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Samson's Wig

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  1. With all of the other amazing news in Texas education lately, my wife is ready to hand the keys to our house over to the bank and get the fuck out, depending on what these nimrods come up with. We all know it's going to just be bussing wrapped up in a different package. Bussing is all this district has ever come up with to improve test scores. Whatever is coming will be a version of it. I'm not too concerned, but if the end result is my kids having to ride the bus for an hour+ each way every day, see you later AISD.
  2. The brain drain being created by the evangelical-driven people in charge is going to tank the state, and fast. Professors all across the south, including Texas, are looking for ways to get the fuck out. Fewer top students will be applying to Texas schools overall, and the decline will accelerate exponentially. 25% of professors in Texas have already applied for jobs elsewhere, and another 25% plan to do so in the next few months. 60% of them do not encourage their graduate students or colleagues to seek employment in Texas. This shit will have serious consequences. How many educated parents in Texas will encourage their kids to stay in the state for university? Especially their daughters? Even if all of this comes to an end in 3 years, the damage will take a long time to fix. The silver lining for some folks? Children of Maga people will have a better chance of getting into college as the more talented applicant pool dries up and looks elsewhere. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/05/texas-faculty-university-political-climate-survey/ At the grade school level, TEA just brought in a guy who still thinks AIDs is god's punishment for homosexuals to determine curriculum for social studies classes. He'll get along well with the woman on the science committee who thinks satan planted dinosaur fossils to trick us.
  3. I've got no moral high ground on this one. The other day, I saw him glance at his notes during a broadcast and thought to myself, "Cam Newton can read‽"
  4. No doubt the current BOR will push for this to be agreed to, and quickly. As for the international student number, that's a fairly easy give on UT's part. Despite common notions (mine included before looking it up) only between 5 and 6% of UT students are international students. Regardless, the proper response should, of course, be "go fuck yourself", but it won't be.
  5. She's a nutter, for sure.
  6. You should be nervous. There are tons of YouTube videos of guys just as lily white as you having their trucks torn apart for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
  7. I knew he was being sarcastic and was playing along, but I admittedly missed the disability joke. I've already contacted my neurologist.
  8. One thing Texan voters can't stand is graft, or any other form of political corruption. It's definitely priority one when they enter the voting booth. I'm sure they'll knock him out next primary.
  9. That all seems perfectly reasonable.
  10. Suspect's house. Just another violent lefty, most likely.
  11. One of my proudest moments was when I was referenced on a local cyclist message board as someone to look out for when riding through our neighborhood, a favorite of local middle-aged spandex lovers. The incident that led to it was a cyclist riding into our driveway to accost my wife while our kids were in the car, screaming at her at the top of his lungs because she didn't use her signal when turning left into our driveway (he was riding behind her, so it impacted him in no way at all). He didn't expect to see me coming out the front door, and when he did, his eyes went as wide as saucers as I was breathing fire. He wasn't quite as tough and mean when he was no longer facing a woman and children. He was also lucky to leave the property in one piece. His agility and speed in running away from me due to all the biking were no doubt an asset to him. Anyway, he went to the Internet and posted a hilarious warning to all cyclists to beware the monster who lives on my corner. I see him riding form time to time, often weaving in and out of the bike lane, never stopping at stop signs, and generally being a standard issue cyclist asshole. He doesn't ride past my house anymore, though.
  12. NM. Joke went over my head.
  13. Uh, yeah. You can find highlights. That defense is legit. It's a bit mind-warping to watch people in Tech uniforms play defense like that. Your brain doesn't believe what your eyes are seeing. They are fast, attack the ball en masse, maintain excellent gap integrity, and get to the QB quicker than any school in the country so far this year. The interior D-line is solid mass, and the edge rushers are probably the most dangerous combination in college football. The linebackers are seasoned, smart, and hit hard. They look like a top-ten defense based on their front seven alone, and they have a lot of depth in those positions. Their secondary has still not been tested, really, but the pressure from the front seven makes their job a lot easier. The offense is another story, though. The starting QB is the weakest link, mostly due the slowest reads I've ever seen in a senior QB, and I think he'll cost them a couple of games this year. He's not bad at all, he's just not that good either. A pro-style offense that relies less on the QB would likely suit him better. Tech might make the playoffs, but that QB will limit how far they advance. I would be surprised if they make it out of the first round unless the backup gets more playing time and develops into the starter by then. That kid is raw but has a much higher ceiling.
  14. My son is (was?) a fan. I took him and his buddy to the show at Stubbs a few weeks back. This news has them both shaken up.
  15. Deep in their hearts, most of them know better, but their entire worldview is built on victimhood. They need to at least feel persecuted, or the magic doesn't work, and more importantly, the money doesn't flow.
  16. Remember when in moments like this, when idiots on both sides of the aisle are showing their ass and there is a general sense of unease in the country, you would say to yourself, "It's going to be okay. The president will come out and address the nation and bring the temperature down." Remember that?
  17. Suck it, Andreeessen. Another grift down the toilet. Everyone, except for douchey tech-bro billionaires, wins here.
  18. A couple of dim bulbs barking at each other without saying anything of substance. They would both have fit in well here.
  19. Damn. They've always struggled to fill that tiny stadium, to the laughter of all of college football, but you have to commend them for taking creative steps to try and bring in the local community. Fort Worth also has a sizable Filipino community, so adobo hot dogs must be on their way.
  20. SCOTUS disagrees with you, fwiw.
  21. So we're looking for a college-aged transgender veteran alt-right skateboarder? How many of those could there possibly be? Manhunt should be over before lunch.
  22. People, on the whole, are fucking stupid.
  23. Do we know if anyone still works at the FBI?
  24. Most Americans don't know who the fuck Charlie Kirk even is. Those who do are the problem. No war is starting over this.
  25. Lots of comments in this thread about how kids spend all their time online, have no face-to-face interactions, etc, and that's why they're intolerant of opposing viewpoints. I'm not buying that premise for one second. First, intolerance is nothing new, and if anything, the oldest members of our society are much more intolerant than the youth, just as it's always been. We are an intolerant culture, and always have been. If young people are doing it it's because they learned it from their elders. One dipshit aggie kid who was clearly coached through her attack on a professor doesn't change this. Kids spend significantly more time in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds, where they must learn to navigate challenging personalities and situations while discussing topics that are prone to being inflammatory, than the vast majority of adults do. 99% of adults are hiding in a bubble and rarely communicate with anyone face-to-face who isn't a coworker or a close friend, and that's only if they actually work outside of their home. Even then, most companies tend to be filled with very similar people, because that's how hiring works. Calling out the only segment of our society that actually has to deal with diversity daily rings hollow to me. What's going on culturally with political correctness, cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, was not started by young people. Some young people are influenced by intolerant adults, for sure. The shouting down of speakers on college campuses rarely starts with a student movement. This aggie nonsense was clearly not driven by that student, who could barely string a sentence together and thinks that the president has his own laws. It's outsiders, whether parents, political activists, or just plain old shitheads, that stir up young people. The mush brains that people under 25 are walking around with aren't coming up with a damn thing on their own outside of how to party and fuck, and even those things are being ruined by adult influence. I do agree the Internet has made things worse, but there's a reason Facebook is the big gaping asshole of the Internet. It's where all the old people are.
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