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Ghost of LL

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  1. 8 hours ago, PhillyD said:

    I think in order for this to work, the talent needs to participate too.  Most of the actors and producers would probably be on board.  What would be huge would be if the sports workforce got involved and I doubt they would.  Loss of subscribers plus a refusal of talent to work for ABC until the decision is reversed would have an impact.

    That's the only answer.  Even if 1% of its subscriber base canceled Disney+--and that would be a metric fuckton of people--that's a tiny price to pay for Disney to remain in the regime's good graces.

    If, however, the talent refuses to produce the content, that's a gamechanger.  Nobody pays for Disney+ for movies that came out 30 years ago.  It requires new content to command the fees they charge.  If the talent goes on strike, then Kimmel is back in a couple weeks.  If they don't, then I don't want to hear all their overdramatic speeches at the Oscars about how democracy is at risk.

  2. 2 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Be careful out there. Before this, the right's stochastic terrorism and higher propensity for violence was largely just ignored. Now, everything that happens from this point forward will be justified.

    Now you're sounding like Brisket.  By which I mean, you're entirely right.

    Well, not entirely.  It won't just be justified.  It'll be state-sponsored.

  3. 22 minutes ago, Tribe171 said:

    Y'all have lived in a sheltered bubble so long you have no idea what is coming. By 2030 it will be publically humiliating to identify yourself as a leftist. Over the past decade you've ceded all institutional credibility and all moral highground. Yet that will be nothing compared to the state of your soul after death if you do not repent. My advice is to step away from the keyboard, take a deep breath, and ask God for mercy. Then the catastrophe might be avoided. Have a goodnight. 

    Galatians 6:7–9.

  4. 16 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Super interesting read and I like the premise-- we ought to see and hear about the failures and not just the awesome successes of special missions.

    This is exactly what we have an independent press for, and what the NYT should be doing more of.  That they have largely swallowed their whistles makes me even more pissed off.

  5. 21 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I don't know about that. I think SMU football is plenty cool in the hood - or at least becoming that way. 

    Our starting QB won a state title for South Oak Cliff - which - excluding Carter - was DISD's first title in like 60 years. By a quick count there are 13 players on the roster just from South Dallas (SoC, Duncanville, DeSoto, Skyline). I know they do a ton of outreach to underprivileged schools and I'm sure they give out a ton of merch. They used to give out a bunch of tickets to those kids, too (not sure if they still do with it being a harder ticket now).

    SMU football has put it a ton of effort and done a good job with community outreach. The city of Dallas logo is a big part of that. Think they are wearing those unis this week against Baylor.

    There is no question that SMU football is trying to do what Schnellenberger did at Miami 50 years ago.  It's a good play.  Good for SMU.

    But also, good for Dallas.  

  6. 30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I don’t have any illusions about that but I don’t think Dallas gets enough credit for getting shit done. 
    The best and most accurate description of Dallas I’ve ever read is from 1964- “five cities in the middle of nowhere.” Where Austin is and was an embarrassment of natural riches and advantage that manages to achieve very little, Dallas had nothing other than collective hustle and the will to become a world-center of industry and commerce, a great city. And it did. Something to be said for that. 

    I often defend Austin’s city government on here because people act like there’s some secret inner working or cabal in charge and that’s fantasy. Virtually anyone can step into the arena in Austin and make a big difference, but people in this city are mostly too lazy and cynical to do it.
    Austin’s not corrupt in a meaningful way, just myopic and small minded. This logo exercise is a good example. They just think too small. 

    I don't disagree with any of that.  Molly Ivins wrote about it when she characerized Dallas as "Boosterville" (she wasn't being complimentary).  Historically, Dallas is a great city in large part because it has the regional Federal Reserve Bank.  And it has that entirely because it out-hustled everyone else (primarily Houston, but also New Orleans) just before WWI.

    But a lot of the shit Dallas has gotten done (or tried to get done) has been dumb, stupid, ill-advised, or outright wicked.  In the former group is the stupid-ass standing wave in the Trinity River; in the latter group is the stupid golf course in the middle of the Great Trinity Forest.

    Still--the biggest thing I will say is that Dallas has real, legitimate philanthropists.  It has people who pay hundreds of millions of dollars to put their name on parks, museums, hospitals, theaters and other things build and dedicated to the public good.  Austin has none of that.  It's not that Austin doesn't have plenty of rich people; a quick drive along Highway 360 on a Saturday afternoon will disabuse you of that notion.  It's that hte rich people in Austin--with the sole exception of Michael Dell--don't have a philanthropic bone in their bodies.  There's no Perot Museum here; there's no Winspear Opera House or Meyerson Symphony Center; there's no Klyde Warren Deck Park.  And that is to this city's very great detriment.

