If the Lakers do not repeat this year it will be completely the fault of this coke-addled, horse-face bimbo distracting Lamar's easily confused mind.
On PTI today, Dan Lebatard commented that this marriage is between the 3rd best Lakers and 3rd best Kardashian.
CCSU is a piece of crap school. It's close to the West Hartford mall and most of their students still hang around the mall quoting Mallrats.
@Karlifornia: I don't have the slightest inclination to see Jennifer's Body because I agree wholeheartedly with Drew's post and I'm not a fan of slasher film, but I kind of would entertain Cloudy with a chance of meatballs because it's a silly, stupid movie marketed and portrayed as such. Also, when I was really broke and hungry it would have been nice if a meatball sub fell from the sky. I would have eaten it.
Isn't that woman the trainer from the Biggest Loser?
@MikeSmrek: WHAT! CHRIS TUCKER NEEDS ANOTHER GIG!
@Tony Reali's Winning Smile: It's like an ATV. West probably had the vehicle modified with holsters for his guns. Now it doesn't sound so exciting.
I watched the game last night briefly while I was in the gym so I was not scrutinizing either team's performance closely, but Miami just did not seem that impressive. Every score looked more like blown coverage or missed assignment on Georgia Tech's part than play makers on Miami doing their thing. Harris looked OK but he didn't have to make any difficult throws. His receivers were open mostly because Tech's DBs had their backs turned facing the wrong way. I don't think their skill players are in the same ball park as USC, Florida or Texas. Even though it was a blow out the game didn't have that customary Miami swagger. It was more like watching an underdog school catching all the breaks.
@Spirit Fingers: I was a student there. There's very few competition in between departments or labs. It's actually collegial. There are mean-spirited people here and there but by in large some of the most helpful people I've met are from graduate school. I personally think it was a control issue. He saw the animal room as his domain and did not approve of the ways she conducted her business in there. One day he just snapped. Like fired employees returning to a former workplace with guns, he went berserk. Another example of why you should never take your job too seriously. It's a job. Look at me, instead of working I'm browsing blogs.
@Paddington: The insanity plea that I suggested was meant as a sarcastic remark. Obviously I missed the mark. He clearly is disturbed in more ways than one but that's still a far way from being legally insane. I only inserted that line to emphasize the fact that even though he was doing what amounts to janitorial duty, his job is still better than most of the blue collar jobs available in CT, plus there is room for advancement and tuition reimbursement in the Yale system.
Also, you rarely have rich graduate students, especially ones in science.
He also has alleged ties to organized crime in Taiwan and China. Rumor was that he laundried money for them.
@Spirit Fingers: I was a graduate student. You could hardly call our work the 'fast track,' unless you think 6-8 years of education/apprenticeship and disproportionally low pay after you graduate is considered 'fast track.' Working for pharma or biotech down the line doesn't exponentially increase your earning power either. Believe it or not, most of us who manage to scrap through the program actually sort of, kind of, enjoy the work for what it is.
Also, working at Yale as a C&T is not that bad. There's a union. A lot of benefits. Once you're in the system you'll have a job for life. There's also overtime for employees in his category. If this guy thought his job was inadequate given the experience and background he has, then maybe an insanity plea is appropriate.
@DoctorJezebel: What's cantab? As you can infer by my ignorance, my educational experience was not all that great.
ABC News reported that the suspect and the victim had exchanged e-mails in the morning of the day she disappeared. The emails were concerned with following rules and regulation in the animal center.
Official statements from the New Haven police and Yale asserts that this is an 'office crime.' His primary job was probably taking care of the animals in the animal facility in the basement of Amistad, rats, mice, rabbits and guinea pigs. I don't know if they still have rabbits and guinea pigs down there anymore but when I was a student there they did. Maybe he snapped not because he was a stalker but because he has a short temper and he did not agree with the way the graduate student was handling the animals. People sacrifice animals (mice and rats) in different ways. Some people suffocate them with dry ice(CO2), some people break their necks, some people pinch their windpipes. Neuroscience labs use miniature guillotine to decapitate the mice. Maybe the poor girl did something in the animal room that set off his fuse and he just become hysterically violent.
He's not under arrest. He's simply a person of interest. Posting his personal information just seems very wrong.
@thesciencegirl: The plight of women in under-served population is ignored on a regular basis and the main reason the national media decided to cover this story is probably because of the sensational quality of the details. Sad.
BTW, it's heartening to know that there's someone else in science besides me who's not that busy.
@thesciencegirl: I don't know where you inferred the idea that I want people to wait to address the issues of missing and battered women. Maybe you miss the first comment I posted. I like people to hold off arguing about the general bias of news media coverage, because it takes the focus away from the bigger issue of battered women. Did I not mention earlier that this is an opportunity for people to focus on the bigger issue of violence against women, which in turn would shed a larger light on under-served populations in the same predicament? Instead of arguing about abstract ideas of media bias and coverage, which will still be around when she's laid to rest, all I'm saying is that this attention should be used positively for other women in the same predicament.
To compare what I said to critics of war protesters is like comparing apples to oranges.
When I was working as a contract researcher to supplement my measly grad school stipend I met a couple of guys who were Masons. They took it pretty seriously.
Tom Brady loves the game and respects the game and most importantly he understands that his fame and fortune are built upon the shoulders of NFL players that came before him. Tom knew the original QB matinee idol Mr. Joe Nameth already called dips on Suzy Kolber, and the gentleman he is he was trying to let her down gently. He has too much respect for Broadway Joe to mess with his woman.
@LolaQuinn is full of beans: I didn't say they were mutually exclusive but there are priorities. It would be nice if people can wait a little bit to scold the media about their bias. The poor woman's body is still warm, the perp has not been arrested yet and the family is still in mourning. Maybe it's just me but a little sensitivity and common decency at this time seems appropriate.
I can't believe some people here begrudge all the attention this crime is receiving. Yes, ethnic, minority women in lower socioeconomic neighborhood are assaulted and even murdered all too often and ignored by the mainstream media. That shameful practice should not take away from the fact that a young woman in her prime was murdered by some deranged stalker right before her wedding day in a secured building, in broad day light. If we can learn anything from this tragedy it's the fact that violence against women, even educated women, is still a bane of our society. Instead of begrudging the media's attention on this crime, we should use the attention this case has received as a teachable moment about violence against women and the danger of stalking/obsession. Is there unfair bias from the media because she was smart, educated and taken away from us before her wedding day? Of course but what's more important right now? Using the media attention to arrest the perpetrator and educate more people about the danger of violence against women, or complaining about how the media only focuses on cases that make sensational headlines?
