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PS: I officially retired as of yesterday. So I joined a few of you guys...

I have no idea what any of this means, but if you’re offended by a song but not by your guy bragging about grabbing women by the pussy, I’d say you’re full of ****.

This is why I never got my panties in any kind of bunch over the supposed influence DEI at schools like UM on the larger culture. All this stuff rolls mostly right off the kids' backs. It's millennial - and older - faculty that were the most charged up. The bulk of students just saw it as extra work and a distraction, and I'd guess for every student that got "proselytized" by it, one other was driven to become more conservative/reactionary. Personally I never saw anything particularly onerous in anything I was asked to participate in, my larger concern was always the return on investment on the resourced devoted to it. Interestingly, from what I've been reading, the research on diversity program effectiveness done by business says stop talking about who is right and wrong or oppressed and oppressor and just spend the time educating people on how to have their antennae up and be more inoffensive - you play on people's natural predisposition to self-improvement. And given that young people today tend to be deficient in sophisticated social skills today anyway, I can get behind that. Also apparently, simply dropping the 'E' seems to make a difference in how people respond. Folks seem to be OK with "Diversity" and "Inclusion" but "Equity" immediately makes them think their own jobs are at risk. One analyst I heard discuss this said "Equity" is a problematic term because people don't parse the difference between "equity" and "equality" very well.

Maybe because governing is hard and trolling is easy.

Old enough to remember when you would come on and lecture people for comments like this a couple of years ago....

The court system was way to nice to him. The whiny rich boy cry baby criminal deserved a much worse fate, but the system is designed to protect the wealthy and powerful. In fact, the whole country is being way to nice to him, even some of the liberals. It's a disgrace that this disgusting piece of trash has been normalized. It's a symbol of who we are as a country I guess.

One interpretation of Cleveland is that he believed it was the government that was the primary culprit in mal-distribution of wealth because of a highly regressive regulatory and tax-system (largely tariffs in the pre-income tax days). So he might have a foot in both the left (anti-wealth disparity) and right (anti-government 'interference') in today's paradigms. Some of the leaders around the turn of century were pretty economically radical. Hayes apparently favored nearly total inheritance taxes. With money running US politics today, no leader today can be as patently anti-rich as some of those guys were. There are certain steps that a system may take that turn out to be irreversible, and it appear to me that Citizen's United was one of those. We've politically empowered monied interests to the point where they can stop the political process from ever controlling them again. If the US fails to repair its broken politics and thus ultimately fails - and right now I see little prospect of that repair, CU will be the root cause.

1809 Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston Ma In 1824 a young Poe was part of a junior honor guard that escorted Marquis de Lafayette around Richmond, Va during Lafayette's return to the US celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Victory at Yorktown.

My intent for those four years, or at least the first two, is to just bury my head in the sand as much as possible for a bulk of it and protect my sanity. Maybe midterms impose some much needed guardrails if we haven't already careened off a cliff at that point.

It’s not like the Lions have never outscored an opponent by 11+ points in the 2nd half.

Has less to do with the source of the pork and more to do with the "oh, just go buy this instead" **** that you used to lecture others about during 2022-2023. Your guy won.... he caught the car. This is on his docket now, it's his responsibility. Don't be surprised if people aren't happy when his presence doesn't magically mean lower prices.

No, but his buddy RFKj may be the worst pick in the world to try and end it.

The PRC are sure to play Trump like all the other moguls.

We also have: (1) coup attempt (2) traitor who supported the enemy during the war (3) lifetime sexual predator. That's just the highlights.

And a version of Meadows that wasn’t close to the Meadows when he came back up. (And Tork to an extent). As well as Greene and Carpenter out for extended time at the same time. I don’t think we will ever see another comeback like August-September, but hopefully we don’t see performances like April-mid July either. We finished close to the top end of where I expected going into 2024, (77-85 wins) just took a crazy way to get there.

Meanwhile 36% express a favorable view of he GOP... which is really no better? You keep sharing these polls and using them to spike the football when they all kinda show that the GOP / Trump aren't really well liked either. Weird

Start to the season. I think their strong finish last year offsets their atrocious start to last year. I don't think there is any way they start this year the same as last year... And it's all kids so I don't want to guarantee anything... because along with all that energy and growth potential comes a lot of roller coaster and learning curves and such... But I think an extremely high amount of (the "young guns") energy fuels a great start to this season... But that's just me...

MAGA is really ****in’ weird

Always good advice, even if it came from a lapsed Anglican.

You changed.

Tiger fans need to understand that many of these players who will be earning huge contracts won't be getting them from Detroit. Skubal, Greene and even Carpenter. It's why drafting and developing their replacements is so important. As well as signing "prove it" players on one or two year contracts. I just don't see the Tigers as being a big spender anytime in the near future. And yes, the Javy contract is horrible but I also remember waiting for Miggy's contract to come off the books so we could sign better players. We're still waiting.

