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  1. Spooky small dog supremacy.
  2. “My faith and my relationship with my wife is deeply personal and important. Too personal and important to talk about publicly. I know anyone with a spouse or partner can understand that some things are between two people.”
  3. Also, it’s *reek of* not “wreak of.” Grade inflation at Yale Law, it seems.
  4. If you genuinely subscribe to most small-o orthodox versions of Christianity then hoping/praying for people close to you to share that faith is unsurprising and in fact it would be strange and uncaring not to. It’s hard to see how talking about it from the second-highest office in world reflects a genuine belief in either the faith or hope that your spouse would join you. It comes off as a manipulative way to explain away a spouse that has become politically inconvenient.
  5. Also very upset to learn that the White House had ordinary shitters like you might dump in at an IHOP or Dennys or some other peasant jakes.
  6. Maybe if the Kennedy Center would bring back Cats like he told them.
  7. What unfinished business is keeping him on this plane? Wants another serving of undercooked mammoth? Hoping someone will uncover who bashed his head with a hand-axe? Ridiculous. Implausible.
  8. Spinning back down to the second tier open jobs— some noise surrounding Franklin to VaTech. Assuming the PSU thing hasn’t just wrecked him I think that might be the hire of the cycle. Same recruiting field, less pressure to win it all, and an ACC that is pretty wide open. I think he’d turn them into a regular playoff contender and that place can cook pretty well when the team is good.
  9. There is for sure a lot of racism in this debate. I do think that you have two very different things at play. Fundamentally, I do not think that the extension or withholding of rights to other citizens based on race or immutable characteristics is an issue that should be up to a vote. I do think that a nation’s immigration policy— who, how, how many, what means, what benefits— is rightfully a topic for democratic debate and processes. And on those lines, a few propositions almost anyone can agree on: 1. Our current immigration regime has not been democratically tackled for close to 50 years even as the fundamentals— who, how many, what means— of immigration to the country have changed tremendously. 2. America has the highest proportion of foreign born residents since the turn of the century. Rapid demographic change driven by migration causes anxieties, debates, and reactions across time and space in every society that is confronted with them. Americans are not uniquely good or bad in this respect. 3. American voters consistently show contradictory and complicated views on immigration (illegal or otherwise) and that has created an incentive for elected officials to duck open debate and passage of legislation to avoid confronting tough choices and inevitably taking sides in a debate that will leave lots of people unhappy. 4. Legislation that responds to current facts has been substituted with technocratic implementation by the executive in ways that undermine democratic credibility: namely, the same codified laws are implemented to dramatically different ends and effect depending on the executive. That corrodes public confidence in the idea that the legal underpinnings are sound. I don’t see the underlying issue as unique to immigration. Elected reps have punted big questions time and time again in favor of letting the executive decide by administrative practice and interpretation. All this is kind of coming to a head all at once and Congress has been mostly content to continue to duck responsibility when they fear the resolution will upset voters.
  10. I don’t ever think I’ve seen a serious attempt to quantify this that wasn’t coming from a ideologically aligned think-tank of one bent or another, with some being more serious than others. Nearly all of the analysis falls apart over what and how you count that an honest observer has to admit is going to be a judgment call (example: public education costs for citizen children in illegal-headed households). This argument has long been an argument about deeper, more fundamental questions and anxieties disguised as a money argument because that’s a more polite argument.
  11. Would really love it if DJT does suggest Bill Parcells or something and then Landry has to soft shoe his way out of doing it.
  12. Love that incident, so core to what a horrible person Tony is. Would cost him nothing to keep his friend out— he knew deep down how it would end up and all the stops along the way were just Tony giving himself permission to destroy the guy’s life for Tony’s benefit.
  13. Ghosts are always in a specific time window, oldest are Indian warriors (America) or tragic princesses (Europe) and youngest are from maybe the sock hop era. Never cavemen ghosts or girls in Ugg boots looking for a pumpkin spice latte.
  14. “STOP”
  15. I haven’t seen a ghost but I did drive a girl out to see the Anson lights in the hope we’d park and I’d get some action. There was this absolute ASSHOLE who was out there going up to the cars parking and asking if you’d like to hear the “real ghost story” and so I got no play and that’s a really horrible Halloween story.
  16. These are the best black version uniforms. Strong Mojo vibes (objectively good aesthetic) and at least there is the blackshirt tradition. The standard white/red/white is a top ten in CFB though.
  17. I lived there for nine years so yeah, sometimes you want a taco.
  18. Well, it’s Coastal Carolina. I think they offer free hot dogs at their games. This blows past stupid and loops right back into awesome. They should do a Myrtle Beach Mermen tribute.
  19. Same color as opponents jersey means it’s harder for zebras to spot holding and PI in the moment. Or that’s the theory at least.
  20. Someone quick tell me if this is 80 percent right on or the 20 percent crazy part.
  21. Agree although future generations will consider them one war with an extended uneasy truce, like we look at the Peloponnesian War.
  22. I really enjoy the governor of Lousiana turning LSU from the best open job to maybe the one no sane person would take.
  23. Best Mexican food I’ve had in Europe is in Bratislava old town: amazing al pastor. Whole family from Veracruz, abuelo tends bar and talks about his amateur boxing glory and abuela runs the show with some bemused Slovak waitresses studying Spanish at the university. The old man is something of a lothario, I gathered, and abuela runs the restaurant social media. A couple times she got fed up, posted long complaints about his errant ways (in Spanish) and announced the joint was closing and she was heading back to Mexico. Within a week there’d be a new post full of forgiveness and promises he’d change his ways, and assurances they’d keep dishing up amazing tacos. Better than a telenovela. Czech has a decent BBQ scene, Texas style. Sort of reverse cultural exchange since Czechs and Germans pioneered old school meat market barbecue. I knew an expat who imported pellet smokers and sold them to the upper crust, a real luxury item. The best place in town didn’t do brisket but made more than acceptable beef cheeks, homemade sausage, and ribs. All peppery, good bark, and sauce only ok the side. At Thanskgiving they’d sell smoked turkey and fixings. And made watermelon margaritas. It’s good enough that I would eat there if it were in Texas, although not elite.
  24. Trad Jack o’lantern maxxing. Not seduced by the lure of Big Pumpkin with stencils and little saws. Risking fingers like my dad and his dad before him to carve a snaggle tooth smile with kitchen knives.
  25. “Far less nimble.”
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