Given UIGEA difficulties and the shutdown of all the methods I knew to get money online, I decided some time ago to stop playing online. On a lark a bit back, I logged on to my PokerStars account and, wonder of wonders, found $52 there. I have traditionally not done very well online, and decided when I saw this to see if I could figure out why, ( Read more... )

A quote from yesterday's London times: "The single best way to improve road safety in this country would be to install a six-inch metal spike in the center of everyone's steering wheel." Internalize consequences, baby ( Read more... )

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3714401.ece

Funniest quote on this scandal from an editorial a couple of days back: "PJ O'Rourke once noted that nobody dreams of being tied up and ravished by someone dressed as a liberal."

I ended up at the Vic for a while this weekend around work commitments. While waiting for a 5-5 PLH game, I sat in a capped-buyin 1-3 NLH game. Going into the hand, I have 610 quid and my opponent slightly less ( Read more... )

Perhaps as importantly, would you order the reporter that told everyone that he was the anthrax source to reveal her sources ( Read more... )

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This is a potential case where bad facts make worse law. It's impossible to feel sympathetic for this idiot, but convicting him of a crime really sticks in my craw ( Read more... )

There is an interesting situation currently on 2p2. Mason mischaracterized the history of PaulP's banning. I didn't remember it quite correctly but ended up going back and looking at the history -- and then posed an aggressive question on it to Mason that questions whether or not he's lying. One mod took my post and merged in to an existing ( Read more... )

Has "waterboarding" ever been used in the same sentence as "quarter pounder" before? How can this proposition be proved? Google turns up no ready examples, yet my gut says it's virtually 100% that the answer is yes.

The XO rocks, seriously, and it's not close. I've been a cheese connoisseur for many years, but this stuff is absolutely delicious. The taste just doesn't get old. I defy anyone to recommend a better cheese.

http://www.beemstercheese.us/