Public Occurrences October 10, 2026

SHOOTER KILLS EIGHT IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA

2:10 pm:

Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy weeks before midterms

AP

Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices

“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does.

[Trump] sought to blame record U.S. diesel prices on Ukraine rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran, which has elevated world energy prices.

"He wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel."

AP

"Gators" backup just threw an INT. Okay, I'm getting my freude back :)

I have so much schaden I can't experience much schadenfreude even at FU's expense :(

 

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@MLFootball

TRENDING: #16 FLORIDA IS GETTING DESTROYED BY SOUTH CAROLINA BY 25+ POINTS…

Florida QB Aaron Philo has been benched… and their defense can’t get off the field.

They now just have a 10% chance to make the SEC Championship on Polymarket… 😬

FUCKING COCKS!!!!! Now 38-13 over FU (16) in Gainesville! 8:07 left. Goodnight, "Gators"!

SELF-SCHADENFREUDE

Oh my goodness. With 6:21 left in the game UNC threw an INT that was returned by Pitt to the UNC 41. With 4:14 to play Pitt went for it on 4th and 2 at UNC 21. Geriner threw incomplete. Of course, I do not second-guess Pat Narduzzi there. In retrospect only that would have made the score 21-20.

And we got the ball back. We forced a 3-and-out and returned the punt to the UNC 39 with 2:33 left.

On 4th and 2 at UNC 31, 1:59, we had to and did go for it again. A run was one-yard short. If, the worst word in sports, if we had taken the three with 4:14 and if we had taken the three with 1:59 left we would have led 23-21.

AND WE GOT THE BALL BACK AGAIN! We forced another three and out and started on our 29 with 1:36 left. Geriner threw four times, the first complete for a LOSS of 4 yards. Of course we went for it on 4th and 14 from our 25. Geriner threw incomplete with :56, his third consecutive incomplete pass on the final Pitt possession.

Man, that is painful. I'm glad I didn't follow. No self-schadenfreude for me here! Only schaden. Oof.

OMG COCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! South Carolina Must Be Destroyed is Destroying FU (16) in G-ville 31-13, end 3!

SCHADENFREUDE SATURDAY!

Indiana (7) came back to beat Nebraska 20-17 in Lincoln. Two fourth quarter scores got the win for the "Hoosiers".

It was a 25-yard pass completion and a 50-yard run. Our DB had the angle but the receiver was too fast.

Wail, FT Pitt 17 North Carolina 21

We led 17-14 with 12:47 left to play.

At 12:36...a 75-yard TD pass by the "Tar Heels". 

"Panthers" defenses under Pat Narduzzi have always been high-risk.

Touchdown North Carolina Pitt 10-14, :22 3Q

UNC 2nd and goal Pitt 1, :42 3Q

Pitt (25) 10 UNC 7, 3:11 3Q, UNC 3rd and 10 Pitt 41

UNC threw an INT on its first drive of the 2H. Pitt got ball at UNC 29. On 4th and 2 at UNC 23, Hunter Geriner threw an INT. 

After a UNC punt Geriner threw his 2nd INT, returned to Pitt 42.

Around the horn...

cocks. FU 7-0, 3:40 1Q.

COCKS! 7-7 end 1.

HT Pitt 10 North Carolina 7

Anybody's game despite Pitt's dominance in total yards, 213-98, and T.o.P., 22:19-7:41. 

I don't like it (except the alternative). Pitt has stalled on all but it's first drive. It's tortoise and hare and idk if the tortoise can outlast the hare's bursts.

Pitt tried 56-yard FG, NO GOOD. UNC ball :17 2Q

Geriner sacked. 4th 11 at UNC 38, :17. Boy, I think I'd go for it. TOO long for FG. UNC FTO.

3rd and 8 35, :28. This is a 52-yard FG from here.

Pitt 1st 10 UNC 37, Pitt calls time

Pitt 3rd 1, UNC 39, :58

OKAY! 14-yard Geriner pass, Pitt 1st down UNC 48, 1:56 2Q

3rd and 7 Pitt 38

Pitt 1st and 10 own 35, 3:20 2Q

Pitt 1st down own 23

2nd and 7 Pitt own 15

UNC's kickoff puts Pitt in poor field position at own 12

Touchdown North Carolina. Just like that the "Tar Heels" are in it. Pitt 10-7, 5:32 2Q

Four passes to one run (-4 yards) on the UNC TD drive. Pitt has passed 16 times (4.4 per) and run 18 times. UNC 9 passes (11 yds per), 6 rushes for ZERO yards total.

1st and goal at Pitt 7

THERE'S THE BIG PASS PLAY I PREDICTED. 49 YARDS BY UNC. 3RD AND 6 PITT 22

Around scholarly tackle football Nebraska leads Indiana (7) 10-3, 13:17 2Q

Pitt 10-0, 7:46 2nd

67 yards, 12 plays, 7 minutes. The temperature is 64 and it's cloudy. T.o.P. Pitt 17:04-5:10. Kade Bell has Geriner on a short leash. So far the "Panthers" running game has dominated.

Pitt 4th and 5 UNC 23

3rd and 6 UNC 24

Pitt 2nd and 10 UNC 28

1st down UNC 42, 12-yard pass. Long of day for Holden Geriner?

