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  1. If I’m trying to keep myself alive and decently functional for a year, Panera Bread is a good bet. Breakfast, soups, salads, sandwiches, fruit cups, and they do lots of limited menu items so you can break the monotony. With effort you can design a decently healthy diet. The problem is I don’t ever “want” anything from there, Panera Bread is just a place I end up sometimes, somehow.
  2. All these intricate helmets are designed for the insta reveal and not the game. Many such cases.
  3. I need more Belichek-Jordon storylines. He has to stay at UNC another year. I’m just not done, I’m sorry. I need that OTL.
  4. Teams and storylines to watch: - Ole Miss: This is a team that seems solidly in the playoffs but Joey Freshwater has introduced a lot of needless drama. What if the distraction leads to a flop in the Egg Bowl? What if he calls a bluff and bails before the CFP? Long shot, high stakes. Ingredients are there for a spectacular explosion but will someone light the fuse? - Bama: Not in danger— yet. But DeBoer teams don’t have the killer instinct. Bama went from weeks of the most impressive football in the country and Heisman play from Simpson to mortal. There are rivalries where the better team usually wins, and there are rivalries where all bets are off: the Iron Bowl is the latter. Also intriguing is the possibility of a non-competitive CCG loss to drop to three losses. - Oregon and USC: A great race between old and new money to win the PAC-10. Wait, no. A race to be the third Big 10 team in. What are we doing? Anyway, Oregon can finish strong with wins over USC and Washington to maybe angle for a top 5 seed. USC can spoil that and get a CFP appearance for the first time by beating Oregon. Great, high-stakes football between two talented but not quite elite teams. - ACC Chaos: Who wants to win here? Miami has the longest odds of contenders but will be the angriest if a two loss ND gets in ahead of them. GaTech can beat Pitt and get to the CCG. Other teams need help along the way, including the aforementioned Pitt, Virginia, and even SMU still lurking. This race is wide open, and the champ will likely not be the highest ranked team. Such are superconferences. -Texas: To stay alive they have to thump—not just best— A&M in Austin. Oh, and also avoid a letdown against Arkie. Should be easy, right? The voices will be loud, but the non-competitive loss at UGA means a showout against A&M is needed; and even then it may not be enough. The loss to tOSU isn’t the killer. Rather, its the Florida game and the UGA result. The committee looks at that and sees a team that had a late-season shot at a top-tier team, and just didn’t match up.
  5. Rankings out. I thought there might be a chance UGA passed A&M but last week the committee praised Indiana’s grittiness in overcoming a struggle against a talented team that didn’t live up to its preseason billing—- so tough to reverse course out of that. I continue to be unpersuaded by anti-ND takes. I can see bumping up Bama a spot, maybe, and if Miami is sitting pretty at the end it will be a discussion. Other than that, no team behind them with a solid argument for a better resume or eye test. Pitt and USC are good wins, their losses aren’t bad, and they have handled business against P5 opponents across the board. And Navy is beginning to look like a top-tier G5 win. 1. Ohio State (10-0) 2. Indiana (11-0) 3. Texas A&M (10-0) 4. Georgia (9-1) 5. Texas Tech (10-1) 6. Ole Miss (10-1) 7. Oregon (9-1) 8. Oklahoma (8-2) 9. Notre Dame (8-2) 10. Alabama (8-2) 11. BYU (9-1) 12. Utah (8-2) 13. Miami (8-2) 14. Vanderbilt (8-2) 15. USC (8-2) 16. Georgia Tech (9-1) 17. Texas (7-3) 18. Michigan (8-2) 19. Virginia (9-2) 20. Tennessee (7-3) 21. Illinois (7-3) 22. Missouri (7-3) 23. Houston (8-2) 24. Tulane (8-2) 25. Arizona State (7-3)
  6. Gonna be very sad if it’s not a possum.
  7. Everyone dunked on Mike Pence for his “no dinners with women without Mother” but on the other hand people understate how aggressively some young women go after silver foxes with a bit of power.
