oldmanfan

I think Star does what Start gets paid to do, he mucks things up in the middle. At least McD seems to think he serves a valuable purpose.

I hesitate to respond since you have proven you will deliberately lie about what I write, but if you read my post it says specifically that it may kill comedians with little talent that have to rely on cheap shots to try and be funny. Murray and Rock are great comedians, and they write material that points to the absurdity of racial bias and such. By the way, what you call facts? Those are your opinions. There's a difference.

I agree completely, which is why I was hoping we'd draft a big fat tub of goo as another 1 technique. Getting Star back will help. Maybe Phillips will be better as he should be fully recovered from his ACL. I still anticipate a tub of goo veteran signed before the season starts.

A couple months before the pandemic hit, I took a standup comedy class that my daughter (who had taken it the year before) gave me for Christmas. It was really interesting to learn how to structure jokes and such, and at the end of it the 13 of us in the class had to do a 5 minute original set in front of a live audience with a few hundred people in the audience. I was the last one to do my set, and mine was structured around being a husband and father of two daughters, and how that makes one a broken man. Didn't use one off-color word, not one off color joke, and I got a standing O. And afterward I had a lot of people coming up to me telling me how appreciative they were that I did a clean set; that some of the ones that relied on sexist or off-color stuff just wasn't funny. Some comedians have found gold in approaching subjects like race and such. Richard Pryor is right with Carlin as the top stand ups in history, but Pryor came at it from a satirical vantagepoint. Another guy who died too soon is Bill Hicks, could be very off color but because he was using it to point out the absurdity of racism and such. Bill Burr also goes to the extreme to point out absurdities, and it is true that there are a few folks that go over the top in their outrage over what they perceive to be slights. But they are in a small minority.

I agree. I think Oliver will be good, but the problem is he came in being compared to Donald which is an unfair comparison. But he'll be a force I think. I think Epinesa will continue to improve year 2. And rumor is that Bruce is going to be personally tutoring Rousseau.

No it has not killed comedy and to say so is ridiculous. It may have killed comedians with little talent so the only thing they can come up with is to take cheap shots at folks because of their race or sexual orientation and such. And that won't be missed except for the bigots and such that think it's somehow funny.

I'm optimistic about the guy they got from Carolina.

They drafted two DE's that can also move inside on passing downs, and got the kid from Carolina in free agency that had 5.5 sacks last year. Not sure how much more they could have done.

Never look at PFF, never will.

With every stupid decision like this the former Republican, now Trumpian, party digs their grave a little deeper. January 6th was an attempt to overturn results of a free and fair election. Lessons need to be learned from it, and a bipartisan agreement was reached to do so. But the Trumpian sycophants honestly believe that the same guy who lost the House, Senate, and White House to the Democrats is the guy who they should follow to regain power. The Trumpian sycophants use the tired bromide of false equivalency to the protests over George Floyd to defend their position. And you think independents, moderates, and actual Republicans are stupid enough to buy into this garbage? They didn’t in 2020, and the stretch from the garbage is reeks even more now. One can only hope this nonsense is shouted down clearly and decisively in 2022; then we can get back to having an honest to God Republican Party worthy of the name.

Underrated actor to be sure.

This can actually be a serious issue for parents of children born with what is called ambiguous genitalia. Such kids have genetic/chromosomal abnormalities that make it difficult to assign gender at birth. One example is androgen insensitivity syndrome, or testicular feminization. These babies are chromosomally male, but have a defect in the androgen receptor needed for testosterone. Thus, the genitalia do not develop into male genitalia and the baby looks female. The opposite type is CAH or congenital adrenal hyperplasia. In this case you have babies that are chromosomally female, but their adrenal glands pump out so much testosterone that the genitalia appear female. At some point the parents have to decide what gender they want to adopt for their child. I've seen a few of these and it is a emotional roller coaster for these parents.

This has been a tough year, no question about it. But kids tend to be pretty resilient. I think we are back to normal (or should be) this coming school year and kids will be able to do their normal routine again. By the way, I agree with the Internet thing which is one reason I agree with the Biden approach to infrastructure. Other stuff can be scaled back in his plan, but Internet access to all is critical in 2021.

This has been a tough year as I said. But not insurmountable. Kids are more resilient than we give them credit for.

The U.S. will always back Israel because it is the only democractic country in the region and because of the Holocaust. Whether that is right or wrong is immaterial to the fact that JEws and Arabs hate each other and have done so for thousands of years.

Kids will be back in school this fall. One tough year does not mean they never had a chance. My daughter had a first year of college that was tough but she pulled through. Most kids of various ages that I know did. Was it hard? Yes. Did some need some extra help and emotional support? Yes. Does it doom an entire generation? Of course not. The hysteria around here is stunning.

It is an intractable problem and has been so for thousands of years.

Try again. New CDC director for one thing. And she doesn't have a Caputo telling the former CDC people to falsify data for another.

Some of these points are interesting and worth attempting, but I suspect would ultimately be fruitless. To me when you have two groups that think the other has no right to exist, it doesn't matter what diplomatic methods are used.

That is a noble thought and of course all would like to see Jews and Arabs live in peace. But they haven't for thousands of years because they don't want to. Some do, but the ones who don't rule the roost. It just stuns me that so many think a U.S. President can somehow change that.

Again, Jews and Arabs have hated each others for thousands of years. Some Arabs in groups like Hamas want Jews exterminated, some Jews want Arabs exterminated. How exactly is the U.S. government or any other country supposed to broker peace when you have that as the underlying issue?

No cards, boosters are just that, and the initial quarantine was to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. Since that time mitigation strategies like masks were used to stop more people from dying. Almost 600,000 people in this country have died and if it were up to you it would be in the millions. If you are so worried, then I presume you got your vaccine? If you are so sad about your kids I presume if they’re 12 and older they’ve been vaccinated? Or if younger they will be first in line when it’s approved for them? If no then shut the hell up.

Not that you have the sense to understand basic virology, but the more people vaccinated the less hosts available for the virus to propagate

Truth hurts. If you don’t get vaccinated, get Covid and die, your choice. Don’t expect sympathy.

It reflects the appropriate caution the FDA uses.