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The final ever episode ever (for ever ever?) comes on HBO in a few hours.

I am reading the current edition of Entertainment Weekly. They have a list of what they consider the top 10 episodes of the show.

Number 4 is the Pine Barrens episode. I have no problem with the ranking. I have a problem with the description of the episode. EW says, "Paulie and Christopher botch a hit on a drunk Russian."

No, they do not.

There is no "hit" on the Russian.

A "hit" is ordered by a boss. A random attempted murder is just a random attempted murder.

Paulie was just supposed to drop off a payment with the Russian. He was not supposed to kill him. In fact, killing him was a major problem, because the Russian worked for Tony Soprano's Russian money launderer.

Paulie, being as short on social graces as he is with his temper, tried to kill the drunk Russian over an argument about a universal remote control. (I kid you not.)

He failed. Hence, the conflict of the episode.

There was a hit on Jackie April, Jr. There was a hit on Silvio. There is an outstanding hit on Tony himself.

There was no hit on the drunk Russian. (Even though he was an interior decorator that killed many Czechoslovakians.)

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I was a guest on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News show, On The Record, shortly after Denver Bronco Darrent Williams was murdered.

You can hear me on with Greta by clicking this link:

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This is me on the Dino Costa Show, broadcast on the Radio Colorado Network, back on February 20, 2007.  Click on the link below, and it will play.

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Bicycle propopents rode nude throughout the world to protest the lack of bike use.

This is the type of protest I can support. Not so much as a participant, mind you, but as an objective observer.

Unless, of course, the protesters are fat. Then they should not participate.

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Gwen Stefani's current hit song "The Sweet Escape," features Hip-Hop Flavor-of-the-Week Akon.

I am not sure why.

His contibution to the song consists of yelling "woooo-hoooooo" alternated with yelling "weeee-hoooooo."

I kid you not. He does not rap. He does not sing. He goes "wooo-hoooo" and "weee-hooooo."

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Tony Soprano dies.

But it is in a flash-forward. He dies of old age, in a tomato garden. With an orange slice in his mouth. Chasing a grandchild among the tomato vines.

That would be beautiful.

Or, in the alternative, he kills or alienates everyone in his life that ever meant anything to him. He is in control. He is the boss. But the final shot is him in a big, expensive chair, all alone, with Lake Tahoe behind him in a plate glass window, as the camera pans out. Fade to black.

Or, perhaps, AJ becomes an opera singer. At his big Metropolitan Opera debut, Phil Leotardo has ordered a hit on Tony. On the stairs outside the Met, one of Phil’s guys draws a gun. Chaos ensues. Shots are fired. Meadow is hit in the chest. She dies in Tony’s arms as Tony screams in anguish.

Okay, probably not.

I do think it would be cool if that Russian dude from the Pine Barrens makes a cameo and kills Paulie.

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Rocky Mountain News reporter Betsy Lehndorff has a story on the arrest of 17 year old Caleb Pegues. He threw a plastic soda bottle filled with household products that "created a blast and burst of vapor" at his school.

Police arrested him.

The headline of the story reads: "Was explosive a kid's prank or a felony?"

The question implies that it was one or the other. It need not be. It can be both. On a Venn diagram, the set "kid's prank" and the set "felony" intersect. 

Pegues might have sincerely thought he was just pulling a prank. That does not excuse him from being convicted of a felony.

Good luck, kid.

Attorneys should sometimes just shut up. Pegues' attorney, Robert Wareham, was quoted in the story, "the problem is that teenage boys will be teenage boys."

Another problem is that sometimes teenage boys get convicted of felonies.

Another problem is that attorneys should not say silly things to newspaper reporters that might create ill-will toward their client.

Criminal defendants should always just shut up.

Pegues told authorities he was trying to break up a gathering of classmates who were celebrating April 20, National Pot Smokers Day. Marijuana irked him. "I just think it's stupid. I guess that is how I was raised," he said in an interview.

This, of course, begs the question "Was he raised to lob homemade bombs at people he didn't like?"

If you are ever arrested, or if the police just "want to ask you a few questions," get an attorney immediately. Do not volunteer any information. You will probably say something stupid like Pegues' did.

The only person that needs a criminal defense attorney more than a gulity person is an innocent person.