  7. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Fifty and they hit it out of the park, too. As always, Dallas does everything about being a city better than Austin and decades earlier. Probably because it has much smarter voters and far stronger civic leadership both inside and outside of city government.

    Dallas's civic leadership--which is to say the Citizens' Council--is problematic on a lot of levels.  But this isn't the thread for that.  It will suffice to say that you damn with faint praise when you say it's better than Austin.

  8. 9 hours ago, topochico said:

    Contrails contribute to global warming. It's part of their climate impact evaluation along with CO2 emissions for flights you search. They are not chemtrail crazies (AFAIK).

    It's kind of a mixed bag.  Contrails during they day in some areas will reduce heating by reflecting the Sun's radiation back into space (the same as natural clouds).  But contrails at night definitely have a warming effect (again--same as clouds).  I think the current consensus is that they have some warming impact, but on balance we don't know how much.

     

  9. Cross-posting from the oyster thread, but the Hampton Inn on Franklin Street is up a very short back stairs from Eventide.  It might as well be the hotel bar.

     

    This is where I’ll be for the next four days, if anyone wants to pop in and hear some hot takes.

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  10. Ok—for those of you looking for a recommendation in Portland, the Hampton Inn is a short walk up the back stairs to Evantide. It might as well be the hotel bar. And for the next four days, that’s where l’ll be hanging out from about 9:00 to midnight.

  11. On 8/25/2025 at 6:31 AM, AnTiM said:

    Jerry Jones is the Elon Musk of the NFL.  I was fortunate to attend SB XXVIII when Johnson had them on top, hard to believe the damage that a rich moron can do.

    I think that is entirely wrong and fundamentally misguided.

    I have the benefit of viewing this drama from the perspective of a non-Cowboys fan.  I was a Cowboys fan in the early 90's for those two Super Bowls, but hiring the Football Antichrist killed it for me.  Moving the team to Tarrant County put it in the ground.  Marrying a New Yorker shoveled dirt on the coffin (Go Giants!).

    But regardless of whatever time I may support, the purpose of the Dallas Cowboys (and the New York Giants and the NFL as a whole) is to make money for its ownership.  It's a business.  That's it.  Its purpose is to sell shit to people who will buy it.  Winning football games is generally helpful to meeting that purpose.  But as Jerry Jones has demonstrated, it's not at all necessary.

    @Iceman is entirely right in his assessment.  Jerry Jones is the most successful owner in the NFL.  He alone was responsible for driving the NFL's revenue stream over the past 35 years.  The team is now probably worth more than 100x what he paid for it.  That's not really due to any other ownership group; it's not really due to Roger Goddell's leadership.  It's largely due to the changes Jerry Jones pioneered, advocated, and implemented.

    The Chiefs have more recent success than the Cowboys.  But the Hunt family owes Jerry Jones a huge debt of gratitude for making that franchise what it's worth today.  And do you honestly think that Clark Hunt wouldn't trade Jerry franchises tomorrow straight up?

    Has Jerry damaged the on-the-field product?  I mean, yeah--maybe.

    But when viewed through the perspective of the Cowboys as a money-making venture, maybe not.  Because what we want more than wins is drama.  And Jerry has delivered drama.  It's the best show in the NFL.  Hell--it's the best show in professional sports.  Again--I'm not a Cowboys fan.  But damned if I don't listen to Cowboys talk on the Ticket because it's entertaining AF.  

    Jerry has entertained the Metroplex (and really, all of America) for 35 years.  You want wins?  Go cheer for the fucking Eagles.  But if you want to be entertained, there's nothing better than this fucking circus.

  12. This reminds me of Easter Egg hunts my grandmother's house.  Like you, we did them outdoors with real eggs.  And more than once in the hunt for the eggs we'd find a lost egg from the previous year.  It was . . . not safe for human consumption.

    My grandmother was a child of the Great Depression.  As such, she didn't fully trust banks.  She would hide money all over the house--under the mattress, in empty Blue Bell half-gallon cartons in the freezer, in her jewellery box (because thieves aren't going to be looking in the jewellery box).  But she'd also hide it in containers out in the yard.  After we found the first $1,000 in a coffee can in the backyard, we got a metal detector out and found another half-dozen coffee cans.  But I guarantee you she had some in cigar boxes and other non-metallic containers back there.  There are probably still thousands of dollars buried on that property backing up to Walnut Creek.  

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