The Frankish Reich

Really does. I'm not about to give up, but they look like the clearly better team. Just like Philly vs. Wash

Incomplete is the right call.

Bishop just had a 165 lb WR rip the ball away from him ...

Back in April at draft time we all somehow knew Worthy would wind up killing us, didn't we ...

Hate to say it, but that's the difference so far

Something about "all 3 phases"

Overthrow the fastest man in football?

So maybe you draft Worthy just to keep KC from getting Worthy.

seems like that's the type of play where if both players have Guardian helmets the force of the impact is greatly reduced ...

deep shot now!

Thank God for that. It was gonna be 14-3 in about 2 more plays.

I'm afraid that's right. Chiefs got the incredibly light schedule/bye to get everyone healthy. We didn't.

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-says-colombia-will-face-25-tariffs-amid-fight-over-deportation-flights-e32dc497?mod=hp_lead_pos1 Stock up on coffee! And, umm, coke? How do we tariff that? [I hate when other countries force me to agree with Trump]

Good point. There's also a good argument for tracing the whole "West Coast Offense" back to BYU and coach LaVell Edwards. Edwards was the Assistant at BYU who designed that offense for Virgil Carter. Paul Brown copied that when Carter took over for Greg Cook as Bengals QB. And Edwards' direct coaching tree includes Holmgren and Andy Reid.

On the couch in Denver A couple people asked if I wanted to watch at a bar. No. Too many distractions. This is serious. Gonna be locked in.

My experience: the vast majority of "nonviolent drug offenders" who are prosecuted at the federal level are not "nonviolent." Anything above the level of the college campus weed dealer type almost always involves the use or threatened use of violence. It is an illegal trade in contraband, and people will defend their "right" to deal in contraband with the use of threat of violence. There's a few truly minor offenses, like getting busted for having weed in a National Park or something like that. But those are rare and can be easily found. Federal prosecutions themselves are a small minority of drug prosecutions in general, and are almost always about drug distribution networks rather than small-time users/dealers.

A new world in which everything - even a benediction - is a grift.

Absolutely. I said before: I had no problem pardoning those who just kind of waltzed in, walked around, and took a few pics. The prosecution made the point: it was against the law, and people should remember that in the future. But these blanket pardons (and I include Biden's pardons of "nonviolent drug offenders") are a terrible idea. Every case is different. The facts should be looked at, at least for a few minutes.

If there's one thing we've learned this week it's that we have an embarrassing lack of decent clergy in America.

I believe God saved him, but only at the cost of the sacrifice of Corey Comperatore A real, honest-to-God LOL here!

I haven't commented about the other pardons because (sadly) they're really not that shocking anymore. But this one is utterly inexplicable to me. The guy was an international drug dealer on an epic scale. I read this a couple years ago, and anyone who cares about crypto, drug smuggling, and law enforcement should read it too: https://www.porchlightbooks.com/product/american-kingpin-the-epic-hunt-for-the-criminal-mastermind-behind-the-silk-road--nick-bilton/isbn/9781591848141 Here's a quick passage from an article that the author turned into the book: Green [one of Ulbricht's henchmen] forwarded one troubling customer service complaint from a woman whose brother overdosed on heroin from Silk Road and noted that under the current system, children could use the site. Perhaps that was a hair too much freedom, Green said. DPR [Ulbrich's adopted codename] erupted: “THAT’S MY WHOLE IDEA!” Any constraints would destroy the fundamental concept, he said, and refused any assistance for the grieving sister. And yet Green stayed on, despite the insensitivity and ethical contradictions, becoming one of Silk Road’s most trusted employees. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/ A mega drug bazaar. A fantastic law enforcement investigation. A righteous conviction of a guy who is on record as not caring one whit that the poisons hawked on his marketplace were killing people and even could be accessed by children. Today he stands free and pardoned of any offense. Just because, you know, crypto. Remember that the next time Trump talks about fentanyl and Mexico and whatever other "tough on drugs" talk he wants to distract you with. He just pardoned the CEO of the biggest illegal drug marketplace the world has ever known.

Not a Roman Salute, an Asperger Salute!

The part about states suing the government. Ill-considered? Well, because the creep who killed Laken Riley had previously committed a petty theft, the law became "theft = mandatory detention." If Laken Riley's killer had previously committed a tax fraud, would it be "tax fraud = mandatory detention?" What does theft have to do with him being a rapist killer? And there's categories of offenders who are left out who may pose more of a risk to future Laken Rileys. In other words: poorly thought-out/knee-jerk reaction laws.

Let's watch that in full motion video, shall we? Now watch how Il Duce did it!