1807 Robert E. Lee born in Stratford, Virginia. I’m often about book recommendations. ‘Lee: The Last Years’ -is a very good book on Lee. The author is Charles Bracelen Flood, copyright 1981. He lived five years after Appomattox. The book is catalogues his post war life.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-presidency-opinion-poll-2025-01-19/ Link to full poll result... Worth noting that the poll is less rosy for Trump on the actual issues (ie. 54-46 opposed to tariffs, for instance)

This scene has resonated with me since November

Ditto. My plan as such is to do as much good as possible where it can be done and not violate the oaths we've taken because we are responsible for our own honor and can't help it if the system is rewarding the worst violators of those oaths. I was planning to return to Michigan when the wife retires from federal service in a couple years. So, we shall see.

In hindsight, I think the defense broke during and after Buffalo, but Chicago and Minnesota were pedestrian enough to disguise it.

Last year’s historic uptick was amazing. A lot of things fell into place almost miraculously, and I doubt that it’s repeatable. Other teams last year didn’t see the Tigers coming and now they do. Granted, a lot of these young guys may blossom making this fear unnecessary A lot of heavy lifting occurred on the ground last year and yielded great results. It certainly wasn’t all due to taking flight on angel’s wings. That last part of the season surge happened due to grit and willpower and a lot of thoughtful intervention and coaching but I can’t help but feel that right now this is a 77–85 team without something dramatic occurring.

The stud playmakers on both sides of the ball are all in their 20s and most are signed for a few years. They'll be back and should have more chances. That said I'm in the dumps right now and will be for a day or two. Pistons and Wings are hot, and pitchers and catchers report in a few weeks.

I'm honestly less bummed than I was last year. With the injuries, and the fluky feel to just how poorly Goff performed, I don't know. Just a wicked bad beat for a really good football team. Now that's not excusing the coaching staff. If Johnson and Glenn aren't back, this game is ultimately their legacy. Their offense coughed up five turnovers and their defense gave up 38 points (and realistically 41+) when it mattered most. That's at their feet. Ultimately, that's who they'll forever be, if they're gone. They have no excuses not to be even better next season. While they won't go 17-0, that should be the expectation with the roster they'll have returning. You can't go 15-2, lose Tim Patrick, and go 10-7.

Great season, tough way for it to end. I thought we were going to fold earlier when the injuries piled up. Get healthy, make some defensive additions and we’ll get after it again next season.

I hope the Lions go Edge here. How different would this game have been with Hutch in? Matching Hutch with another stud DE will greatly enhance this team going forward...... Unless Grant from UofM falls to them...... They may need another Corner too. I'd be ok if they went DE, CB fist an second round.....

I will still take this over an endless parade of 6-9 win seasons.

The defensive players on IR would make up a top-ten starting defense.

It’s a long way from over. The Washington D is like soft butter. But you need to stop gifting them points, and the D needs to make an adjustment. Simple as that. Do those two things and you win this game.

I'm legit stunned by Goff's play. The defense getting torn apart was something I envisioned but I did not expect Goff to completely **** the bed like this.

Defense has been horrible no doubt but I have to give Jayden Daniels his due, just an unreal talent.

Glenn has to figure out the halftime adjustments of his life.

Great , Jameson, but get in the frickin’ endzone. Ridiculous reckless hotdogging. Gave the refs time to call an illegal block on some Lions if they had wanted to.

Jaymo is a stupid hot dog. Act like a F'ing pro.

It’s not “game”. We have plenty of time to turn it around, and we have before. These are not the SOLs. But they do have to tighten up this ****, like, pronto.

3rd and 1, why are you not handing the ball off. Why would even consider going empty set. Ben is over thinking some of these situations. I mean come on. Hand the damn ball off and get the first down. That simply can’t happen.

Gibbs is Him.

I haven't followed this but I did see some really wild chart porn on how this traded. I can't believe people are this stupid.

that was pretty bad. You hate to say the fix is in, but the fix is in.

Mahomes slides late af. They need to start calling that an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the QB.

I don't know what the troll is about, but why do you guys think it's a good thing that your president elect is trolling people? That seems like the last thing a real President should be doing to the country he is supposedly representing and leading.

Yes - you are correct. Truman has served more than half of FDR's term but I forgot the amendment didn't apply to till the Presidency after him. Apparently his prospects for re-election in '52 were pretty bad anyway, but that just goes to the point about most presidents not sustaining their popularity.

The Dodgers overtook the damn Yankees on my list of pure hatred as well

this is amazing