Sunday, December 14, 2025
Hem's Way*
*Updated. First posted Dec. 12, 11:36 pm.
The last two novels of his that I read were The Garden of Eden* and A Farewell to Arms. Very similar size books, Eden 247 pages, Farewell 332. Compact like his signature style. I have only my second copy of Eden, I date my books, and I began re-reading Eden November 30, 2024; Farewell, also my second copy, October 14, 2025. Before starting this second copy of Eden I had been studying medicine with my daughter-in-law for about five months. The first note in my Moleskine, for USMLE, December 3, '24, was not on medicine. It reads "Garden of Eden" and the date--"mirrors". The second entry in Moleskine, Dec. 8, '24: "Haya: the modest one, the one who blushes. The third, Dec. 13 "Please let's be slow and slow and slow (169)", the page. Then my USMLE notes from then on.
Earnest was the son of a physician; he was then a reporter for the Toronto Star. Spare style, newspaper reporters; spare style (don't I know!) doctors. Both strive to be detached from the subjects they cover. Earnest clearly absorbed medicine, and the medical style of communication via osmosis from his father. Unemotional, doctors; newspaper reporters, too. Don't get involved emotionally with your patients or your subjects. There is a cruelty in emotional detachment, a lack of empathy, maybe a suppression of emotion and empathy.
Both medicine and news reporting are fact-based. Just the facts, related as unemotionally as possible, colorful modifying adjectives and adverbs "not professional". Fact-obsessed writing bowdlerizes horror. It's "realistic."
Hemingway was a brave man, a brave writer. His novels are based on his experience, so we know quite a bit about the scenes and the characters he writes, We know Catherine Barkley (Farewell) was based on Agnes von Kurowsky. I don't know who Catherine Bourne (Eden) (en passant: two women characters, the male protagonists' lovers, written sixteen years apart, both named Catherine, both with the same initials) was based on.
But there are limits to Hem's Way of realism. AvK was American, not English and the liberties taken in Farewell are extensive. AvK wrote Hem a Dear John letter, she did not die in child birth with their baby boy in Italy. Hem was not at Caporetto, He wrote about Caporetto and that writing is called "one of the greatest moments in literary history." I did not find it such. It was nothing like Tolstoy's description of the Battle of Borodino, which on my first reading I recognized as nonpareil. I would not term Farewell a "beautiful" book as the New York Times reviewer did in 1929. The ending is the most painful that I have ever read in any novel and it is not a beautiful pain. It was an empty pain without meaning. It also never happened, nothing close to the ending happened to Hemingway in Italy in World War I.
Farewell was written in the first person by Hemingway when he was thirty, based on his experiences when he was 19. Eden is written in the omniscient third person observer and was begun in 1946 when Hemingway was 47. Only "Book One" was complete when the manuscript was delivered to his editor by Mary in 1961 after Earnest's suicide. As I said, I don't know who Garden is based on.
The first sentence in Farewell: "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village..." emphasis added. The first sentence in Eden: "They were living at the Grau du Roi then..."
There were limits to Hemingway's bravery. Eden is decadent, its sexual themes conflicted jarringly with Hemingway's reputation. Hemingway evidently wanted some distance from Eden's David Bourne. Bourne: Born? Born again as a man made a woman by his woman?
In these two books, started seventeen years apart, at least three that I recall of Hemingway's fetishes, or obsessions, or curious somethings, are repeated. One is drinking. Hem as Frederic Henry drank as much at 19 as Hem as David Bourne drank at 47. I am, therefore I drink. That was Hemingway. Another is hair. He loved women's hair; loved watching women brush their hair; often watched them surreptitiously when they were not aware, or in mirrors, the other recurrent curiosity (e.g. Eden 43); "She saw herself in one of the mirrors and put her hands to her hair. I saw her in three other mirrors." (Farewell 152) the other recurrent curiosity. "'You have beautiful hair,' I said"... "I was going to cut it all off when he died" (a previous lover). "No." (Hemingway/Frederic Henry (Fairwell p. 19.) In Eden, Catherine Bourne cuts her hair to look like a boy; dies her hair; takes Hemingway/David Bourne to the same hair artist (the only term for it so obsessed is she and Hemingway with hair) that she went to; insists the hair artist cut and die Hemingway/David Bourne's hair exactly the same way. In 26 years hair had become an obsession. The drinking is alcoholism, the hair was a bit fetishistic and became full-fledged, the mirrors are a bit voyeuristic.
