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Argh! I've had the very same problem for about two months now. I would take a week off from soccer and try playing again, but it just got worse. I've quit all running activities for the last month and it's getting better, though very slowly. Climbing or biking doesn't bother it, so I just do more of that now. I'd love to hear about some stretches that might help.

It's gotta be very discontinuous by now. In mid-July it was already spanned a few hundred feet up by a twenty-foot band of muddy scree.

That type of climbing sucks. I always want to do Sickle Crack as a hand traverse. There's a brief section of that stuff on NR Stuart where JayB placed a nut that took me long minutes to clean, balancing in a crouch on an inch-wide flake yarding and poking at the stupid thing... ugh. Nice job on the climb 'n stuff.

The guitar was visible (it's pretty hard to hide), dunno about the laptop. We talked with the campground host for a while about the thefts. Apparently someone had their car broken into at the campground parking lot (beyond the gate) during the day, too. And some people have had their tents searched for valuables. The host said that it's local meth-heads who do the thieving. The Mounties caught one pair of guys a while back, but as soon as they got out of jail (a few days), they started stealing again. A short jail stay is apparently not working as a deterrent. We talked to a cop who happened to be patrolling the campground and his attitude could be summed up as "not my job." I've heard there's a campground near Squamish that has someone watching over it all day. Anyone know if this is the case, and if so, where is it? I'd certainly pay an extra buck or two per day at the climber's campground if it would pay for a full-time attendant/guard. Otherwise, how about hiring some local loggers to hide in the bushes with 2x4s?

Short for "flat hueco"? "Flaccid cornea"? Google says: "FLACCO. Flacco the Elder and Flacco the Younger, Lipan-Apache chiefs, were both friends of the Texas settlers and were frequently used as scouts and guides against the Comanche Indians and the Mexicans."

WTF is "flaco"? Is that like "Falco"?

Found on the ground underneath Fist. Identify it and it's yours.

I got sick of reading whole paragraphs like this in Yuji Hirayama's article: Awesome photos, though. I haven't read a single one of Steve Seats' stories all the way through. is right.

I just read Pat Ament's short story about climbing Chasm View Wall with Layton Kor... it was pretty funny. Maybe the guy should have stuck to short stories.

Yeah, but those are really Wien (German) and Firenze (Italian). Does anyone know how to pronounce Vedauwoo?

Wow, quite a leap to blame the whole of Islam for the actions of an extremist few! I guess we can blame all white people for things like this, then: From their use of violent methods, we can determine that white people only respect power and violence, so we have no choice but to exterminate them all.

Not too good at the ol' reading comprehension, huh?

Hey Lars! Howard Dean never said such a thing: http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=138711

Only dirty hippies ride bikes when they could drive instead, so Bush could not have possibly given this as his reason for purchasing the vanilla custard: What do those liberals at CNN think we are, a bunch of simpletons? Hey cracked, guess what? MoveOn.org is not a news organization!

Hmm... maybe Sean Hannity doesn't count as a biased member of the media since what he practices can't really be considered "journalism": http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=138711

Lars, be careful! Don't let your knee hit you in the face when it jerks. And show some respect for Bill!

Thanks, JayB! PP, you should really read that Alterman article, it's very good.

A Russian official quoted here calls them "bandits", though elsewhere the dreaded "hostage-takers" is used. The same Russian calls the hostages "hostages", if you can believe it. From the New York Times, even! The lead story! Oh the audacity! http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/international/europe/03CND-RUSS.html?hp I'd say this one's neutrally-biased. "Bandits" + "hostage-takers" = 0. This single data point neutralizes your single data point. Begin presenting your case anew, if you please. I would search foxnews.com for evidence of right-wing bias, but it's not responsive at the moment. Probably brought down by e-jihadists or liberal hackers.

Jeez, man, relax! Have a , kick a "granola", whatever it takes.

Since Bill Clinton is known for being such a humorless, brooding man, clearly the only thing to do is bow our heads and pray. If you laugh at death, one can only imagine the lack of searing existential pain that you will experience on your deathbed.

If PP wants to prove that there is a pervasive left-wing bias in the media, I welcome him to do so. Until then, I'll have to keep working on my proof that there is no extra-terrestrial life in the universe. I'm almost done, I just have 6 quadrillion more cubic light-years of space to explore.

Bwahahaha! The ol' "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" argument gets me every time! Rummy is a comic genius!

Yeah, screw you guys! The classy thing to do would be to get together with our "redneck friends" to laugh at "granolas" getting beaten by police at some protest. Good times, and Jesus would approve, too. That guy was always going to stonings 'n shit back in the day.

Liberal media bias? Stop, you're killing me!

PP is nothing if not intellectual and dishonest. Sorry, no more personal attacks, just had to get that one out there. That Walter Duranty thing is sure fuct up. Thank goodness we have a free press so that everyone else can try to write and report the truth.