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I will. Thanks everyone!

This is all new to me. My wife and I, as you all know, had a baby in January. So now I am trippin' trying to figure out what to get my wife for mothers day. She is a woman of very modest means, has a Masters in film, and never, EVER buys stuff for herself (unlike me and my jazz CD habit ). So I'm really stressed about getting her the right thing. She likes the same type of music I do, albeit not as veraciously, she uses a MAC G4 laptop, and writes poetry and likes to laugh. Any suggestions?

My theory is cable television. Seem to me like anyone under the age of 30 or so grew up with cable TV. When you have 50 channels and MTV it makes watching a b&w movie much less inviting. I remember growing up in Philly and only having the three majors, PBS, and three UHF stations (17, 29, and 48). From midnight on channel 48 would show old movies - White Heat, Duck Soup, The Bank Dick, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Little Caesar...and groovy 60's flicks too like Omega Man, The Illustrated Man, and Little Big Man. It's cable TV that robbed American youth of 30 IQ points...that's my theory anyway.

Evolution on trial as Kansas debates Adam vs Darwin By Carey Gillam Mon May 2,12:20 PM ET TOPEKA, Kan (Reuters) - Evolution is going on trial in Kansas. Eighty years after a famed courtroom battle in Tennessee pitted religious beliefs about the origins of life against the theories of British scientist Charles Darwin, Kansas is holding its own hearings on what school children should be taught about how life on Earth began. The Kansas Board of Education has scheduled six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin on Thursday in the capitol Topeka. More than two dozen witnesses will give testimony and be subject to cross-examination, with the majority expected to argue against teaching evolution. Many prominent U.S. scientific groups have denounced the debate as founded on fallacy and have promised to boycott the hearings, which opponents say are part of a larger nationwide effort by religious interests to gain control over government. "I feel like I'm in a time warp here," said Topeka attorney Pedro Irigonegaray who has agreed to defend evolution as valid science. "To debate evolution is similar to debating whether the Earth is round. It is an absurd proposition." WIDESPREAD DEBATE Irigonegaray's opponent will be attorney John Calvert, managing director of the Intelligent Design Network, a Kansas organization that argues the Earth was created through intentional design rather than random organism evolution. The group is one of many that have been formed over the last several years to challenge the validity of evolutionary concepts and seek to open the schoolroom door to ideas that humans and other living creatures are too intricately designed to have come about randomly. While many call themselves creationists, who believe that God was the ultimate designer of all life, they are stopping short of saying creationism should be taught in schools. "We're not against evolution," said Calvert. "But there is a lot of evidence that suggests that life is the product of intelligence. I think it is inappropriate for the state to prejudge the question whether we are the product of design or just an occurrence." Debates over evolution are currently being waged in more than a dozen states, including Texas where one bill would allowing for creationism to be taught alongside evolution. Kansas has been grappling with the issue for years, garnering worldwide attention in 1999 when the state school board voted to downplay evolution in science classes. Subsequent elections altered the membership of the school board and led to renewed backing for evolution instruction in 2001. But elections last year gave religious conservatives a 6-4 majority and the board is now finalizing new science standards, which will guide teachers about how and what to teach students. The current proposal pushed by conservatives would not eliminate evolution entirely from instruction, nor would it require creationism be taught, but it would encourage teachers to discuss various viewpoints and eliminate core evolution claims as required curriculum. School board member Sue Gamble, who describes herself as a moderate, said she will not attend the hearings, which she calls "a farce." She said the argument over evolution is part of a larger agenda by Christian conservatives to gradually alter the legal and social landscape in the United States. "I think it is a desire by a minority... to establish a theocracy, both within Kansas and growing to a national level," Gamble said. OLD TESTAMENT TEACHINGS Some evolution detractors say that the belief that humans, animals and organisms evolved over long spans of time is inconsistent with Biblical teachings that life was created by God. The Bible's Old Testament says that God created life on Earth including the first humans, Adam and Eve, in six days. Detractors also argue that evolution is invalid science because it cannot be tested or verified and say it is inappropriately being indoctrinated into education and discouraging consideration of alternatives. But defenders say that evolution is not totally inconsistent with Biblical beliefs, and it provides a foundational concept for understanding many areas of science, including genetics and molecular biology. The theory of evolution came to prominence in 1859 when Darwin published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," and it was the subject of a 1925 trial in Tennessee in which teacher John Thomas Scopes was accused of violating a ban against teaching evolution. Kansas School Board chairman Steve Abrams said the hearings are less about religion than they are about seeking the best possible education for the state's children. "If students... do not understand the weaknesses of evolutionary theory as well as the strengths, a grave injustice is being done to them," Abrams said.

