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1. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:12 am

   (I love that Steve Jobs will change the world on the same day most folks now realize our President is same ‘ol same ‘ol— Jimmy Carter….)
   I hear Obama’s gonna be FIGHTING for us….
   I love that one novice, State Senator has pulled back the curtain another.
   Is Gitmo still open?
   Really? They only interrogated the underwear bomber for 50 minutes?
   Really? Holder didn’t speak to Obama, Congress or NYC officials before deciding to hold the 9/11 trial in NYC?
   One year later and I feel so much safer!!!
   And did he really need his teleprompter to speak at a school (even though it wasn’t to kids, I know…)
   How’s that trillion dollar stimulus working out??
   FIGHT… JOBS….
   (And NO ONE mention Health Care. No one. You got that?)
2. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:13 am

   I eagerly await the further details of Obama’s plan to rebuild the Republican party.
3. POSTED BY Mrs. Martta123  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:13 am

   I think Steve Jobs should present the Apple tablet to the Chosen People from the top of a mountain somewhere.
4. POSTED BY Mrs. Martta123  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:20 am

   SOTU Drinking Game:
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/state-of-the-union-drinki_n_436932.html
5. POSTED BY Blu  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:20 am

   Any bets on the name for the new tablet?
   iMoses maybe?
6. POSTED BY Right of Center™  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:23 am

   I look forward to watching the touchy, thin-skinned tool as it reboots.
7. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:28 am

   I eagerly await the further details of Obama’s plan to rebuild the Republican party.
   Right of Center‚Ñ¢
   The Republican party got themselves into needing this rebuild in the first place.
   They’ll need to patch together those odd bedfellows, big oil and Christian fundamentalists, once again, said coalition having disintegrated.
8. POSTED BY Iceman  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:31 am

   I’m anxious to see the Tablet…wonder if the screen saver will be a picture of Obama in robes?
9. POSTED BY Nellie  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:32 am

   I don’t think my TV screen is wide enough for Obama’s ears.
10. POSTED BY herbeverschmel  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:39 am

    Make that 3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Nets -v- Clippers at 7:30
11. POSTED BY Kit Schackner  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:42 am

    Prof,
    Offensive hostile gloating tone aside, could you just once post something single spaced, without caps? Your sentences are hardly pearls worth individually examining. They consume more space than they’re worth.
12. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:47 am

    Nelllie, I’m surprised at you poking fun at Obama’s ears. It’s not in synch with your usual kindly self.
    Sorry about your TV.
    I guess you’ll have to follow the latest news about Christie
    on the radio.
13. POSTED BY monongahela  |  January 27, 2010 @ 10:53 am

    I guess the Republicans are rebuilding their party with activists going retro and working in the Watergate style. So who really was beind those crazy kids trying to bug a U.S. Senator’s phone…hmmm????
14. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:01 am

    What has me excited is my new Taylor GS-K guitar. It’s made from Hawaiian Koa (back and sides) Sitka spruce top with the expression system and a deluxe case.
    I still have room in my office closet for a couple more guitars. Anyone interested in a 1975 Martin D18, refurbished in Nazareth with new frets, neck reset, new pick guard and bridge/saddle adjustment. It can be yours for $3,000 dollars!
15. POSTED BY walleroo  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:02 am

    I think I’m going to be sick.
16. POSTED BY ScubaNJ  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:02 am

    Don’t you people get it…now O’Bummer can use the iTablet instead of the teleprompter.
17. POSTED BY ScubaNJ  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:05 am

    “Prof,
    Offensive hostile gloating tone aside, could you just once post something single spaced, without caps? Your sentences are hardly pearls worth individually examining. They consume more space than they’re worth.”
    Personally I like the Prof’s posts the way they are.
18. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:18 am

    (Thank YOU, ScubaNJ.)
    As for you, Kit.
    I prefer to write in short sentences with many paragraphs because I find it easier to read.
    You, however, may find dense paragraphs fun to work your way through on a blog.
    Not me.
    I like the look of a post with some, well….
    SPACE…
    Maybe it’s me.
    Moreover, if you are worried about me taking too much space on your computer, I would only suggest you get up to speed as most new computers have more than enough memory and drive space to handle a CENTURIES worth of my rambling.
    REALLY.
    A
    WHOLE
    CENTURY
    OF
    ME
    POSTING
    AT
    LEAST
    25
    POSTS
    A
    DAY
19. POSTED BY Mike91  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:21 am

    I eagerly await the further details of Obama’s plan to rebuild the Republican party.
    2012 is only two years away. Who’s the leading contender for Republicans? Huckabee?
    Heck, who’s the leadership in the Republican party? Steele? ha ha ha ha ha ha. What’s more embarrasing to admit, that its Rush, or that its Beck?
    Crowley ran a terrible, terrible campaign and Dick Armey’s army of idiots were out there shouting. Democrats will lose a bunch of seats in the midterms, probably. And you can make all the snarky comments you want about teleprompters (boy, do those sting! Ouch).
    It doesn’t change the fact that Republicans themselves don’t know what they stand for, other than they’re against whatever the Democrats want to do.
20. POSTED BY NoCorzine  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:32 am

