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Duane Moore

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  1. Interesting. I clearly did not know that, and misused it in this context. I had always thought it was a synonym for higher birth status and so assumed it was spelled the other way. You have taught me something today.
  2. Gotcha. That’s very true. Alabama is the measuring stick program for SEC teams because of their history of success. Even in the Bill Curry or Mike Shula years, beating them was a highlight of the season for most schools.
  3. As someone with Tennessee fans in my family and who has followed SEC football for 40 years, it’s my observation that Alabama has been traditionally regarded differently by its rivals than we have by ours. We have long been considered the school in the SWC and Big12 that was the biggest, richest, and most arrogant school in the conference. That we had a manor-born sense of superiority and looked down our noses academically at everyone else besides Rice. Their hatred arose out of a sense of envy for what we had, separate and apart from our football program. Again, Rice and probably SMU excepted. Alabama’s relationship with the rest of the SEC has always been different because football is really the only thing over which they could claim superiority as to the other schools and their fan bases. The original 10 teams were like brothers from the same family, with only Vanderbilt being set apart as a truly distinguished academic institution, but their football program was so terrible as to make them irrelevant. The other schools had heated rivalries with one another, but there was never the inferiority complex with Alabama as a school or fan base that a Baylor or Iowa State had with us. Auburn and Tennessee, it’s traditional rivals, never thought of Bama as anything like “T-Sippers.” Each fan base though the other were trailer trash, hillbillies, rednecks, jort-wearing crackers, coon-asses, etc. And when it came to the national stage, there was enough vestigial collective “Southern Pride” such that Alabama was considered the standard bearer for the SEC’s football excellence and cheered on by its rivals when one of Bear Bryant’s teams would go play a Northern power like Notre Dame or Penn Stste. I don’t think we ever enjoyed that kind of support from a Tech or Baylor when one of Royal’s or Akers’ teams was in national title contention. The other good Shatner Twilight Zone episode is an underrated one. “Nick of Time” is a subtle little story about a young couple stuck in a small town with car trouble that get pulled in by a fortune telling machine in a local diner. It’s a Richard Matheson script about free will and the perils of superstition and is sneakily very dark. Not the kind of episode to leave a big impression as a kid like the gremlin on the wing, but more interesting as an adult. “The Howling Man” is another one of my favorites. A man traveling in Europe gets taken in at a monastery where the monks think they are holding the Devil captive. It’s a Charles Beaumont story, anything by him is usually good. He also wrote the Talky Tina episode (“Living Doll”) with Telly Savalas. It’s probably the avatar, but I always figured you for a “Robert DeNiro’s Waiting” kind of guy.
  4. So much for the ceasefire
  5. Trying to reconcile this post from Iran’s spokesman with the reports of attacks on multiple bases in Iraq.
  6. Good post. You may enjoy this deep dive on how recent events have impacted the influence of Russia and China in the region: https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2025/06/how-the-u-s-attack-on-iran-hurts-russia-and-china
  7. From the reports out of Tehran, Israel is getting every lick they can in up to the last minute.
  8. I posted that one earlier, Amit Segal has great sources in the Israeli government so let’s hope he’s right. Very positive if true.
  9. A timely reminder that Tucker Carlson is batshit crazy:
  10. Well this should be interesting. . .
  11. Since it seems like you haven’t heard of Soleimani before, I’d recommend this long profile on him by Dexter Filkins in the Atlantic from 2013. He was an undeniably bad dude. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
  12. If you’ve been paying attention, that’s all basic stuff
  13. Soleimani was the mastermind behind Iranian attacks on American soldiers in Iraq, especially in the production and distribution of EFP’s that killed and maimed thousands of Americans. His assassination crippled IRGC efforts across the region and likely saved many lives, including those of Americans, from Iranian-backed terrorism. It also disrupted the operations of Iranian proxy networks who depended on Soleimani’s experience and strategy, preventing complex, high impact attacks. The strike was made after recent provocations by Iran on American interests (2019 attack on US base in Iraq, and on American Embassy in Baghdad) and re-established deterrence against Iran from further actions. TL;DR Soleimani was their best General, responsible for thousands of American casualties, and his death weakened Iran’s ability to project power on the interests of America and its allies.
  14. Holy shit, Chris Murphy is stealing your material!
  15. Merz weighing in:
  16. What the hell kind of war for oil is this?!?!?
  17. BDA’s are still being done, but from what I’m seeing Israeli intelligence seems to think the vast majority of the enriched uranium is not destroyed but entombed at Fordow and Isfahan. That’s why they bombed the access points to Fordow this morning, to prevent Iranians getting in to remove it. This interview with Amit Segal is very encouraging. He’s saying they think the nuclear program is effectively ended and the air strikes are focused on eliminating as much of the ballistic missile capability as possible: Situation is still fluid, but if this pans out, seems like a net benefit for us in this exchange.
  18. Fingers crossed, but so far this is following the precedent of the Soleimani strike and response. We’ll see if Iran has more, but they seem to be signaling this is it:
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