The Saints traded a conditional 2009 pick for Jonathan Vilma.
Here’s a homoerotic photo for your viewing pleasure:
Should today be a holiday or something, since it only happens once every four years?
Tonight we’re supposed to be able to see a total lunar eclipse. It should start at 9pm and reach totality and 10pm.
Do you care?
Happy Birthday, Poopy!
Happy birthday to the creator of Buggs Piggy.
Reggie’s lawyer needs a bodyguard, and he brings pistols to his desposition.
A lawyer for a sports marketer who is suing football star Reggie Bush said he and his client walked out of a deposition Tuesday after a bodyguard for Bush’s attorney opened his jacket to expose a pistol.
Reggie, what’s up? This whole story is getting odder and odder. Hopefully this is all resolved soon and before it becomes a bigger stupid thing.
Make this instead:
It’s the right thing to do, and the tasty way to do it.
What the hell is it? I can’t figure it out.
Remember several years back when everybody got a check to “stimulate the economy”? I do, and I also remember do my taxes the next year and having to subtract that money from my refund. So I wasn’t getting more money from the government, I was getting money that I was going to get anyway when I filed my taxes. I got a cash advance. I guess that’s nice, but I don’t think that is what it was sold as, and I was disappointed not to get a refund at the normal time.
So now they are doing it again. But I can’t figure out if it’s the same thing. They are going to give me some money. Hooray. When I do my 2008 taxes, am I going to have to subtract this, like I did last time? Or, is the government sending me some of the money I’ve already paid in taxes back? That’s what a “rebate” is.  That’s what they are calling it. But I think they called the last one a rebate too. Obviously, a rebate of “money that has already left my pocket that I wasn’t supposed to get back” is preferable just “getting money I was already entitled to sooner.” (From the point of view of my finances, of course, not the US government’s.)
If anyone can figure it out, please let me know. I can’t figure it out from reading the text of the bill, and my Google-fu is failing me.
The question is: “Is the new tax rebate free money from the government or is it an early refund check?”
I just spent about a half an hour explaining this mysterious object to one of my students, a college junior or senior:
They were a completely foreign object to him. He was amazed that they had two sides. He was appalled at the notion of fast-forwarding to get to the next song. Rightfully so. The re-usability seemed to be its only redeeming quality. All in all, they just didn’t seem like a decent way to record or distribute music.
He also refused to believe that a record could sound better than a CD or digital file.  I had to explain the whole analog-digital difference.  He had never held a record in his hands, he had only seen them in movies, and had never realized that they could hold information on both sides. Apparently, you never flip a record over in the movies.
It was one of the most fun conversations I’ve had in a long time.
