Joe Morris

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Me and sports. Who knew?

"Agree with everything we say, and the country will be unified."

I was hungry. It was a "buy one get one free" deal. The truth of the matter is after decades of making fun of all things pumpkin spice I bought pumpkin spice English muffins. Toasted with butter they were fabulous. The humanity ...

Yet again, the @tennessee-titans.bsky.social tell us with a new high-draft quarterback everything is going to be magic and wonderful. Yet again, Lucy yanks the football away. But new stadium.

Getting shot at a political rally shouldn't happen. Neither should getting shot during English class.

It's always remarkable to see an NFL team take the number one draft pick and the really reverse their fortunes. Sadly, I don't think it's ever going to happen for the TTitans.

You do not ever want to mess with a librarian. Public library, school library, it doesn't matter. They are known for showing spines.

By the end of opening weekend, four of the top 10 college teams will have lost. What I'm wondering is, if AI was involved will people blame that, or will they say AI should've done the picking instead of humans because it would've done a better job - with absolutely no evidence to back that up?

@espn.com every year I want to give your streaming a chance and every year you do something bonehead like drop your stream feed in the last two minutes of an interesting game.

Oh dear, Trump voters are finding out that cuts in the BBB and elsewhere don't have carb out exemptions for their family and their needs. Did you think there was gonna be some sort of free pass to keep getting Medicaid or whatever program you rely on based on your voting history?

Lots of think pieces out in recent days about how expensive AI launches are failing. Much hand-wringing. Why? Many reasons given, but not much focus on the fact that execs are so dazzled by the thought of getting to fire half of their workforce they will buy anything put in front of them.

Three stars in a trenchcoat

I honestly didn't think I would see the words "AI" and "bubble" in the same media sentence before this fall. It really does do things faster!

Dear Elected Representatives: When you are yelled at during public appearances, it is not "the angry left" doing so. It is another group with whom you are unfamiliar. Your constituents.

This is the 10 commandments poster I’d hang in my classroom

At this stage in the first Trump administration, I recall being told to "calm down and chill out" by a lot of people, usually white heterosexuals in the suburbs. I'm not hearing that this time.

I am seeing a strong resemblance between the executives who are currently bellowing "do it with AI" as to those who have been screaming "just fix it in the Photoshop" for the last 20 years.

He's cut from that same rugged individualism as a certain Missouri senator and our current vice president, let's just ignore those pesky law degrees from Ivy League schools.

The very same parents who were winning court cases by claiming they should control their children's education are the same ones deciding what other people's children should not be allowed to read. Book banning is book burning. Book burning is fascism.

I would enjoy it if the Murdoch's demanded an expedited trial date so that they could start discovery and depositions.

Also, "fraudsters?"

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I want to sit down with the billionaires who say they will spend tens of millions of dollars to fight candidates who propose tax increases and explain to them that maybe the tax increase wouldn't be as much as they want to spend to stop it. Math is hard.

Saying "now is the time for peace" right after you drop a bunch of bombs is kind of nonsensical.

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

When I was growing up, law enforcement officials wore name tags as well as actual badges with numbers on them. Most still do. They also did not cover their faces. If you are on the side of truth and justice and so forth, why are you dressed like a third-rate bank robber or a Klan member?

Politico and the New York Times are clutching their pearls about how Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber and that is a bad thing. 87 paragraphs down in each article they might imply that Truth Social is equally bad, but not really as much because conservatives. We're doing something right over here.

And he never demanded a military parade on his birthday.