minx

i saw this movie yesterday and read the book quite sometime ago. ultimately it seems hard to judge whether it was right or wrong. fact is no matter what solutions might have been possible, they were both exhausted and dehydrated thus probably not thinking as clearly as they might in other circumstances. i think looking at in terms of right and wrong might be a bit too rigid. i'm sure we'd all like to think we could've found a different solution but most of us probably wouldn't. regardless of simon's failures after that climb, his lack of knowledge/ability to pass that knot; i don't think he was wrong for cutting the rope. the one thing i did wonder about after reading the book: was simpson's staunch defense of simon's actions in someway related to the enormous emotions he felt for simon when the latter finally found him outside of camp?

hmmmm....you clearly never met my mom!!!

it's easy for him to be nothing

hroark is nothing if not easy

i think we might be

i'm pretty sure he still uses fabric softener when he skips climbing to do laundry.

i'm pretty sure hroark wears a couple of girly earrings

lucinda williams

interesting. but has it happened where the party as whole selected someone else, not that the candidate didn't run again.

has there ever been a case when the incumbent has not been his party's nominee to run for president? in theory, couldn't the republican party select someone other than Shrub to be their candidate for 2004?

this morning - nine inch nails yesterday - john prine, rhcp no accounting for taste eh?

you know i'm a big fan of muffy. what i was wondering is where she pulled the specific 3% number. if there was a credible source behind a number that low, i'd go out of my way to find it and study up a bit. i've assumed that much like our state sales tax basic necessities such as groceries would be exempt so that it would not result in an undue burden on those with less.

no sarcasm intended here: where did you come up w/3% as a suitable number. i've always thought a flat tax might not be a bad way to go but i've leaned more towards a national sales tax in lieu of an income tax.

miss backpacker competition some excerpts: SYDNEY (Reuters) - It's a long way from diamante tiaras, satin sashes and a heartfelt desire for world peace, but competition at Miss Backpacker 2004 is hot. At the KingsX Hotel in Sydney's notorious red light district, around 200 mainly British backpackers lured by the promise of "ravishing bosomed beauties" crowd the low-lit bar to see four girls battle it out in the latest heat of Miss Backpacker and the chance to win A$1,000 ($781). "My mum's a big feminist, if she knew I was doing this, she'd kill me," said Fernandez, who lists her hobbies as drinking and soccer. Huge cheers erupt when statuesque British blonde Vix Stevens, fresh from a wet T-shirt contest in Queensland, takes the swimwear section by storm as she rips off her black bikini top and springs into a topless handstand. "Goddamit, you're a pretty cow aren't you, just stay a meter and a half from me, you're making me look like a truck driver," boomed Miss Penny, wearing a red sequined dress, as while introducing nervous 18-year-old Philippa Craig from Reading. As the market gets more picky, the backpacker industry has been forced to raise its standards. And many businesses have found there's plenty of money to be made. The Wake Up! hostel near Sydney's central station, one of Australia's biggest, is packed with 500 backpackers paying a minimum of A$25 a night to stay in the hostel with its seven themed levels and its own range of smiley face merchandise.

jon- STFU! that's just a low blow

ahhh gee thanks! you're so thoughtful thinker. yeah, those laces sure do make those dancin shoes adjustable. you must have pretty small feet though...

jon- i think you just found a new autosig.

shoot! i wondered where i left those!

i've wondered the same thing. now i know.

Yes, dancing shoes. i think he meant

yeah and you're about one toe from being over the line mister. i'll rip your eyes out and serve them up in a nice pesto sauce and bottle of wine if you don't STFU and behave yourself.

paristology will do that to you. there should be a warning before you register for that course. it's not for the faint of heart or stomach

i'm confused. why don't you folks just keep spraying as you were? not like anythings changed about spray except trask being gone.

You might be one of the cry babies trying to soothe the subject of a whining minx. WWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i just want the spray to go back to the way it was: when the vulgarity involved some shred of wit and the pointless debates were argued with a fervor normally reserved for a baptist minister's sunday sermon.

very good einstein but you forgot to show your work.