1st and 10 Pitt 43

3rd and 1 Pitt 42

11-yard run, 1st down Pitt own 33

I don't know. Now ESPN has it Pitt 2nd and 10 own 22

What? 1st and 10 at Pitt 10?

Pitt starts third drive at own 26

UNC 4th and 3 own 35. Good stop by Pitt defense.

End 1, Pitt (25) 7 UNC 0, UNC 3rd and 9 own 35

I sense that both defenses are now susceptible to the big pass play. Each offense has been nibbling and dinking.

POOR 24-yard punt. UNC 1st down own 28.

Pitt 4th and 3 own 48

Pitt 3rd and 5 at own 46

1ST DOWN! 6-yard pass to Pitt 41

Pitt 3rd and 5 own 35

1st down on pass, Pitt 30

Pitt 3rd and 8, own 22

Punt, Pitt ball own 20, 5:27 1Q

SACK! UNC 4th and 12 own 49

UNC 3rd and 7 Pitt 46

They picked up the 1st down and then completed a 14-yard pass. 1st down Pitt 49.

UNC 3rd and 1 own 34

Now the "Panthers" go on D

Pitt "Panthers" 7 North Carolina Apple Chill 0, 9:49 1Q

That was a 12-play, 75-yard, opening drive of the game TD that took 5:11 off the game clock. Fifty-three of those 75 yards came running the football.

BLACK FEET CALLED FOR A PENALTY ON 3RD DOWN GIVING PITT 1ST DOWN AT TYOO

touchdown

4th and 4 at the 9. Damn it.

3rd and 4 at the UNC 9

1st and 10 UNC 15. Black Feet cannot stop the "Panthers" on the ground.

Pitt 3rd and 1 at UNC 24

"Panthers" on the prowl! 3rd and 1 UNC 42

The lonely field beyond Fort Pitt is not lonely today! Sold out, 51,416

Florida State has a Rutgers-esque financial problem

The Athletic Department is swimming in $430M in red ink. Mike Norvell's buyout alone is nearly $51M; those of his assistants if terminated with him adds even more, $68M. Those buyouts increase that existing $430M by 28%. There is no way out for Florida State. They are going to suffer through more football ineptitude or risk their ability to compete in major college tackle football in the very near future.

Full-Time in Lou-uh-vull 44-20

Excuse me, 41-20, 4:34 left. Douse Mike Norvell's funeral pyre with a leetle gasoline, whydoncha.

Lou 35-20

LOU! LOU! LOU! CARDS 44-YARD TD RUN, 35-14, 12:57 4th

18-yard run, 17-yard run, 10-yard run...44-yard run for TD.

SCHADENFREUDE FRIDAY! Lou 28 Unanswered to Double-Up FSU 28-14, end 3.

Cards returned 2H kickoff 71 yards and scored four plays later.

FSU then went three-and-out and Lou then continued their big-play evisceration of the Seminole tribe: 22-yard pass, 35-yard pass, and they led 28-14. Lou has had a 97-yard run for a TD, a 71-yard kick return, and the two on the last drive. In the 1Q they had a 32-yard pass on their first drive of the game, a 13- and then a 21-yard run on the tying drive.

Major Malfunction by FSU

Already up 14-0, 9:28 2Q, FSU faced fourth and goal at the Lou tyoo. At the Lou tyoo, Half Ass Yoo eschewed the field goal and went for seven. Their pass was complete for a loss of one yard. Cards ball at their own twee. Foist play, 97-yard TD run. That made it 7-14.

Hol' Up, Seminole! HT Lou 24 Half Ass U 14

SEMIHOLES! Lou 0 Half Ass U 14, end 1Q

WiFi

Ever heard of "widows fire"? Me neither until last weekend. What is it?

Widow's fire is a sudden, intense surge of sexual desire, physical longing, or need for intimacy that many people experience after losing a spouse or partner.

widowshandbook

I was shocked. How common is widow's fire?

Roughly 63% of widowed individuals experience widow's fire—a sudden and intense surge in sexual desire...

Ossiana Tepfenhart in Medium

Sixty-three percent?!?! Get the fuck out of town.

First, note the sources: NOT the DSM (not listed), NOT even the Wikipedia entry (there is none). "Widows Handbook", a support group (it's not the only one), and Ossiana Tepfenhart, a woman, on Medium.com, which is "a home for human stories and ideas. Here, anyone can share knowledge and wisdom with the world..."  Charming. 

Widow's fire is not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a real thing.

Next, note the etymology:

Earliest Documentation: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the noun phrase widow's fire dates back to 1619, appearing in the writings of Bishop John King.

After 1619?

This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the 1910s.

Oxford dictionary

The term lay dead as a 70-year old woman's libido until "recently":

While the phrase has historically older roots, it has seen a massive resurgence in modern popular culture and psychology to describe the intense surge in libido or desire for physical touch that many people experience during sexual bereavement after losing a spouse.

chapter2dating.app

A DATING site!

While it has centuries-old roots, the phrase has recently gone viral online and across social media platforms to describe "sexual bereavement"—the sudden, intense surge in libido or desire for physical touch and intimacy that many individuals experience shortly after losing a spouse.

Octopuslegacy

"Octopuslegacy". Cool.

