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Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about who wins the Heisman anymore? It's a hype award reserved for QBs and RBs on playoff teams. Occasionally someone outside of that box will get it, but it's not common. It hasn't been a "best overall player" award in God knows how long. Bryce was as deserving as anyone based on those metrics alone. Plus he actually is really good. Best player in the nation? Not likely. But good enough.

Every now and again I always find myself revisiting these two covers performed by The National.

Young Pam Anderson before getting any work done > Lily James > Post-op Pam Anderson

Exactly. It easily explains away some of the stolen election conspiracy theorists' arguments as well. "Well why did Biden win in states where Republicans won down ballot?" Because tons of those people weren't voting for Democrats, but they were voting against Trump. "Do you really believe someone like Joe Biden could have got more votes than Obama?" Yes. Nevermind that the voting population is always growing, but because millions of Romney and Bush voters also voted against Trump and for Biden. Probably a bunch of people who don't regularly vote went out and voted against Trump and for Biden. Yes, we likely are.

Without Trump on the ballot, millions who held their nose and probably voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in many election cycles if not ever likely go right back to voting Republican. I also believe there are plenty of rabid Trump supporters out there who may stay home and not feel excited enough to go out and vote for a different Republican, but I think the first group outnumbers the second. Just my gut feeling. 80-year-old Joe Biden isn't exactly exciting to most people. He's not going to be as hard to beat as Obama or Bill Clinton, regardless of his record number of votes in 2020. Millions of those votes were anti-Trump votes, not pro-Biden votes.

I only hope that when Lindsey Graham finally kicks the bucket, John McCain is waiting on the other side with a swift kick in the ass.

It's the 1 year anniversary of the attempt to violently overthrow the results of the election. It's also still being investigated by special committee and an event which people are still being prosecuted and sentenced for. The book hasn't been closed, so it's not going backwards, and more people should care about those in our government and media who were behind it.

My young elementary school age dream was to be a cartoonist and draw comics for the newspaper. Turns out I suck at drawing. If I could do it all over again, I'd move to LA for at least a few years after high school and try to pursue acting or comedy. It's something I secretly wanted to do, but I just thought it was so impractical and a pipe dream. Told myself I'd spend a lifetime being poor chasing a dream that would likely never happen. But it's not like I didn't waste plenty of time anyway switching from one unrelated job to the next in my early-mid 20's. I didn't wind up in my current industry that I'll spend the rest of my career in until after I was 30, so I could have chased the dream for a few years and worse case scenario ended up in the same exact place I'm at now.

Noise in general doesn't bother me. I live about a mile outside of downtown and hear train horns, police sirens, and helicopters on the regular. A night or two of fireworks doesn't phase me. I hate them for my dog's sake, though, who spent his new year's eve hiding between the couch and the wall shivering in fear of the non stop popping all around us. Before the 4th of July I'm going to have to get some doggy xanax or something.

I'm only halfway through this season, but when's Hillary Swank and Jaden Smith joining the cast?

I've had an interlock from DUI. Mouthwash, yes, but it's pretty simple to not blow a false positive. Have a drink of water or literally anything non-alcoholic before getting in the car and the mouthwash alcohol will be gone. I think the bread, gum, energy drinks, and everything else setting off an interlock is largely nonsense and an excuse people use when they get caught not wating long enough after drinking to try to start their car. I never changed my eating or gum chewing habits and not once ever had a false positive. I'm not saying it can't happen, just that it's extremely unlikely and can, again, be solved by taking a drink of anything and getting the bread, gum, or whatever sugars out of your mouth. The fact that interlocks might once in the bluest of moons give a false positive and stop you from starting a car for a few seconds while you rinse your mouth out isn't really a good reason to not have interlocks in cars, IMO. I think a bigger issue is you might have to make an exception for someone who has COPD or possibly a respiratory issue that affects them from properly being able to blow in it. It's not just a quick little blow. You have to blow pretty hard and consistently into an interlock emptying out most of the air in your lungs.

I'm not jealous of their program's shameful scandals, but yeah I'm a bit envious of the way they find ways to not suck at football. I can also admit when other schools have good football teams and we don't without having to put qualifiers and whataboutism around it. Although to be fair I'm far less in awe of what Baylor is doing and far more frustrated with what we're not able to do.

Baylor has had a very impressive decade in 2 of the big 3 sports while we've been playing with our dicks in the sandbox. Not sure why that's so hard for some of you to come to grips with. Maybe their coach will get hired by a bigger school with more money, but they don't seem to have an issue hiring someone else to keep the train rolling. In two and a half decades of Big 12 play, they've just matched us in total Big 12 football titles. That's unbelievable. Baylor, who used to routinely go winless in conference play, has the same number of Big 12 titles as us. Meanwhile at the flagship, coach #4 in the past 10 years just had a 5-win season.

If you made the movie deliberately about climate change and promoted it as a climate change movie, half of the population would automatically tune out and rule out seeing it without knowing anything else about it.

That could literally be anybody. I guess we'll never know.

I get that the comedy bar is lowered for Trumpers/GOP supporters, but are they even trying anymore? Nothing about this even makes sense. GIFs and JibJabs used to be the one thing they weren't completely terrible at.

Is Justin a pimp or does he just have a bad knee?

Right? That wasn't a post credits scene. It was practically a trailer for the next ________ movie. The movie was very fun and enjoyable. I'd personally been getting Marvel fatigue the past couple of years, but this one I was pretty amped for all the way through.

Yeah, definitely watch season 1. If you're going to skip a season, skip season 15 that's airing right now. It's kind of shit so far. Never thought I'd say this, but Dee's parts are the only ones I'm genuinely laughing at in these episodes.

Fair. I'd probably do the same thing, but they will still let their biases and opinion bleed into their straight reporting. CNN is still far better than FOX, which at their worst can be lazy, sensationalist, and overtly biased, whereas Fox lives in a completely alternate reality. Both are worse than what they were 20 years go around the time of 911.

Just after 7:00? Are we still doing the thing where we pretend cable news has "straight news" hours during the daytime filled with good old fashioned reporting? That the punditry and propaganda only begins when Tucker Carlson comes on at dinner time to rile up your drunk grandma so she can call you just as you're putting the kids to bed while she rants about how the January 6 attacks were actually the FBI dressed as Antifa dressed as MAGA supporters? CNN/Fox is mostly garbage all day.

When you go to the movies and they always have a commercial for their own theater during the already too long commercials/previews. Hey buddy, I'm already here. You really don't have to try to sell yourself to me. Get on with the show.

You'd think for how much he spends on Givenchy and Gucci tops he could afford a half decent pair of jeans.

Conservatives/GOP types love to pretend that post-pandemic gas prices were the norm throughout the Trump presidency and that the price of oil didn't suddenly tank in early 2020 when the roads across this country looked like the opening of Vanilla Sky combined with a Saudi-Russian price war in March.

If wearing a Let It Be t-shirt makes you dorky, then I don't want to be whatever the opposite of dorky is.