Hemingway had already burst onto the literary scene in 1926 with The Sun Also Rises. Farewell just three years later reinforced both his standing and his writing style, stream of consciousness thought, carried off wonderfully in Farewell; the dialogue as people speak, not as auditors or fiction writers translate it sensibly into print. Speakers are often unidentified so readers who have to go back to see who spoke first in the communication pas de deux. That was Hemingway's style. Hemingway seems to express emotion in a unique (to me) repetition. "Please let's be slow and slow and slow" on page 169 of Eden; "I love you always always always--" (Eden, 55). "Couldn't you tell now and now and now..." (Eden 49). "I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't so conceited and didn't bore me, and bore me, and bore me." (Farewell, 125) It sounds biblical to me, maybe because of the threes, although I am not a bible student. "Don't talk" (Eden, also p 169), "You don't have to keep saying it" (Eden 55), and variations, "Let's not talk about it", are Hem's Way. It's post-literate literature.
There is more symmetry in Hemingway's writing in Farewell than I can remember in any of his other works, at least in Eden. Farewell, chapter one, first sentence:
"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village..."
I underlined and later, when I was near the end, went back and notated See p. 289:
"That fall the snow came very late. We lived in a brown wooden house in the pine trees..."
Catherine Bourne (Eden, 17) in 1946 penetrates her husband David and says, "Now you can't tell who is who can you?"
Catherine Barkley, 1929:
"I'll say just what you wish and I'll do what you wish...I'll do what you want and say what you want...I want what you want. There isn't any me any more. ..." I put an * and noted at the bottom of the page, the end of Chapter XVI, the first time I was sure:
Like Catherine (?) Bourne. It is [I underlined twice] Catherine! Catherine Barkley @ age 30 (Hemingway, Catherine Bourne, in his last years.
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*Charles Scribner, Jr, Hemingway's editor, put Eden together as published according to his long work with Hemingway and his own literary tendencies. His efforts have been criticized.
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Public Occurrences December 13, 2025
The Dynasty 14 Tottenham 4, 8:08 1Q
"If" The Dynasty wins this one they will own the best record, 25-1, of any team in Association history through 26 games.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Rape* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Woody Allen Is Not Sorry About His Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein
Arsenal (10-4(D)-2(L) 0 Wolves (0-3-13) 0, 68'π€¦
@RealGaryWebster
Biggest 30 mins in Arteta's @Arsenal managerial career coming up. Just hope team come through for the fansππ#COYG❤️
4:21 PM · Dec 13, 2025
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Friday, December 12, 2025
Steven Smith said something interesting...
...regarding The Dynasty. "I'm worried about the NBA." I gasped a quarter breath. "Who's going to beat them? "Even if you had the chance with all the assets you had to get Giannis Antetokounmpo, why bother?"
Gulp. He's right. Put Giannis on any team you want, take away a reasonable package of assets from the Giannis-recipient and send them to Beer, is Giannis' new team better than Oklahoma City? No! Take Peaceniks. Who could they reasonably trade for Giannis. Jonathan Kuminga? Yeah, and. You hit a road block. A trade is not a free agency signing, there are comings and goings. There's not a team that you can say reasonably would be better than OKC after parting with highly valued parts and with Giannis. Ergo, Smith's question, "Why bother?"
I too am worried about the NBA.
Chris Fedor
@ChrisFedor
The Wizards entered tonight's game allowing the third-most points in the paint in the league. And, yet, of #Cavs 60 shot attempts midway through the third quarter, a whopping 39 have been 3s.
8:41 PM · Dec 12, 2025
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No discipline. No direction. No responsibility. No accountability. (Fedor writes for sensitivecity.com)
Liz (3-19) 82-68 Sensitive City (14-11), 6:28 3rd, Sensitive Time Outie
John Ewing
@johnewing
Darius Garland is 0-10 from 3 tonight [That was at HALF-TIME]
...
8:34 PM · Dec 12, 2025
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FROM 3?!? Why is he still shooting 3's? That is outrageous. The players do whatever they want, Kenny Atkinson imposes no discipline or responsibility on them.
Association
Lizards (3-19) 76 Sensitive City (14-11) 68, 7:45 3Q.
Sensitives led by 11 after 1, by 2 after 2, but have been outscored 16-6 in the 3rd.
Continuing our popular series...
