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Mole

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  1. Man, that article. The biggest problem isn’t that they’re watching Newsmax; it’s that they’re watching 8-10 hours a day of any cable news. That’s self-brainwashing. Eight to ten hours a day of even CNN would untether you from reality.
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    Sam Ehlinger

    It’s just a weird COVID quirk, but I was playing on college football reference today and realized that if Sam and Shane each return for super senior seasons (and Sam plays), they’ll both likely end up top 10 all-time in passing yards. Shane would have a good shot at top 5.
  3. I like how the talking head had to refer to the lizard people thing as “completely unfounded.” Thanks for clearing that up.
  4. I love dogs, but at this point I’m ready for that dog to be euthanized already.
  5. I agree with the general sentiment, but it seems like those stats are saying that longer drives tend to score more often than short drives. Also, this last TD drive counts as one of those 1 touch drives
  6. Traveling the country in an RV during a pandemic is absolutely privileged. So is working from your couch in your underwear with Cheeto dust in your lap or even attending Zoom meetings with your toddler climbing all over you. Considering the circumstances, I don’t see how any of those behaviors are particularly irresponsible, even if we disagree with someone politically. The problem with how we discuss “privilege” is that it’s framed as something to be taken away rather than what should be the default. The things that we called privileged these days should be the social norm. More, not fewer, people should have been able to spend the summer working from their RV in the Branson, MO parking lot.
  7. Absolutely. Maybe doing virtual schooling from home just like public schools changed their sense of boundaries. There’s a 4-step process in dealing with these cases: 1. Contact the student to let them know someone is contacting me on their behalf and explain that I can’t discuss anything without a FERPA waiver. 2. Exclaim in surprise when the student actually fills out the waiver. 3. Email the parent with an explanation of the many ways their precious child cheated. 4. Never hear back from either the parent or student. The parent is now aware that their child lied to them and made them look foolish. I like to imagine that there’s a lot of yelling during this step.
  8. This. The continued framing of the question (what’ll take to stop the grumbling/whatever about gratitude by the poor) is fundamentally misguided and backwards. Dressing it up in the trappings of reasonableness doesn’t change this. After what our country has done to poor “essential workers” this year (and really for many years prior), everyone else should be grateful they aren’t literally being eaten. There is no realistic dollar amount for a one (or several) time stimulus (ultimately a payment to the rich) that would or should stop any grumbling.
  9. Wet He People Warrior is a solid hashtag.
  10. As much as it’s possible for a pop singer with several notable big hits to be underrated, Miley Ray is an underrated musician.
  11. Yeah, spring 2020 was the most labor intensive semester of teaching that I’ve ever had. Some things can be reconfigured on the fly, some can’t. Taking classes that were never intended to be online and suddenly moving them online during midterms is pretty disruptive. Students no longer had access to basic school resources like the library. Many students had limited or spotty internet access. Some students just fell off the map. Add in the existential dread from the daily inside higher ed fear porn articles about how we’re all going to lose our jobs and have to go back to prostitution, of course everything was a mess. I caught the usual volume of cheating but had parents stepping in (a first for me) with cries of “but COVID made my angel cheat.” My courses this fall looked much different, but that takes time and advanced planning.
  12. Harry Connick Jr. is such a fabulous musician. The knowing looks to the band always crack me up. The smoothness and subtlety of the extra beat is brilliant. You barely notice it unless you're listening for it. It doesn't sound like an extra beat shoved in where it doesn't belong; the line makes sense and then suddenly everything starts to groove really hard like magic. I've used that clip to demonstrate so many concepts. You can show non-musicians how different kinds of music put the emphasis on different beats and how much it actually matters. You can teach musicians of all levels about feel since Harry Connick Jr. plays with such great feel in spite of the audience. You can even show how great musicians raise the levels of those around them and make everyone sound better. He makes the clueless clappers sound good and they don't even know it. We should all aspire to such things in every aspect of our lives.
  13. Don’t vote for anyone who claps on 1 & 3. The reaction of the drummer gets me every time. For anyone who doesn’t understand what they’re listening to, the square French are enthusiastically clapping on 1 & 3, killing the feel. During the piano solo, he adds an extra beat, moving the clapping to 2 & 4, making it feel better without killing that square French enthusiasm. You see the drummer raise his hands in triumph right after it happens.
  14. I just saw a great and short Warnock ad. I’ll post it if I can ever find it. Essentially it said, Kelly Loeffler is lying about everything, because if she actually believed what she’s saying about Warnock, why did she speak at his church earlier this year?
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    We are famous!

