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SimonBolivar

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  1. That's a pretty good Everybody Loves Raymond episode.
  2. He calls it a process though (or at least did here) where he changes a culture slowly and didn't put up a really good team until year 3.
  3. I'm annoyed they don't have something like Pointsbet in their stadium where anyone with a ticket can go and chill before the game with an overpriced beer. Their shitty version requires you to have a supporter's section ticket.
  4. Penn State with 0 protected rivalries is interesting.
  5. Hitting the road to KC in the morning. This will probably be a shit show, but hey there will be beer and the WW1 museum at least.
  6. Lmao, can the Pac10 just sign with Apple already and let everyone get ready for the season?
  7. Church going is still falling and religious pluralism in the US is still rising and is at an all-time high every single day. The theory goes that there reaches a point where white evangelical Protestants just aren't that important of a base to anyone. Their only hope is to attempt to expand their ideals outside of white evangelical Protestantism, which is not all that appealing to the rest of us but it's possible. I see the logic behind that argument, but as someone that lives in non-major city Texas....yeah I'm not all that hopeful that we're 30 or so years away from the fall of their power. Trumpism is an attempt at that as it relies on the unchurched believing that white evangelical Protestantism is the best course for the country as they've always been in charge (hotly debated) and their ideas should be the rule in the future too. I think that might be a winning play for a long time for them. Again I point to Du Mez, but her argument on the changing of what masculinity means within conservative Christianity is a big deal in getting men to follow along with someone as crude as Donald Trump even if you aren't religious.
  8. There's a big historiographic argument that's going on right now in academia between the connection. There has been a lot of work on the influence of Robertson and others in the 70s and 80s where they co-opted the political leanings of white protestants using religious ideals (in some sense) as an attempt to change the civil religion of the US to revert away from feminism or really change in general. There is a powerful work by Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, that attempts to connect this movement with Trumpism and I think the book does a great job of that. I fall in line with others that think that Trumpism incorporated the religious right as just a part of its overall message and he certainly needs that contingency, but that his tent is bigger than the one created by white evangelicals in the 70s & 80s as that population continues to wane. Either way, today is a good day and Dr. James Dobson....you are on the clock.
  9. Only a few left from the glory days of SBC cultural power over the United States in the late 80s through early 00s. The end can't come soon enough.
  10. Hey, Pat Robertson died. Today is going to be a good day.
  11. This would make sense to me if there were a lot of middling women out there that couldn't find men as their standards are too high. That doesn't seem to be the case and your average 5 or 6 seems able to find relationships just fine if they want them.
  12. Nah I got the weekly special and a flavor of wing I hadn't tried before. Now, I have my favorite beers that I buy over something I haven't tried before from time to time so I get your point (and its a good point) but these dudes buy it every single time And never venture out of their comfort zone for anything ever. Boring as hell
  13. It does bother me. I went to a pizza place with some family, and they had a bunch of craft beer on tap including some from a local award-winning distillery that brews on the side and is hard to find. Like a normal, curious human being I opted for that to see what it tastes like and the others opted for their usual Michelob and Bud Light. Zero curiosity, which is weird to me.
  14. I know he's won a World Cup, but can he do it on a warm night in Nashville?
  15. A lot more Spanish being spoken in Miami than Riyadh too. Plus it isn't living in fucking Saudi Arabia.
  16. I'm really enjoying watching people stream hardcore Classic WoW with permadeath. I have no interest in being sucked back into playing and potentially losing a character, but it's a blast to watch a level 40 something die after days of work.
  17. The author must be some coastal elite asshole if they don't realize that truckers and Bucees are mortal enemies.
  18. Sorry about your imminent lockjaw.
  19. When were you on Pearl? I was there two years ago (during the summer no less) and it was ass to ankles busy on a weeknight.
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