FT Angers 4 Nantes 1
FT FC Den Bosch 0 VVV Venio 1
In Women's Soccer:
FT AS Nancy Lorraine 1 Clermont Foot 0
More Moore: Michigan Man Charged with One Felony, Two Misdemeanors
Home Invasion (felony)
Stalking (misd)
Breaking and Entering (misd)
Thursday, December 11, 2025
More: Michigan Man Moore Mental
Those in the M football building were concerned: Michigan Man Moore was acting 'strange", lashing out at assistant professors of pigskin, and staff who he was not giving a taste of his Man Lash. Now, for reasons known only to them, other Michigan Men are saying Athletic Director Ward Manuel, who dispatched Michigan Man Moore, showed a "lack of sensitivity" in dealing with the Mentally Defective Michigan Man Moore. Said Sensitivity Critics are calling for Michigan Man Manuel to follow Michigan Man Moore into the oblivion of stained unemployment.
I had a night thought Wednesday. Were I Gretchen Whitmer
and were I not hysterical Gretchen Whitmer who cowers and hides her face in the Oval Office, and were I to have the power over which I as governor must have some significant power over U-M, I would come out behind my blue binder snarling and seize the entire Michigan Athletic program by the throat and fire them all, every administrator, staffer, coach and assistant coach, as there is a foetid stench emanating there and a culture of rule-breaking and and elitist culture where the rules don't apply that combined with M tackle football being the "front porch" of UM athletics have stained the university's reputation and the state of Michigan of which I am governor.
I would cancel the tackle football program for 2026 would a appoint an outside Gray Eminence to investigate M Athletics top to bottom and deliver me a report by June 1 for replacements of the Athletic Department, deliverable to me personally as governor. I would then, upon recommendation, restructure the Athletic Department and form a committee, reportable to me, for replacements for all coaches and staff. Michigan tackle football would be deprived of state funding until the review and replacements were evaluated by me personally and approved and M tackle football would reconvene in 2027.
Public Occurrences December 11, 2025
"We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured."
Justice Department fails to reindict Letitia James for a second time
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The Dynasty...
...moved onto Las Vegas for the semifinals of the Silver Cup by totally eclipsing the "Suns" 138-89 in the Oil Patch. The "Thunder", now 24-1, have tied the Association record for best "start" to a season (30% concluded).
All I have to say is LAWD HAVE MERCY! And with that, good night.
Still More Michigan Man Moore
Sherrone Moore, fired today as head tackle football coach, for "an inappropriate relationship with a staff member" continued being inappropriate after his axing by "threatening the employee in question", i.e. assault. MMM is being lodged currently in the Washtenaw County (Michigan) Gray Bar Hotel and is "on 'self-protection' watch."
Whatever will be, will be.
The future's not yours to see.
Que Sherrone, Sherrone.π΅
More Michigan Man Moore
Former Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore was involved in an incident Wednesday that required police attention, the Saline chief of police confirmed to The Detroit News.
Saline police chief Marlene Radzik told The News that nearby Pittsfield Township's police department is handling the complaint. No further details were immediately available as of 8 p.m. Wednesday. Detroit News
Michigan Man
Sherrone Moore, head coach of the football "Wolverines", has been fired for cause. It is the second scandal (and perhaps more)-driven coaching change that M has made in three years, following Jim Harbaugh's tenure.
The reason for Moore's cause firing was "an inappropriate relationship" with a staff member."
The City of Saline Police Department assisted in locating and detaining former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore. Mr. Moore was turned over to the Pittsfield Township Police Department for investigation into potential charges."--Saline PD statement to ESPN.
Moore was detained by police in one jurisdiction and turned over to police in another jurisdiction. ESPN was first to report the police involvement. No reason for the police detention is available at post time.
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
AI Donald Trump USMLE
> what is alkaptonuria?
Folks, let me tell you, I know more about health and medicine than any doctor, any expert, anybody. And I'm gonna tell you about this alkaptonuria thing, okay?
Alkaptonuria, it's a big word, believe me, nobody knows more about big words than I do. It's a rare genetic disorder, folks, a total disaster. It's caused by a defect in the breakdown of certain amino acids, can you believe it? And it leads to this terrible condition where the urine turns dark, like, really dark, brown, almost black. And it's not just the urine, folks, it's the connective tissue, the joints, the whole body. It's a total loser situation.
Now, I know some of the fake news media is gonna try to tell you that it's not that bad, that it's just a minor condition. But let me tell you, folks, it's a big league problem. The urine darkens because of this pigment called homogentisic acid, which is produced by the body. And if you don't treat it, it can lead to all sorts of problems, like arthritis, and kidney stones, and even heart disease.
But don't worry, folks, we're gonna fix it. We're gonna build a wall around the body, a beautiful wall, and we're gonna make the amino acids pay for it, mark my words. And we're gonna make the doctors, the scientists, and the fake news media pay for it too, because they're the ones who didn't do anything about it, okay?