    I can see my stock portfolio plummeting with every word that comes out of Obama’s mouth tonight. He has been a big disappointment so far. Wasted a year on a bad healthcare bill that was vague at best. The tax on banks is also a populist move that when looked at closely also makes no sense. Hopefully he comes to his senses and concentrates his time on jobs and the economy. In case you are keeping score, Obama has fulfilled zero campaign promises in year 1.
21. POSTED BY Mike91  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:34 am

    I prefer to write in short sentences with many paragraphs because I find it easier to read.
    Except that more than one person has commented that it doesn’t make it easier to read. Which leads one to the conclusion that you just like to read your own posts. Look up solipsism when you get the chance. While you’re at it, you’ll pass petulant. That’d be a good one too.
22. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:43 am

    91,
    Your rambled prose was way too dense for my feeble mind.
    And those BIG words?
    Too much for me.
    Did it take you long to find them online?
    Or do you use them in your everyday speech?
    Dems be some BIG words for one with such a limited way.
23. POSTED BY Nellie  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:46 am

    I guess we now know the real reason they invented wide screen TVs.
24. POSTED BY Mike91  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:48 am

    Dems be some BIG words for one with such a limited way.
    Is that a sentence? Seems like left something out there. I apologize for commenting on your writing if English is a second language. You’re obviously more fluent in English than I am in whatever you’re used to speaking!
    And I reiterate Spiro’s comment, which summed it up better than I did: “Your sentences are hardly pearls worth individually examining.”
25. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:51 am

    It doesn’t change the fact that Republicans themselves don’t know what they stand for, other than they’re against whatever the Democrats want to do.
    Mike91
    The Republicans know exactly what they stand for – Jesus no matter what, and corporate profits 24/7.
    Neither has much traction with voters these days, so they’ll need to dress up their platform a bit.
26. POSTED BY monongahela  |  January 27, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    “Neither has much traction with voters these days, so they’ll need to dress up their platform a bit. ”
    That’s why they have junior senator Beefcake from Massachusetts.
27. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:02 pm

    Dress up a beefcake, that’s a good one, M
28. POSTED BY kyle41181  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:03 pm

    Mike91
    “Seems like left something out there.” Is that a sentence?
    Elitist pig……….
    “They consume more space than they’re worth.”
    Glad Kit is the decider of how much prof or anyone’s posts are worth. All hail the Queen!
29. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:08 pm

    Mike91 wrote: And I reiterate Spiro’s comment, which summed it up better than I did: “Your sentences are hardly pearls worth individually examining.”
    So both Mike and Spiro write so much about how bad my posts/writing are…..
    How odd that you both enjoy reading and responding them.
    How about this: ignore me.
    Both of you.
    Please.
    My words are not worth your time.
    So don’t comment on them/me/my dumb jokes or anything else associated with the prof.
    Because even though it will hurt me more than you, I’ll work through the pain of your loss… Somehow… I’ll get past it…
30. POSTED BY Mike91  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:26 pm

    How odd that you both enjoy reading and responding them.
    Eh. Fish in a barrel.
    How about this: ignore me.
    I’d like to. You bring such attention to yourself however, with the goofy format of your posts. Which is another point, I guess.
    So don’t comment on them/me/my dumb jokes or anything else associated with the prof.
    Third person! The ego soldiers on, I see.
31. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:32 pm

    Prof, what are you on about? I didn’t respond to your comments at all. I didn’t even read them. Time to brush up on your reading comprehension.
32. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:36 pm

    Jeez Mike,
    You couldn’t go 1/2 an hour without thinking of me…
    the prof feels special.
    So do I.
    And from his/my perch in the west wing of his/my palatial UPPER Montclair estate, I welcome you back.
    Ego?
    Did you just notice it?
    Is
    THIS
    the
    attention
    you
    speak??
    I
    BET
    you’re
    still
    reading
    this
    and
    I’m
    just
    writing
    whatever
    comes
    to
    my
    head
    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
33. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:38 pm

    Ugh,
    Spiro, stay with us.
    Read your pal Mike’s comment from 11:48– he ropes you into this.
    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
34. POSTED BY kyle41181  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:42 pm

    Spiro is correct Prof, Mike91 mis-quoted him…..
35. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:46 pm

    Mike actually quoted Kim. And prof, I’m shocked you didn’t double check your sources! You can grade my papers anytime, professor.
36. POSTED BY kyle41181  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:48 pm

    Spiro, it was Kit not “kim” as you state above.
    You should triple check your sources
37. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 12:55 pm

    duly noted.
38. POSTED BY cathar  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:01 pm

    So it’s come to this, a debate about the quality (and spacing issues) of prof’s prose?
    Hardly a “vital community exchange” from any ideological direction. But you’re kinda getting what you asked for on another thread today here, prof. (Though it’s also hardly coming from prose stylists themselves on the level of Anthony Trollope.)
    I’d love to grade your papers, Spiro T. Repetitive, turgid, predicatable – straight on till the “morning” of a C-minus, in general.
39. POSTED BY cathar  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:06 pm

