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  1. That's a strong position. For the first time, I'm reconsidering it. How is mental health affected by national mythology? Our stories repeatedly portray violence as the ultimate answer to conflict. More accurately, our stories often set out to prove that too many rules and laws subvert justice which is best meted out with plenty of blood spatter. (I just observe, I'm not schooled in these things.) Do American minds turn more quickly to killing due to elements other than the activities so often named? Would this be mental health? An inability to control violent or anti-social feelings and actions might suggest so. As in just about any area of national discourse, we are led to narrow lines of analysis by editorial choices in the news media. TexArcher deftly handles the limited argument about mental health as a general notion, the influence of music, and the joy of playing violent video games. But why not increase the scope of what we're talking about here? Was Nazi Germany a mental health phenomenon? I really don't know under specific definitions, but it seems like it.
  2. Texas has (had) a chicken ranch. He's nothing without human sacrifice. He is pretty dreamy. Maybe put it in a glass of champagne. I knew what he meant. I think it's an amusing observation with some truth. I would think that a conversation (increasingly tedious) about the Deep South defined the area he was writing about. I didn't take it that characteristics of the Deep South originated from pine trees, but maybe that's what fucked up Germany for awhile. I've not been to Oxford, but Mississippi outside of a very few locations is a shit hole. I've driven through many times taking different routes. Stick to the Natchez Trace Parkway. It offers a Zen like drive and you don't see many Mississippians.
  3. You guys enjoy it.
  4. So, what do you guys think about the OL?
  5. A moment of respectful silence for Miss Reveille's service. Shall we carpool to the funeral of a dog? Will Miss Reveille lie in state.
  6. Perspective seems impossible for others.
  7. Not bad. Even elegant. It's the target that matters. The killer? Sometimes they is just they, sometimes it's army of transgender murderers, bathroom invaders, and ruiners of women's sports supported by the ebil Dems. We can rely on this psycho Rodney Dangerfield impressionist to protect us.
  8. It's quality bitching. I've only recently discovered the poisonous tides of Kingdom Christianity and the stampede of right wing opinion leaders to join a virulent movement in the Catholic Church. I don't often watch TV news, but I read periodicals. Until chancing upon articles in Atlantic and either the New Yorker or Vanity Fair (man, that used to be such a good magazine), I was completely in the dark about any specifics regarding these right wing church movements. I didn't read anything about either of these developments in political coverage. They speak only dull generalities using the same tired analysts. Welded to MAGA, these metastasizing religious branches represent, to me, the most intractible cancers on the republic. They don't even give lip service to its ideals, they want theocracy. Of course, if you're settting up a theocracy in the name of Christ, what better choice do you have than Donald Trump. This aligns with your articulate conclusion about grotesque amoralty. If a religious person doesn't find morality in their religion, where does it come from? Yikes.
  9. Only data point we need then? Right-o. I wish you all the luck in the world seeing only what you're looking for. Yes, the numbers are numbers. Same goes for trees and gonads. To be clear, I'm not saying that they're numbers, too.
  10. Do you have a truck for cherry picking?
  11. We train them to harden their hearts to killing. We send them to a war zone to experience enormous stress where they kill people. We'll treat their bodies when they undergo horrific damage. Then we fly 'em home, say thanks, and barely fund anything that actually helps them readjust. "Thank you for your service" is to veterans what thoughts and prayers are to mass shooting victims and their families. We really like sending soldiers into the field. We really hate abandoning our hopelessly naive view of soldiering.
  12. For morons, any retort is a good retort. You can also read the moronicity when the "retort" becomes all any of them can come up with. Still, they launch it as though it's devastating just like they think the horns down is badass.
  13. Yes, the trend so far is a fucking disaster. Sark is killing the program. I hate making the semi-final for the national championship and clearly belonging there.
  14. Texas has used the quick kick many times. Colt McCoy made the kick a few times. Great tactic because nobody is back to keep the ball from rolling towards the goal line.
  15. I did say the first, but the question was about the second. You've proclaimed you disagree about the first (give me time to get over that), and you shy from the second. I bet you were a pretty snappy 2A high school debater. I'm filled with admiration and awe. Run along now.
  16. Poor persecuted Aggies. First, the reasonable post.
  17. Gaping vaginas? He was objectively stinking it up. Anyone not alarmed was a gaping idiot.
  18. Verdad.
  19. Man, how far down the AP list do you have to go to find a team you're sure the Aggies would beat? They've got a punchers chance against some of those teams. I guess Oklahoma is about their level? This poll will look silly to us by season's end. I like the feeling that anything can happen. I have no opinion about our ranking. Our greatest achievement is a close loss. I'm not an Aggie, so I won't hang my hat on that. After seeing the SHSU stats and the reaction on the board to the improved Manning, I'm excited for the game this week. I wouldn't be had Arch not shown signs of life. Hook 'Em!
  20. Go back and read the posts. My query was clearly about the quality of those two receivers. Your proclamations bore me.
  21. I likely don't have a full grasp of the new coaching world that is developing, but surely one can still become a millionaire by becoming a head coach just about anywhere. Plus, the title of head coach is what the majority of football coaches are aiming for. I think it was another thread where someone brought up parity. I'm thinking that since the top schools don't have the money to buy up all the talent, it becomes possible for the non-elite hoi poloi to pay for a few difference makers for themselves. That could lead to winning records against your peers and the occasional upset of an elite team. Or so it seems to me.
  22. Haven't those always been the jobs where coaches prove themselves and move up the ladder?
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