And let me tell you, folks, no one, no one, is better at dealing with alkaptonuria than I am. I've made the greatest deals, the greatest, with the best doctors, the best scientists, and we're gonna make alkaptonuria great again, believe me.
Me: "What is this program is this AI program?" Dictated
My son:
"This is an offline AI that I built on my computer. It has a lot of information stored on my hard drive, though not as much as ChatGPT. I set it up to answer accurately, but to respond in the style of Donald Trump."
FT Diz (15-11) 117 Miami Chimera (4L, 14-11) 108
HTπ56π‘57
Not impressed. They don't have lead Mouseketeer Franz Wagner. We have everybody. We had a 13-poit lead after 1. Same number of possessions, 46. They're shooting slightly better, 48% (38%) to 46% (35%). They have three more rebounds. The stats are as close as the score, and as these teams' records, both 14-10. We've lost 3L. The difference in the game is our pathetic second unit.
They should not have coughed up that lead.
Diz seized momentum in the 2Q. I expect them to continue and win the game. Maybe Spo can play the starters the rest of the way?
Smh
What is with the stupid College Football Playoff? Tulane was ranked 17th in the final AP regular season poll. As the highest-ranked non-power conference team the "Green Wave" were seeded 11th by the playoff committee. Meanwhile, Notre Dame, AP-ranked 9th is done for the season. Tulane plays at OlΓ© Miss (6th, 6th) on December 20. We have seen this movie before, on September 22 to be exact. It was a complete mismatch, OlΓ© Miss won 45-10. Why do we have a rematch of a mismatch? It was the first of both Tulane's blowout loses this season. The second was at Texas San Antonio, 48-26. OlΓ© Miss-Tulane is not good for college tackle football.
To be awakened every morning at first light...
...by my beautiful Eleven and her whiskers gently across my face, well I think I'm in heaven.
Monday, December 08, 2025
On the header...
A man fishing with his dog. Florida Keys, Saturday morning, December 6. A timeless snapshot. And the best human being I know, my son.
Reinventing the Wheel
Bam Adebayo said on national television that you can't defend the "Heat's" Wheel because even the Heaters don't know who's going to get the shot. There are no set plays. It's jazz rather than a classical composition.
Not really!
In the last few games Miami has fallen from at or near the top in ppg and pace. The "Heat" have lost three straight (for the first time this season), and four of five. They have fallen to sixth in the Eastern Conference. Perhaps the reincorporation of Tyler Herro into the starting lineup (and now his loss) has something to do with this rapid descent.
And perhaps not.
The wonder is not that the the team has fallen, the wonder to me is that it took the league so long to figure out how to defend the Wheel. Other teams didn't have enough game film on the "Heat". No. They played the Wheel offense in the preseason where they went 0-6. Other teams had film on (the first half of) Memphis last season. It's the same offensive concept. Erik Spoelstra even brought the originator of the scheme on board as a consultant this past summer (after he was fired mid-season last year by Memphis).
To me, the "Heat's" early season success with the Wheel is a failure of NBA-types intelligence. Arrogant of me to say, but that is what I honestly believe. There is just no reason for this to have been a surprise around the league.
Systems: I am not a systems guy. I don't believe that systems make a team, I believe that the team makes a system. Look: Davion Mitchell is my favorite Heater. I love the guy, but Davion is not going to be confused with Magic Johnson. I see ways to defend tiki-taka in soccer, I see ways to defend the Wheel in basketball, which I laid out in the last post, and which other teams are now doing. The Wheel is a system, and despite the connotations to jazz, it is highly-structured, predictable and simple to understand and defend.
If Miami are to reinvent the Wheel it must be much less a system, so much so that you can call it what you want, it isn't going to be the Wheel. The "Heat" have got so many good to very good shooters, I would play a much more free-wheeling (awful pun), less structured offense and let my shooters shoot. I would mix things up, I would use Bam to free up my shooters in pick and rolls. We have a much younger team than we did at this time last season, also. I would send wave after wave at opponents. I would keep them guessing every damn game who my starters will be. We're fast. I would continue to run and gun, but if I can't get a transition basket, I'd give opponents different half-court looks, pick-and-rolls as mentioned, post play, back door cuts, 3-and-D, designed play, the Wheel. I would use every tool, old school and newfangled, to present different looks, to keep opponents guessing and confused. Bam is undersized for a center, but Bam is a BEAR. The bear can play just about anywhere. And he would in the deliberate chaos I would like to see. I would confuse opponents not with a system, but with the absence of a system. True jazz.
