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  1. Was that Jeremy Allen White talking about the show, or Carmen Berzatto talking about the restaurant?
  2. No shit. Greg, you're a Longhorn graduate and fan. Are you going to call Steve Sarkisian a loser when during a press conference after a loss he owns up to mistakes the team made and how it could have prepared and/or performed better? I'd kill to have aggy Rick Perry back as governor.
  3. I joined the Episcopal Church in 2009 after being baptized, confirmed, and raised Catholic. I've never heard any of my priests say anything or hint anything remotely like "our interpretation is right, and all of you sinners are wrong." I acknowledge, though, that there are degrees among the Episcopal church, and some parishes and some dioceses can be more religiously conservative than others, and my church is on the liberal side. One of our young priests currently at my church said it best: "The enemy of faith is not doubt, but certainty." I've always felt our clergy gives us permission to question and doubt, and most of the messaging I hear from the pulpit is that it's not about believing, it's about living.
  4. I'm not kidding, Chris.
  5. He's going to be slow to respond. He turned down a federal grant that would have allowed Surly to increase the timing of alerts when a user gets tagged in a post. That's not political. It's just facts.
  6. This needs to be a front-page article. I mean, what the ever living fuck? A city manager going on a run during a flash flood warning?
  7. Going to be hard to get around governmental immunity in order to hold the county liable.
  8. Yeah, all that is fair. But speaking to a point Texas Fight seemed to suggest, I don't know that it's fair to say the parents fucked up by sending their kids to camp where it was obvious they'd be sleeping in a flood plain. Even with all that historical data you cite, the parents assumed that the staff at Camp Mystic was equipped to respond to a possible flash flood, and I don't know if that assumption is a parental failure. As I mentioned above, I've never before thought to ask what system Camp Champions has in place to respond to possible flash flooding conditions, and it's not like the chances of that area along Lake LBJ flooding are 0%. Maybe that's naive of me, and I'm sure I'll ask the question before paying the camp fees for next summer if Champions doesn't reach out first. Along those lines, I wonder if riverfront or lakefront camps in the area will take some kind of hit next summer. No matter what assurances camps will provide, I can see some folks look at what happened on July 4 and say "nope."
  9. I expect nothing but hospitality, manners, and sobriety from the fans in Columbus.
  10. Apparently there were a shitload of people of varying intelligence levels that didn't see this coming at all.
  11. Yeah, good point. I didn't move to Texas until 1994 and don't recall hearing about the 1987 flash flood before this weekend. I guess it's a combination of complacency, faded memories, and a "that was a freak weather event" rationale.
  12. Same here. My kids have attended Camp Champions for years, which is on Lake LBJ. They've stayed in cabins that are right at the shore's edge, and I've never before thought that anything bad might happen. And I know that lake is a lot different than the Guadalupe or Llano Rivers, but I'm guessing from now on Camp Champions will publish to any current and prospective parents a detailed disaster response plan, even if the odds of a catastrophic event like this are miniscule. All waterfront camps are going to develop a "we will not let that happen to your child" type of marketing plan. Too many parents won't view what happened at Camp Mystic as a lightening strike.
  13. Yet another futile attempt to persuade people that he has any humanity or empathy.
  14. It'll matter in that a group of wealthy families of deceased campers will lobby the legislature for some reform, and the legislature will pass some performative bill that won't do shit.
  15. Side note: It was marketing genius that Viagra rhymes with Niagara.
  16. I love the Quinn Ewers Being "Quinn" thread.
  17. I'm also skeptical that Carmy is really walking away from it all. I get that he may have lost some love for being a chef, and his pursuit of excellence was a lot about him not dealing with the other shit in his life. But it's like Tom Brady retiring after winning his third Super Bowl, or Michael Jordan retiring after winning his third NBA championship (yeah, I know MJ did just that, but he came back in the middle of his second season away).
  18. And we thank you and your four friends for your service.
  19. All I know is that there were an awful lot of chemtrails over the Hill County last week.
  20. Yeah, it's right there on the sign. But still, when I heard myself tell my wife, "I'm serious, I only know these people from an anonymous website," I understood how that might be weird from her perspective.
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