    To be fair to the “lack of variety” comment, this incarnation of the site is pretty young. I wouldn’t expect an outsider to wade through the last version in its current state to pick up most of the history. I don’t even know if there’s a way to work through the old old board or the old old old board to get the origin stories to that history. There’s a lot of subtext that wouldn’t be apparent on a simple skim through this place. The full richness of a culture is really, really hard to pick up for an outsider. This culture, as misguided as it might be, is particularly cloaked in shadows scat and blinking envelopes.
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    We are famous!

    Too be fair, that’s a Cam Newton (for the SEC flavor) level talent there that makes even mediocre surrounding talent and leadership look great. I don’t think we can afford him anymore ever since he started trying to break into the presidential portrait game (no CR). He’s big time now. For all of the weaknesses of Texags, they did produce Akita, who tore down his own fence in solidarity against the BOMC. Their own real life Chad Briscoe.
  17. That’s because some of the stuff in that thread was pure bigotry. It’s pretty much inevitable whenever religion is discussed here (or anywhere on the internet) that there will be a fair share of anti-religious bigotry. This is distinct from anyone who thinks religion is stupid/harmful/whatever and certainly distinct from acknowledging the obvious hypocrisies that come up. The bigotry is always amplified when then ugly union of politics and religion comes up. Living in Georgia, the attacks against Warnock are ubiquitous and pretty ugly. The mailers are out of control. At least Purdue has backed off the anti-Semitic ads this time around (so far), so let’s celebrate the progress. I’m not sure if I’d call the attacks against Warnock religiously-based even though they’re using his sermons and support of Jeremiah Wright. The attacks are wholly dishonest, but I still wouldn’t characterize the attacks as specifically religiously bigoted or religious discrimination. From one perspective, it sounds like they’re attacking him for actually preaching the Gospel, but it isn’t religiously based in the same way the ACB stuff was. The attacks are about fabricated versions of his politics as revealed through out of context clips of his preaching. They aren’t attacking his religion so much as using his public words to construct an anti-American straw man. The stuff that came up about ACB involved complete and dishonest misreadings of the practices of her religious group wrapped in old fashioned anti-Catholic bigoted tropes. It was drawing conclusions based specifically on religious affiliations. ACB was deemed unqualified by a few on that thread because of her religious affiliations and beliefs; Warnock has been deemed anti-American by his opponent because his public words — that happen to largely be sermons — can be edited to sound so. Maybe it’s too fine of a line to draw, but I see them as different kinds of ugliness and dishonesty. If you want to call the attacks on Warnock terrible, dishonest, and disgusting, I agree; if you want to call them based on bigotry, I’d also agree; if you want to call the attacks religiously bigoted, I’m not so sure. I’d add that I’m in general agreement with the main point of the letter. I just see it more as a race issue than a religion issue. I can understand how black ministers might not see any distinction.
  18. He had no arms or legs. He couldn't hear, see, or speak. This is how he led a nation.
  19. I think we’re supposed to call them rioters, not protesters.
  20. Sorvino, Milano, lets call the whole thing off.
  21. This is this board’s Alyssa Milano ice cream cone thread with the added fun that a sizable number of posters think that she’ll be by later tonight with a gallon of tutti frutti. Any good story needs a certain amount of suspension of disbelief or you’ll miss the fun. I’m ready for the Twitter Nostradamus posting only Seinfeld gifs to lead me to the Urban Meyer promised land.
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