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Funny, bizarre, or weird emails you have received at work...

I'll start. I just got this at 1:13 PM EDT, inviting me to a 12-hour livestream that starts at 1 PM MST (do they really mean MST, or is it MDT?). Um, no, I'm not going to join your 12-hour livestream that starts in less than two hours (or is it less than 3 hours from now?). Not even for a Constitution Reference Sheet.

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Phil Donahue Passes at 88


I always respected him for having a lot of differing viewpoints and keeping it from being a free-for-all. My favorite was discussions with Milton Friedman. I can't think of anywhere today that someone would be so cordial with someone in the other camp.

Does this amount to Treason?

Let's say you're a a disgraced former US politician facing charges related to child pornography and you flee 2 days before your trial is set to begin. You can choose to flee practically anywhere to hide, and you choose of all places, Russia. Not only do you flee to Russia (via Turkey), but for good measure you join the Russian Military. You become a drone operator and play a key role in the war vs Ukraine, while also participating in Russian popaganda media targeted to the US...

Are you a Traitor?


"A former Massachusetts city councilor who fled the U.S. before his trial on child abuse material charges insists he’s not a traitor for joining the Russian military.

Wilmer Puello-Mota, who allegedly fled the country in January two days before his trial was set to begin, appeared in a video Monday released by the Russian Defense Ministry that described him as one of their reconnaissance drone operators. The disgraced former member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard previously appeared in Russian media reports in April as he signed paperwork at a military registration office in Khanty-Mansiysk."

  • Poll
Which B1G teams will underperform their ranking?

Which B1G team is over-ranked in the AP poll?

  • #2 Ohio State

    Votes: 3 5.9%
  • #3 Oregon

    Votes: 7 13.7%
  • #8 Penn State

    Votes: 11 21.6%
  • #9 Michigan

    Votes: 27 52.9%
  • #23 USC

    Votes: 11 21.6%
  • #25 Iowa

    Votes: 6 11.8%
  • #32 Washington

    Votes: 16 31.4%
  • #35 Nebraska

    Votes: 13 25.5%
  • #36 Wisconsin

    Votes: 7 13.7%

For this poll I've extended the ranking to include the "Others Receiving Votes" teams.

AP Top 25

It is almost a given that Franklin's PSU teams underperform.

Even with their defense, it is hard to see Michigan being a top ten team given their QB situation.

Sorority Rush season is starting down south…

Whenever I get gloomy about the state of the country I remember there is a whole world south of the Mason Dixon unchanged by time. Where the progressives haven’t yet poisoned the mind of America’s thoroughbreds. You won’t find these ladies at a “Free Palestine” or a “My body, my choice” protest, they’ve chosen light over darkness.

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Rutgers Schedule

The Big 18 has 6 teams in the AP preseason top 25 (OSU, Oregon, Michigan, PSU, USC and Iowa). Rutgers will avoid all of these teams this year but USC! How is this even remotely fair?

If Rutgers finds its way to the B1G championship game, which is definitely not out of the realm of possibility, I think there could be calls to return to a division format.

The bottom line is there is no way to fairly schedule an 18 team conference with a 9 game conference schedule - which is why the expansion will likely go down in history as ruining the big ten conference. Kevin Warren was too busy counting the incremental dollars associated with the expansion to consider how things like scheduling would be implemented. He has now taken his short-sited management style to the Bears where his feeble attempts to play municipalities against one another is doing nothing but delaying the construction of the new stadium.

Recent polling

National polls mean next to nothing. Swing state polls are the key, particularly trends.

Recent polls show Harris and Trump tied in two of the three "blue wall" states, and Harris up in Pennsylvania. Two months ago Trump was ahead (in some cases well ahead) of Biden in all three.

Today's NYT/Siena poll has Harris +5 in Arizona and +2 in North Carolina. The last time a Dem presidential candidate took NC was Obama in 2008. Pubs are running a weak and wacky candidate for governor (reminiscent of Mastriano in PA a couple of years ago) in that state and he's down 10 to his Democrat opponent. That's not going to help the Pub ticket there.

Trump leads Harris (in today's NYT/Siena) in Nevada (+1) and Georgia (+4).

Florida is interesting. Trump led Biden in FL by 7 or more. In this week's FAU poll, Trump is up just +3 over Harris. I still think Trump will hold on and carry Florida, but Amendment 4 (the ballot initiative on abortion) is a wild card and could impact candidate voting. If we start seeing the Trump campaign spending time and resources in his home state, he's in huge trouble.
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