  8. Man, truly sucks when your HC is borking the best season ever by basically checking out at the key moment to flirt with major rivals’ coaching gig. As an Aggie I’m really glad I haven’t gone through that in the past two years.
  9. She wants to be Joan Didion, and is failing. And she’s not close to Hemingway.
  10. It is 2025. The king is gilding the throne room and his physician recommends cures and potions. The peasants are tied to the soil paying rents to the great lords (50 year mortgages). The head of the war council is in his cups. Plagues ravage the land. Medieval ass country.
  11. Y’all need to be following the Olivia Nuzzi shit. She’s cashed in on the RFK dalliance, with a book (“American Canto”) and fawning NYT and Vanity Fair profiles about her complicated and beautiful life. Then her ex dropped that she also banged SC governor Mark Sanford (who she wrote a profile on) and also was Keith Olbermann’s sugar baby for years. And she wrote this:
  12. Anyone but me beginning to think Lane is supremely talented but has been dialed in these past years simply so he can get back to a really big job and flame out in a spectacular way?
  13. And we should do everything to convince her and others with similar “values” that straying from Trump and being more civil will be rewarded.
  14. And after all those misdeason sepia tinted pieces about how Ole Miss and family saved Lane. Oh well, they knew what they were getting.
  15. Gotta disagree with this, even as a known skeptic of a 10-14 ranked team winning (will happen eventually but not likely). The math alone— giving 12 versus 2 or 4 teams a chance at a post-season NC opens the door for a non-blue blood. And it’s easier to get hot and win three than to emerge from a 12 game season with 0-1 losses, so that’s additional cushion for a team to get losses out of the way early. Plus, in the two and four team format name played a bigger role in post season invites. The top half of this year’s bracket will include three non-blue-bloods most likely. (A&M, IU, Tech). Eventually a team like that will break through.
  16. Reading at article about a very flawed Harris and noticing that the diagnosis was that America wanted someone further left than her on trans issues, immigration, and (of course) Israel-Gaza. Looked up the author to see how she’s penned jeremiads about how not liking pitbulls (“nanny dogs”) is Racist and a truly unhinged “manifesto” (note, all manifestos are unhinged) written in the form of a letter to extraterrestrials. And I gotta say I question the diagnosis and who needs to be put in the penalty box during message development for voters.
  17. I cam easily believe either that the dude drunk ordered and passed out pants down, or that he hoped she’d peak in. But she didn’t have to peek in, could have just left the food, and could have just gone quietly to cops and managers. Running to TikTok always induces doubt.
  18. Me to my family: “You need to download Signal so I can send you these pumpkin patch photos securely. Send me ANYTHING personal or financial to the Proton account and use a VPN.” Jeffepstein@gmail.com to Davos_All: “Hey who wants to fuck som kids this wknd. Will be cool and real illegal”— Sent from my iPad
  19. Oregon-Iowa was a good game too with implications. The Big Ten is hierarchical, not meaningless. tOSU, Indiana above Oregon above USC, Michigan, Iowa. And the games have ended up basically in order of hierarchy. No real chaos or parity at the top. And: tOSU has ducked most of the depth of the conference. This is what to expect from superconferences. They were and are a bad idea.
  20. Chicken and sausage gumbo. Picked a grocery rotisserie bird clean for the meat and used the carcass for the stock, oven roux.
  21. All these boats are full of drugs and this is unrelated to anything in the Epstein files long ago. This has been more or less spelled out in what strategy and policy documents there are: a desire to firmly re-establish the Monroe Doctrine in a maximalist way and demonstrate to China (and Russia) the futility of playing at Western Hemisphere influencer. There is more than a little Putin-brain in the logic. The reasons not to do it are legion: expensive; destabilizing; risks using costly assets we need in the Pacific; undermines our credibility as a stabilizing force; will provoke other countries to hedge and reach out to China. Important not to lose sight of the real reasons not to do this in favor of ones that seem more emotionally satisfying but are inaccurate.
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