Game Day is tomorrow. And I'm going to Brazil late tomorrow night and will be distracted during the day. If I'm going to play, it should be now. Fine.
Note to self: +$20/season.
$5 on the University of Our Lady of the Lake to cover 14 at home vs A*.
Game Day is tomorrow. And I'm going to Brazil late tomorrow night and will be distracted during the day. If I'm going to play, it should be now. Fine.
Note to self: +$20/season.
$5 on the University of Our Lady of the Lake to cover 14 at home vs A*.
I think sometime while I am asleep its price will hit the wondrous, symbolic $100k per coin milestone and I will wake up to that wonder and praise my son for investing, I think in 1/8th of a coin when it was at ~$800 many years ago. Never did that then very young man ever foretell with greater accuracy. He amazes me.
Good night my pageviewer friends and interlocutors.
A typical, ugly, entertaining, magically snowy game in the North. The typically dystopian offense by Pittsburgh. The typical roller-coaster ride when Jameis Winston is the QB of any team. Those defects in the two teams will not go away. Cle. is going nowhere this season and have their hard-fought, fraught win over their hated rival. Pittsburgh is going to the post-season where, unless the O becomes functional, they will go one-and-out.
🎵We're from the town with the great football team duh duh duh duh
We cheer the Pittsburgh "Steelers"! 🎵
British luxury automaker’s advertising campaign features models of varying ages, genders and races – but no cars.
British luxury carmaker Jaguar is under fire over a colourful new advertising campaign that promotes inclusivity but lacks one key ingredient – any reference to cars.
Released across multiple social media platforms, the 30-second clip features models of varying ages, genders, and races accompanied by phrases such as “live vivid”, “delete ordinary,” and “copy nothing” as a minimal techno soundtrack plays.
Khris Middleton has been medically cleared to play for Beer "for a period of time" per Shams, ESPN. Middleton is "ramping up". He will play when he feels "his best self." The org. is on board with this subjective test, "but his absence has lasted much longer than people around the organization anticipated."
Beer's Big Three of Giannis, Middleton and Damian Lillard have played only seven games together under Doc Rivers. Giannis is 29, not old for a basketball player, right in his prime, Middleton is 33, Dame is 34. Khris had double ankle surgery off-season. He is not too old that he shouldn't have tried playing by now and he hasn't even participated in five-on-five scrimmages yet, only three-on-threes, which he's been doing "consistently...over the past several weeks."
The subjective test puts player and org in a tough spot. What is the org. supposed to do? The player has been medically cleared. On the other hand this player is essential to on-court success. For the player to make the call alone makes him the bad guy when, as here, he's solely responsible for not playing. Back on the org.: How can anybody else know how a player really feels? You want to piss off one of your Big Three? Back on the player: There's a difference between being injured and feeling discomfort, even pain, or feeling you're not ready because you cannot do 100% of the things you did pre-injury. Middleton is 33 years old, he doesn't have too, too many years left. You are under contract, you're extremely important to the team, you have to be available to play. A 90% Middleton is better than no Middleton.
I don't know how and why this subjective test became the standard. It leads to the above back-and-forth and creates ill will. It is exactly what happened with Justise Winslow and 601 Biscayne. The latter finally gave up on the former and traded him. He's now playing in the G League at age 28. He's done.
The Sixers were supposed to be competing for a top record in the league and a championship following their off-season acquisition of Paul George.
However, that move wasn't enough to appease the face of the franchise. Instead, he preferred to reunite with a teammate he spent less than one season with, according to Vince Goodwill of Yahoo Sports.
“He wanted Jimmy Butler," Goodwill said. "He told the 76ers, ‘Go get my guy'… I don’t think Joel Embiid has been happy, even though they wound up getting Paul George. He wanted Jimmy Butler back over there.”
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“Jimmy is Jimmy,” Embiid said after Monday’s game against the Miami Heat. “He does everything, scoring and passing the ball. … On both sides of the floor, he’s one of the best players in the NBA, probably top five, probably the best actually – the best player in the league.”
The central theoretical underpinning for both capitalism and democracy is the "hidden hand". Millions of individual choices made in the choice-makers rational individual self-interest result in the greatest good, the most wealth for the individual and the society and a government responsive to the majority collective wants and needs. Don't laugh, you know enough of Adam Smith and enough of one man-one vote to know that this is true. So I won't laugh. I will bring up one problem with hidden hand economics and politics. I will illustrate the problem by personal example.
