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    2025 ACL

    Green Day seems to be playing every festival. Seems like a safe bet they’ll be a headliner.
  3. It sucks, and the only way it will change is the same way it changed back in the '90s. SCOTUS will have to force the state's hand. There is a zero percent chance the fundagelical voter base in the suburbs will tolerate their politicians taking a single thing away from them, as they are content letting inner city kids wallow in rat infested schools getting a crappy education as somehow, in their minds, they deserve it. The vast majority have no clue how their happy little suburban districts were built on the backs of Austin taxpayers and at the expense of inner city kids, and will argue over it even when presented with facts. As for the PB and West Texas in general, I went to a very poor rural school (no oil) that was in a district with places like Seminole (the heart of the current measles outbreak). They had their own indoor pool, a golf course, modern beautiful buildings, state of the art theater, etc. All paid for with oil and all in the middle nowhere. Any time we went there for athletic or academic competitions we always felt like the Clampetts visiting Beverly Hills. And it was always a long two hour busride back after getting our butts kicked in whatever competition we were there for. Thanks to recapture, my dinky little school has quadrupled in size and is now drowning in money. As we do with everything in this country, we overcorrected, and it's really difficult to find an equilibrium after that. We're just going to overcorrect again with vouchers, but I have to admit I'm intrigued to watch suburbanites finally wake up to what's going on in public education when their schools start losing tons of kids to all of the pop-up Jesus schools that are about to appear.
  4. I remember after the moral victory against Clemson in Dumbo's first year the following week Clay Travis was going on and on about how Dumbo will have the aggy's in the playoffs soon and will be a mainstay.
  5. Just can't wait to see him dropping bombs all over the place with the speedy WR's Now he'll need to learn when NOT to throw the deep ball...which he struggled a bit with against Miss ST I think. But he'll get it.
  6. Like a bunch of future picks one might obtain in exchange for trading one of the top 5 players in the world in the very early part of his prime? Yeah, that would have been nice.
  7. Wait, I thought there were no thots in Austin.
  8. I will share a more positive senior story. My dad enlisted in the army at 16, in 1952, going full active duty after graduating HS. At the time, the army said that if you enlisted, and retired, you would have healthcare for life at no cost. Not for spouses, just the soldiers. Of course, years later, Uncle Sam tried to claw that back. A MOH winner sued, and won: https://www.military.com/militaryadvantage/2012/05/is-there-a-promise-of-free-health-care-for-life?amp Retirees who enlisted before 1958 get free healthcare for life. It doesn’t have to be from VA system. When a doctor tells him he should go to the ER, Dad says, “Call an ambulance”. Everything is paid for. In an argument with him, my sister threatened to ignore his medical DNR preference and keep him plugged into machines forever, keeping those retirement checks coming while he is comatose (she was joking, … I think). He has a unique situation and we are grateful for it.
  9. Bill Belichick, girlfriend ended UNC’s ‘Hard Knocks’ dalliance as fast as it began. Why?
  10. I'm enjoying it mostly because of the actors but yeah, the similarities to the Godfather are kinda funny. You have a Fredo, an adopted son, Helen Mirren as a later period Connie. The grandson is Vincent. When does Moe Greene or Frankie Pantangeli's brother show up?
  11. NFL fans need something to do during the offseason.
  12. 4th&Five

    Pearl Jam

  13. Litmus test for when you know everything is going so great, it can run itself, with too many failsafe backup checks to fail. So of course, let’s elect the guy running on unraveling it all, or worse, not care at all.
  14. The boy is currently entangled with a German/Georgian girl. On the one hand, he says they are too different, and it just won't work out, so they aren't going to see each other anymore. On the other hand, she is a stunning Eastern European brunette, and he cannot stay away, and keeps coming back to her. I get it dude, I get it. That region has a lot to offer.
  15. Does it still have a Pac Man machine?
  16. Accurate. As the river of words flows rapidly across the smooth brain, occasionally one or two words of flotsam get caught in the lone wrinkle and stick there. BIDEN'S FAULT is just one of those phrases. Perhaps later, that one may get dislodged and replaced with something slightly longer such as LOCK HER UP.
  17. Drew

    Luka Doncic

    No shit he was 18. It was inevitable that he'd gain weight as he got older. The issue is he's not Lebron with his offseason workouts.
  18. No, usually I buy French green beans, which definitely are string beans. I cook them like my mom did, which probably softens them up enough so I don't notice my mistake. They are delicious in any event.
  19. Seems like it could be in Jimbo's futurre... minus the mermaid, of course.
  20. Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out. Leave the West behind.
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