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In his weekly column, Rocky Mountain News Publisher John Temple discusses his paper's coverage of the war in Iraq. 

As usual, it is well-written and informative. I have to disagree with one of his statements, however. Temple writes

War is not the place to hide the truth from a free people. Yes, combat photos can be disturbing. But I believe it's much better to allow journalists to make the decision as to what crosses the line of decency than to have the government essentially make the decision for the people.

It is indeed rare for me to be in favor of governmental power. In this case, I am.

Disregarding the policy behind this war, conducting war is one of the few things the government can do better than private enterprise. The government can certainly do a better job than a newspaper.

I realize that Temple is not advocating that journalists run the war. He is, however, advocating that journalists decide what information is released without any military oversight.

We have already seen that people like Jerry Rivers (he goes by the stage name "Geraldo Rivera") will broadcast information that is detrimental to the war effort and that can lead to American deaths.

To avoid such information being released, the military needs some level of control over the media in the war zone.

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I have been experimenting with adding podcasts to BlueCarp. I think I am firguring it out.

The link below is me on the Dino Costa radio show. I am doing a short-lived segment for Dino called the "Sports Law Report." This was broadcast live on February 5, 2007, on the Radio Colorado Network.

My plan is to have more podcasts available soon.

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After I defend noise, a Harley-Davidson sales manager in Aurora, has to say this about the Denver ordinance aimed at motorcycles:

"We got feedback from tons of customers today, saying, 'they just need to stay out of our business.'"

That is not the right attitude.

Waking people up with loud noises is rude, and it is their business. I don't care how tough a biker is, they would rather avoid dealing with a mother with a crying baby awakened by a loud Harley.

Now, having said that, if you really want to avoid loud noise, do not live downtown.

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Here is a sentence from an Associated Press article I hope never applies to me:

"Work included reinserting his left eye, knocked out by the bear."

Do not feed the bears. Especially Grizzlies. Especially momma Grizzlies with baby Grizzlies. Do not take their picture, either.

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The Denver City Council passed an ordinance reducing the allowable noise level from motorcycles in the city limits.

Denver Police Captain Eric Rubin had this to say about loud bikes:

"It's a significant enough problem. My sense is that the problem is worsening in downtown because more people are moving into the area. It has an active night life and a large residential base, which don't always mix well."

I think what the Captain is saying, in a diplomatic way, is that the noise level downtown is the same, but more whiners from the suburbs are moving downtown.

People, if you want a quiet place to live, do not move downtown. There are lots of people downtown. There are trains. There are ambulances with sirens. There are people. There are fire engines with sirens. There are cars. There are dogs. There are people. There are police cars with sirens. There is construction. There is a baseball stadium. There are people. There is an arena with basketball and hockey games in the winter. The same arena has indoor football, lacrosse and concerts in the summer. There are people. There is an amusement park. There are bars. There are restaurants. There are clubs. And, finally, there are people. Lots of them.

These things can be loud.

If you want quiet, move to Parker. That's why it is there.

COMING NEXT WEEK: If you do not like the sounds of airplanes taking off and landing, you should not move near the airport.

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Bronco wide receiver David Kircus' status with the team is, once again, hunkydory.

Kircus still faces assault charges in a criminal court. Coach Mike Shanahan had said that if Kircus had not acted appropriately, he would not be on the team.

Kircus can breathe easy. Shanahan and thr Braoncos gave Kircus a lie detector test, and he passed. That's good enough for Shanahan, regardless of the criminal dispostion.

Word is, Kircus not only took the test voluntarily, he suggested it.

Lie detectors are not good science. I would not take one, even if I was only going to be asked about my potential involvement in the JFK assassination. And JFK died before I was born.

Kircus might as well placed his fate in the hands of the Magic 8 Ball or Tarot Cards.

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It is not too hard to find an absurd statement these days.

With talk radio, internet blogs, and talking heads on cable news channels, absurdity is abundant.

Therefore, it takes a real inane comment to strike me as noteworthy.

Rob Pierratt is an undergraduate at Colorado State University, so I can cut him some slack. He is young. He still has time to cultivate some sense.

Pieratt has undertaken a laudable goal. He wishes to educate his fellow undergraduates about sexual assault. He wants men to know that sexually touching a drunk girl is assault.