I am of the most privileged economic, and the most powerful political, cohort in America. I am a WASP man. I am retired in material comfort. That fits. I am a Democrat. That does not fit. I didn't pursue wealth for most of my career either. I worked for the government for 27 years; for myself in private law practice (in which I did pursue, but unsuccessfully, wealth) for eleven years. I was always a Democrat.
We all know also that neither capitalism nor democracy guarantees individual acquisition of material or political desiderata. There are losers in the pursuit of happiness. We accept that for the sake of argument. My question is:
Was I anti-capitalist for working for the government for 70% of my life? Since I didn't pursue wealth did I go against the very foundation of capitalism? Each of us, our Declaration of Independence told us, has an unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness granted us by our Creator. In the 19th century, a God-given right was argued to impose an obligation on its use. Use it or lose it kinda thing. Don't piss off the great Giver. No, I don't think I was being anti-capitalist in choosing a public service career and sucking at the teat of the government for material sustenance. Adam Smith was not an anarchist, he envisioned some government overseeing all of those hidden hands. The overseers are essential and have a right to be compensated
But in another aspect, I think I overdid it. I give away some of my money, in one case a not insubstantial sum to a person I did not know. Made me happy, but shouldn't I have plowed my surplus back into the hidden hands that create more wealth? A rising tide lifts all boats? (don't laugh). Is there a place in capitalist theory for altruism? Yes. I don't think Smith meant that charity was bad. It is not capitalist behavior, though!
I confess that I am not a good capitalist in another respect: I don't much like money. I mean, it's okay, but don't stuff me full of it. I have enough, I don't want anymore. (God right now is pissed at me.)
How about this?:
It’s difficult work for the one-woman show; she is often outside at 5 a.m., sowing seeds, weeding, or harvesting, and she spends weeks preparing for the two weekends a month she is open. ...Her cooking is craftsmanship, with keen and careful attention given to every ingredient. For now, I isn’t looking for more of anything. “I can barely keep up with my usual clients,” she says.
...There is something refreshing about I’s acceptance of her limitations. She isn’t looking to grow her business...—there’s a constant, buzzing churn toward more. ...it can be exhausting and overwhelming, representing a capitalistic overindulgence that often prioritizes quantity over craft. It makes I’s desire to fly under the radar feel welcome, even noble.
Is I a bad capitalist? She has a business but "isn't looking to grow" it! What's up with that, I? This was going to be a one-theory critique but that article got me on another of my critiques. So just en passant: Capitalism always seemed to me like the legend of the shark, it has to keep moving (to aerate it's gills) or it dies. Businesses have to grow bigger...Why is that? That is not self-evident to me, or I. Or capitalism is a perpetual motion machine, that's the other analogy that also recurs to my mind. Perpetual motion machines violate the laws of physics. The hidden hand of capitalism is always grasping, pursuing its prey. Doesn't seem like that is sustainable. Doesn't seem human. Seems inhumanely predatory. Ah, predatory capitalism.
Now democracy and me personally. As a member of the elite political cohort in America I should be a Republican. I'm not. Never have been. I'm a Democrat. I don't vote my personal interests, economic or class. Voting your personal interests is the hidden hand in democratic theory. Am I a bad democrat for being a Democrat? In democratic theory I am. Fine, then I'm a proud bad democrat. I vote for candidates who would impose higher taxes on me. Not in my economic self-interest. I vote for candidates who don't want to keep me and non-WASP males on their privileged pedestal. One time I even voted for a Jamaican Black South Asian woman for president! I want people who are different from me to have the advantages that I got for no other reasons than my race, the religion that I do not practice, and my gender. I will even sacrifice and protest when I get too much and they get too little. Very undemocratic in theory.
Is there a place for empathy, the most sublime of human emotions, in capitalist theory and democratic theory? Actually, it's hard to shoe-horn empathetic behavior into either theory. If there is not, then I am a proud anti-democrat, anti-capitalist. But I think there is. I think the hidden hand theories require behavior that in practice makes others' lives more solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. I'm proudly disobeying those theories.
Good night.
Joan Depaz: “I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight.”
Daisy Link: “He would kind of like roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent and I would pull it through. From there, I had placed it inside of, you know, the yeast infection applicators? I had placed it inside of there and then from there, yeah, I administered it.”
Yeah, it's an ankle turn. Man, I've seen WAY worse ankle turns than that. Whatever, he should be fine and they should NOT have lost that game. No fucking way. Nurse Nick has got some answering to do.
