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  1. It was window-dressing a justification and the one thing they (Dem Senators) could agree on. Unfortunately, my preferred issue (corruption) doesn't have the same purchase with independent voters as they have abandoned all virtue in search of cheap eggs and beef. They also cannot de-escalate quietly given this was designed to grab attention in the first place, so it's hard to envision a realistic scenario in which many on the left aren't upset with the outcome (i.e., if we imagine the shut-down continues past Thanksgiving and the result is the GOP abandons the filibuster to pass the CR, does that change the sense among Dem voters that the shut-down was worth it?). I would prefer that result, but I don't think it lessons criticism by much.
  2. LCHorn

    Tex Mex

    I wish them all the best because the owners are super nice, but the food is quite expensive for what you get, they are still running with more or less the same small menu as five years ago, and their patrons raving about them are obnoxious. Also, their ordering system sucks if you have kids and there is any line at all. Again, this is the snob in me but they would be a dime or dozen in Mexico City or Oaxaca ā€œYou nixtamalize your tortillas? You mean like every street vendor, every grandmother’s kitchen, every Mercado around the block?ā€
  3. What are you, Greek? Deny the Turk at your peril. Positionless basketball! I also don’t know why you think Thompson can’t initiate. Sheppard is basically a 2 guard next to Thompson on offense.
  4. I’m convinced that OL coaches are the biggest gossips on any staff (Joe Wickline excepted) and feed a lot of the team insider content to Burton and whoever.
  5. All of the top NIL schools in basketball have one or two big patrons. It appears we are lacking that or don’t want to steer football money over to basketball (my information is stale but I had heard from a big football NIL donor we did, in fact, have a couple of donors willing to write big checks for basketball but I never heard them identified and it doesn’t seem to have born out in recruiting). Also, all those Findlay Prep dudes would get 10x today or whatever modest money they might have gotten (allegedly) at the time.
  6. Did you see that Sengun special posted from Michael Shapiro’s tweet? He’s our new PG.
  7. That's not what they did last week, nor what polling is indicating with the decline in Trump's popularity. I'm with @David Dennison that this was always going to be a losing effort. The only silver lining would have been the elimination of the filibuster, but that's still on the table if the Democrats regain Senate control.
  8. I’m frustrated with capitulation, too, but don’t we want the ACA vote to fail, I.e, the GOP passed a bill with clear consequences for them electorally and the Dems need to let them have it?
  9. To be clear, I tend to favor organizing the marketplace (to the extent that’s possible) with profit seeking firms and providing them incentives to act in ways that fulfills community goals. I’m happy with whatever mechanism gets us more pricing diversity in housing stock while supporting an expanding tax base to fund shared services. If they get to make a lot of money in supporting that vision then it’s win-win. Also, on a somewhat lesser note, most of these guys are building high dollar houses but they are also small, independent businesses and there’s probably some economic merit to the money recycling into the local economy than being used to prop up DR Horton’s shareholders.
  10. The last time I was there we had a terrible time getting our camp stove and charcoal fire hot enough for a proper meal, and after a few days of disappointment, grabbing a passable burger and fries from the lodge ended up tasting magnificent.
  11. Eh, let’s be honest and admit the NFL hates Houston. Bud Adams was an owner who modeled himself after an abusive spouse and the McNair family is the biggest bunch of betas in a league littered with Hapsburg like inbred nepo babies. We weren’t awarded the Texans, they were inflicted upon us.
  12. I am chortling a little because this was written by an Aggie.
  13. I thought about that, too, but I think the SEC membership is a little more ride or die and the 100 year rivalries with the shit SWC squads are ones I’m quite happy to abandon.
  14. It might still be called the big 10, but it’s going to be run by Greg Sankey’s nominated leader and it’ll be a folded under some umbrella org. OSU was the most profitable program in the NCAA in 2024 and still lost money. I realize they like to use the same accountants as Hollywood studios, but it’s clear there’s going to be a desire for the richer teams to keep more of the money they are generating.
  15. Ezra Klein talked about this on Friday and described Newsome as an old school politician. I’m paraphrasing, but he says ā€œthis is what people like and don’t like about Newsome. He does the things we expect politicians to do, like experiment and then pivot towards the things that are popular.ā€ In other words, we’re all a little deranged living in an era of Trump in which he does all of the unpopular shit and seems to mostly get away with it.
  16. You think the SEC is going to let Michigan and OSU go to the ACC? I could also see a scenario where this results in a cross-conference divisional re-alignment, which is what all of this has been headed towards, anyway, with the top 50-60 revenue teams doing their own thing.
  17. I don’t think there’s any question they should leave, which probably accelerates the demise of the existing conference structures. Thereā€˜s about 7 schools in their conference that have at or less than $100m in athletic department revenue and the ā€œhavesā€ in the conference are all over $200m or have a patron with basically unlimited means (Oregon). That’s a lot of dead weight for OSU and Michigan to carry and I think they are figuring out that no one gives a shit to watch Rutgers play Purdue.
  18. 1. I think they are planning to grab some guys in the portal 2. They don’t like what they are seeing for guards among the high school players that have shown interest.
  19. CM has French GruyĆØre sold in blocks and German GruyĆØre sold pre-shredded. I’m a little down on their bakery, and their in-house restaurant is truly a shadow of itself, but the grocery part of the business is superb.
  20. I just tried making one of these with the Paris ham and fresh sourdough from Central Market and they are pretty great.
  21. I want to be mad at Trump voters for something like this, but it's what happens when Democrats surrender the state.
  22. Who had money on getting schooled by Harrison Barnes and Julian Champagnie as the difference in the game?
  23. Castle’s top knot is regarded. Durant is having a rough game. Two lazy passes in the 4th
  24. Fuck, impossible to defend Wemby on a fadeaway. Rockets are playing great besides some confusion on defense, San Antonio is hitting everything though.
  25. @billfromlaketravis Sheppard is having a great shooting game but Castle is abusing him on D, I get your frustration.
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