The Frankish Reich

Show me the "kids." This Jay Jones guy is 36. These "young" Republicans can be up to 40. Look at the pics.

This has nothing to do with AG candidate Jay Jones, who is a big ass grown man with Cartman's sense of humor. This has to do with a bunch of Young Republicans - yes, they think they're leaders in training, and that training lasts until they're big ass grown men of 40 - with Cartman's sense of humor. And some were already ascending in the ranks. And the fact that they think nobody in their little club would ever object to their moronic patter shows how they view their very own Republican Party. Guess what? Looks like one of their own spilled the beans to Politico.

In Trump vs. Trudeau, I'm thinking that Justin in now definitely winning. But some probably prefer this:

Agreed. In defense of McD, he (and Josh) seem to operate under a kind of seat of the pants strategy. When the game is really important (playoff seeding, playoffs, or vs. the Chiefs) we're gonna see Josh running and creating. When it's perceived to be just 1 of 17 games, the emphasis switches to Josh Preservation. I suspect we'll see a switch back to aggressive Josh a little earlier this season.

Scoring first confers an advantage, particularly when it's the first touchdown. Historically, the stats showed that the team receiving the kickoff to start a half had only a tiny advantage in scoring the first TD of the half. But there was a reason for this: a team receiving a kickoff had, on average, the worst starting position (typically a touchback). The new kickoff rules have changed that, and I suspect the most analytically minded teams are now seeing a larger advantage to getting the ball to start the game, since the likelihood of that resulting in a TD is now higher. And being down a TD at the start of the game puts the other team in an immediate hole. Here's the best analysis I could find (based on 2019 numbers): https://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/analysis/opening-kickoff-receive-or-defer/

I always have a couple of these around for when I misplace my "real" glasses. $6.95 (plus some various minor additional fees bringing the total up to about $15) at Zenni.com McD is cheap.

And would you look at these fine "young" Nietzschean Superman, Alpha Dogs in the World's Inceliest Dog Park, chiseled Pete Hegseth Pink Pony Push-Up Club Award Winners all ...

This has aged well. And I say that in a non-sarcastic way. Likewise, we miss Diggs on offense. A lot.

Im not sure where you’re seeing all these playoff ready AFC teams.

And I hear that sometimes Greg Maddux used to get that called third strike and a minor league call up didn’t. Shocking.

Beane is exploiting the market inefficiency in players busted for PEDs. The post-bye week will show him to be the equal of his namesake Billy.

Classic!

Taking the new kidney for a test drive! Just kidding, glad to hear you're doing well.

People here can be weird. I know we hate the Pats. OK, got it. But is it so hard to admit that they are now a good football team? Not a great team, but a good team with considerable upside. And a very good young QB with even more upside. There. I said it. Wasn't so hard.

Please don't feed the troll. My line spacing is there for a reason.

/ / / / / / / / / / / Interesting thing that's happened with Q Anon. It was a farce, a hoax, a ridiculous made-up conspiracy theory. We now know that. But it didn't die. Instead, it became a playbook, a screenplay for how Trump 2.0 should try to assert authoritarian powers. - prosecute "deep state" critics of Trumpism? Check. - deploy the military to blue areas of the country using any cynical basis, including the Insurrection Act? Check. - create a federal civilian law enforcement strike force to assert federal power over the states? Check (the enormous expansion of ICE)

How did I miss this? Kristi's Backdoor Man, Corey Lewandowski, was fired from a pro-Trump PAC in 2021 because a woman named Trashelle accused him of sexual harassment. Trashelle. Really.

Israel - Gaza on September 9: no end in sight. September 10: Kirk assassinated; many questions remain unanswered October 9: pro-Israel peace accord reached. Fact.

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / Whew. Thanks, Homelander, for regaining narrative control here. I was really concerned. First you lose narrative control over PPP, the next thing you know Erika Kirk is taking Turning Point in a Bernie direction. Slippery slope.

There's definitely some truth to that.

I'll admit it. When he started strong with the Steelers I thought he'd turned a corner. But no. This one is on him, not completely, but mostly. The Broncos did everything they could to hand the Jets their first win. Fail.

That's what needs to happen to make the tush push situations interesting again! I'd love to see Hurts do a naked bootleg for 30 yards when the defense is all stacked up on the line.

Still one of the best places in the world to live.

This is the dumbest ever attempt of a boring old institution trying to pose at being relevant to young people. Like all such efforts, it won't work. In federal cases (a very tiny minority of all cases, most of which are brought by the states), we have the Bail Reform Act. Basically, in order to hold someone in jail before trial, the judge needs to find that there are no other conditions that could reasonably protect the community. So they'd have to find that a GPS tracker, a house arrest type situation, etc., wouldn't be sufficient. Setting aside the issue of flight risk (which is different), I actually thought the judge should have released Sean Combs pending trial. He was extremely unlikely to hold one of his freakouts while awaiting trial, and I'm sure he wouldn't be anywhere near some of the other women he abused. But as with all highly publicized things, the judge didn't have the guts to apply the plain wording of the law.