I'm gabsmocked about Phil. Joel tonight has 33 points and counting in 32' (and). Paul George John Ringo only played 17', sounds like he's on a limitation (HOPE he didn't get hurt), and was terrible, 2 pts on 1/6. I KNOW Electric Maxey is hurt. What? No, he played! He was terrible too, 20' 8 pts, 3/13. They have C-Mart, they have J. McCain. What is the fucking problem? Oh Paul George John Ringo DID get hurt, looks like he turned his ankle. Whatever. They should not be losing to the Memphibians--WHO DON'T HAVE THUG MORANT!
I'm sure under the Doctor's care that the Male Deer have this one in hand.👀
Memphibians without Thug Ja Morant and were 4.5 home dogs--To the 211ers!
Winners of three of their last four, they lead tonight the Male Cows 66-48 in Beer.
I am not feeling it this week! Strange. There is usually a game or three that piques my interest. (I like three; one is hardly worth it, two is liable to be a wash, three breaks a tie. On the other hand if you lose all three...). I'm up $20 on the season.
Games I'm looking at:
No. 8 The University of Our Lady of the Lake plays undefeated A* (24) lakeside Saturday. The Lakers are -14.5.
ElleEsseEw -7.5 Vandy. Don't know where the Bayou Chinese heads are.
Smoo (14) -9.5 at Virginny. Hmm, that's an inn-teresting line.
Nebraska (5-5, 4L) is -2.5 Wisconsin (5-5). I wouldn't make the "Huskers" the fave to successfully shoot themselves in their own head with a loaded six-shot revolver.
ND -14.5 A* tempts me the most. Lakers would have to win my 15 for me to win. Further cogitation.
The air has always drawn earth-bound humankind, led us to imagine, to dream; filled us with that greatest of human emotions, wonder. Basketball is the greatest sport because it is the only sport played in the air.
Every night in the National Basketball Association there is something. Even on a Tuesday night in November there is something interesting and the potential for more. Last night it was Dalton Knecht. Behold.
The 76ers are teetering on a red zone with this one.
It tickles me that losing to the "Heat" is "red zone".
The odd thing is there is no clear resolution to their struggles as of the moment, as the squad has just consistently looked unsynchronized on the floor, really, on both ends.
That's exactly what I got just from reading the play-by-play.
If there is one thing this game proved to everyone, it is that Nick Nurse has become an absolutely flummoxing figure for the team all season long.
When you get blown out by the "Heat" (?!), there's a BEEG problem😂
Before this game, 76ers fans had started bemoaning the decisions of Nick Nurse this season. Unlike in years past, the champion head coach’s imprint on the team this time around has been of the negative variant for the most part.
I'll be DAMNED. What happened to Nurse? He IS a championship-winning coach (Toronto).
FT Beans 120 Cle. 117. Cle's first L on the season. In Boston. Down TWENTY-ONE, getting embarrassed, they outscored the champs 40-28 in the 3rd, pulled to within tyoo twice in the 4th Q before succumbing.
Donovan Mitchell had 35 for Cle.; Tatum & Brown 33 and 17 for the bile and mold.
Did Patrick Mahomes transfer to Kansas. A week after upsetting no. 6 BeewhYEw as a slight road dog, the "Jayhawks" are 2.5-point home favorites agin' no. 17 Colorado. Ain't touchin' that game with a 10' poll.
Leww (18) is -8.5 over my Beloveds at KFC Place.
No. 8 The University of Our Lady of the Lake plays undefeated A* (24) lakeside Saturday. The Lakers are -14.5
Whaddya think the line is on ElleEsseEw-Vandy? I'd a guessed a handful, I think. -7.5 is a little bigger handful. Don't know where the Bayou Chinese heads are.
Smoo (14) -9.5 at Virginny. Hmm, that's an inn-teresting line.
Nebraska (5-5, 4L) is -2.5 Wisconsin (5-5). I wouldn't make the "Huskers" the fave to successfully shoot themselves in the head with a loaded six-shot revolver.
Temple: Stan Drayton
Charlotte: Bigg Poffi
UMass: Dan Brown
Florida Titanic: Tom Herman
Losing to the "Heat" is that traumatic😂
Electric Maxey criticized Joel Embiid for always being late to practices and meeting, "for everything", and pointed out the effect on team morale.
Players told 76ers coach Nick Nurse they want to be coached harder...
That fits with my note last night that the team is sloppy and undisiplined. Coaching harder probably includes not tolerating lateness. I'm surprised. Nurse Nick is a championship-winning veteran, not the type I would think would be deterred from calling out even an MVP.
