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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh, Austin's asian food scene is maybe 10% of what Houston's is. No pretending. Shit, when I got to Austin 35+ years ago, there were like 3-4 "decent" American-chinese restaurants (lotta kung pao chicken to be had), and that was it. I remember my now-wife and I having an excited conversation with one of our professors, a native Houstonian, when the first dim sum place opened in Austin in 1992 or so. Compared to those days, we're doing great. And honestly, the proliferation of asian places in just the last 5-7 years has been amazing. Even some of the neighborhood joints (like Seven Spice on Spicewood) are legit, real-deal shit.
  2. The 183/45 area has started gathering some decent real-deal chinese options. Special Noodle is up there, and it's damned good, as is Bahn Mi Oven. And Sunflower, off McNeil at Parmer, is one of my wife's favorite restaurants. Only place we can find cahn chua soup these days.
  3. Seriously, I love this. "There was no predatory intent." I was just...and adult male. She was....a juvenile. And...I occupied a position of trust and power in relation to said minor. So, I had no predatory intent, I just totally lucked into the "predator-victim" dynamic, why are y'all hating on me for having such good luck? And big-picture, the right has revealed that being sexually predatory and degrading to women is ingrained in their DNA in recent years. The Baylor rape scandals prompted some of this discussion -- how Baylor's first conservative baptist inclination was to blame the victims (what does she expect, hanging around....those types, and, ummm, let's not make any good Christian men lose their jobs because women are sluts, okay?), etc. Women are subservient to men, exist for men to do with as they please, and there's no age limit on that. If a powerful man wants any woman to do anything, the important thing is that we acknowledge that the man's status of power is a blessing from God, and is as God intended, and who are we to argue with God's intent? And it goes on, and on, and on. Conservative pastors, MAGA land, etc. No, it's not UNIQUE to conservatives (as many have noted above, there are 100% guaranteed many more liberal/Dem types in the Epstein files doing similar predatory evil shit). But the common thread is "men of power can do what they want," and that ethos isn't just allowed in the conservative movement, it is foundational, lionized, and preached as a social good.
  4. Quoted for emphasis. Nearly 30 years ago, we were in the tres fronteras region, and spent a couple of nights in Paraguay. We ended up stopping at the Hotel Tirol for lunch. Beautiful place, jungle flowers coming down to the courtyard, hummingbirds all over. But we all commented rather immediately "hmmm....kinda got a bit of a nazi vibe going on here. Hotel....TIROL....in Paraguay. Yeah, we probably shouldn't linger here." Turns out....
  5. China town center at Lamar and braker. In that center, Baguette House and Lily sandwich shop have fantastic Bahn mi.
  6. I presume their consensus is that the uppity SC player had it comin’, and he shoulda obeyed the cop’s orders, blah blah blah.
  7. And thank goodness, yall got to EP in time for the game.
  8. Yeah. But they’re not white. So, obviously you understand the distinction here.
  9. It didn’t used to be mutually exclusive. It shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. But it is increasingly becoming so. See ā€œenshittification.ā€ But to the original point, ā€œwe should run all govt functions like a businessā€ is almost always really stupid, because business and government have quite different missions, even when business is at its best. The purpose of govt services is to serve the public/common good. The purpose of a business is to make money. Even if it’s run at its best, its purpose is to make money, by serving consumers in a good way so they’ll continue to buy your services.
  10. Wait…Lucy Worsley’s show is on PBS. She’s so damned cute. Also, she would have had Texas better prepared for tonight.
  11. So, scoping out what’s showing on the Hallmark Channel. Maybe there’s a movie where the gal from the big city ends up in a small town at the holidays and falls for a local guy. That would be a real twist. Also, she’s a better gameday coach than Sark.
  12. Sark is a fine coach. ā€œFineā€ ain’t ever gonna win a title, and isn’t going to consistently be top tier in the conference. If we want to be satisfied with 9-3 seasons, then we’ve got our guy. If we want better than that…we don’t got our guy.
  13. When you get outrecruited, out coached, and outplayed…you’re gonna lose. We gonna LOSE.
  14. As we continue the clean out of decades of life at my folks’ house, I came across a previously untouched box of record albums. It has some treasures in it, and I will share some of them with you, starting tonight (because this TX-GA game is killing me). We begin with ā€œJimmy Dean, Mr. Country Music.ā€ Still sealed. I’m sure it’s a fine record…but I wonder what Randy Taylor thinks about it? What do you think, @Bozo_Casanova ? And of course, with this next one, you can’t go wrong in Texas, where Bob Wills is still the king.
  15. Yeah, Orange to Beaumont isn’t so bad. We’d drive in to Beaumont for dinner sometimes when I was working in Orange.
  16. Operation Rock Hard Cock Spurting in My Mouth, the invasion of Venezuela, is gonna be lit.
  17. Goddammit gotta catch that shit.
  18. Merican freedoming intensifies.
  19. That trooper is the perfect encapsulation of this country and state. Pure trash. And he’ll be lionized as a hero, and will likely have a statue at Pyle Field, the Capitol, or both within a year.
  20. That is so fucking beautiful it legit brings tears to my eyes.
  21. That is the official feeling of America. You are a patriot.
  22. We live in nothing but a kleptocracy now. If it benefits the regime or its friends, money will flow. Anything else, get fucked. As a taxpayer, right now, you are simply sending money to Donald trump to either take personally, or distribute to his family and friends (who will of course pay him a vig). We are seeing the greatest looting of any country’s treasury in human history. And we’re just at the beginning.
  23. This. Any system has a tendency and risk of having too much power concentrate in one place or another. Which is why balanced approaches - things like free trade and free enterprise…with union protection and safety and environmental protection regulations - are best. We’re tearing that up and going full-on onto the ā€œlet’s try unregulated oligarchy that operates completely outside of the rule of law.ā€ And we’re doing it in the name of…it will help…the people? Jesus we’re so fucking dumb it hurts.
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