Voltaire

Since all the conservatives get blacklisted, I won't be upset when somebody go too far left and get blacklisted. I'd always thought that it was impossible to go too far left, seeing what they get away with, but apparently the Israel thing has changed things.

Philly again keeps grinding out tight wins.

Dammit!

Wow, I've been busy doing things I'd put off all Holiday weekend and check in to find that I am totally missing the Bills go toe-to-toe with the Eagles. I should be savoring this game rather than get updates every now and again.

We're getting a pretty heavy snow in Detroit but thus far, it's not accumulating.

I think I'd rather watch a 0-0 soccer tie than a Giants 10-7 win over the Patriots. I wonder if those classic football games from the 1930s that ended in a scoreless ties were exciting in real time.

I don't doubt that Lea Thomas or the GameStop "Ma'am" could pass the physical requirements and perform better than women when it comes time to lay hands during a physical altercation then frogmarching the focker to the back of the cop car. I dunno. There's a certain gravitas you need that goes with the job, an aura of toughness that's hard to pull off when you look like a clown.

That's how it's done.

I change starting words all the time, there's no pattern, but a lot of times 'dumpy' is sitting there after two with all its letters unused. It's easily my most commonly used word even though I never plan to use it and it only comes up as a clean-up time third guess. I had a green 'e' and a yellow 'i', could be a bajillion things... 'dumpy' took me directly to 'guide.'

It's a shoe store! There are no books! The joke works better two ways: 1) with work boots being left behind or 2) observing that no flash mob has ever ransacked Barnes and Noble

Not true. We haven't argued this in a couple of years. Feel free to make this observation in a tranny, or Biden, or either of the war thread.

No. George Floyd was horrible. His long criminal history indicates he was a blight on society. Apparently, when he's about to be arrested, his go-to move was to swallow the his drugs in his possession, included fentanyl, which in-turn makes breathing difficult. So, yes the drugs killed him. Nobody cares about that. You watch that video and the emotions kick in and it was game over, people wanted Chauvin's head and there was no way to explain his way out of it. Chauvin's problem was that he heard the guy repeating multiple times that he couldn't breathe and, rather than find an alternate method to subdue him, he knelt on his back to pin him on the ground, thus making the condition worse. Floyd's chances of pulling through would have been enhanced had he simply been permitted to sit up and breathe properly. In hockey terms, Chauvin didn't get the goal, but he does get an assist. When someone is pleading that they can't breathe, and the cop's been ignoring that and kneeling on the guy's chest for - whatever - eight minutes, and the perp dies, the cop is focked beyond focked; then exponentially so, to the moon and Mars and back, when the perp's unheeded pleas for relief are caught on video footage that goes viral. Floyd looks so sympathetic, Chauvin so callous.

Horrible. Well, that's one less.

Doh! Well, I guess thanks are in order then. Thanks.

Well ain't that the damnedest thing. I was the one who typed and posted this but somehow, someway it got accredited to cmh. I don't have access to his account. I've never seen this happen before. Do you guys see this as accredited to cmh?

Wordle 890 2/6 🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nailed the deuce on a 50/50.

Michigan State's picked up Oregon State head coach Johnathan Smith as head coach. I have a lot of respect for the Pac-12, they served as the worthwhile villains and tough opposition in the Rose Bowl years. My heart goes out to Oregon State, a big blow to their staff and conference. Any year previous to 2023, this would be a lateral move that makes no sense, but sadly, the conference is a dumpster fire mess and the programs and people involved are all reaching for life jackets. MSU is lucky to have somebody this good available. Smith did a fine job for the school, taking a bad team and getting them some success, ranked as high as 10 this year. He'll have to learn to scout Michigan and the Midwest. Obviously I wish him great success, MSU had a terrible year considering the way the Mel Tucker fiasco went down. If the team is going to have success moving forward, they're going to need a quality coach to move mountains and do so ASAP. In the Big Ten, MSU football is historically on the tier just below UM and Ohio State, and the danger of joining Indiana and Purdue and Rutgers as permanent also-rans is quite real and quite serious. Good Luck Johnathan Smith.

Good to see the muggers taking the People's Ordinance call for a ceasefire before 9 PM to heart. Very thoughtful criminals in Chicago behaving so well now.

Michigan has a backup quarterback named Alex Orji. Yes, it's pronounced the way it looks.

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Wordle 889 4/6 🟩 🟨 🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My most frequently used 3rd word was available and delivered a gift-wrapped answer.

I've been down on Michigan this year for scheduling candycane opponents, leading to boring games, and for resorting to spying on these candycanes (I did stand by them for the bullsh*t hamburger scandal). No matter, what's done is done. It's always good to put a beatdown on Ohio State. Next is Iowa, another good team, and the College playoffs.

Bless them. They're doing the very best they can but their best just wasn't good enough. Dirty Harry saw this exact thing coming.

1) Philadelphia Eagles 9-1 (1) 2) Baltimore Ravens 8-3 (3) 3) San Francisco 49ers 7-3 (4) 4) Kansas City Chiefs 7-3 (2) ----- 5) Detroit Lions 8-2 (6) 6) Miami Dolphins 7-3 (7) 7) Jacksonville Jaguars 7-3 (8) 8 ) Dallas Cowboys 7-3 (9) ---- 9) Houston Texans 6-4 (15) 10) Cleveland Browns 7-3 (5) When teams lose QBs. I don't know what to do with them for a couple of weeks as I recalibrate 11) Buffalo Bills 6-5 (12) (I swapped Buffalo and Seattle since I posted this) 12) Seattle Seahawks 6-4 (10) 14) Pittsburgh Steelers 6-4 (13) 15) Denver Broncos 5-5 (18) 16) Minnesota Vikings 6-5 (14) ----- 17) Los Angeles Rams 4-6 (20) 18) Los Angeles Chargers 4-6 (16) 18) New York Jets 4-6 (17) 19) Cincinnati Bengals 5-5 (11) Same as Cleveland, they just lost their QB and are hard to rank I sense I zonked them too hard but at this moment, I really do think I'd rather play them than the Jets or Broncos ---- 20) Indianapolis Colts 5-5 (19) 21) New Orleans Saints 5-5 (22) ---- 22) Washington Redskins 4-7 (21) 23) Green Bay Packers 4-6 (26) 24) Tampa Bay Buccaneers 4-6 (23) 25) Las Vegas Raiders 5-6 (24) 26) Atlanta Falcons 4-6 (25) 27) Chicago Bears 3-8 (27) 28) Tennessee Titans 3-7 (28) 29) New York Giants 3-8 (32) 30) Arizona Cardinals 2-9 (29) 31) New England Patriots 2-8 (30) 32) Carolina Panthers 1-9 (31)

Only imperial stormtroopers can be so precise.