it sparked several ideas to try and a desire to be more adventurous in what we do in the classroom. as for CCSS, it seems that the loudest complaint from educators is that it's only to teach to the state test, and that it doesn't seem to encourage much creativity. i don't have any experience with it, but this seems to be at the crux of what i keep hearing.

when i was a kid, i used to pour through the sports page, reading as much as i could but spending even more time on box scores and standings. on my own, i figured out how to calculate how many games back a team was in the standings. in fact, i calculated two different ways to figure it out, all without any help from anyone or from a book or a baseball broadcast.

i'm actually going to be in the ashville area this weekend. i'll see what i can do.