The Frankish Reich

Last time we called him Diggs. Last time he answered to Von. Worth a try, since Rasul Douglas doesn't really count.

The plan: tune in just in time for the kickoff. Watch one drive from each team. Come back in two hours. Fast forward thru halftime show to see if Kendrick Lamar does Not Like Us. Go away again. Check score at the end of 3. Watch if it's close. Get on with life.

I'm pretty sure the over/under on Bills wins back in his 3 years was something like 5.5. And he delivered those thrilling 7-9s. Three in a row! If the Bills were going to sneak into the playoffs with that roster it was probably by playing the exact type of boring football he specialized in, and getting a few lucky bounces to steal another win or two. In retrospect, I'd take Jauronball over Chan, Marrone, and Rex any day.

I feel like we've been all-in every since we traded for Diggs and followed it up with Von. Not sure how much more all-in we can get.

A strange mix of "he was better than I thought he'd be" yet the Jets were far worse than I thought they'd be. Maybe that says it all.

As Brady says, it's what made him, Peyton Manning, and Drew Brees HOFers. I heard a similar interview with DT Gerald McCoy (Bucs). They asked him, "Which QB was toughest to play against?" His answer: Peyton Manning. He said one week vs. the Colts they tried a brand new stunt they'd never run before. He was lined up over center. Peyton comes up to the line yelling "93 (McCoy) has the B gap." McCoy couldn't believe he knew it was coming. They'd never, ever run that stunt before. But somehow Peyton just ... knew.

His defense/foreign policy team. Engineering a coordinated NATO response to Russian aggression was no mean feat. Other countries did things I never thought they'd be willing to do, including Sweden's accession.

Nothing so ridiculous at all. It was titled Two Cheers for the Deep State. In other words, I recognized that the so-called Deep State is not without it's problems, as it creates an inertia resistant to change, even when change is needed. But it also suggested that - in my more traditional Chestertonian conservative viewpoint - that a man does not tear down a fence until he understands why it was put there, that radical change is often not a good thing. I suggest you read it. It may provide you and your ilk some needed, umm, maturity.

It seems as if Big Balls has deleted his Twitter account, suggesting that perhaps his balls aren't quite so big after all. Oh, and this is also proof to the contrary: Ladies and Gentlemen, The New Masculinity!

Sometimes even a damn fool says something sensible. In obviously fire-prone areas, why not change the building code to take that risk into account? Isn't that what building codes are for?

Just for the record, David: I was racist before racist was cool. And oh yeah: I would not mind at all if Israel and Palestine were wiped off the face of the earth. I work late on Fridays, so all is forgiven! Added bonus: It was a youthful indiscretion, meaning that I said it last summer.

We should definitely not know the names or histories of Musk's DOGE minions. They should be allowed to remain completely anonymous. It is completely irrelevant if they are, say, 19 years old and were fired from an internship - an INTERNSHIP, which you basically can't be fired from because, you know, it's an unpaid internship - for disclosing internal company information. It is also irrelevant that you wanted to normalize Indian hate. Or that you don't have a clearance, because, well, you have demonstrated that you are utterly unqualified to get a clearance, and that you nonetheless access classified information. In fact, anyone trying to "doxx" you for doing a public job ought to be herself outed as a raging lefty liberal who is so un-American as to reveal the name of a public employee. - Trump supporters. You want edgy. Try this one on for size: NORMALIZE INDIAN HATE That's edgy all right! At least @Doc thought it was funny as hell!

QBs who started more than a couple games for Dick Jauron with the Bears, Lions (briefly) and Bills: - Cade McNown - Jim Miller - Shane Matthews - Chris Chandler - Kordell Stewart (at age 31) - Rex Grossman - Joey Harrington - JP Losman - Trent Edwards - Ryan Fitzpatrick Imagine what we'd think of Sean McD if we'd drafted Darnold and then had a revolving door of Trubiskys and Case Keenums as starting QBs ... some coaches get lucky, some don't.

Right. The headline should be something like: "Dick Jauron, who took teams with the likes of J.P. Losman and Trent Edwards at QB to back-to-back-to-back 7-9 seasons, dead at the age of 74."

What a shameful waste. Looking for groundwater sources in a desert nation so people will be a little less likely to die young. Or to migrate to Europe or America.

We have an answer. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/elon-musk-us-government-power

https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93?st=AawTSB&reflink=article_copyURL_share

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/ The 19 year old hacker running parts of your government.

The US Gaza Strip Zone. Seems like a zero risk proposition.

I was wondering that too. The off-center skunk stripe. Maybe it's a Q Anon dog whistle. EDIT: there's a self-aggrandizing story behind that questionable style choice! Who would've guessed. Maybe her bad complexion is a tribute to the napalm victims in Vietnam.

That's not the point, comrade. The point is the dared not mention the name of any evil regime. Cultural relativism. Sell the product worldwide. Woke, woker, wokest! If you can't see the differences between the 1980s original and the 2020s reboot, you have been brainwashed to ignore them. We are all woke now.

read the rest of my cut and paste job and see how woke you've become ... and you didn't even realize it. That's how cultural Marxism works, comrade!

Oh no, I'm not letting this one go. You mean how in Top Gun 2 the enemy is pretty clearly Iran, but it is never mentioned by name lest we offend someone? Sounds pretty woke to me. You're like the proverbial frog in the pot: they've conditioned you so slowly over time that you passively accept the creeping wokeness right in front of your eyes. Here's some reddit rando who says it better than me: 2x female pilots were top in their respective classes; one of them (Pheonix) outperforms her male peers and gets selected for the final mission; everyone accepts this decision More BIPOC individuals in this film in general, at all ranks Hangman is sexist and cocky, and gets called out for it by Bob (another white male) in front of the group; his attitude also costs him his chance to be on the final mission Penny is a single mom, who owns her own business and has a healthy relationship with her teenage daughter (she's also gasp close in age to Maverick both on screen and in real life, and has some wrinkles) Penny sets the pace of the relationship, and Maverick doesn't pursue her like a creep (there's also no more conflict of interest storyline), rather he respects her boundaries without complaint Maverick finally accepts that his trauma is holding him back, learns to communicate with Rooster, and commits to Penny , showing personal growth in a genre that typically sees one-dimensional characters completing one Herculian task after the next We also don't see this movie praising all the cheesy stereotypes about men and their need to constantly be better than each other quite like we did with Maverick and Iceman in the first one. Way less peacocking. TL;DR: diversity, personal growth, healthy communication/boundaries