gehringer_2

well it's good to hear you didn't spend you vacation in somebody's pants. (well, maybe that does depend......)

I will take credit (or criticism if you like) for saying at the time that the Dems were making a huge mistake in not throwing Clinton overboard - both because of the behavior but mostly because excusing Clinton was a huge step in the relativization of truth/normalization of lying, even in the most formal settings (like under oath!) in the US, and that is something that has come home to roost in spades at this point. It's just the fact on the ground that progressives always lead the larger culture, and the Dems need to understand that for every nose they allow in the tent, the conservatives will later invite in the whole Camel. They forgot that with Clinton - to all of our detriment.

similar result. I remember those Devil's teams being bruising to play against - this team just beat the Wings to every loose puck.

Well, whatever. The best we can hope for is that the bad back was holding Mize back even before the UCL flared and we see get to see something more like the guy we thought we were drafting in 2018.

Even Moritz looked out of it tonight. Can't win 'em all for sure. Come home, take a day off and play better on Sunday.

Getting to where I hate to see Petry come onto the ice. Shots on goal for the opposition to follow.

Wings look like they are skating in Molasses. Two steps behind the Canes at every turn.

So the Tigers are 'File and Trial'....until they are not. Very convenient for reporting.

Trump looks to be very fair skinned (which no-doubt motivates the resort to the tanning solution) and given how many hours he has spent on golf courses in warm climes, by this age he is a prime candidate for skin cancer on his head, neck, ears etc. Squamous cell skin cancers are pretty much a nothing burger. But even melanoma has a decent prognosis if caught early.

A world full of drama queens and Kelly is running for class prez.

So this made me wonder what the practice squad limits are and they turn out to be relatively narrow. The practice squad minimum and max for a 2 yr vet are $16,100/wk and $20,600/wk. That drops to 12k/wk for rookies. From there the jump to minimum roster salary is to $40k/wk ($750K season). So a vet elevated to a roster contract at least doubles his salary.

Comerica wants its $500K from the MI GOP. Karamo's GOP claiming imperfections in the loan documents mean they don't have to pay it back. The perfectly Trumpian position. I wouldn't bet against the tenacity of an $80B bank's lawyers on this one.

YUP - this attitude - fatalism justified by religion - is a terrible drag on progress in every society where it is prevalent.

So related to this.... At U of M, from time immemorial, classes *ended* on the hour, so that even though a class would be scheduled for 9:00am, it didn't really start until 9:10 because the class change time was built into the beginning of the hour instead of the end. The net result of this was that a culture of "10 minutes after" totally permeated everything else in Ann Arbor, to the point where the natives simply referred to appointments as being "on Michigan time", meaning don't expect to start until 10 after. Well, the Lord moves in mysterious ways because in 2018, TPTB at the U, for who knows why, finally decided to have classes actually start when listed and end at ten till. We live in a different city now.

Romad - I think it's a loss that you weren't around to write for 'Fractured Fairy Tales' 🤣

Absolutely. Bannon fancies himself a true revolutionary - he wants to bring down the house - and Trump is just a useful fool for him. He cares as much about Trump for Trump's sake as Trump does about his constituents for their sake's. Of course the truth is more likely he is your typical chicken hawk revolutionary and would be the first one to run for cover (in his Gucci loafers) if anyone actually started something in his name.

Re:Johnson: It amazes me that a person can get through college and law school with such deficient powers of logical analysis. If you believe in a completely interventionist/in control of everything supreme being as Johnson describes, then you can not possibly also believe in SIN, because sin requires free will and in a universe where God is pulling every string, there is no free will. It's a simple and absolute logical contradiction that any educated Greek in Athens 2500 yrs ago would have nailed in 30 seconds. LSU law school BTW.

If it were to come to pass, it would be when the departmental bills start comming up. The other factor is that the GOP has lost a couple of members, which narrows their majority even more. If they get down to 1 or 2 due to additional deaths or incapacitations (or indictments....) that's another wild card in the calculation because if it begins to look conceivable that the dems could pick off one or two reps to flip the majority, that might force the radicals to trim their sails--- or not! At any rate it would be another add to the chaos.

College football success is so much about head coaching. Alabama won with Bryant, lost with others, won with Saban. USC has been up and down from a national powerhouse to an also ran - all following who was coaching. M plateaued under Bo at a high but not highest level because he was a great recruiter and teacher but a terrible football mind. Moeller combined the two and was building M into a top level power but couldn't keep his personal act together. Carr inherited the momentum of Moeler's 'Quarterbak U" program but slowly let it run downhill. Harbaugh has made the team tactically strong and has recruited well enough to the style game he wants to play. But the big caveat with with Harbaugh even if he stays is QB recruiting. It took him a long time to find JJ and if he does return but can't put another uber talented QB in a winged helmet they will be right back to 8-4. He hasn't proven he can bring QB talent into the program consistently enough to stay at the top of the conference or in the playoff picture.

I have a really hard time believing NIL is anything but a short term transition to schools paying athletes directly. NIL makes no sense from an economic standpoint because the the players are not being paid out of the income they actually generate - which is the media rights income. Ultimately the expenses to produce a product have to be paid directly out the real income the product produces. NIL is based on what is pretty much imaginary revenue potential and not real revenue collected somewhere. I think any economic arrangement where revenue is going one place and costs are being borne somewhere else can't sustain.

I think he does, it's just not the only thing he wants to do and he can't to all the thing he wants to. I think it comes down to Harbaugh wanting to win a SB in the worst way. But that is a single objective. The man loves the college game and players much more than the pros. On a personal level he was anything but a happy camper with his experience in SF. He has loved the life he has at M. So how do you come down between a thing you want to do and the life you prefer to live? Beats me but I believe that is why he is always going in both directions at once.

If you believe the NCAA is going to hammer him - say suspend him for a season (which is why he wants an employment guarantee to ride such a thing out) then you would believe he's likely to go as opposed to missing a year at M and possibly getting fired anyway. OTOH, if you believe nothing from the NCAA is going to amount to anything (recent comments from the NCAA pres about M being a deserving champion for instance.....) then you'd likely believe this is just the annual Harbaugh attempt to extort better terms from M before doing what he want to do - stay at Michigan. I don't know who would actually have any solid intelligence on what the NCAA is going to do. Other than that I don't have any strong believe one way or the other. I think he really does love being a college coach - pro coaches don't get that kind of hero on a pedestal from their players that Harbaugh loves. But he also wants to one-up big brother in the worst way as well. So we can all keep guessing until he decides...

I know people have accused both Trump and Biden of being on the path to dementia more in hope than supportable by fact, but the way Trump is starting to fall back into serializing disjointed little pieces of preprogrammed rhetoric during his speeches more and more often doesn't seem like a good thing.

Really. Stafford wasn't coming here to have a 20th reunion with old pals, he came here to take the Lion's lunch money and to do his best to send the fans home in despair again. Football is an exercise in sanitized war in 4 parts. For 60 minutes between the line the other guy is supposed to be the enemy.

Smith's smile is a little nerdy but still more authentic than anything DeSantis could ever hope to muster. 🙃