Embiid accepted the messages sent in the meeting, sources said...
He would. Joel is a consummate professional.
The "76ers" Big Three, Joel, Electric. and Paul George John Ringo have yet to take the floor together due to injuries.
You's be lacking in one of humankind's best emotions if you didn't have empathy for Philadelphia. From GM to coach to their best players, those are quality people in that org.
Jimmy is having a superb game: 24, 7, and 5.
Phil. doesn't have Electric Maxey but does Paul George John Ringo and Joel. They have a good coach, Nurse Nick. But they are 2-10 and they are playing very poorly in this game. They have 10 t.o.'s (Mia. 11) and fouled Tyler shooting three a minute ago. Sloppy, dumb ball. I don't know the issue(s) but there is NO WAY this Phila. team should be 2-10.
Jimmy is game high with 19, Paul George John Ringo and J. McCain lead Phil. with 12. The "Heat" were turnover-prone in the first half with 10. Phil. had more shooting attempts as a result and were more accurate, 48.9%-41.9%. Teamies C-Mart and K-Low started for the bad guys. Caleb had 10 points but Kyle had no Effect.
This is a fucking reunion of old teammates!
Starters.
Phil:
Paul, George, John Ringo
C-Mart
Joel
Kyle
J. McCain. Thought he died. Rather, he's in Philadelphia.
Mia:
Duncan
Highway
Jimbo
Bamo
Herro
President-elect plans to declare a national emergency for undocumented immigrants with help of hardline cabinet
Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
In an early morning social media post, Trump responded “TRUE!!!” to a post by Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, who wrote on 8 November that the next administration “will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program”.
This was the scene and the reconstructed course of chaos of Queen Korat the 11th.
Her Majesty's recent favorite napping place is on the green Publix bag obscured by the cat icon next to the kitchen window. This was the Original Position.
My role in the mayhem was unwitting co-trigger. I walked into the kitchen for reasons obliterated from memory by what followed. Simultaneous with this provocation, a neighbor's door closed heavily. Eleven then took the course described by the parabola, immediately doubling back over the stove, leaping onto the counter and finally spinning out on my papers knocking a quantity of them to the floor and looking up at me accusingly. "Are you an insane animal?" was what I thought to say.
On the Democratic side, members have been so despondent about a second Trump victory — and, in particular, Trump’s resounding win of the popular vote — that the public reaction has been just a sliver of what it was to after his first win in 2016: no massive protests in major liberal cities or on college campuses and no major corporate denunciations of Trump. ...
“Because now it’s very clear who he is. Like, ‘We don’t care that he’s a felon and we don’t care that he’s a rapist. We don’t care that he’s corrupt.’ Whereas before, the jury was a bit out, and now we know. And people are saying — like, literally by voting — they’re saying, ‘Yeah, those things don’t matter to me,’” said Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of the 2017 Women’s March. ...
Elections? Suddenly Republicans are on board with the reality that they’re secure. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he saw no evidence of fraud in the 2024 campaign.
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...Anti-Trump Republicans, who either voted for Harris or sat out the election altogether, are grappling with whether the more traditionalist, Ronald Reagan strain of the party is even worth fighting for anymore, and many of them have lost an appetite for the resistance-style efforts they launched during Trump’s first presidency.
“I think that people who have been opposing Trumpism have viewed this very existentially — not from a policy perspective, but from a character perspective, from the hope that we are a better people than this,” said Mike Madrid, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and a longtime GOP strategist. “At a certain point, you can compel people to speak to their better angels, but if they don’t want to, you’re never going to win that fight. We are not a better people. This is who we are.”
Third quarter again. Pace Cars 33-26. Ind. led 76-60 with 3:50 left in the quarter and it was done.
So the "Heat" complete their midwest road trip 2-4 and are 5-7. They play tomorrow night in the Bus agin the 7'6"ers.
They're in...guess?, yep, 8th place in the Eastern Conference, right where they were seeded the last two seasons. They are what they are: the 45's.
Okay, so I looked up "warm bowl of milk for cats" because that's the image!
Look at it as a treat and don’t do it often.
Back in the day when there were a lot of farms feral cats used to hang around because there was an abundance of food for them. When a cow milker would spill milk they would lap it up it has a lot of fat in it and they developed a taste for it. However they are lactose intolerant still and it plays havoc on their digestive system but if you only let em have a lil bit occasionally and he gets a regular proper diet I wouldn’t worry too much.