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Ghost of LL

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.”
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. Generic Hockey Player is consistently the funniest voter going because it is such a dead-on-balls-accurate impersonation of Jamie Benn. Like, it really might be Jamie Benn calling in.
  10. Credit here for the display of a modicum of self-awareness. It's oddly refreshing in an internet discussion.
  11. "Goddamnit--how could the Democrats do this?"
  12. That'd be a DEI inclusion. And we don't play that anymore.
  13. In complete fairness--and I really can't believe you're making me stick up for Ted fuckface Cruz--it's only five slots. And the slots haven't yet been activated. So Cruz's advocacy for five additional slots didn't have anything to do with this crash. Goddamnit--now I need a fucking shower.
  14. I mean, a chance? Sure. But not terribly likely I wouldn’t think. Much more likely a pilot fuck-up.
  15. Yeah—there’s just no fucking way we’re ever closing DCA.
  16. My son is a sophomore. He's a good student. I mean, real good. He has a GPA that's north of 4.0 at Westlake. At the same time, he's not the valedictorian or anything like that. So I was surprised when I got home yesterday and saw a promotional mailer to him from Columbia. I mean, I didn't know an Ivy League school sent out mailers to high school students. I mean, no Ivy League school ever sent any promotional materials to me when I was in high school. But anyway--and not to take anything away--I couldn't help wonder whether this had something to do with Columbia having been a shitshow for the past year. I don't know what their application numbers look like, but I wonder if they haven't seen a material decrease.
  17. I'm going to tell you what--if this law thing doesn't work out, Brisket could have a future as a professional ghostwriter of eulogies. That was beautiful, man.
  18. I blame you both.
  19. Here’s your Starting XI
  20. COYS How’s the lounge, you ask? Well, it’s really quite lovely, thank you
  21. Pretty remarkable how right around the rest of the world we manage to blow dry our hair in the bathroom without electrocuting ourselves. We must all be goddamned supermen.
  22. I took your suggestion and am at the Edition, and you're right that the location is perfect. But this is now the second Marriott property I've stayed at in or hear Soho (the other being the W a couple years ago), and in both instances there are no electrical outlets in the bathroom. So I have to go out to the entry hall to find a place where there is an outlet near a mirror. What the fuck is up with that?
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