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  1. You're in Chicago for six days and you're staying at the fucking airport? What the everliving fuck? Airport hotels are for if you are in town for one night and you have an early flight out the next morning. That's it. If you're there for six nights, stay Downtown like a human.
  2. 1) Russian dressing is the only proper dressing on a Reuben. Putting Thousand Island on it just turns it into a kosher Big Mac. 2) Russian dressing isn't proper Russian dressing unless it has caviar in it. 3) Aside from Katz's, the best Reuben I've ever had is at Scholz's. Damn--I'm hungry.
  3. Turnout in Williamson County is going to be critical for Van Epps. It is the most educated county in the district. But unusually for such a well-educated area, it is heavily Republican. Van Epps either needs to hold trump’s margin or run up the score with a good turnout. He doesn’t need to do both. But he can’t do neither.
  4. There's a real jurisdictional question in there. If Hegseth ordered a murder in the Pentagon, is it a crime under Virginia law even if it was carried out elsewhere?
  5. Yeah--I think that's kind of where I am. It's been probably 20 years since I was in Venice, but my key takeaways were: 1) It's incredibly hot, humid, smelly, and crowded (none of which should be a real issue in January); 2) Even so, you don't have to go far from San Marco to find yourself completely lost and wondering down the most magical little alleys; 3) It's expensive AF. 4) But . . . you can hop from bacaro to bacaro eating cicchetti and have a fantastic "meal" for 15 Euro. You can buy a day pass on the Vaporetto for 25 Euro and ride the boat all around the Lagoon. You can walk through some of the most amazing churches in the world for nothing or next to nothing. In other words, you can fill a full day in Venice doing all the Venice stuff for less than 50 Euro. Anyway--this'll be different. I figure a gondola ride will be nice when it's cold. I imagine the gondaliers have blankets underneath which I can get handsy with Mrs.LL--that's definitely something you can't do in the Summer.
  6. So with that one detail out of the way, any thoughts on restaurants or stuff to do? Keeping in mind that it's January. So it'll be cold. Sitting on a patio isn't much in the cards. But drinking in a bacaro definitely is.
  7. Counterpoint: the St. Regis on Marriott points.
  8. To be clear--if I followed Option A, I wouldn't be going to Weatherspoon's. I'd go straight to the BA First Class Lounge as soon as I cleared the connection security at T5. The real issue with that plan is that the showers at the BA First Lounge are inferior and there aren't many of them. But at the AA Arrivals lounge, there are a ton of showers. I just don't know the geography of LHR well enough to remember if clearing customs and going to the AA Arrivals lounge is going to commit me to a whole ton of extra walking.
  9. Ok--I have a very specific scenario/question on this. I am going through LHR in January, and I have to transfer from Terminal 3 to Terminal 5 on the outbound leg. I am Executive Platinum on AA. I will have no checked luggage. My layover is 3 hours 15 minutes. With that information, should I: (A) Follow the purple "Flight Connections" signs and take the airside bus to Terminal 5, where I'd still have to go through security (though they do have a premium line), or (B) Clear immigration, hit the AA arrivals lounge at Terminal 3 to grab a shower and cup of coffee, take the Underground over to Terminal 5 where I can go through the BA First check-in situation which has a minimal security line and empties directly into the First Class Lounge?
  10. @texasdago or anyone else--any suggestions/thoughts on 72 hours in Venice in January?
  11. Don’t I know it, brother.
  12. As an SMU alumnus, let me just personally thank @PittsburghTiger for his team's absolutely exquisite performance.
  13. As someone who is an alumnus of SMU but who has a son for whom Berkeley is pretty high on his college list, I'll agree for this week only "Fuck Cal."
  14. Pitt is just plowing the way for SMU to get into the ACC championship game.
  15. Goddamn Missouri sucks.
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