Modern Usage and Meaning

• Contemporary Definition: In modern psychology, grief support circles, and pop culture (such as discussions around Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy), widow's fire (or widowfire) describes a sudden, intense surge of sexual desire, libido, or a craving for physical touch and intimacy that frequently strikes a person weeks or months after the death of a spouse.

"Pop culture! This is rigorous shit!

What did it mean when Bishop King used it?

Historical Context: In early 17th-century texts, the phrase originally referred to literal or symbolic hearth fires, taxation/pension allotments, or historical/religious widow-burning practices (such as the historical South Asian practice of sati, where a widow was placed on her husband's funeral pyre).

They burned women, you know.

But clinicians and psychologists apparently see it frequently...today:

Widow's fire is recognized in psychological and sociological literature primarily as a clinical, qualitative, and community-observed phenomenon rather than an official diagnostic disorder in the DSM-5.

Psychology Today

Pause: Ladies, octopussies, support groupies, Mad-About-the-Boy girlies, WiFi'ers, pause. Assuming every detail of every "story" that you tell is true, you are making decisions when you are exquisitely vulnerable emotionally, more emotionally vulnerable than at any other time in your lives save when you were teenagers, when, merely as females, and females in middle age too, you are vulnerable physically as well. Those of you who have already made the decision and gone public about acting on WiFi, why?Is it the thrill of naughty exhibitionism? Only you know. But I sincerely fear that going public you are going to regret that but once and that is eternally. Have you considered that you are making fools of yourselves? Do you fully comprehend that his is crap sociology, crap sexology, that these support groups are egging you on, they are not neutral much less professional, they are anecdotal "stories", dating apps, non-support groups. Going public you will be embarrassments to generations of your family and friends. I implore you to recognize that these hookups are dangerous and that your entire lives' reputations are going to be tarnished for the rest of your lives. You say you don't care about the reputation repercussions. Before acting, and especially before telling your "stories" in public for the whole world to see, seek professional psychiatric advice. Until you do, and if you get the green light, put down your crack pipes, pick up your dildos in the privacy of your own bedrooms, take out your grandmother's anti-hysteria pills, chill the fuck out, and don't open your mouths or your legs too wide because you don't look handsome when you do it. Unpause.

Next, note the possessive noun: "widow's", female, not widower's, male:

Although disenfranchised and oppressed, [Women are "disenfranchised and oppressed"?] sexuality [Sexuality is "disenfranchised and oppressed"? If it's the first, the sentence is ungrammatical: women should immediately follow "disenfranchised and oppressed". If the latter, the usage is incorrect. Persons can be "disenfranchised and oppressed", states of being cannot. In either (mis)uge this is "liberationist" pseudo-academic written by and for the weak-minded.] is a core piece of women’s identity, and sexual bereavement may compel widows to reconstruct their sexual identities. This existential phenomenological study seeks to illuminate the sexual loss and coping of young widows aged 45 and under. [</= 45 y.o.? The WiFi'ers I read about in Huff Post was 52 years old, and in the support group one had been married for 41 yrs, only 4 years older than the top of this age range!] Qualitative findings from 21 women [21? That's not a study, that's a cherry-picked focus group] indicated three findings: a) young widows felt profound loss regarding their sexual relationships, leading to deep physical loneliness and an initial disinterest in sex; b) some subsequently experienced widows’ fire, an involuntary and often distressing intense sexual desire marked by cravings, obsessive thoughts, and a longing for connection;...

...Although women’s development of a sexual sense of self occurs as an ongoing process, scholars posit [posit: "to propose, suggest, or assume something as a basic fact, principle, or starting point for further discussion or research"] that women urgently experience the need to achieve sexual self-understanding and reconstruct their sexual identity during significant life transitions (de Boer, Citation2023), like widowhood.

Significant life transitions impact women’s sexual self-perception...and compel women to construct new ways of understanding and connecting with themselves sexually...

Taylor and Francis

And so on. "Widows" is gender-specific to women only. On their homepages the ladies greenwash to include menz but women-only is what widow's fire means literally, that is how it is understood in support groups like widows handbook (the overwhelming majority of whose stories are told by women), in the popular press, e.g. Huff Post, and in the Taylor and Francis paper, where twenty-one (twenty-one!) women only were the subject.

All of which smelled a little fishy to me and made me somewhat cynical. But then I remembered...

One of my good friends, a guy, a lawyer, and I, same age as me at the time, 55, were out driving around someplace when I asked him how he met his wife "Beth". "Bob" told me that his best friend "Mike", another lawyer was dying in hospital. Bob told me that he visited Mike in the hospital daily or almost daily. Of course, Mike's wife Beth was present, too. After Mike passed Bob and Beth starting dating, got married and had two kids. "Oh yeah?" was my laconic, non-judgmental reaction. But I sat there stone still. I can still picture where we were when Bob told me. I was a little creeped out. Never heard of such a thing before. Had never heard of "widow's fire" back then, ~ 2010. 

Those are the only details I ever knew and I sure didn't ask again. So I don't know how long after Mike's passing Bob and Beth got together, my distinct impression was not long but that could be wrong, and it is my understanding of the widow's fire "phenomenon" that it is sex for sex's sake only and does not, phenomenologically, lead to marriage, and that the fire burns itself out within a few months. The key to the story that I am missing, and whether it fits widow's fire, is whether Beth experienced the "sudden, intense surge in sexual desire" that is pathognomonic (my impression (but see caveat above) is not.)), or if Bob initiated or pursued the relationship (my impression is he was). If my impressions are correct then the Bob-Beth coupling is not widow's fire, nor is it widower's fire. If my impressions are correct, it's just a little creepy--to me. WiFi is, to me, more than a little creepy, it is dangerous to an emotionally and physically at risk cohort and is academically founded on a house of sand.