I would also send our waves of young, fleet players on defense. Defense has been the "Heat's" identity since Pat Riley faxed in his resignation to the "Knicks." We have to get back to being an annoying defensive team that bruises opponents.
I would emphasize the vertical game in passing. In the prior post I stated the obvious, that a projectile is faster than any man. Remember Kevin Love two years ago?Bombs away K-Love from under our basket 94' to Gabe Vincent! Tiki-taka is short passes also. I want to see some Kenny Stabler-Kevin Love long passes.
Vertical: The Wheel aims to create space. That cannot be done in two dimensions given the...dimensions of a basketball court. But there is the third dimension, height. The Principle of Verticality. That can work both ways. We are not a Tall team, but Bam plays the post. He can also defend on the perimeter. Yes, you're reading that correctly. Steven Adams swallowed Steph Curry up using his height and the sideline as a help defender in a Peaceniks-OKC playoff game some years ago. Positionless basketball means that you should be able to do that. Again, the point is not to have Bam on the perimeter all game, the point is to keep reinventing, keep showing new looks, keep astonishing and confusing the opponent.
You can also put small guys on Bigs. DARE Kevin Durant to take a dribble on the perimeter before launching one of his treys with Davion and 3J swarming all over his lower half.
Erik Spoelstra is the best head coach in the NBA. He invented positionless basketball. He flew to Oregon to talk spread offense with Chip Kelly during the Big Three Era! Spo is creative, inventive, highly intelligent, and a tinkerer at heart. He's going to get back to "Heat" D, he's going to use more of the pick and roll, he's going to hunt traditional height and speed mismatches. Spoelstra thinks outside the box. He is not going to reinvent the wheel. He's thinking beyond the wheel.
Defending the Wheel
The Miami "Heat's" Wheel offense is a system; like any system it can be defended, as it was last season in Memphis.
Like soccer's tiki-taka, the Wheel aims to create space. That is a fiction. Space cannot be created. In the NBA it is fixed at 94'x50', 47'x50' in half court. Those spaces are occupied by ten very large men and two referees. The Wheel aims to increase the distance between offensive players so that they're not bumping into each other. Therefore, to defend the Wheel, or tiki-taka, defend the space, not the man.
The players in the Wheel offense are, for the most part, functionally interchangeable parts. They don't play numerated, 1-5, functional positions, point guard through center, for the most part. They are functionally "positionless" and are expected to pass, dribble, and rebound as well as the next spoke. In a spatial sense however, the players in a Wheel occupy fixed positions, at least before movement. The Wheel usually begins full court, of course, but the the formation takes place in half court.
Public Occurrences December 8, 2025
7.6 Earthquake off Japan, Tsunami Warning to Northeast of Country to Evacuate
No damage or loss of life reports yet.
Sunday, December 07, 2025
Crows wuz robbed. CAW!
They scored a touchdown with 2:43 left. It clearly was a TD, both zebras on the goal line made the TD signal. Then, it went to replay and it was reversed.
Clevelanding
How many ways can you lose a football game?
One way is to try to lose. That is what some people are calling for the NFL to investigate. The "Browns" went for two-point conversions after TDs twice today. Clevelanding I: The first was when they were down 14-points, when two TDs and two PATs would have tied the game. They got a TD but instead of kicking the PAT, they went for two. Rookie QB Shedeur Sanders fumbled. After failing on that first two-pointer, Cleveland had to go for two after a second TD. Which they got. Clevelanding II: With 1:03 left they took Sanders, who had his best day, off the field entirely. Clevelanding III: They tried some backfield, hot potato, sand-yard play drawn up with a stick. It failed, all three Clevelandings failed, and with them a game was lost. So yeah, some people seriously are calling for an investigation.
Concussion League Finals
Notre Dame
Well, I see. The "Fighting Irish" lost to the best teams on their schedule in the first two games before reeling off 10-straight dubs. Lost by 3 in Miami Gardens (10) and then by 1 to Texas DEI (7) in South Bend. Head-to-head matters even if it occurred on the road in August. Their only win over a final-ranked opponent was home vs Southern Cal (16). They were hurt playing five games in the ACC.
