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Ghost of LL

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  1. Odds have now dropped to 0.3% after the latest observations. Maybe next time, folks.
  2. I gotta tell you--I have four close friends or family members who have lost their jobs over the past three weeks. Even in the depths of the Great Recession, I don't remember anything like that.
  3. And that's just at the goddamned 7-11!
  4. I'm sorry--you expected subtlety of a guy who dressed up as Pedobear to troll Penn State fans at their bowl game? Look, brother--I bring a lot of things to the table. Charm. Wit. An encyclopedic knowledge of late medieval English history. A 9-inch schlong. That's why your mom loves me. But subtlety? Yeah, man--that's not my bag.
  5. I happened to be at a function recently with Mrs.LL, and I ran into @South Austin. I asked, "so how's your mom?" Both Mrs.LL and Mrs.SouthAustin were very confused.
  6. That's the tip of the iceberg. The South Koreans definitely have to be jonesing for the bomb. And don't think for a minute that the Japanese are going to sit by and not have a nuclear bomb if the Koreans have it. The concept of non-proliferation is dead. Fucking Armenia will probably have a nuclear weapon by 2030. I mean, they'd be fools not to.
  7. I'm not arguing with you. At the same time, it looks like the FAs and a couple of other pax who were already outside the plane had everything under control and were providing all the assistance anyone needed. And at that point, aren't passengers coming out of the plane just best served to get the fuck out of the way? And in the course of getting the fuck out of the way, they ought to keep their heads on a swivel so they don't get run over by emergency vehicles as happened with the KE 777 that crashed at SFO some years ago. I don't know that that necessarily means you ought to put your fucking phone away, . . . but yeah--probably a good idea. In any event, and going to the issue at hand--wind at 270 isn't much of a crosswind when you're landing on Runway 23. It's a bit of a crosswind, but it shouldn't account for that roll to the right.
  8. The Stars' Finns sure made it interesting there at the end.
  9. Yep--that's exactly how Ukraine should deal with this. Sign on to whatever deal is needed to meet its immediate needs with absolutely no intention of ever fulfilling its side of the bargain. Because that's exactly how Trump deals with the world. So you might as well deal with him on equal terms.
  10. Apart from everything else, the French and British are showing that they sense an end to American hegemony, and it opens an avenue for a Franco-British alliance to take over as the primary players running the Western Alliance. Their play is to put troops on the ground and expect that will turn the weight of the fighting in short order and force Russia to seek an armistice. And in so doing, they basically remove the United States as the driver of Western security going forward. It’s honestly a good play. Ukraine has softened them up. Now the Brits and Frogs get to come in and get the credit and benefits of the big win just like we did in 1918.
  11. There is the First Nations shop in Montreal where they sell all the furs that they’re permitted to take by treaty. It’s just incredible. Even if you’re not into furs, it’s worth checking out just to see the wild selection.
  12. Mrs.LL and I have had long discussions on this. She has vastly more restaurant experience than I do, but we're both pretty familiar with the practice. And while there are no "rules"--everything is just an ad-hoc determination--there are some patterns that you can discern. Soups, pastas, and other dishes in which the customer is going to have to dip a fork or spoon that s/he is continually eating off of back into the food--that shit is right out. Pizza, sandwiches that the kitchen cuts in half before it hits the table--if there's a whole slice of pizza or a whole half a sandwich that is left behind, that's absolutely free game. French fries, chips, and other things that get handled one-at-a-time--yeah, those are generally free game. But cold french fries are gross. And the reality is that the customer's hands are rummaging through that pile of fries/chips/fried whatever, and that's kind of gross. But at the same time, if you're a college student, eating a fried shrimp that someone's hand brushed past is far from the grossest thing you're going to do today, soooo . . . . Things like half a steak or a chicken breast that the customer would've used a knife to cut slices away with the fork only touching the piece that is being cut away and going straight into the mouth (leaving the remaining portion of the steak untouched by any mouth-touching utensil)--this is a real gray area. If there's the filet half of a prime porterhouse that's left sitting on a plate untouched, I'm eating it. No question. The gold mine is the to-go box that the customer leaves behind.
  13. I am so bored by this game.
  14. Do people eat platypus eggs? Because I bet they’re yummy.
  15. And apparently now Musk's people are at FEMA and looking to shut it down. Which is going to be great when the next hurricane hits the Gulf coast.
  16. The TCPA doesn't place a higher burden on the plaintiff to prove malice. It just creates a procedural mechanism for a defendant to get a quick dismissal and recover fees. And theoretically, it shouldn't be that hard for a plaintiff to get past a TCPA motion. All the plaintiff has to do is show a prima-facie case of every element of its claim. But in the defamation context--the malice element that you identify is going to be the tough one to show prima-facie evidence of. I mean, you do get some expedited discovery, but . . . yikes. I don't know if that answered your question. I'll also say that I didn't see whether this was filed in federal or state court. I assume it's in state court. But I think the Fifth Circuit has decided that the federal courts won't apply the TCPA because it is a purely procedural mechanism (though I could be waaaay wrong on that--beware the old lawyer who says "I think I remember a case that says . . . .").
  17. This looks ripe for a Texas Citizens Participation Act motion to dismiss. The TCPA is the anti-SLAAP statute in Texas, and it lets a defendant file a motion to dismiss a suit that arises out of the defendant's exercise of the right to free speech, the right to petition the government, or the right to association. It's a pretty draconian statute, because if the case is dismissed, then the plaintiff has to pay fees. And the fees on that kind of thing are always high. There is a commercial-speech exception, but I'm not at all certain that this would fall under that exception. Damn--I wish I was on this case. It'd be fun.
  18. This summer, I'm going to make sure my male progeny starts a lawn crew. My peeps who voted in the Democratic primary are going to get one price. Neighbors who voted in the Republican primary are going to get a very, very different price.
  19. In a related question--how is every major interchange in the state under construction all at the same time? It's amazing how I drive around, and there are these massive ramps that will run two miles long from an interchange being built. Why? And many of these interchanges are pretty new. I just don't get it.
  20. So we lost the Tariff War in less time than it took Iraq to lose the ground war in the first Gulf War? Sounds about right.
  21. And good luck getting a free agent to sign in Dallas in the future now that they know how ownership is going to treat them.
  22. In Antiquity, the Romans regarded Scandinavia as the “womb of peoples”—the place of origin of so many Germanic tribes that migrated south to cause the Romans difficulty along their frontiers. In much the same way, I regard Minnesota as the “womb of washed-up defensemen who can’t reasonably contribute as Top-4 blue-liners.”
  23. That’s the only way this makes sense to me—as the preliminary step in engineering a move that Dallas as a city and fan base would be fine with in the expectation that Dallas would quickly get a replacement.
  24. We need to normalize switching professional-franchise loyalty. I did it when Cuban sold the team and reverted back to my childhood Spurs loyalty. You can, too. You don’t owe the Mavs shit. And if they’re going to decide to be shitty (and probably be shitty in Vegas), who stick with them?
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