Voltaire

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.

She didn't like that the mayor thread was resurrected to talk about the stabbing attack and riots in the last day or two.

Not really. They expect your insurance premiums or taxes to go up to pay for it.

Tim's not trapped in this particular box. He has consistently opposed transgender athletes competing against women. When things get too crazy for him, Tim has shown a willingness to cut bait on the most extreme left wing positions.

That's not how it works. No, liberal parents would stand and applaud as their daughter get screwed and they'd chew her out were she to have the temerity to stand up for herself. Liberals are more than happy to see their daughter get screwed because in every other situation in life, they're more than happy to see themselves get screwed. These are people who want to live in a world where transgender illegal-alien thieves drop fentanyl-laced sh*t on their front porch then steal their car and they expect you to be happy living in that world too. They expect you to join along side them to applaud when the brave and beautiful 250 pound hairy tranny destroys your own daughter and theirs.

Wordle 888 3/6 🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Went for a very long shot deuce but failed. Kinda lucky. I saw three words and picked the one that, if wrong, would get me the answer in four. It was right.

Oh... I get it now... sheesh...

Another thing to look forward to.

I thought it was a good cover. Lions had a rap guy, I don't know if I'm getting numb to it or it was less awful than most but I didn't reach for the mute button very quickly. It took me a while to come to my senses and realize I had stupid rap on TV

Is this the right link? I see an uninteresting five second clip of people dancing and a voiceover saying "Oh my God." If so, rat's ass.

Checking in on the boring war on the backburner to see if anything is happening. Seems like I didn't miss much. A whole lot of intransigence and incrementalism, only now with 30% more mud.

Although the Cowboys game is the most difficult on the Lions schedule, I hadn't been terribly worried about it until the Lions got into a funk these last few games. They'vew just been so sloppy with turnovers lately, plus in this game none of Campbell's Gambles worked.

May have to give up the ghost on the #1 seed and just hope to hold on to #2. Lions have looked bad the last 2 1/2 games

Ah, that sucks. Too many turnovers and Campbell's gambles that didn't work out. Congrats to Green Bay.

Trans liberation is a reality in California, maybe they're inviting the Palestinians to come join them.

Is everybody getting a Biden campaign ad or is this just a Michigan thing?