National Concussion League Earlies
Fast Plsnes 0 "Dolphins 21, 3:19 1Q
Crows 3 Steel 7, end 1Q
Sensitive City (3-9) 3 Tenn. (1-11) 14, end 1Q
My goodness gracious, Notre Dame NOT selected for College Football Playoff
The selections and seedings:
1. Indiana (bye)
2. Ohio (bye)
3. Georgia (bye)
4. Texas Tech (bye)
5. Oregon. Will play James Madison (12). Winner to play TT.
6. OlΓ© Miss. Will play Tulane (11). Winner to play Georgia.
7. Texas DEI. Will play Miami Gardens (10). Winner to play Ohio.
8. Oklahoma. Will play Aladamnbama (9). Winner to play Indiana.
Shocked and saddened that ND was not chosen. Smh.
A woman friend...
...sent me this on Friday and her reaction, she never swears, tickled me mucho.
It’s the god damn for instance in the manual.
Me: it's unbelievable. your message though is a π
Have you noticed? It feels chilly to me?
I sense a little nip in the air.
That's my annual stab at racist humor and it always sends me into convulsions of laughter.
FT Abortion Complications Conference Elimination: FT OT Duke (7-5) 27 Virginia (17) 20
You think nothing was at stake here? Well let me tell ya, Dook just got an automatic berth in the Poulan Weedeaters Independence Bowl in picturesque Shreveport, Louisiana. So, yeah.
Saturday, December 06, 2025
Big XII Championship Texas Tech (4) 44 Be Why Ew? (11) 7
After the confetti fell inside AT&T Stadium and coach Joey McGuire hoisted a trophy he had been chasing for four years, he fought back tears as he embraced billionaire board chair Cody Campbell, general manager James Blanchard, athletic director Kirby Hocutt and the many stakeholders who helped set up this program for a historic season.
...
Texas Tech assembled what can now be called one of the greatest transfer portal classes of this evolving era of NIL and transfers in college football, a group of 22 incoming transfers that yielded 11 players who started in the Big 12 title game, four first-team All-Big 12 performers and a projected first-round draft pick in pass rusher David Bailey.
[Texas Tech General Manager James] Blanchard believed from the beginning that the Big 12 was not equipped to compete with what the Red Raiders had assembled.
"Mission accomplished," Blanchard told ESPN. "It's proof of concept. ..."
Texas Tech's more than $25 million investment for its 2025 roster, blending proven returning starters with high-profile newcomers, created boom-or-bust stakes and a seasonlong narrative -- that the Red Raiders were desperately trying to buy their way to the top.
Ready?
Indiana stuns Ohio State to win first Big Ten title since 1967
Fernando Mendoza, Indiana shock No. 1 Ohio State to win Big Ten championship
Indiana staves Ohio State in all-time defensive classic
BOOOOOOOOOOOO! HT Miami "Chimeras" 55 Excremento SEVENTY-FUCKING-TWOπ‘π
Somebody can make a liar out of me...
But at 8 pm Normal Colonies Time, Ohio (1) plays Indiana (2) in the B1G championship game, and to my memory this is the first time in the championship game era that the no. one and no. two in all the land are playing in a conference championship game.
I want Manchester City to win the Premier League
Of course I do, I'm a fan, I've been a fan for twenty-three years.
My shock at the top of the table after today's results was real, it probably is just a blip, but honest injun, I did not think City was just two points back of Arsenal and level on goal difference.
I want my Righteous Angels in Sky Baloo to win the title..but it would not be good for the EPL. If anyclub other than Arsenal win it this season, the Premier League's brand will be slightly, temporarily damaged. This season the EPL will not have been the top domestic league in soccer. That is so because right now, after fifteen league matches, one-third of the total, Manchester City is not a worthy champion of the best soccer league in the world. And Manchester City are--right now--the most plausible challengers to Arsenal. Holders Liverpool BLOW. Swine Chelsea are, in my opinion, not ready. Aston Villa is third, only one point behind City, but on the goal difference tie-breaker they are -12, miles behind Arsenal and City.
Right now: Maybe Manchester City wins out, maybe pigs fly also, maybe they shake off whatever ailed them last season and so far this, but if City win the league because Arsenal, once again, Devin Lochs, that is not good for the Premier League. The Premier League champion should be a champion, not first past the post because the favorite belly-flopped. City Forever!
Wait what?
Arsenal lost today 2-1 at Aston Villa.
City won, 3-0 over Sunderland.
City are only tyoo points behind Arsenal and they're level on goal difference.
Friday, December 05, 2025
Trump is not well
Trump showing signs he’s battling major medical crisis, Democrat claims
Published: Dec. 05, 2025, 10:12 a.m.
President Donald Trump’s tiredness, recent MRI and hand bruise suggest he may be taking medication to treat Alzheimer’s disease, according to a “curious” California Democrat.
