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Ghost of LL

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  1. Yeah—imma gonna hafta disagree with you there, friend. She’s a fucking moron.
  2. I love a good race to the courthouse. "You thought we were playing down in Tallahassee? Nah, fuckers--our team's already on the field up here in Charlotte. Get your asses up here."
  3. I don't know the actual cost. But there's a cost of maintaining the physical plant of the reserve. And then there's the cost of acquiring the petroleum.
  4. I always stop at Steamboat Bill's in Lake Charles. It's right off I-10, and super easy in and out. What's the place I stop at for beignets in (I think) Breaux Bridge? If you're heading back in the morning, that's a great stop for coffee and a beignet.
  5. Jesus, it was bad enough when the Ticket stream was airing ads for some Christian medical "insurance," which isn't really insurance but a well-known and -documented scam. Shit, John Oliver even had a segment about these outfits. They're a complete fraud aimed at the most vulnerable. But Cumulus still happily took their money. But now they're airing ads for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is a fucking hate group. Fuck that shit--I'm about ready to turn off that stream.
  6. . . . for Texas in particular. We'll never have to see him play at Georgia, where he'd be throwing to NFL-caliber receivers from a well-defined and -protected pocket. Instead, he'll be playing at Nebraska in complete anonymity.
  7. The amazing thing is that together, the United States and Canada now produce more petroleum than do Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. We're kind of caught in this very Boomer mindset that the Arabs control the global petroleum market. Today, that couldn't be further from the truth. Combined, the Gulf Arab producers (i.e., Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar) produce less annually than the United States and Canada. Yes--the SPR is stored in salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. So there is a lag not only in production, but in transportation. But whether that lag is meaningful is another question. When it comes to addressing economic considerations, which is the only purpose to which the SPR has ever been put, the lag has not been material.
  8. But we have the reserve inventory. It's in the ground. It's not going anywhere. Your point makes sense for Oklahoma as it continues to weigh the benefits of creating a Strategic Meth Reserve. Unlike petroleum, meth has to be manufactured. And it has to be manufactured from chemicals that themselves have to be manufactured. So there is the potential for a shortage if there is any interruption in the manufacturing process. But petroleum isn't manufactured. It's already there. All we're doing with the SPR is transferring petroleum from one hole in the ground to another hole in the ground. And yeah, it's more accessible when it's in the second hole. But it's not like we're ever going to have a real shortage of production equipment sufficient to justify the costs of the SPR.
  9. I love BUR. My favorite BUR story was from the 2005 NCG. We spent all week in LA, going to the Tournament of Roses Parade and everything before the game. So since we were going to be in LA for nearly a week, we decided to take one light and fly to Vegas, have dinner, make a few bets on the Longhorns, and gamble all night. So around 8:00, we head over to BUR for the Southwest flight to LAS. We're not even getting a hotel room, so we had no luggage. And so Mrs.LL (back when she was just LL's Girlfriend) is dressed to go out in Vegas. Very short tight black dress with lots of cleavage. Cool. I mean, it's maybe a bit of an outfit for a weekend night at the airport, but there's a flight to Vegas leaving, so it's not completely out of the realm. We gamble all night. Amazingly, we hit "10" on the roulette wheel. That was fun. Thanks, Vince. And around 5:00 AM we head to the airport to catch the 6:15 flight back to BUR. We land at Burbank at around 7:15 at BUR in the same clothes we went out in last night, and . . . well, Mrs.LL didn't feel terribly comfortable walking through early-morning weekday travelers at BUR in her going-out-in-Vegas attire.
  10. I initially completely misread this to mean that you thought Arkansas vs. aggy should play every year in Austin (instead of Jerryworld), and I personally think that would be awful, hilarious, and fantastic all at the same time.
  11. He needs to be enrolled in school for the spring semester. The shit’s that borked is that the playoffs go so far into January that football is now also a spring sport.
  12. Well, unless we're the defending national champions.
  13. Fuck that. I'm cheering for Maalik wherever he goes. He could go to aggy, and I'd hope he would go 25-25 for 350 yards and 4 TDs in every game. Just so long as aggy then loses every game 70-24. Which, in light of the fact that their entire defense is apparently transferring, is not entirely out of the question.
  14. Where is this supposed SEC meatgrinder we were all told about in which every game is the football equivalent of Verdun? Apart from Georgia, this is a schedule that is pretty comparable to your average Big12 schedule in terms of difficulty. Playing aggy at College Station is roughly equivalent to playing Tech in Lubbock. Playing Arkansas in Fayettenam is roughly equivalent to a trip to Ames. But Kentucky, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt? Don't those match up pretty evenly with Kansas, TCU, and Baylor? Of course, we could completely shit the bed. We routinely did that in the Big12 over the past decade. But if that happens, it won't be because the schedule is so much more difficult than what we faced this year. But if we don't shit the bed, we'll get the benefit of having played an [hushed and awe-struck voice] SEC Schedule [/hushed and awe-struck voice] when the playoff rankings come out.
  15. "Born to Run" by Chris McDougal.
  16. I really hope Maalik does well where ever he ends up.
  17. Brother, have I got a tale for you.
  18. It's akin to the experience of the British Army in World War I. At the beginning of 1914, the British Army had roughly 250,000 troops. In August and September, about half those were sent to France as the British Expeditionary Force. By the end of the year, pretty much all of them were dead or wounded. On Boxing Day 1914, the British Army formed the Second Army. That's not a term like the Germans had with First Army and Second Army, which invaded Belgium and France in August 1914. The British Second Army was more like "we need to raise a second army because the first army got all killed and shit in the first five months of this war." That's where Russia is. Their first army is gone. They've now formed a second (and probably really a third) army. I'm just going to tell you--at this point, I don't see how Ukraine can prevail without direct Polish involvement. And what worries me is that I don't think the Poles are inclined to allow Ukraine to lose.
  19. I think that's all right. And you hit on something I referenced--there is a gender issue at play, both as to the complimenter and the receiver of the compliment. I think the lesson, more than anything, is "use good judgment." And if you have any question about whether you have good judgment, then perhaps consider foregoing a compliment. As an aside, and as I referenced, my former partner was the head of the firm's employment section. And later that afternoon, a bunch of us attorneys were laughing because the employment section is always the one that is the closest to the guardrail when it comes to workplace behavior. It's pretty much a cliche across law firms at this point--every firm I've ever been associated with has had the same opinion of its employment lawyers. But here's the thing--they have good judgment based on years of professional experience. They know when something is going to be unwelcome and offensive. They don't make those comments. So they may make comments that seem out of place among others who are cognizant about watching our step. But they never actually make comments or do anything that would be truly unwelcome.
  20. It's not about the aircraft. The discussion was in the context of a drone vs. a live pilot who is in the cockpit. And in a dogfighting scenario, the human pilot can see the movements in the control surfaces, which will cause a change in the orientation of the opposing aircraft before the aircraft actually reacts to that change in its own control surfaces. As an aside, that has to make it difficult for the pilot of a 4th Gen. fighter in any dogfight with a 5th Gen fighter, because the control surface movement would be so different that it would really throw off the pilot of the 4th Gen fighter.
  21. Now that the United States is a net exporter of petroleum, it's really hard to justify the SPR. It's akin to Greenland maintaining a Strategic Ice Reserve or Oklahoma holding on to a Strategic Meth Reserve. It doesn't really make any sense.
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