Chirpysaurus Rex

That's a cool jersey! I had an old Winnipeg Jets jersey that looked like that many years ago.

You're screen playing the news now? Does that pay well?

Abuse that cancer. Pummel it. It can't hang with you.

Or the English football infrastructure is just bigoted in general and it doesn't have anything to do with Australia.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

I mean....you're not wrong though.

Those of us who pay attention want to pretend elections are about ideologies, policies, principles, etc. in truth, for most people, voting is something like filing their tax returns. Something they're vaguely aware they should do but with no real understanding of how or why.

It's also a farce because it's only a gamble if there's a possibility someone (ahem, the press) holding him accountable for losing the bet. But ...as I wave my hands everywhere...that's obviously never happened.

He does these things precisely because IT IS NOT a gamble.

True!

I just think most people who pay attention to politics and/or the news wildly undervalue the degree to which the average voter doesn't pay attention. So it seems hilarious to us that the Shamwow guy would want the ballot to say Shamwow...but in reality, that would have swung a lot of voters.

You can mock Vince Shlomi For the silliness, but he's tapping into something that is absolutely true, which is that most American voters know so little about what's going on that the only thing that really matters in ballot selection is name recognition. Do they recognize your name? You win.

This is of course mind-numbingly stupid.

With that said, it's confirmation of something I've said for a long time that I feel like most people don't understand. It's not just that most Americans are low information voters. It's that they are no information voters.

Cannot believe our government is legit doing the "We have always been at war with Eastasia" shit. bsky.app/profile/atru...

What's the topic/storyline you're least looking forward to this offseason...the one that will get repeated over and over, that you'll get asked about every week, that you know you'll be exhausted if talking about?

On the other hand, what's the story you're looking forward to?

I'm floating in the North Sea somewhere between the Hebrides and the Faroe Islands.

Send help when you have a moment. It's cold.

When Syphilis spills out of the brain seeking a more substantial home and finds a red neck.

My guy....no, this isn't how we respond as adults. Please take a moment to consider how you can do better.

all-timer sports graphic dropped

One of my first ever mentors taught me that the best measure of a manager is how often they get one of their people trained and promoted.

Congratulations. This says as much about you as it does about her.

Montgomery's farewell, via Instagram.

Jeebus

That's remarkable

Compensation update: The Texans are sending OL Juice Scruggs, a 4th-rounder and a 7th-rounder to Detroit for David Montgomery.

I'm sure it won't be long before someone snaps you up, but in the meantime enjoy a little downtime when you can.

Thanks! I enjoy it a lot....to your discussion, I maintain a decent turntable partly because my wife enjoys vinyl and partly for nostalgia reasons. Though, if I'm honest, I find the convenience of digital preferable and if done well it sounds better than vinyl.

This is always the correct choice.

Came here to say this

I find it really handy for some mundane, repetitive writing tasks like post-game summaries in my coaching role. I can feed it notes about scores and highlight performances and it will reliably formulate that into a short blurb I can use.

If I ask for anything more complicated, it's unreliable.

It doesn't "know" anything at all. It's simply running the probability of the next most likely word in its response. If that happens to coincide with something factual or useful, that's great. But it isn't designed for usefulness or accuracy, it's designed to sound natural.