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  1. It's pretty fucking crazy. Not sure how this didn't make it on the board in general, much less that the guy was a UT grad right spang in our demographic.
  2. Good Girls Don't is the best song on the album anyway. Also, it was fucking 1979.
  3. He is tired of your shit.
  4. At this rate, on a gurney before the 2028 election seems more and more likely. Maybe in a straightjacket.
  5. Normal "Pentagon lawyers" didn't ask that question, not after everything they've been through with Gitmo. That was Trump's D-team of 3rd and 4th year lawyers from Liberty and Regent U law schools. Even the State Department was like:
  6. So, it sounds like they had some smoke, that is, a rumor, and the promotion of his assistant. But everyone denied it and they couldn't find any corroboration or proof. It's not clear to me if the Plan B thing kicked off the investigation or was the tip that sealed it. Although it is suspicious, it doesn't seem to corroborate anything. Sounds like something else cracked, maybe the gal herself.
  7. Yeah, but that wouldn't be the standard for damages in a more normal contract scenario. They lost his services, but they also no longer needed to pay him. The legit measure of damages would be the "cost to cover," the cost to replace him. Of course, their ability to replace him is circumscribed by the spring portal window. But if they had to pay more for a replacement, that would be the normal measure of damages. I think what you'd have to do to make that enforceable is some somewhat arbitrary $5-10k/month of contract to cover the fact that a) he may be irreplaceable, both from a talent and an "at all" standpoint and b) that any replacement obtained in the portal is likely to command a premium of that 5-10k.
  8. They portaled in a lot of players, something like 48 the last two years. Very few five stars, if any. Here's a depth chart showing transfers in yellow. Most of the offense, not that much of the defense. https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/indiana/90728
  9. You could actually #bothsides that pretty well. The astonishing part, though, is how often people seem unwilling to hold republicans to account.
  10. At some point, these clowns and many of their sycophants start to believe that more money is the only way of "keeping score." It certainly is one very practical way of keeping score, but conflating it with actual excellence, or even goodness, is a huge mistake.
  11. I have read some recent criticism of the "Bush plan." It's not so much that centering research in academia is wrong, and the private sector can do it better, but it did seem to relieve the private sector of some compunction to spend on R&D and made it easier for corporations to be Friedman fiduciaries, that is, short-term thinkers.
  12. As has been noted for years, precursors to CR on the Longhorn internets have had a conservative bias until Trump. That kind of belies the notion that UT is some liberal indoctrination center. And the same is true of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. who've pumped out plenty of conservative and even reactionary types.
  13. At least it's not Greco-Roman. Or flat Greek. NTTAWWT.
  14. Yeah, I was wondering if there was something like that going on, but wasn't going to touch it with a 10-foot pole.
  15. So, wifey likes the murder shows and had on one of those streaming channels that's non-stop Datelines. And this guy came up. https://www.oxygen.com/murder-for-hire/crime-time/woman-suicide-arrested-hire-hitman While all of these stories are pretty fuckin nutty, this one was extra. Anyway, this guy's a UT grad, around 2000, probably a ZBT or Sammy. Anyone know him? Or the vet chick?
  16. Cancellation petition here. https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=92090266&pty=CAN&eno=1 The test for abandonment is straightforward: did the Trademark owner stop using without intent to resume use? Under the Trademark Act, non-use for three consecutive years creates a presumption of abandonment. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1127 According to the petition, Elmo announced discontinuation in July 2023. In the best of cases, abandonment is proving a negative. Therefore the 3-year presumption is invaluable to shift the burden to the alleged owner to prove use or intent to resume. And yeah, Elmo is highly likely to come up with some kind of BS use that will be called "token." Not sure why this outfit didn't wait until July 2026, or thereafter, to file.
  17. My parents had two of those monstrosities. A main one in the den and Dad had a monaural tube Magnavox that had a giant klipschorn type speaker. That latter one really sounded good.
  18. Interesting. I think he was pretty popular among the players the first time around.
  19. Thankfully, 8-tracks were just a bit before my time. I never had one of these. I did, however, acquire a few 8-track tapes at a neighbor's garage sale. Led Zeppelin 1 and IV and Iron Butterfly In A Gadda Da Vida, baby. The only place I could play them was in our 73 Fleetwood.
  20. Despite its name, Lawfare actually has very few lawyers and at least half of its content is security related. It and justsecurity are complementary reading.
  21. And because it’s Trump, the “economic” message very quickly became the old, ugly standby: if you’re struggling, blame immigrants, Black Democrats, and whoever Fox had on blast in the A-block for Frau Ingraham’s White Power Hour last night. (“Immigrants are taking 100% of jobs!” “Shitholes!”) Lulz.
  22. And the "CR cabal" makes plenty of money, we're just not interested in cornholing everyone to get it.
  23. This may actually be true in some sense, but the motherfucker sure didn't run on it. And, if we're going to have austerity, I sure as fuck want a more coherent economic policy in place while we suffer. Preferably one that gives corporate America a nice case of hemhorroids.
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