Public Occurrences, October 9, 2026

Trump Says Will Not Strike Iran Before Midterm Elections; "having productive discussions"

He's lying that the U.S. and Iran are "having productive discussions". He may be lying that the U.S. will not resume war until after elections, but I think not. Doing so would further imperil his party's results in November.

GOTY: FTC Bowl, October 17

That would be Game of the Year, Fire The Coach Bowl. Rutgers (1-4) at Maryland (2-3). 

That would be Greg Schiano in his seventh season vs Mike Locksley in his eighth. 

That would be SHIA Stadium vs SECU Stadium.

That would be the two "additions" to the B1G Conference, class of 2014.

That would be the athletic department that has lost $517M since its move to the B1G vs the one that merely has lost $4M-$5M in each of 2024 and 2025 (cumulative net not available for Maryland).

I don't know if there has ever been a game where both coaches face the axe if they lose.

That would be an $18M buyout vs merely a $9.2M buyout.

However much, less, or not at all, money the B1G has made since strangely adding these two woebegone sports programs to its portfolio, they have been a competitive embarrassment and the schools themselves have been shamed on the field and Rutgers in particular has a debt that is almost 10% of the entire budget of the university.

There is more than a coach at stake in this game. For Rutgers it is the fiscal integrity of the university. Call it the Shame Game.

Line Drops Again! Pitt now -3.5 vs UNCCH

Look at that! Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee. Isaias is my favorite hurricane. GO ISAIAS!

 

First Big 🌬️! Hurricane Isaias. And look where it's NOT hitting!

 

Yep, feel pretty lucky to have ended up on Miami Beach in Flor-a-die.

Oct. 8, 2023-present Nazraeli Genocide. Killed: 81,416; Wounded: 174,500; Displaced 2,000,000

What is the worth of Palestinian CIVILIAN life to Nazrael?

...officers said that the army permitted the killing of up to 15 or 20 civilians when targeting a junior Hamas operative, and more than 100 in some attacks on senior commanders. 

+972

NAZA is an acronym for nezek agavi, Hebrew for "collateral damage." It refers to the estimated number of civilian casualties considered acceptable by the Israeli military. "Twenty NAZA" would mean that up to 20 civilian deaths were approved in the elimination of a single target. For one high-value target, a figure of 500 NAZA was approved — the population of a small Israeli town...

npr

Gaza genocide Wikipedia

No. 25 Pitt has dropped to -4 against UNC-CH at noon Saturday in a lonely field beyond Fort Pitt

Naked "Orange Plague" Statue of Trump on back of Frail Elderly man on Display Outside European Parliament

 

The most-hated American in history.

Protesting Occurrences October 7, 2026

Protesters ejected from raucous Trump rally in Texas

At least 10 people were either ejected from the venue by authorities or appeared to walk out after interrupting the rally...as Mr. Trump mocked the protesters.
...

Less than 10 minutes into Mr. Trump's speech, a person stormed away from the stage while yelling. At one point, a man in a red hat grabbed that person's hair and appeared to get into a physical altercation, leading other rallygoers to separate the two.

For the next hour, several other people were walked out of the venue by law enforcement or security... In some cases, Trump supporters and demonstrators were separated after physically tangling with each other.

At least one person was handcuffed before law enforcement led him out.

👁

Meteorological Occurrences

 

Alabama, Georgia prepare for storm to hit Saturday's game

Espo

I'm not aware of any college or pro tackle football games getting delayed this past weekend, but the week prior there were. This is the biggest college game to be affected if it is. Weather is so unpredictable. We here in South Florida were to have daily rain for ten days. That was last week. We haven't had a drop yet.

Polling Occurrences

AP/NORC presidential approval:

-69%

+31%

Trumpie sad. Gets booed.

October 7-present. Hamas Crimes Against Humanity: Murdered: 2,046; Wounded: 3,400; Captured: 251

 

Dr. Ana and I were at FIU today. I didn't eat till just now. Woofed down a skirt steak, black beans and rice, and plantains. Sometimes you just want Cuban.

*Insensitive Occurrences October 6, 2026

Israeli documentary ‘NAZA’ opens in the US, reigniting debate over the war in Gaza

AP

No, not the day before October 7. *Changed from "Genocidal".

4-on-4? 4-on-4 Black Hole!

