The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: 'What, Me Worry?'

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: 'What, Me Worry?'

The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster

The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster

Peter's Evil Overlord List

Peter's Evil Overlord List

He's saying this for everybody

NFL.com - NFL News: "This Week's Stargate Complaints

In the recent Stargate SG1 season finale, our plucky wisecracking commandos went back in time 5,000 years to ancient Egypt, got stranded, lived out the remainder of their lives and died. Now it's the present in an altered time-line, and we meet the same four lead characters -- O'Neill, Jackson, Carter and the alien Teal'C -- except these four have never been through a stargate together, because in the altered time-line, there is no Stargate Command buried deep inside Cheyenne Mountain. Then the characters discover a message left by their parallel selves 5,000 years ago, explaining what stargates are and how to detect one. The plucky four find a stargate. The season finale ends with the team re-established, the familiar Stargate Command in operation and at least 22 more episodes under contract.

But wait -- now O'Neill, Jackson, Carter and Teal'C are the ones from the second time-line, lacking all knowledge of the adventures of the first team The stargate team from Reality A, heroes of the first eight seasons of the show, died 5,000 years ago in Egypt and are gone forever. The show is now in the hands of the stargate team from Reality B. The Reality B personnel have found the means to travel the galaxy but remain their Reality B selves, without any history of working together or experience with what's on the other side of the stargates. For instance, now the Dr. Daniel Jackson of the show is not the Reality A Jackson, who has met divine beings, been to other galaxies, infiltrated the flagship of the evil aliens' fleet and twice ascended to a higher plane of existence where he acquired ultimate powers that allowed him to save the Milky Way. No, now the show's Jackson is the Reality B Jackson, who just got plucked out of academia and made his first-ever trip through a stargate. And the big Air Force project to build faster-than-light starships to protect Earth from evil aliens -- the project that has been the subplot of the l"

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The cheering returns to D.C.

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The cheering returns to D.C.: "The Mariners are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their epic 1995 season when they rallied from 13 games behind the Angels to win the division, then rallied from an 0-2 deficit to beat the Yankees in the playoffs. Unfortunately, the Mariners have fewer players from that playoff roster on the current team (two – catcher Dan Wilson and reliever Jeff Nelson) than the Yankees (three – Randy Johnson, Alex Rodriguez and Tino Martinez)"

Report on Trade Center Collapses Emphasizes Damage to Fireproofing

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CNN.com

Maybe they should have read this first?

CNN.com: "Vatican officials say it is likely Pope John Paul II will be buried in the grave once occupied by Pope John XXIII in the grotto beneath St. Peter's Basilica. Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls says the pope will be buried there 'unless he left other instructions in the will. ... But we don't know because we haven't read the will yet.'"