He goes overboard, however, when he states "it's important for guys to know that anyone affected by alcohol cannot legally consent."

One drink of alcohol will affect a person. It does not render that person unable to consent.

Given his statement, what happens if two people are both affected by alcohol? Can neither consent? In that case, are they both guilty of assault? Or are neither guilty of assault?

I dare say that if we strictly applied Pieratt's theory, the birth rate in the U.S. would plummet.

He should have a drink.

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University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, the white guy who poses as a Native American to further his agenda, is getting closer to his pink slip.

One would think that a professor caught scarlet fingered plagiarizing and fabricating his published works would have some dignity and accept his fate. Chief Sitting Cracker is smothered in gall. There is no room for dignity.

After what seems like years since his academic theft and creative writing came to light, CU President Hank Brown has recommended Sitting Cracker be fired.

The recommendation now goes to the University Board of Regents. They have the final say.

Churchill says that if he is fired, he will sue.

Of course he will. He is without shame. There is nothing more pathetic than a guilty man fighting the truth all the way to the gallows.

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From the Associated Press:

An Islamic group threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they don't wear strict Islamic dress, frightening reporters and signaling a further shift toward extremism in the Gaza Strip.

Westerners need to be sympathetic to these concerns. It is arrogant for us to think we can ignore these beliefs. Every thought and every idea deserves our respect. Just because we don't understand this attitude does not make it wrong.

All conflict will vanish if we simply understand and love these people.

-This post brought to you by Pollyana and the Left Wing.

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"Basically, I just thought from what happened it was kind of ridiculous for the arresting officer to take me down for something that wasn't a legit reason," Marshall, 23, said hours after Douglas County Assistant District Attorney Leslie Hansen declined to proceed with the case.

"For my career to go through what it went through and my character and personality taking a hit over something that basically wasn't valid was an eye-opener to the high profile that me as an athlete has."

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* According to the Rocky Mountain News, it will take 600 years for nature to recover after the horrible Hayman fire of five years ago. Hey, in geological terms, 600 years really isn't that long.

* A message to my 20 month old little girl: I just read a entertainment story on a new movie called "Our Lady of Victory." Actress Carla Gugino plays Cathy Rush, former basketball coach of the girls team at Immaculata College. Rush's teams won three straight national championships.

Gugino admires the coach. The players "had been taught to be humble, that girls are the lesser sex. [Coach Rush] told them, 'Girls, it's OK to apply yourself, to believe in yourself, to play to win.'" 

I admire the coach, too. That is a great message. I hope I teach it to you.

* Avril Lavigne has gone from punk chick to Toni Basil wannabe with her new song "Girlfriend."

* Their is plenty of reason to dislike United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Ignoring the Constitution is one of them. The whole stink over firing U.S. Attorneys, however, is not. U.S. Attorneys are purely political appointees. They serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States. If he is displeased, they no longer serve. This is why, when a new President is elected, U.S. Attorneys routinely submit their resignations. When another party takes over the Oval Office, a whole new group of U.S. Attorneys is appointed.

Criticize the fascist Gonzalez all you want. He deserves it. But pick a better reason.

* The wife and I saw Spider-Man 3 recently. It is an average movie. Director Sam Raimi tries to deal with too much in one film.

First, the movie involves some black goo from space that turns Peter Parker to the dark side. Second, it involves Peter's buddy Henry Osborn and his dark side, including the return of the Green Goblin. Then it deals with a new bad buy, Sandman. Then another bad guy, Venom, who gets covered in the black goo once Peter Parker sheds it.

Too much to deal with, none of it dealt with well.

* Shut up and look pretty. Rie Rasmussen, former Victoria Secret model and current actress, is quoted in a recent edition of Entertainment Weekly (#936, June 1, 2007). It would have been better for her if she hadn't been. Rie, who wants to be taken seriously, said "all we need is a bit of communication and a little bit of love. There's no better message. It's pertinent to today's political situation."

Yep, if we only understood better why al-Qaida wants to kill us, they'd be our friends. If we had only talked with Hitler and loved him more, World War II would have been averted.

When our body gets a malignant cancer, the only way to survive is to cut it out. All of it. Unfortunately, to get it all, the surgeon has to get some healthy tissue, too.

It's sad. It's unfortunate. It's the truth.

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