The Miami Heat's "4-on-4" offensive dynamic refers to the extreme spatial advantage and simplified defensive math created by Giannis Antetokounmpo's overwhelming paint gravity. [1, 2]

The 4-on-4 Effect

Paint Gravity: Giannis Antetokounmpo's immense pressure driving downhill forces multiple defenders to collapse, effectively reducing the opposing defense to four players scrambling against four perimeter options.
Preseason Debut: During the Heat's 129-105 preseason win over the Toronto Raptors, this gravity resulted in Giannis recording 7 assists in just 14 first-half minutes.
Perimeter Spacing: Shooters like Andrew Wiggins benefit directly, spacing the floor and capitalizing on kick-out passes when the defense overcommits inside. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

System Principles

Pace and Space: Miami plays at a blistering speed, [speed of light?] pushing hit-ahead passes instantly to cross half-court faster and attack before the defense can set.
Circular Flow: Rather than relying heavily on traditional pick-and-rolls, the offense uses continuous circular rotation, filling open gaps as players drive and kick.
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The circular movement is the remnant of the Memphis "wheel" offensive. I would call this the "Black Hole" offense. Basketball matter swirls around the massive "supernova" at the center, drawing defensive players in, creating 4-on-4 space. This is Erik Spoelstra bricoleur genius. He created positionless basketball. He imported the "wheel". Now he has developed the Black Hole 4-on-4.

As readers know from last year with the 14-7 start, the undersigned believes whole-heartedly that players dictate scheme and produce wins, schemes without players do not produce wins and will be figured out eventually by the opposition. The Memphis "wheel" was and we missed the playoffs getting bounced in the play-in. I know of no more pithy definition of a great coach than that he can take hisn and beat yourn and take yourn and beat hisn. Spoelstra is always learning and creating. When his Big Three lost their first Finals, Spo went to Oregon to talk to football offensive revolutionary Chip Kelly. Two straight rings followed. The Black Hole is a boon for Andrew Wiggins and Klay Thompson, but what about Bam? I have no mention of where Bam fits in the space-and-kick of the Black Hole. This is Adebayo's team. He's the captain. What's his role when supernova Giannis creates the gravity for the Black Hole. I can imagine Bam being open for power drives and pitch-off dunks but I haven't read Bam's role yet. The he focus of the potential with the spacing of the Black Hole has been on the wing shooters.

Plague Occurrences, October 5, 2026

Russia plays down plague fears and denies lab accident, says scientist died of "pneumonia of unknown origin"

CBS

No reason to doubt them, right? Rooskis are honest. 👀

Political Occurrences October 5, 2026

So far in the last month before the mid-term elections Trumpie has campaigned in "ruby-red territory such as Oklahoma and Alabama. His upcoming stop, Grand Island, is located in Nebraska’s solidly conservative south-central region." AP

Why would he be preaching to the choir? I offer two joint reasons:

1) Gopies are behind in every contested Senate race. Trumpie knows it and doesn't want to be associated with "losers".

2) Trumpie does not want to get booed. He knows he is unpopular and is not going to go anywhere where there is the danger of a hostile or even lukewarm reception. 

Why do we debate the existence of God?

If you believe in God and such belief makes a difference in your life then God exists.

If you don't believe in God and such non-belief makes a difference in your life then God does not exist.

If the existence or non-existence of God makes no difference in your life why argue about it?

What is the cash value in your life of God's existence? Of God's non-existence?

How would your life be different if there is a God? If there isn't a God?

What does it matter if there is a God or is not a God?

Pitt (25) is -4.5 against UNCCH. I'm surprised. We have new QB, Black Feet played IPTAY and "Lakers" close.

Rus Flus? White House Monitoring Suspected Plague Outbreak in Russia

 

Trumpie, you could win the Nobel Prize for this if you don't for your mysterious brain.

Trump, Did You Win? Or Was That Your Mysterious Brain?

Nobel Prize in Medicine for Work on Mysteries of Brain

Public Occurrences October 4, 2026

Democracy in America November 3;

RCP Senate snapshot Oct 4, 30 days from election, excluding tossups:

God's Righteous Party in blue. 46-45, 9 tossups.

RCP no-tossup Senate snapshot map:

God's Righteous Party in Blue 53-47, a Senate majority with two votes to spare. Pick up 6 Senate seats

House:

God's Party 226 (218 to win control) Grand Old Phascists 185, 24 tossups. If R's win all 24 tossups they they would have 209, and still lose to Blue easily.

10:01 pm:

Trumpist Bolsonaro Son Leads Leftist Lula in Brazil Presidential Election

Pitt 25th in AP Poll

That's a move up of seven places. 

Nebraska is not close despite being 5-0 also. The "Huskers" received 48 votes (Pitt got 162), only good for thirty-first. Nebraska was at thirty-three in last Sunday's poll. It's surprising. Nebraska clocked East Lansing Spartak last week in Michigan and beat another B1G team, Maryland, yesterday. Pitt has beaten UCF, a Big XII, team in a lonely field beyond Fort Pitt, awful Syracuse (ACC), also at home. The eye test I guess, and the win over Va. Tech, ACC, 30th last week in one of the toughest, most intimidating stadiums in the country in Blacksburg, did it. 

The "Panthers" season is in doubt with the injury to Mason Heintschel. North Carolina comes to the lonely field next week. Pitt started the 2024 season 7-0 behind QB Eli Holstein. We were ranked 18th on November 22. We then lost our last six games (including bowl). 

I have belief in this team even without Heintschel. We have won five different ways so far this season. We have good receivers for whomever is pitching, good running backs, and a defense that until Va. Tech I thought would be the difference in making us a legit top-25 team. We're not going to lose the rest of our games, so I don't expect a second-half El Foldo as we did in 2024.

After UNC we play at Pigeons (dub), at Miami (Elle), home to Georgia Tech, home to Half Ass U, at Louisville, at California. We're not going to lose all of those. 

Mayfield return hinges on when QB can grip football

ESPN lede

That seems like a key metric.

