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  1. I can't even analyze the tattoo thing because it is so anathema. I'm not sure what anyone is thinking when they get a tat or what the thought process is about having them removed. If I had somehow acquired a tattoo, one of my first sober thoughts would be about removing it. I know there are a lot of people on the board with ink. I just cannot relate to that.
  2. Is there any value to the notion that Platner, or a candidate like him, could argue that as a young man he was caught up in edgy internet culture, the precursors to groypers, and the "manosphere," but has come to realize how he was deceived and how wrong and immature are those positions and policies behind them. Thus, making him a "considered liberal" who has "been there and done that."
  3. Point of order, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about bail, but am perfectly willing to a) point out that its original purpose was to ensure appearance at trial, not "protect the public" and b) agree with a lot of critics that it has morphed into something that unduly penalizes the underclass while being untethered to either insuring appearance at trial or public safety. So, bail reform seems quite warranted, especially for lower-level offenses. It is possible, and even likely, that it has gone too far the other way, but a lot of that is informed by hindsight bias.
  4. Another quandary in the whole criminal justice/sentencing mess is homicide. A lot of homicide is a really one-off crime, for example Amber Guyger. So, as heinous as is "murder" or the taking of another life, a whole lot of murderers are pretty unlikely to do it again or really to engage in other criminality. Yet, we are pretty likely to punish them severely and incapacitate them for years, and they will be released as social and economic cripples. I'm not suggesting we let murderers off scot-free, but it's a ponderable. And, as said many times here, I think the best case for long-term incarceration is the repeat offender. But I have this sneaking suspicion that we manufacture a lot of those with our justice and social policies.
  5. Crime varies as a function of social unrest. I think that is indisputable. And our systems, which tend to ignore the least of us, combined with the near-unattainable "American Dream," create a lot of social unrest. So, social unrest leads to crime leads to incarceration. And incarceration feeds the unrest. Some of it is "our nature," but justice policies aren't helping.
  6. Well, that does ratify my thinking that our line last year wasn't championship quality. Bet it wasn't so hot in 23 either.
  7. What are those numbers for run blocking? My sense of it is that we've never been that good run blocking.
  8. Further on this, these are old enough that they were filed during the Biden Administration and likely the administrative portion should have been disposed of by the Biden DOJ.
  9. I am aware. But in both instances, it was the Germans who initiated these novel forms of warfare. And I should have been more precise about neutral or non-combatant merchant shipping and passenger shipping in civilian service and not by mistake. To my mind that may be worth a couple of extra depravity points.
  10. Not an FTCA expert by any means, but yeah those sound right. And I believe you have 180 days two years to file your claim once it accrues. Which is what I think gets most people and would seem to bar most of this shit. I don't think his malicious prosecution claims accrued until the cases were dismissed/terminated in his favor, which was not until whenever Smith formally dismissed them. The Russia-gate stuff would seem to be long barred.
  11. Oh, that's probably what is going on at the Tower, except a couple of offices here and there. It's 201 W. Seventh and 1100 Congress that you have to worry about
  12. TwiceHorn

    Hubris

    To be fair, although the problems that have exploded this year have been present to varying degrees in the past, the problems have not become acute until now. That is, it was at least somewhat justifiable for Sark to ignore the critics given the program state the past two years, and the progress made over the preceding two. It would have been ideal for him to self-diagnose the problem with the match between play calling and personnel and execution capability as well as potential problems with the pipeline and coaching there of.
  13. He does raise the valid point that at least in theory, the compact could be accepted and then maliciously complied with until arbitrary enforcement revokes the preference and we're no worse off fiscally than having rejected it, and maybe a tad better off. A performative acceptance of a performative proposal, if you will. I'm not really troubled by any failure to respond to those pointing out that it's just a performative power grab.
  14. Whether he "asked" or not, I think it is crystal clear that his campaign(s) paid for all of his many defenses. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-use-campaign-funds-pay-legal-bills
  15. For other than "constitutional" torts, anyone having a tortious (non-contractual) legal claim against the federal government or any of its officials must go through the Federal Tort Claims Act. That Act provides a system through which a claim is submitted outside of court and can be paid or settled by the government before a suit is filed. Once the process is exhausted, and a claim denied by the administrative process, a lawsuit can be filed. This applies to you, me, and everyone else, including Trump. For all but the most minor of claims with the most obvious liability, i.e. a drunken FBI agent runs a red light and t-bones your car, leading to a $10,000 property and personal injury claim, you, me, and everyone else would be forced to file suit. The obvious answer for this is to deny his claim and force him to file suit. Not that any of that will happen.
  16. I think that has more to do with Asians being authoritarians and communitarians.
  17. Nixon declared the War on Drugs in 1971. And, this is going to be like Vietnam and all the rest since: a guerilla war in a place where life is cheap and livelihood (if not freedom/self-determination per se) is at stake and a loser for us that ends only when we tire of the loss of American lives.
  18. Somewhat surprising. I thought most of us inclined to be political perverts (granted I haven't been one until the last 10 years or so) were also inclined to be history and/or military history buffs.
  19. Hey, you know what, "deterrence" hasn't come up hardly once in this thread. I have made an impact!
  20. This is all true, but a bit nuanced. It would be nice to say the federal government has no business telling universities what to do. But then you run into the DOE argument. And then civil rights, and on it goes.
  21. Well, you seem to be arguing that longer sentences are appropriate, while also acknowledging that the majority, maybe the vast majority, of incarcerated are not the problem. Then you say "targeted incarceration." Which would seem to involve a rather careful analysis of who really are the "problem children," rather than just increasing the length of sentencing across the board, which has been the solution to date.
  22. Because it's performative. And arbitrary.
  23. And, how can you predict who is going to be habitual? Once they are habitual or recidivist, I can't argue much with longer incarceration. My overall thought is that sentences are, by and large, too long. And I'm very interested in diversion programs for first offenders or those in "vulnerable" (probably not the right word) populations.
  24. A clearer pic and the actual explanation. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/21/progressive-populist-graham-platner-has-nazi-totenkopf-tattoo.html Not knowing that that is a Nazi/SS symbol is probably acceptable from a meathead enlisted guy.
  25. That's been my sense of things, also. Our talent is always somewhat overrated, in this particular case on the OL, but it's everywhere. And I think/hope that the answer is coaching/recruiting consistency. OSU, Georgia and Alabama have been stacking five stars longer than Sark has been at UT. Is our talent as good as ND, Penn State and some other helmet schools, and better than a lot of others', sure, but it's those tippy top teams we're measuring ourselves against.
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