“The Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi:- Is administered through an infusion (for example, through the hand)- Can cause swelling, bleeding, or fluid leakage in the brain, requiring regular MRIs- Can cause tiredness,” Kamlager-Dove tweeted along with a picture of Trump’s hand bruise. “Curious.”
There has been no evidence that Trump is taking Leqembi or that he was diagnosed with a condition that affects his brain.
As for the MRI the president underwent in October, the White House physician said the imaging was “preventative,” (https://www.al.com/politics/2025/12/trumps-doctor-explains-mri-results-after-president-had-no-idea-what-was-scanned.html) adding that the results were “perfectly normal.”
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., tweeted that Trump is showing signs he’s taking the Alzheimer’s disease drug Leqembi (https://www.leqembi.com/en).
Last week, a New York Times article reported that Trump is showing “signs of fatigue” in his second term, pointing to a less robust public schedule than his first term.
The article pointed to an occasion at noon on Nov. 6, when Trump held an event on drug prices in the Oval Office.
“At one point, Mr. Trump’s eyelids drooped until his eyes were almost closed, and he appeared to doze on and off for several seconds,” the report stated. “At another point, he opened his eyes and looked toward a line of journalists watching him. He stood up only after a guest who was standing near him fainted and collapsed.”
This week, the president was observed appearing to doze off during his cabinet meeting Tuesday...
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1995927571616182559
...and while hosting the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Thursday:
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/1996658420125258161
Zollner held on
The Least standings with all relevant games completed:
1. Z2. Mamdani City -2
3. Ontario State -3
4. Disney -3.5. Top four home court 1st round 'loffs.
5. Beans -3.5. Identical record. Tie breaker with Disney
6. Carnival -3.5. Identical record. Tie breaker with Beans and Diz. Make playoffs without play in.
7. Sensitive City -4
8. Seven Foot Sixers -4.5
9. Pigeons -5
10. Male Deer -7.5
That's about as tightly bunched as you can get. Two nights ago, Wednesday, the top seven in the Least were:
1. Zollner2. Ontario State, 2 back.
3. Mamdani City, -2.5
4. Miami, -3
5. Disney, -4
6. Surprising Beans (I'm happy for them), -4.5.
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7. Sensitive City, -4.5 (% points out of the top six)
Oh, a MAJOR piece of MORE good news for Paterno-Sandusky!
Terry Smith, interim, has signed a new four-year deal to STAY under Matt Campbell! PSU has woven a silk purse out of a sow's ear today.
BREAK UP THE QUEENS! Ontario State (15-8) 80 Chazz (6-16) 108 (!), 2:37 4Q
Queens are 1-10 on the road this season. This will be their second, and it's against the Least leaders. WEIRD.
Sensitive City had one of the GREAT quarters in the Association tonight...
Down at home by 8 to a good Tottenham squad, they...44-19 3rd quarter. DEAR GOD! They're cruising now, 126-111, 2:26 left.
Diz 92 Carny 86, 7:33 4th
PSU Falls Forward
HT Diz 57 Carny 60
Spo shuffled that first half. 3J, second off bench, played more mins than any starter except Bam. Dru Smith and Pelle Larsson played more mins (11) than Davion. I hope Davion wasn't hurt.
Speaking of the cadaverous cadavers...
...They fell victim to Adam Silver's play mandate for the second time this season. This time (for a previous game) Dead Dan Gilbert was fined $250,000. In the previous instance, against Miamuh down here, the pawn shop owner was nicked 100 G's.
Silver Cup: Disney 34 Carnival 34, 9:22 2Q
Spo avoids the Powell-Herro dilemma again. Tyler is out with "right toe irritation". Sounds like bullshit but if it is the org. is going to get fined. The commish has mandated that all "star" players (Tyler qualifies, having been an All-Star last season), must play in his Cup games umless they're on an autopsy table.
So, Spo's starters tonight:
Wig-oBam-o
Kel'el. WOO HOO!
Nahmin
Davion
Gotta give these scammers credit, this was a GOOD one. I received this text message this morning:
Yes, receiving this in a text was a cautionary flag. And the originating phone number was another. But given my driving "ability" I thought I better check further so I clicked on the link:
One punctuation error, but hey, this is Florida, we're stupid. $6.99? Sounds like a price tag at a discount store but for "tolls"? It could be! I decided to get on the official Florida DMV site.
I compared to the linked page:
Not exact but very professional.
Then I checked the URLs.
Real:
Scammers:
"govakn.click."
