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  1. I just got done filling out this fun rapture survey about my first car, my high school mascot, my best man, and my childhood pets name. Now ready to go!
  2. I think a lot of plans elect the most conservative for you automatically because people who don’t pay attention to their shit are the ones most likely to throw a fit if they check one day and have “lost” money.
  3. I remember the shirt and it did cause a small shitstorm. But no one cared after a 12-2 season and beating Notre Dame in a bowl and no one cares now. They care about ridiculous beat downs to Oregon and losing to Tulsa at home.
  4. Recently bias kicking in for the OP here. If you want to be more aggressive but still take a “stick it and forget it” approach you can move to a target fund farther out from your date (2055 vice 2045). As this year shows, an S+P tracker is not always the choice you want. I had an acquaintance dutifully make max contributions to his TSP (gov equivalent of 401k) but never reallocate from the G fund until 5 years out from retirement. Now that is a true fuckup.
  5. I’d be interested to see the rest of your reading list. Not a novel observation, but while WWI spawned a tremendous amount of high quality literature, WWII did rather less. Vonnegut and Heller spring to to mind.
  6. He’s on the back side of his 50s and has generational wealth, why would he need to do anything at all?
  7. I think this job is going to be a good test case. In years past this would be a job a hot coordinator would jump at, proven ability to have success combined with relatively realistic expectations; you could turn it into a long gig or a stepping stone. In the super conference NIL era? One wrong move can derail a career in big ways. I think we see more coordinators be careful about the HC jobs they take and testing NFL assistant waters.
  8. Completely agree. And now that you get paid, there should be options to offer more than one-year dead that bind you to the school. Everyone being a free agent every year is bullshit and will ensure that no amount of coaching and development will help a school get better.
  9. Wouldn’t a 9-0 decision to seriously limit a popular and powerful POTUS suggest it hasn’t always been this level of Calvinball.
  10. The court is going to overturn Humphry’s Executor, which was a unanimous decision against FDR. I remember when conservatives hated FDR and called him a dictator (not without some cause) but this admin is so, so much more grasping.
  11. That’s just the thing, the theory of law they advance (Unitary Executive) holds that any independence of commissions or executive branch agencies mandated by Congress is unconstitutional. Until recently this was fairly fringe but packing the court with people ready to advance it has been the goal.
  12. Withholding judgment till I am told if this is in the 80 percent great or 20 percent crazy bucket.
  13. Just another day where SCOTUS uses the shadow docket to confirm that the President can do whatever he wants. Surprising to those of us who were always taught otherwise, but you learn something new every day.
  14. Clickhole badly needs to do a CK column with QEII. https://clickhole.com/i-didmt-enjoy-ozzu-osbruns-muslix-but-we-broth-were-brintish-and-both-lived-a-ronk-and-rolls-lifestylm-by-queen-elizabeth-ii/
  15. When has UNT had a sought after HC since Hayden Fry and Jerry Moore?
  16. I agree with this. It’s a super lib thing to think that we can fix this by making the rules better. The problem is not the OS, this is pure user maliciousness. Russia had a really great constitution written in the 1990s.
  17. A lot of GARLIC butter, totally different thing that’s good for you.
  18. Fall getting close and a decently not-sweaty weekend so….old school red sauce simmered four hours with short ribs, pork, and sausage with a parm rind and chunks of carrots to off-set the acid. Served, as God intended, with a simple green salad, white bread and garlic butter, and red table wine.
  19. Most already mentioned: Beast of Burden Midnight Rambler Tumbling Dice (Just love Keith’s work here) Brown Sugar/Honly Tonk Women A favorite of mine that doesn’t come near most lists of top Stones songs is “Don’t Stop” from their 2002 album. Just a jam that hits me.
  20. I think there’s usually a big jumble of teams starting at around 15 and ending around 30 or 35 that are usually a lot closer to each other than they seem even at the end of the year. There’s a often lot of luck and chance that goes into finishing with 3 losses vice 5. My only point here is that accurately assessimg the relative goodness of sports teams is wicked hard. There’s a whole billion dollar industry that takes money away from people who fail to appreciate how hard it is. All told, the polls do a fairly decent job within the confines of the possible.
  21. Nope, not even a little bit. Like I said, in 2024 8/12 CFP teams started in the top 15. The eventual champion started at 2. In 2023, all 4 CFP teams started in the top 12 and the champion started at 2. In 2022 3/4 CFP teams started in the top 10 (TCU was the big miss) and the eventual champ started at 3. There will always be misses and it’s inexact but it’s for sure better than the methods of “no bias.”
  22. My hot take is that mediocre, connected white people are among the biggest beneficiaries of DEI. The fact is that there will always be spots for lukewarm nepobabies and brahmin class failsons in every elite institutions from preschool to Ivies to Wall Street. Their spots are secure, they are not actually competing for anything with minority applicants. The middle class, public school, whip-smart white kid is directionally correct feeling like the deck is stacked against him or her. They are correct to chafe at the idea that because of their skin color, they are equally privileged as the legacy Andover chode who has had private tutors and a building with his last name on campus. The mistake is getting angry at minority applicants instead of the legacy or connected mediocrities who actually are getting favorable, unearned treatment.
  23. Now that we have the CFP, polls are significantly less important to the outcome. They are a way for followers of the sport who can’t watch every game to have a good idea of who to keep an eye on and what games might be really interesting. And in fact, preseason polls are often pretty good. 6/12 in the 2024 top 12 finished in the playoffs and 8/12 were inside the top 15. They whiffed on Arizona State, Boise, Indiana, and SMU. The blind system above is significantly worse at telling college football watchers roughly where teams fall relative to each other than the “biased polls.”
  24. The Denver rebrand in the 1990s was not the worst-executed, but it spawned a lot of terrible, worse executed sameness.
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