Lyndon Baines Johnson

Those little old Texas ladies are like the craftsman-built bungalos in the Houston Heights. One of a kind and timeless. -OS

G'mar chatima tovah. -OS

As we gear up for atonement, we'll leave you, dear readers, with this thought till next sundown -- if we are the people of the book. Who define ourself by the laws, and the humility to submit to them, then Israel itself and its enablers have forsaken the book. -OS

You know the Nazis also liked to grease men up or stuff them into Hugo Boss and circle jerk over it.

The late Senator Daniel Inouye, whom I thought Hubert Humphrey should've made his running mate, would want to dump these people like Hegseth and Noem off an aircraft carrier into the middle of the Pacific.

The only thing I got from that bizarre speech is that I think Hegseth jerks it to dudes.

Our new joke for this academic year is that if you turned in an assignment that is very obviously 100% AI generated, we just pop your assignment into Chat GPT and have it generate your feedback. Robots get robot grading, human's will get the human. -OS

They're also hooked into this world because they are the sellers of the "Republican lifestyle." There isn't much margin for them in selling $30K sedans to "soyboy" liberals. Their margin is found in selling a $90K Raptor truck to a cop on $0 down note. -OS

And they've long been very reactionary and heavily Republican because it just speaks to their identities. They're "job creators," the put-upon local big wig who sees all these huge and "vaguely" liberal market forces working against them and their interests. -OS

The owners of car dealerships are and long have been (since the 1960s) one of the most politically activated groups of "small business" owners in the US because their whole world depends upon this web of state and federal statutes and regulations that restrict manufacturers from direct sales.

Its a movement where the people in office would get the shit knocked out of 'em by the people who voted for them if they ever crossed paths in a bar restroom.

You get the era of the independent director and producer vetting their own scripts, financing their own shoots, and then shopping their movies to the studios (who've been reduced to mere distributors) precisely because the studios cowtowed to conservative jackals. -OS

Its funny, because we met with our grad students tonight to talk about a few books on HUAC, the Hollywood 10, and the Blacklist, the lesson of which was that the studios' caving to J. Parnell Thomas lead inevitably to studio system's collapse. Couldn't have been more timely. -OS

And that just like Thomas they're all crooks, but Thomas actually saw the inside of a jail cell. -OS

The only difference in this moment is that J. Parnell Thomas controls the White House and the FCC, and not just HUAC. -OS

The parallels between this moment and the first time Republicans got congress back in a generation in 1947 are just too obvious to ignore -OS

I think that its an incredible demonstration of the hamfistedness of this administration that you've turned the guy who did the Man Show into Dalton Trumbo.

It's the classic George Wallace cop out. Hey, I'm just saying the things that everyone agrees with but are too chicken shit to say... -OS

One of our particular state colleges just rolled out this expensive new set of promotional materials that is very obviously 100% chat GPT generated. What's the point? -OS

Its like being the last human left in the invasion of the pod people. -OS

Being a humanities professor at state college is playing an endless game of wack-a-mole with the students below you, trying to discourage them from outsourcing their brains to Chat GPT while everyone above you in the Deans' and provosts' offices are outsourcing their brains to Chat GPT. -OS

Oh, this is our jam. -OS

Get outta there! Run, run for your life! -OS

For us, the ideal Texas play this season will be a throw to the flat that the likeable receiver/running back breaks for a big gain while Arch gets his torso re-arranged by a DT immediately after the release. -OS

Henceforth, we will only refer to Arch Manning as Major Applewhite II, since he's clearly a piece of shit who's only future is bouncing between marginal coaching jobs and sexually harassing the student interns. -OS

In one play, Arch made himself the least likeable Texas quarterback since Case McCoy. Major Applewhite levels of unlikeability. Say what you will about Quinn Ewers, you could at least root for the kid. -OS

One image can capture history. Sam Houston's most notable alumni are total menschs like Dan Rather and Ralph Yarborough, whereas Texas's alumni are total assholes like Tom Connally, Alan Shivers, and Greg Abbott. Time is a circle. -OS

Terry v. Adams is only twenty years before his first election. Most them boys were still around. -OS

When you are playing kids your own size in a few weeks, you'd deserve to get your clock cleaned.