Dan T.

I thought I read that Pierce lit a fire under Otto Porter and built up his confidence too. And confidence seemed to be the biggest ingredient missing from Porter's game. I like that he's getting significant playoff minutes and isn't wilting. That's got to help in his future.

Driving at 3? I don't believe it. He's 31 now and is STILL too short to see over the steering wheel.

My parents had it. The album cover was a wondrous, exotic, stirring visual piece of art to a young impressionable boy... I do have several of the songs on my iTunes. It's good Twister music.

Mug shot, profile view:

____ Is Twister - much less naked Twister - still a thing? Do you listen to a "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass" record while you play? Also, doctors recommend that if you have an erection lasting long than 4 hours, play naked Monopoly instead.

That thing also gives him an unfair advantage playing naked Twister.

The New York Times Magazine had a prison-related issue just two weeks ago. This article about how prison ****s up people who are otherwise pretty rational is eye-opening, if not harrowing. Worth the read: Inside America's Toughest Federal Prison by Mark Binelli In prison, Rodney Jones told me, everyone had a nickname. Jones’s was Saint E’s, short for St. Elizabeths, the federal psychiatric hospital in Washington, best known for housing John Hinckley Jr. after he shot Ronald Reagan. Jones spent time there as well, having shown signs of mental illness from an early age; he first attempted suicide at 12, when he drank an entire bottle of Clorox. Later, he became addicted to PCP and crack and turned to robbery to support his habit. I met Jones a few blocks from his childhood home in LeDroit Park, a D.C. neighborhood not far from Howard University. It was a warm October afternoon, but Jones, 46, was wearing a puffy black vest. The keys to his grandmother’s house, where he currently lives, hung from a lanyard around his neck. His face was thin, a tightly cropped beard undergirding prominent cheekbones, and he had a lookout’s gaze, drifting more than darting but always alert. It hadn’t been easy for Jones to transition back to a life of freedom. He managed to stick it out, he said, because he was determined not to return to the place where he spent the final eight years of his last sentence: the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colo., known more colloquially as the ADX. The ADX is the highest-security prison in the country. It was designed to be escape-proof, the Alcatraz of the Rockies, a place to incarcerate the worst, most unredeemable class of criminal — “a very small subset of the inmate population who show,” in the words of Norman Carlson, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, “absolutely no concern for human life.” Ted Kaczynski and the Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph call the ADX home. The 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is held there, too, along with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef; the Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols; the underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab; and the former Bonanno crime-family boss Vincent Basciano. Michael Swango, a serial-killing doctor who may have poisoned 60 of his patients, is serving three consecutive life sentences; Larry Hoover, the Gangster Disciples kingpin made famous by rappers like Rick Ross, is serving six; the traitorous F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen, a Soviet spy, 15. ... Along with such notorious inmates, prisoners deemed serious behavioral or flight risks can also end up at the ADX — men like Jones, who in 2003, after racking up three assault charges in less than a year (all fights with other inmates) at a medium-security facility in Louisiana, found himself transferred to the same ADX cellblock as Kaczynski. Inmates at the ADX spend approximately 23 hours of each day in solitary confinement. Jones had never been so isolated before. Other prisoners on his cellblock screamed and banged on their doors for hours. Jones said the staff psychiatrist stopped his prescription for Seroquel, a drug taken for bipolar disorder, telling him, “We don’t give out feel-good drugs here.” Jones experienced severe mood swings. To cope, he would work out in his cell until he was too tired to move. Sometimes he cut himself. In response, guards fastened his arms and legs to his bed with a medieval quartet of restraints, a process known as four-pointing. One day in 2009, Jones was in the rec yard and spotted Michael Bacote, a friend from back home. The familiar face was welcome but also troubling. Bacote was illiterate, with an I.Q. of only 61, and suffered from acute paranoia. He had been sent to the ADX for his role as a lookout in a murder at a Texas prison, and he was not coping well. His multiple requests for transfers or psychological treatment had been denied. He was convinced that the Bureau of Prisons was trying to poison him, so he was refusing meals and medication. “You would have to be blind and crazy yourself not to see that this guy had issues,” Jones said, shaking his head. “He can barely function in a normal setting. His comprehension level was pretty much at zero.” Bacote had paperwork from previous psychiatric examinations, so Jones went to the prison’s law library (a room with a computer) and looked up the address of a pro bono legal-aid group he had heard about, the D.C. Prisoners’ Project. Because Bacote couldn’t write, Jones ghosted a query. “I suppose to have a hearing before coming to the ADX,” Jones, as Bacote, wrote. “They never gave me a hearing.” He continued, “I need some help cause I have facts! Please help me.” The story of the largest lawsuit ever filed against the United States Bureau of Prisons begins, improbably enough, with this letter. Deborah Golden, the director of the D.C. Prisoners’ Project, fields approximately 2,000 requests each year, but Bacote’s, which she received in October 2009, caught her eye. “I thought I might be missing something, because it was inconceivable to me that the Bureau of Prisons could be operating in such a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional manner,” she said. More: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/inside-americas-toughest-federal-prison.html?_r=0