FT at Shia Stadium R 15 I (6) 47

Covering the point spread that I bet on with a deep, heavy blanket.

R 7 I (6) 37, 3:62 3rd🖕

 

He did. Thank you, Schiano.

R 4th and 11 R 24. PUNT THE FUCKING BALL YOU FUCKING MO-RON.

9-yard run, 11-yard run, 14-yard run TD. R 0 I (6) 23, 6:21 2Q

Schiano, you miserable piece of shit, why don't you try some Boise State trickery rather than vanilla on fourth downs? Everybody knows now that when you are playing a better team, which so far is EVERY team except "Howard", you go for it on 4th. They expect it. Do you think if you go for it on 4th every time in this game that you are increasing the element of surprise? You dumb fuck.

Schiano has gone for it on 4th twice, once at midfield, now on the R 34. Failed both times.

R 0 I (6) 16, 9:52 2Q. Fucking Shia pieces of shit gonna cost me a nickel.

FT Mizzou (25) Sticks FU (8) Where the Sun Don't Shine 45-17

cocks :( :( 34 KY Jelly (24) 35 FT OT

Huskers (5-0) Cornhole Mary., 48-23

20 zip 4Q made this score worse than it was.

Ruptures 0 Indiana (6) 10, end 1Q (I have a nickel on R to cover 23.5)

COCKS! Retake lead 27-24 KY Jelly (24), 13:14 4Q

MASON HEINTSCHEL IS OUT FOR SEASON WITH TORN ACL

Futhermucker. 🎵And here's to you, Holden Geriner, Pitt Nation turns its lonely eyes to you.🎵

Oh my goodness. SchadenFreUde! Mizzou (25) 45 FU (8) 10, 7:31 4Q

Neb. has taken a lead, tenuous, over Mary., 28-23, 7:24 3Q.

UNLV led California 24-7 HT. Its' now 24-25, 11:38 4Q.

cocks. FUCKING cocks. 20-24 KY Jelly (24), :40 3Q.

Big COCKS! lead, 17-0 KY Jelly (24), 11:02 2Q

Nebraska 7 Maryland 16, end 1Q; Mizzou (25) 17 FU (8) 10, 2:04 2Q

SCHADENFREUDE! MINNEHAH-HAHA BEAT m (-5.5) 20-14

COCKS! 14-0 KY Jelly (24) end 1st

Yahoo, Mizzou (25) do lead FU (8) 10-3; Oy vey, Turtles lead Huskers 16-7, 2:22 1Q, in Lincoln, too.

Neb. was. -14.5

BOO HOO HOO! The 'Cuse Win With 42! :(

UCONN 41-34 IN OT!

POODLES FIRST DOWN ORANGEMEN 42, 2:46 LEFT! THEY'RE GOING TO WIN THIS GAME!

POODLES INT ORANGEMEN ON 1ST AND GOAL POODLES 7. LOLOL ORANGEMEN!

Black Feet Wouldn't Go Away. "Lakers" (3) Held on, 37-26

UNDdL could reasonably drop in polls. UNC-CH play next week in a lonely field beyond Fort Pitt.

SCHADENFREUDE SYRACUSE! Poodles 34-34, 11:52 4Q. Lol "Orangemen"

 

Syracuse was -6.5 to win at UConn. They led 34-14 mid-3rd Q. Now 34-27, 13:32 4Q

"Lakers" Restoring Sanity: UNC-CH 20 UNDdL 34, early 4Q

In the Navy (1883)

 

1979

The University of North Carolina du Apple Chill 20 The University of Notre Dame du Lac (3) 21, 12:15 3Q

The "Lakers" were supposed to have 21 points before the "Apple Chills" got one.

                                                                                             What's going on here

So embarrassing

Pittsburgh’s college football season may have took a massive turn on Friday night at Virginia Tech.

Billy Heyen, Heavy

NW 34 Paterno-Schadenfreude 13

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No better way to inaugurate a stadium than running through Penn State's ass like shit through a tin horn.

What if, "I Was...Penn State" :o

Schadenfreude! I didn't even know they fucking played last night. They did. At Northwestern. The "new" Ryan Field. The "Nittany Lions" got mauled by the "Mildcats" 34-13.

Two upsets that don't upset me.

"Hail to Pitt, Hail to Pitt"--Pat Narduzzi's parting words, on-field interview after game

I'm so proud of my school. I love my place, I love Eleven, I'm eating stove-top oatmeal with a Pepsi colada, French bread and Gouda cheese, I'm healthy and my mind is still engaged and its product interesting enough that 33,000 people every day check in every day to see what it has produced. My atomized life is a happy one.

Heintschel Hurt

 

"unable to put weight on the leg." "crutches". "evaluations... to determine long-term severity". 

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Coming out of a commercial break, ESPN's broadcast showed Heintschel being helped to the Panthers' locker room with his arms around two members of Pitt's medical staff, and said it could hear his anguish from the medical tent. He went to the locker room shortly after.

McPaper

I predict, I'm no doctor, that Mason is done for most if not all of the season.

The Hokie Hooked it

 

It was close.

Yikes. Heintschel on CRUTCHES after the game

                                                          Double Yikes.

                                     That true sophomore ain't startin' next week vs Apple Chills.