You made me work, scammers!
Thursday, December 04, 2025
God bless Peaceniks
GAWD, did they make a game of it against all reasonably possible odds: Not only were they sans JBIII and Step I but the other guys had the big guy, Joel Embiid. Seven Foot Sixers led 30-10 after one. Then in the 2Q they lost Multiple Recent Assholes Winner Draymond Green to a foot injury. Peaceniks trailed by 22 at HT. But in the second half they found their mojo and nearly found a shocking dub. 24-32 in the 3rd cut it to fourteen. 32-19 in the 4th and you can do the math, they fell one point short. FT Phila. 99 San Fran 98.
It's only the Lizards...
...But Beans not only beat them tonight they squished them, 146-101. Boston has won three straight, two over legitimate teams, at Sensitive City, and home to Mamdani City. They have also won four of five (over first place Least Zollner, and now 13-8 Dire Wolves). After starting the season ohfer three, Beans is now 13-9, in 5th place, one game behind the "Heat" and only four from the top. Impressive, impressive will by Boston.
When the Best in the West Play the Best in the Least...
...The Best in the West win, even in the Least's gym. La-La Lu-ka, 2nd in the West (15-5, now 16-5) just beat 2nd-Least Ontario State (15-7, now 15-8) in Donald J. Trump Place.
Public Occurrences December 4, 2025
JUSTICE! Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Letitia James
INJUSTICE! Supreme Court Allows Texas Racist Congressional Redistricting
5:52 pmPutin Punks Trump Again
Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in the US proposal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine
After 23 games...
...the 2025/26 Sensitive City "Cavaliers" are 13-10.
After 23 games in the 2024/25 season Sensitive City was 20-3.
Joel is back and Seven Foot Sixers are pounding Peaceniks...
...Well, they were pounding them. It was 30-10 end 1Q!. It's now 33-30, 8:47 2Q. JBIII and Steph I were ruled out for the game.
Day 53
National Signing Day was YESTERDAY. How did Paterno-Sandusky Do?
7:02 pm:
This makes a lot of sense:
Tyler Donohue
@TDsTake
Recent hours revealed increased confidence from a variety of conversations at Penn State, Iowa State and nationally, that momentum is building between PSU and Matt Campbell.
Anticipated roster resources are an enticing piece. Campbell long considered a "do-more-with-less" coach.
6:26 pm:
Meanwhile, how are things in Blacksburg?
From 124 to 22: James Franklin on Virginia Tech's hot Signing Day finish, which included 11 Penn State flips
Franklin has flipped 10 Penn State commitments to Virginia Tech, sinking the Nittany Lions' class to No. 150 in the rankings, one spot below FCS South Dakota State.
OMG!!!!!!!!
Schadenfreude's a bitch, ain't it Paterno-Sandusky???
Twenty-three players have decommitted from Penn State since Franklin's firing, leaving only two signees in the class of 2026.
Tyoo!!!! lolol
...one of the most stunning turnarounds in recent recruiting memory. Franklin has lifted a class that once sat at No. 124 in the 247Sports Composite Team Recruiting Rankings all the way to No. 22 as night fell Wednesday, which was the first day of the three-day early signing period.
Penn State's botched coaching search turns signing day into unprecedented disaster
6:14 pm:
Make that nine.
Kalani Sitake sends Penn State coaching search back to drawing board again as eight targets spurn interest
Tuesday was the most dramatic day of the Penn State coaching search, as their pursuit of BYU coach Kalani Sitake seemed to be completed, only for BYU's donors to rally and lock Sitake into an extension in Provo.
Penn State getting spurned by a Sitake extension continued a trend of their coaching search, where most of the top candidates for the job have opted to re-sign with their current schools rather than make the jump to Happy Valley. At this point...it's not abundantly clear where Penn State turns from here.
This is eerily similar to Steve Pederson overestimating Nebraska's pull after firing Frank Solich.
Penn State has been operating like a truly elite program, but the market is telling a different story. You don't pry coaches from other good jobs or their alma maters unless you're the destination job (see: LSU). Penn State is learning a harsh truth: most coaches don't view it that way.
It's a good job -- but probably the fifth-best in the Big Ten, behind Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan and USC.
5:11 pm:
Nits nixed again: DeBoer denies PSU job interest
Other coaches who were linked to Penn State's search, including Vanderbilt's Clark Lea, Louisville's Jeff Brohm, Georgia Tech's Brent Key and BYU's Kalani Sitake, agreed to contract extensions with their current schools.
Not for the first time, PSU is embarrassing themselves.
