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Paul Wesley

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  1. Like Tina Turner in the honeymoon phase, it takes only the smallest act of kindness to draw me in again. You won't hit me again, right, Ike?
  2. Welcome back to the program, Mr Black
  3. Dumbest team I have ever seen
  4. We're saving the keeper for Kansas, apparently
  5. Our coaches are just as stupid as the players
  6. What happened to T Black?
  7. I'm late to the headphone discussion, but still gonna throw out a cheaper option. The Beyerdynamic DT 990 comes in several versions with different impedances. So can get a pair that's designed to listen with laptops or cell phones. They're cheap, comfortable, and they sound amazing for the price. They're around $175. My only complaint with mine is that the cord is a bit too long. If you want grown-man headphones, I agree with jimmyjazz that the Sennheisers are pretty hard to beat.
  8. I 100% expect some final-week tomfuckery. In 2016 we got it from Comey. This year there’s going to be pre-election stunts (in addition to the Russian interference already underway)... maybe even from our now-weaponized DOJ. Political arrests. Fake investigations. There’s going to be election-day chaos (right wing violence, maybe a false flag we-caught-the-dems-cheating). And there’s going to be post election stop-counting-while-we’re-still-ahead shenanigans. Which is to say- I’m not putting much faith in polls that think a fair fight is a given.
  9. I remember Nate Silver, a day or two before the 2016 election, correcting someone on the 538 podcast who spoke like the election was in the bag for Hillary. “It’s closer to a coin toss than it is to being in the bag.” Since then, I bristle a bit when I hear people say, “Well, all the polls were wrong last time.” It seems that the polls were much, much closer to predicting the 2016 result than was the average layperson opinion... especially the opinion of Democrats.
  10. Missed opportunity for a better thread title: "Jon Bon Jovi is terrible at this job"
  11. I have Colbert on while I'm knocking out a few things on the laptop before bedtime. Bon Jovi is the guest. First there's an "interview" where Colbert lobs him some softballs. Boring. Then he asks Bon Jovi about his writing process for this record. This is a long-time pet peeve of mine: an interviewer asking the songwriter to talk about how they wrote the song, squinting in the light of the writer's imagined genius, and this exchange happening immediately before the audience finds out that the song is, in fact, a banal piece of shit that is utterly devoid of artistic merit. In fact, there's a whole show where this is the formula... it's called "Texas Music Scene with Ray Benson." But I digress. So Bon Jovi steps up to the mic and sings a clunker so bad that I had to look up the lyrics to see if my ears were deceiving me. Turns out... nope. He really does use "PPE" in a song, and starts a verse with this line: "Although I'll keep my social distance, what the world needs is a hug." Take my word for it: The music is even worse than the lyrics. God Dammit, Jon, you are single handedly killing off what very little is left of rock music. Jay Fucking Leno is embarrassed at what a milquetoast corporate whore you are. Please stop.
  12. Klatt comes off really well in those videos. I don't know why it's so impossible for networks to find knowledgeable, even-handed analysts. I mean, it would be hard to find a more annoying person in a sports bar than Galindo, Brando, or Lapham.
  13. I saw this resurrected thread at the top of the page, and I was looking to see if I'd already replied to it ("Final Cut" by Pink Floyd was going to be my reply). Scrolling down the first page, and I saw your comment that I missed in real time. Anyway, a belated thank you. I appreciate it a lot.
  14. This point has rarely been mentioned (what with all the high-level corruption, nepotism, and treason), but it's a legitimate grievance.
  15. I keep an am radio on in the garage just to hear what talking points Rush is delivering. And lately... holy shit. Joe Biden’s supporters are systematically murdering the entire police force, and Black Lives Matter are coming to kill the white people. Only Trump can save us. (It’s not even coded)
  16. Uppity?
  17. That's exactly how I read that quote. She never said she'd vote "no."
  18. Superb post (says the also-a-former-Republican). The 2016 election is still hard to wrap my head around. I think you could argue that Hillary was simultaneously the most qualified presidential candidate in history while also being the *only* candidate who could have lost to Trump. The Republicans did a brilliant job of identifying potential Democratic nominees and then demonizing them on a daily basis for literally decades ("Vince Foster!!!" "Benghazi!!!").
  19. That's what he does.
  20. You can say the same for McConnell and whoever he nominates. Hence my earlier comment that this is the event that lights the fuse.
  21. This is going to be the spark that ignites the powder keg
  22. We’re so fucked
  23. WaPo has another pool boy story today. Says that when the media started running stories in 2019 questioning the whole bizarre relationship (including photos), Granda texted Becki that his life was ruined and he was contemplating suicide. She told him, “Stay off social media. It’s full of left wing nut jobs.” You could spend an hour unpacking all the hypocrisy and bullshit in that text, starting with the fact that newspapers are not “social media.” It reminded me of an exchange I had earlier this week, where several people were talking about the dangers of social media, and one guy says, “Thanks to social media, a lot of people now believe that Trump is a racist.” JFC
  24. Good Lord, the quickness of Collins... that's impressive.
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