Re: Steelers!

2006-02-05 Thread Doug Pensinger
George wrote: I'm a west coast fan in general, having been born in Eugene, Oregon and spending my Junior High School and High School in Southern California, so I was leaning toward Seattle. But Jerome Bettis started as a Ram, so I wasn't completely bummed. However, I hesitate to blame the o

Re: Steelers!

2006-02-05 Thread G. D. Akin
Doug wrote: > I had no real attachment to either team, but I thought Seattle got a raw > deal on the officiating; a ticky tack offensive interfearance call that > negated one touchdown and a phantom hold that negated another. > > I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The officiating was uniformly hor

Re: Steelers!

2006-02-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: Yay! Although I normally shun television, with rare exceptions such the State of the Union... I got my overdose of popular culture today and watch the Steelers, my old hometown team, get one for the thumb. More than 20 years ago, I was covering the celebrations downtown (or

Re: New 'planet' bigger than Pluto

2006-02-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: "I keep on talking about my object as that thing we found or 2003 UB313, which is a horrible name," said Mike Brown, a Cal Tech planetary scientist who discovered the object with colleagues Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz of Yale Univers

Re: Steelers!

2006-02-05 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:07:32 -0800, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yay! Although I normally shun television, with rare exceptions such the State of the Union... I got my overdose of popular culture today and watch the Steelers, my old hometown team, get one for the thumb. More than 20

Steelers!

2006-02-05 Thread Nick Arnett
Yay! Although I normally shun television, with rare exceptions such the State of the Union... I got my overdose of popular culture today and watch the Steelers, my old hometown team, get one for the thumb. More than 20 years ago, I was covering the celebrations downtown (or 'dahntahn') and it wa

New 'planet' bigger than Pluto

2006-02-05 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/02/01/tenth.planet/index.html German astrophysicists have concluded a space body located in the outer reaches of the solar system has a diameter 435 miles (700 kilometers) larger than Pluto, the smallest planet. Their research puts more pressure on the Interna

China Leaps Forward (with nuclear power)

2006-02-05 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
The people's republic is embarking on the world's biggest nuclear building spree. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11080908/site/newsweek/ American businessman Edwin deSteiguer Snead went to China seeking a future for nuclear energy. He's pretty sure he found it. On a recent bitterly cold day, Sn

Bombing Mastermind Escapes

2006-02-05 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.click2houston.com/news/6757988/detail.html?treets=hou&tml=hou_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=hou_natlbreak_1_09110102052006 http://tinyurl.com/9t8px Interpol said Sunday that a man considered to be a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing is among those who have escaped from a prison in Yemen. Th

Cringely on wiretapping

2006-02-05 Thread Nick Arnett
>From this week's Robert X. Cringely column at PBS: Now for a final word on wiretapping, the NSA, and you, which were the primary topics of my last two columns. This last thought comes from an old friend of mine who is conservative in the very best sense and knows what he is writing about: "Traff