Oh My God

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- — Virginia Tech’s John Love missed a 36-yard field goal as time expired, and Pittsburgh survived for a 35-33 victory...

And we lost Mason Heinstchel on the fourth play of the second half.

...

Virginia Tech (4-1, 1-1) controlled much of the first half, but the Hokies started unraveling when Cameron Lindsey's interception of Ethan Grunkemeyer led to a 22-yard touchdown pass from Heintschel to Cataurus Hicks with 31 seconds left in the half.

...

Oh my God, I am glad I didn't follow this game, I wouldn't be typing right now for being dead.

[Pitt] took a 35-24 lead on [backup QB Holden] Geriner’s 29-yard touchdown pass to Hicks early in the fourth quarter before holding on.

Virginia Tech cut the lead to 35-33... with 10:07 remaining and then Grunkemeyer drove the Hokies 62 yards to set up Love’s game-winning attempt, which he hooked wide left.

...the Hokies...outgained Pittsburgh 499-295.

...

Takeaways

Pittsburgh: The Panthers are 5-0 for the second time in three years, but now await news on the severity of Heintschel’s injury. Geriner played well in relief, completing 8 of 12 for 78 yards and the touchdown.

They emphasize that.

AP via ESPN

MY Alma Mater

 

FT VA. TECH 33 PITT 35!!!!!!!!!!!

 

WE WON! WE FUCKING WON! FT VA. TECH (4-1) 33 PITT (5-0) 35!

                                            WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg Pitt leads 35-33, 2:02 left but Va. Tech has ball. I can't follow I'm too nervous and I'm bad luck

"The MAGA Misery Index is real"--Lincoln Project

I LOVE that and it IS! 👏

4th and 8 I need a bowl of warm milk

"Panthers" 3rd and 10

🙄 

Touchdown. 38-yard pass. Va. Tech 7 Pitt 0 after 1 min 16 secs. Fuck my life.

14-yard run

First play, 23-yard pass completion VT. Fuck. Me.

0-0, 15:00 1Q (very early)

The lowest list ticket price for Pitt-VT is $117. 

It's Friday night...

I need all little panthers with me.

The Pitt-VT (7 o'clock) line has fallen to VT -1.5!

It opened at -5.5. Sheesh.

"Man is never so serious as when he plays; man is wholly man only when he plays.”

Friedrich Schiller Aesthetic Letters (1794) and his concept of art as Spiel (Play).

I had never read that before :o. That is EXACTLY my definition of Man at His Best. 

USMLE Today

Dr. Ana beat the curve! Dr. Dum-Dum tied his high score, 45% correct. MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW IS THE SMARTEST DAUGHTER-IN-LAW!

Public Occurrences October 1, 2026

Tennessee is 0-2 This Year in Executions After Last Night's 2 OT Thriller


9:03 pm:

Sending 3 Carriers and 9,000 More Troops, Trumpie Vows to Hit Iran "very hard"--After Mid-Term Elections

Sensitive City Wins on 56-yard FG :10, Anti-Vax Rogers Hail Mary INT :01. Cle. 3-1, Pit. 2-2

Stillers tie Sensitive City at 24 on TD and 2-pt conversion, 1:42 4Q

Sensitives led 21-7. Well-played, exciting game. The two QBs, Ancient Anti-Vax Jolly Rogers and Deshaun Give-Me-a-Massage Watson are both having excellent games. Steel was -2.5.

Stillers just took 9:48 off clock to take lead in Sensitive City 7-0

Pitt at Va. Tech line drops further to -2.5

Pigskin Futures Investing

The State University of New Jersey at Ruptures vs Indiana (6) -23.5. 

First bet of the season! I'm putting a nickel on the Scarlet Pimpernel to cover at SHIA Stadium.

Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano Video Statement Transcript

I post in its entirety but bold and repeat here at top the subject of this post:

"...the Premier League Commission has introduced an opinion that supports the Premier League's conspiracy theory."

Soriano is Spanish, not Arabic. According to Google AI he is fluent in six languages: Catalan (native), Spanish (native), English, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

I mention his language proficiency for two reasons: "introduced" is awkward usage; the correct verb would be "issued"; more importantly because Sorriano's English words "the Premier League's conspiracy theory" mean that the league had a conspiracy theory about what Manchester City was doing. That is, the league's theory is that City conspired to hide the money. That's clear to everyone, correct? 

I make that straightforward point because that's not what the (English) headlines say, viz,

Every word from Ferran Soriano message to Man City staff over Premier League 'conspiracy'

Manchester Evening News

Ferran Soriano called the club's guilty financial verdict part of a Premier League Conspiracy after an independent commission ruled against them.

ESPN

According to those headlines, Soriano said City were the victim of a conspiracy--by the Premier League. That is not what the man said...he should have but he didn't.

Now this is the money shot of this post: City did perpetrate a financial conspiracy against the EPL. They have been found guilty of 114 counts of a financial "sham". They will be punished for such.

It is also true, and not a defense (I don't think), as I wrote yesterday, that the EPL and other clubs in the EPL conspired against Manchester City.That is, Soriano would be correct if he had said or meant to say that the league and its most prominent clubs had conspired against City. City won it's first Premier League title at the end of the 2011/12 season. The league's Profit and Sustainability rules went into effect the next season after the next, 2013/14. They were, as I wrote at the time, since, and recently, the Anti-Manchester City rules. That's the EPL's conspiracy against Manchester City's conspiracy. 