    (I did mean “predictable” above but mistyped “predicatable.” On the other hand, given that it’s Spiro T., maybe predicatable isn’t all that bad a choice.)
    The prof, however, would be hell on typesetters in the old days if he actually turned in a manuscript which resembles his posts today.
40. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:11 pm

    I’m sure you’d relish the chance, cathar, but the prof. hasn’t declined yet.
41. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:14 pm

    My dad set type. He was also an Air Force flight instructor, an artist and a writer, good friend to Jack Chancellor and the scion of a wealthy steel family.
    He died from alcoholism at 46. The last time I saw him alive was when he left our home one evening in 1957. The next time was in 1975 on a slab at the NYC morgue. He looked like a dead insect on that table. It was one of the most gruesome sights I’ve ever seen. My mother barely looked as she said “Yes, that’s him”.
    One half an hour later, my mom, brother and I were at a neighborhood watering hole drinking ourselves silly as we tried to erase the emotions coursing through us.
    Top that..
42. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:17 pm

    Very tragic and sad, MB.
43. POSTED BY cathar  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:21 pm

    Yes, MellonBrush, a very sad post above. Like something out of James T. Farrell or J.F. Powers, and almost painful to read as someone who doesn’t personally know too many posters in he first place..
44. POSTED BY Kit Schackner  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:26 pm

    Yes, and refreshingly good prose, MB.
45. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:31 pm

    Alcoholism is a mystifying disease. There is no cure. Without treatment, those who suffer from it will either die or become institutionalized. The treatment begins when a sufferer admits to themselves that they are powerless to overcome it without help from an agency that is greater than themselves.
    I suffer from this malady and am now watching my brother die from it. It’s almost too painful to bear.
    If it weren’t for AA, music and it’s pallative effect on me, and the love of my wife, I’m sure I would have succumbed long ago.
46. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 1:33 pm

    My prayers are with you, MB
47. POSTED BY KatebirdRex  |  January 27, 2010 @ 2:09 pm

    MB, I don’t know you but I can tell you’re a good man. I’m so glad you’ve found the things that give meaning to your life and that help you fight the good fight against the seduction of the bottle.
    And the world (especially this part of the world) needs more people who still know that love, music, and god are things worthy of being central in our lives (far more so than politics, money, new gadgets, and recreational conflict).
48. POSTED BY monty  |  January 27, 2010 @ 2:32 pm

    TO Mellonbrush2:
    Wow. Glad you are still with us. What a vivid and emotionally wrenching portrait you have depicted. Stay strong.
    TO PROF: Don’t change a thing.
    I enjoy your posts just the way they are. And actually, I do find them easier on my eyes to read. But what I like best about them is that they are your signature. As for the 3rd person references, that is also a part of your signature *style*. Whether we agree on a topic or not…The Prof’s got style. And I might add that when we disagree, I don’t recall ever being insulted with name calling or intellect bashing of any kind.
49. POSTED BY RaeVen  |  January 27, 2010 @ 2:35 pm

    What a bad name. Guess Jobs is trying to compete against Stayfree and Always?
50. POSTED BY monongahela  |  January 27, 2010 @ 2:53 pm

    I thought the same thing Raeven. What’s next, the Maxi I-pad? Perhaps with wings?
    I wonder if there were any women in the brainstorming session that came up with that name.
51. POSTED BY Debbie Galant  |  January 27, 2010 @ 2:54 pm

    Couldn’t have been any women in that room.
52. POSTED BY monty  |  January 27, 2010 @ 3:00 pm

    It does have a lot of functions…Maybe that’s one of ‘em.
53. POSTED BY walleroo  |  January 27, 2010 @ 3:01 pm

    That’s quite a story, Mellon. It’s almost enough to make me forget the daily torture of reading the prof’s double spacing… Sorry. Just kidding, prof, you know I love you like a brother.
    If you haven’t already done so, Mellon, you should read David Wallace’s tome Infinite Jest, much of which is devoted to AA. There are worse philosophies than living from one day to the next. Wallace, I think, makes the larger point that it’s all any of us do, really, and there’s nobility in it.
54. POSTED BY Mike91  |  January 27, 2010 @ 3:04 pm

    The iPhone is wildly successful (I love mine) because its a phone primarily, but it does all this other cool stuff. The iPad is a what that does all this other stuff? Is it primarily a Kindle? Is it like a PSP? I just don’t know how they’re going to position it.
    I guess they couldn’t use ‘iTablet,’ since a tablet computer has already been used. ‘iPad’ is no great shakes though.
55. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  January 27, 2010 @ 3:07 pm

    I’ll try out the professor’s lesson of the day.
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56. POSTED BY Nellie  |  January 27, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

    Mellon, Thank you for sharing so openly and honestly. I suspect that your life–and the battles you’ve waged–have been an inspiration to others. I am proud to know you, even if it’s only in a cyber way.
57. POSTED BY Carl Bergmanson  |  January 28, 2010 @ 12:36 am

    Re: The iPad:
    iPad
58. POSTED BY walleroo  |  January 28, 2010 @ 12:49 am

    I don’t know why I didn’t see “vaginal firewall protection” in the press release Apple gave out today.

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