There's a bit more follow-up and background on the Arizona WalMart brawl in this Arizona Republic article: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/03/24/cotonwood-walmart-melee-idaho-family-abrk/70393078/

I don't think Drake liked being kissed by Madonna:

It seems weird to use the word "restraint" after seeing that. But really, those cops did what they had to do to get the situation resolved after being attacked. No more, no less. They deployed every less-lethal weapon in their arsenal. One person was killed, but he was killed because he engaged in a desperate struggle to take a gun from a cop. That's an invitation to be shot. Kudos to the Cottonwood Police Department.

I read that the family, originally from Idaho, had been living out of their Chevy Suburban in the Walmart parking lot in Cottonwood, Arizona for at least four days. The original police call came because one of them allegedly assaulted a WalMart employee in a rest room. Living in the parking lot, they were likely using the rest room as their personal bathroom. So they're living out of a car... they got nothing to lose. A night in jail would be more comfortable than crammed into a suburban or on the asphalt of a parking lot. ~~~~ The family bills themselves as a Christian band, "Matthew 24 Now," and had been seen playing on the streets of Boise, Idaho. Here's their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Matthew24Now

Oh. My. God. Here is the other side of the coin. The Cottonwood, Arizona released this dash cam footage of officers responding to a disturbance at a local Walmart. They roll up to the family in the parking lot and were attacked by the father and five sons. The resulting brawl goes on for several terrifying minutes. Tasers are deployed. Nightsticks are used. Pepper spray is shot. One of the sons wrestles for the gun of an officer, who is shot in the leg. That son is shot and dies. Officers tend to the wounded officer as the brawl swirls around them. Sweet Jesus. Edit: I see KAO Skins already posted. Holy cow, though. I've never seen anything like that. Edit 2: And they're a "family Christian band."

Travelling in the NBA? Nah: https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/871AB13C721198190143526645760_3364ae41be0.1.5.1186364600566503374.mp4?versionId=6bBMv0tgenezwYxCL7QkeADc4evJk31Z

When police attempted to serve a warrant regarding a case of identity theft, he fled in a Dodge Caravan. Later, he abandoned the Dodge Caravan and stole a horse to continue his flight. -- One commenter said "Why did he get the hell out of [the] Dodge?" I laughed.

[Voice on video]: I NEED TWO BOTTLES OF GATORADE AND AN ICE PACK - STAT!

From Los Angeles NBC4 News: Three deputies were injured during the search. Two suffered dehydration and a third was injured when kicked by the horse. All three were taken to a hospital for treatment.

Your happiness should have started to fade after two minutes or so, when they were still kicking the **** out of him.

Even the horse is looking around like "WTF are you guys doing to that man?!?"

don't know, but I don't think a black dude would wear a bright red shirt like that.

It's hard to keep count of the number of San Bernardino, California, Sheriff's Department deputies who should be turning in their weapon and badges today. Start with the first two who arrive on the scene after the suspect in the red shirt gives himself up and lays on the ground. The scene was captured by a local NBC News helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPvTTmhyB_w http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-officers-pummel-man-repeatedly-after-chase-stolen-horse-n338881

Little boy is overcome with emotion meeting his idol Nicky Manaj Watch his face as Nicky pulls him to her breast to comfort him. Watch below for the sequence with audio: http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/nicki-minajs-boobs-miraculously-cured-this-crying-boy

Watch this chameleon change:

Good to see Bubble Screen is still following the NFL.

Here she is driving her new prize out of the "Price Is Right" parking lot: