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Interesting part of the conversation

Michigan will be demanding an apology from the B1G.

Weirdest M twitter account out there is Gregg Henson. That guy is basically Qananon and he's a fan of Michigan -- the bastion of progress and pluralism?

The quality of their analysis is quite good.

The MGOBLOG Sam Webb roundtable is very salty this morning.

BTW, Panda Express appears to be very pro-Taiwan from what I've observed. Also, they pulled out of Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. edit: found this Panda Express: The Taiwan Roots of America's No.1 Asian Fast-Food Chain - TaiwanPlus

In reality it was a very necessary meeting. I'm hopeful that it was Xi coming to see what could be done to lift the political anvil holding down development of the Belt and Road initiative. Talking to a very cynical colleague who says we got nothing. I think we have no idea. The one thing we got was Reykjavik which despite a lot of concern trolling from the Right wingers was incredibly important.

They appear to have addressed Fenton-ill. They also address the fact that Panda Express really should reduce the amount of cabbage in their lo-mein. I think they also said that their military should be more confident.

Morning Joe started off with the first block all about the meeting.

Huge, probably watershed event today in San Francisco. It will be very interesting what each leader leads with in discussion. If Biden starts with human rights you know this thing is off to a bad start. If Xi starts with Taiwan likewise. Hopefully, they are both tracking towards normalization of relations and what were known in the Cold War as confidence-building measures.

That's why he had Univision take down all the Biden ads.

This song. Stumbled across again today. Album released in 1989, the annus mirabulus of the second half of the 20th century. Was prior to the great events of the second half of the year as i recall. In the context of all those millions suddenly becoming free and others thinking they might be (China)…the song is very prescient.

kidding but not kidding

Can totally buy the Japan hatred. Japan came by the hatred through a lot of evil deeds. Japan becoming a foreign policy backstop against China in the South China Sea is welcome but not without having to carefully navigate this negative past. Weird thing about Taiwan is that the US joint chiefs during WWII argued that invading Formosa would put them in a country that Japan had successfully colonized, and the population would be more hostile than the Philippine population which was perceived to be still warm toward the United States -- as it turned out to be. Now, you would be hard pressed to see any semblance of Japan in Formosa/Taiwan after 7 decades of KMT rule.

Have you been since COVID yet? I'd be interested in any delta in government or societal behaviors from pre-Covid to post-Covid. e.g., are they more inward looking, do they paint the outside as all a bunch of devil wreckers? Degree to which that may have amped up or not.

But who cares about reality when ESPN is driving the B1G bus even without the broadcasting contract.

Would that more people objected.

Actually... does anyone here actually have travel experience to China? I would think that Detroit-oriented group like this one would given all the business interconnectedness. I'd be curious that perspective.

Sherrone Moore will make a great coach at a service academy. :--)

Now imagine what happens when Desantis has the heads of Disney murdered or sent to a reeducation camp where their families are threatened until he gets them to modify their views to something more amenable to the prevailing doctrine.

Wikipedia tells me that B1G is 61% owned by Foxsports and 39% owned by B1G.

Isaiah Hole discussed how apparently Mark Silverman the COO of Fox Sports is really angry at how the B1G gave the scoop about Harbaugh suspension to ESPN before U-M (and more importantly from his business' perspective Foxsports). Isn't B1G network a subsidiary of Foxsports?

Brian Fuller does a great job describing how amazing Sherrone Moore did. https://mgoblog.com/content/i-have-emerged-steaming-ancient-ice but this was really my favorite part

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Or a rando in a piston's jersey like Eminem did when he won the Oscar for best song for "Lose Yourself"