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ME TOO!!!!

No, but seriously folks....

I love the Marx brother too! I hope to share them with my son some day. I have the MGM boxset and am hoping to get the Paramount collection soon (although my birthday came and went in March with no luck). The Marx brothers are timeless. I just hope my son is with it enough to be able to see the brilliance in them even though their films were made 70 years before he was born. Thanks for sharing Al.

73 AB's and no HRs, 7 RBI and a .247 BA. You wanna talk about curses (or karma really)...When Griffey was playing in his final season for the Mariners he demanded to be traded. He had a no trade clause and could only be traded with his OK. Fine. But then the stupid ass announces publicly that he'll only go to the Reds, essentially tying the Mariners hands putting them in a position of having to except whatever the Reds were willing to give, which turned out to be Mike Cameron - an exceptional centerfielder but no where close to the 5-tool Griffey. To me, the problems he's faced in Cincinnati are payback for being such an asshole to the team that brought him up through their system, bent over backward to accommodate him and offered him more money than Cincinnati did in order to keep him. Poor Griffey, could have been one of the true elites, now he'll just barely make it into the hall....and you can bet your ass they'll put a Mariners cap on that plaque.

so ..whats so wrong with THAT ??? why do you think I moved here from texas ???? Nothing wrong at all. Just wanted to give my right leaning friend a heads up is all.

Chris, just a warning. The Pacific Northwest, although one of the most beautiful regions of the country, is as blue as it gets (unless as was mentioned earlier you want to live east of the Cascades). Washington State for example has a Democrat Governor, both Senators are Democrat, both houses of state government firmly in Dem hands and we also have some of the most progressive Representatives in the House (McDermott & Jay Inslee). So, we welcome you to Seattle with open arms, but be warned...you just might become a liberal.

You see, Washington State is firmly in the hands of the Democrats now. Both Senators, the Governorship, and both State Houses. We used to be number one for depression...back in the Slade days when our ecomony was busted and nothing worked. Now with the Dems in charge jobs are avaiable, the city is cleaner, the roads are getting fixed and cigars are cheaper. It's as simple as that.

I guess Seattle is neither happy or depressed. I think we're all still in a state of shock over the election. Now if they were to look at coffee consumption.

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agreed. both teams are certainly due Yeah, but there's a reason why the White Sox will never be allowed by the Baseball Gods to win a World Series. They're the only ones to throw a World Series, and they are forever cursed because of it. I'd argue trading Babe Ruth was a more heinous baseball crime than a bunch of poorly paid, poorly treated country boys throwing a world series. Comiskey was to blame for the Black Sox scandal, and the White Sox stadium doesn't even bear his name anymore. Besides, Shoeless Joe paid the ultimate price for the Sox. It's time.

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So much for the Weightwatchers....

Of course Chuck started his own label and documented some the most important jazz music of the second part of the twentieth century, so.........

I am in the group Reptet, we have a self-titled CD out on Monktail Records. I'm also in Non Grata (Monktail Records). And I was in a funk group called Phat Sidy Smokehouse which released a few records in the mid-ninties and they play us as lead-in music on the sports station here (950 AM - KJR) in Seattle.

Same here with "Friends" and "Sex in..." but there's a lot of stuff like that for me. Never been in or had a McDonalds or Burger King or Starbucks...never seen the complete Wizard of Oz, etc.......... --- Now playing: The Vandermark 5 - Gyllene So what you're saying is you are completely devoid of anything that connects you to mainstream American life. In a way I envy you, but in another, unless we're talking about very specific topics, I can't take anything you say seriously.

I've never listen to these entire records (all on the top 20 selling albums of all time): AC/DC: Back in Black Fleetwood Mac: Rumours Eagles: Hotel California Bruce Springsteen: Born in the U.S.A (or 'Born to Run' for that matter) Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction As for jazz, That's much harder, let's see.... Never heard- Take Five: Dave Brubeck (I don't think I've ever sat through the whole thing) Rosemary Clooney with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Blue Rose (would like to hear it) Oregon: Music of Another Present Era (never had the opportunity) Stan Kenton: New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm (Kenton bugs me) Can't think of any more.