Michael Lyons

Doesn't Moyes have four? Everton, Manchester United, Sunderland, West Ham.

My most bizarre musical fantasy is that I wish The B-52's had released an album of covers of songs by Interpol. Every time I've listened to an Interpol song (for almost the last twenty years) I've imagined how Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson would divide up the vocals, and it makes me happy.

He's been the only defender on the subs bench for a couple matches this season. A little worrying to remove what little depth is available there.

If he didn't celebrate against teams he formerly played for, he'd quickly run out of matches that he could celebrate in.

I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned This Is How You Lose the Time War yet.

The Challenger exploding.

Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth-Adventures series.

That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government as to them will seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

I've been blowing through the Thieves' World anthology of short stories by different fantasy authors in the same setting with shared characters. I think the first volume was published in the late 1970's or early 80's. Very breezy, as stories with stabbings, vengeful gods, and grotesque wizards go.

How does Aaron Judge only have four intentional walks so far this season? Why would anyone pitch to him right now?

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

A cartoon about bunnies -- that should be perfectly fine for a three year old to watch, right?

Nightmares for months.

I saw a Maserati SUV today, and I can't work out in my head the thought process of someone looking to buy an SUV and settling on Maserati as the brand they would go with.

Our system of government has existed solely on norms for more than two hundred years. The norms are gone. What basis does it have for existence right now?

Should civil servants just ignore the White House and DOGE and just keep doing their jobs like they were a month ago? What's stopping them?

Unless someone in a uniform is pointing a gun at you, what actual power does the federal government have at this point?

So here's a fun thought experiment: if the executive branch is doing obviously illegal and unconstitutional things going on the rationale of "Who's going to stop us?", why should we actually pay attention to any of that?

A true Gen X knows Bob Odenkirk from his time on The Ben Stiller Show.

The obvious answer is selling the stadium to the equity fund in order to pay for the sale of the team and then charging $200 million in rent for the team to use it.

I think it's very important when thinking about what I should be thankful for to acknowledge how much of it is sheer dumb luck, and that not everyone has that luck in their life. That doesn't make me better than people who haven't been as lucky. Just better off, and there's a huge difference.

I'm also grateful for all the little choices and breaks that fell my way that got me to where I am today -- not necessarily the most obviously successful person in the world by conventional measuring sticks, but comfortable and happy, which a lot of people just don't have the opportunity to be.

So, right off the bat, regardless of anything I did in this life, I was born into a better situation than probably 99.9% of all people who ever lived. So I would have to be one of the most ungrateful people ever to not be thankful for the huge leg up I got.

Things I am thankful for:

I am a straight white male born in America into a middle class family with two loving and supporting parents who are still married to each other today. They did well enough and were supportive enough that I graduated from college debt-free.

For about two weeks in the spring and three weeks in the fall, our Japanese maple looks about as spectacular as any tree you'll find.

It's because she doesn't have any (biological) children.

A thing I learned today: the Principality of Andorra (a tiny sovereign nation jammed between France and Spain) is actually a co-principality, with two princes acting as heads of state. Those two princes are the local Catholic Bishop and the President of France, whoever those two people happen to be.