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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.

Trump meme coin is cratering. Why you ask? Because the first lady just released her own meme coin and that is taking the liquidity away from Trumps coin. I'm going to go kill myself for even discussing this.

🎶 In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded And that even the nobles get properly handled Once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom 🎶 Dylan wrote these lines more than sixty years ago, and even then he knew he could count on his listeners to get the joke.

Americans such as me don't like either party because they are both self serving and put party before country. They are not equal. The GOP is now worse, but there is nobody I can really get behind. I just go with the one which sucks less.

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

A huge congratulations to you, seriously! Now you can put your time & energy into getting the MTS Board members lodging set up in Lakeland for spring training visitors. 😉

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...

The amount of times that you reference this last election and say "but Kamala"... suggests otherwise

You changed.

Because, to paraphrase James Carville, it's all about the economy stupid.

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.

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)

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

If one has to explain the troll, the troll is lame

Tik Tok is very dangerous. Look how dangerous X, Meta and YouTube have proven to be.

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.

Maybe the Tigers have a feel good story here

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.

It pisses me off to hear that. I have several sets of friends who lived in Idaho and then moved back to Detroit and while they were in Boise, we had a lot of things in common and we stay in touch and some of them are pretty gutted out by this loss of the Lions. So although I can’t go all Bill Clinton and tell people that “I feel your pain“ I sort of do. This matters to people I know and care about so it matters to me, even though it isn’t happening to me with the same gravity.

Nice sentiment, Bert. I’m a fan of all Detroit teams, so this one was tough. A couple of the Tigers Twitter dweebs seemed to relish in the loss, especially with Goff playing poorly.

As a person who’s never lived in Detroit, but who is a lifelong monogamous monotheist worshiper at the altar of the Detroit Tigers — for which I have an affinity that no other team or past time can ever equal or exceed — I’m sorry that the Lions lost such an important game and that this amazing transcendent season ended on such a sour note. The Tigers literally dazzled me and changed my life as a child for the better and that can only happen once. So I’m just a bandwagoner to every other sport and every other team in existence — even Boise State. Still, following the Lions this year gave me great joy and it was nice to feel included in the broader spectrum of your various loyalties if only for a while.

Tim Allen is less funny as .... almost anyone.

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.....

Peace out gents.

Incredibly disappointing. Second defensive play of the game they lost Amik Robertson to what appears to have been a gruesome injury. Defense just could not hold on. Goff lost his composure. It snowballed.

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

You may ask yourself, "Where is mybeautiful game?" You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?" And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?" And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have we done?"

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.

Gibbs is Him.

Frickin’ commercial comes back right near the end of the 3rd down play. Feel better now that the Lions made the stop on 4th down.

what the heck was JB doing there - you needed your guys on the court more than you needed the TO, then THJ can't make FTs.

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

How you know you are old. When you see the score is 93-92 with under a minute left on the clock and you think its the end of the game. 98-95 Suns to start the 4th.

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.

Flaherty is the guy that would make my off-season. Hinch and the kiddy corps will find ways to score runs with or without Bregman, but while the Tigs have a lot of arms, they need another one that's bone fide top line, and Jack should be it.