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    TEXAS QB TALK

    Yeah, but Cleveland.
  2. Since this is my field, I’ll deal with this one. If Yo-Yo Ma started teaching at App State and your kid got into that studio, you’d absolutely support that, even over the big conservatories. The music performance school field is mostly driven by the teachers. The “best school” varies wildly on the instrument and career goals. For some instruments, it might be Juilliard, others Colburn, others Curtis, others Rice, others etc. It’s all driven by the teachers who put kids into the jobs they want. When the individual teachers move, the “best schools” change. The other stuff — peers, ensembles, opportunity for freelance work, rigor of other classes, etc — matters, but not as much as that one teacher.
  3. It’s really that hard to schedule a booster in Austin? My local Walmart has open slots all day every day. The only catch is that we were the first shots of the day (at 4pm), so we had to wait 30 minutes for the vaccine to thaw out.
  4. I assume the author bunkers down quite a bit as a usual way of life. Living in small-town Trumpy/anti-vax country, I see masks all the time. If you aren’t seeing masks, you’re either lying or aren’t really going anywhere.
  5. Those two age range charts are breaking my brain. I get it now, but I stared at them for a while to make sense of them.
  6. 2010 QB Rating: VY 98.6 Brees 90.9 I get that it’s cherry picked, but still.
  7. The boots theory seems relevant to some of the discussion of poor people making poor choices. Sometimes — not always — those seemingly “poor choices” reveal the blindness of our relative privilege rather than the poor choices of a poor person. What looks frivolous and unnecessary to me may be the tools of the trade for someone less fortunate. And sometimes the recklessness is a bit of “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” If there’s no hope, why not search for instant material gratification?
  8. Here is a symbol in which Many high tragic thoughts Watch their own eyes. This gray rock, standing tall On the headland, where the seawind Lets no tree grow, Earthquake-proved, and signatured By ages of storms: on its peak A falcon has perched. I think, here is your emblem, To hang in the future sky; Not the cross, not the hive, But this; bright power, dark peace; Fierce consciousness joined with final Disinterestedness;
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    NBA 2021-2022

    Luka is 22; young enough that he can’t lead a team to a championship yet and now just old enough that we can start talking about how he doesn’t have what it takes. It’s a tale told of every young star since at least the late 80s.
  10. I’m glad to see more support for my plan of setting an objective measure of playoff/championship-worthiness and taking only (and all of) those teams that achieve that standard. A variable-sized playoff is the path to a better tomorrow.
  11. 97% of the abortion debate is question begging; 2% is using “begs the question” colloquially/incorrectly; 1% is pedantry in explaining the difference.
  12. One of my favorite ISIS blogs has a pretty good take on all of this. Can I link that here?
  13. This is high art. Also, the answer to the news source question remains, Reuters, AP, BBC, PBS New Hour, that one Facebook group that really tells it like it is.
  14. I’ve found that an acid reducer helps with allergies. Sometimes my allergies get bad enough to where I swell up a little — lips, eyes, feet, or hands. Nothing dangerous, just uncomfortable. Benadryl plus an acid reducer makes it go away quicker than just the Benadryl alone. So I take the acid pill plus an allergy pill everyday and rarely have problems anymore.
  15. A year ago, cultural luminaries like Salman Rushdie, Noem Chomsky, Wynton Marsalis, etc. released a letter decrying the damaging effects of our current manner of public discourse. It’s a complex and nuanced issue that gets drowned out by the bleating anti-cancel-culture and politics as team sports crowds, but the problem is real. Perhaps this movement for better and more open public discourse just needed a succinct and cogent rallying cry. If so, I nominate the above.
  16. Their satire of white evangelical church culture is pretty good. Whenever they step outside of their wheelhouse, they turn into typical conservative whining snowflakes. The shift from inward looking, insightful social commentary to outward looking, shallow political kvetching seemed to happen mid-late Trump era, when everything else is the world seemed to get worse.
  17. As a fellow member of the Surly Georgia crew, I think this thread shows a misunderstanding of how polite Deep South racism is. Black/white day-to-day interactions are more constant and pervasive than other parts of the country, so there’s a requisite amount of politeness. Once the ugliness goes public, it’s a different story. The flow of information has changed. Dig around here for a few minutes (https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/) and you find pretty casual and glowing descriptions for lynchings 100ish years ago. Old Deep South newspapers are fascinating reading. Southern racial violence has always wanted a sense of respectability and decorum. You can’t dress this one up once it’s been broadcast everywhere. The DA sweeping this thing under the rug is pretty much the historical job description for a Deep South DA. It keeps the unseemly part of it at arm’s length. Once it’s out, in this day and age, those two are toast. We’ve all seen the footage and it’s pretty unambiguous; southern racists don’t want to feel like they’re racists anymore. As a relatively recent transplant to GA who let my free trial to Racism Quarterly expire, the toenail stuff was lost on me. It makes me wonder how much racism goes on in my daily interactions that goes right over my head.
  18. No, you’re right, but now we’re on a bit of a tangent.
  19. 2nd Pfizer in early April; breakthrough in late July; I’m a college professor, so I’m exposed to lots of disease vectors; last week my doctor said to get it in maybe early January. I might get it a little earlier if I travel for the holidays.
  20. Jesus: “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Proverbs: The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
  21. I decided to spend the evening playing with my son rather than watch bad football. Just checking in now. I’m pretty pumped to see us hanging with Kansas.
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