The reason why I am pretty, pretty sure that the EPL's conspiracy against City is not a defense to City's conspiracy to cook the books is because (well, because the Commission convicted them) the EPL's was not a secretive, illegal or against-the-rules conspiracy--it was a conspiracy done by the book, in the open, by adoption of a new rule approved in a vote of all league members including City, who voted in favor of it. If you want to play in the Premier League, Abu Dhabi United Group, you have to play by Premier League rules. City didn't and now is Shamchester City.

The only defense in Anglo-American jurisprudence (maybe they will have better luck before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)) that I can conjure is a City argument that the Premier League conspiracy against City continued after the P&S rules went into effect by non-enforcement. That is, the league strung City along, never inquiring, investigating or warning, "letting" City compete in its competitions and win trophy after trophy until Der Spiegel dumped their bucket of shit on City. And it wasn't that the EPL was shocked, shocked by Der Spiegel's spiel. City were suspected, strongly. The first bit of fishy business was Etihad Airways sponsorship deal with the club. By a magnitude out of then prevailing market. That was a big story and it stunk. What did the Premier League do about it? Nothing that I am aware of. "Hey ADUG, everything on the up-and-up here? Very well, keep calm and carry on."

In the humble opinion of this retired Colonies' criminal lawyer, that shit still stinks. Over here, I am confident in the Mother Country also, you don't have the right to be arrested. Sounds silly but sometimes unclever defense attorneys make the argument that if the gendarme had just timely arrested their client for the first murder he committed, well then he wouldn't have committed the eight others! 

Not a perfect analogy but the fatality in the defense is the same. You don't get to commit murder or violate any law or rule until you get caught and then only for the first one! When the authorities have the evidence they will pop you on the first one and if and when they get the evidence on the others they will pop your ass agayne. 

Statute of limitations? You know what that is, right? If not, look it up, my back hurts. Yeah, City have a S-o-L argument, essentially you do have the right to be arrested timely, not for murder, but for instance in a third degree felony in Florida the S-o-L is five years. That is Soriano's reference to the 2020 CAS case. That was UEFA. CAS is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. CAS ruled that City were not guilty of remote offenses because of their version of the S-o-L. City will appeal this, I don't know the first body they appeal to, but eventually yes, it will make its way to CAS. It strikes me as a different case. UEFA is a pan-European competition; the English Premier League is like in England. Different admission criteria, different rules. 

Double jeopardy? No.

Had enough? Me too. Here is Soriano:

"I want to share some information related to the ongoing disciplinary process between Manchester City and the Premier League. A document has been made public with an opinion of the Premier League commission that is negative to our interests. I want to explain exactly what this is, the next steps and how we are going to continue to defend the club, and finally be vindicated in this process.

"This has gone for so long that it is important to remind ourselves that the whole Premier League case against us is based on a single false accusation - that the owners' personal money was somehow and secretly put into the club via some sponsors from Abu Dhabi. This is just not true.

"Irrefutable evidence has been provided to the Premier League commission that shows that it could not happen and that it did not happen. This includes bank statements, money transfers, witnesses and everything necessary to categorically demonstrate that the money did not come from the owner. Every other false charge that has been thrown at us - and aggressively marketed and promoted - comes from the simple, central, and completely false accusation.

"Surprisingly for us, and for our lawyers, after nearly two years the Premier League Commission has introduced an opinion that supports the Premier League's conspiracy theory. To do so, the opinion had to ignore the extensive evidence provided by the club in order to reach a conclusion that is clearly wrong.

"Our lawyers will now file an appeal that sets out the opinion contains clear material errors of law, principle and fact and it is unsafe. Remember we have been here before. In 2020 we were also wrongly ruled against for many of the same issues. We appealed to an independent body in CAS and we won.

"We will now be relentless in our work. We will focus on the independent appeal process and also all other legal avenues available to us in order to win the case, and we will take all necessary action to protect the club and seek compensation from any party that tries to damage it now, and in the future.

"I know this can be a bit of a distraction but please remain focused on our business and take care of our extended City family as we always do. Please follow the normal protocols in referring to fan, partner and media enquiries. Very soon we will look back at this and recognise it is another time in our history when we dealt with adversity and overcame it together."

THANK YOU SHEIKH MANSOUR!😂🤣

You did this, Poltroon. You, Soriano.

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RealClearPolitics: Dems Pick Up Six Seats in Senate--Including Texas--Twenty-Five in House, Control Both Chambers

Losing Texas, Georgia (again), North Carolina (again), in addition to Virginia (a Blue state since President Obama) and the Solid GOP South isn't too solid anymore! This would be the Apocalypse and it would be all Trump's fault. "Pretend I'm on the ballot" he has said. Voters are! This is his party, bought, paid for, owned. These are his candidates, Paxton, Rogers, Collins, Whatley.  Iran is his war; this is his inflation; these are his tariffs; affordability is his "hoax". He would get all the blame. For the next two years he would be the lamest duck in the history of ducks.

8:52 pm:

Top Democrats, Long Hesitant to Spend Money in Texas, Start to Back Talarico

The main super PAC for Senate Democrats will begin to run digital ads in the state’s Senate race, in a sign of the party’s growing confidence.

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