My Latin is a little rusty but I am pretty sure “cow bellows” is a bad translation for Casus Belli

I was so exceited by the first item and then I got to the words "Kennedy Center"and it all went downhill after that.

The top U.S. soccer league gets outbid by Mexican teams.

It's amazing how badly the CFB grand Poobahs want to have a Union CBA but also resist having a Union CBA. www.on3.com/news/revenue...

BTW, this is also why middle aged guys are always saying sports aren't as awesome as when they were 11. Because no one can be as passionate about sports as a pre-teen, and adults with mortgages and families can think they are, but they aren't.

This is a sign of bad leadership, right? Not a multimillion dollar CEO? Or am I missing Petitti's 5D chess? x.com/RepBaumgartn...

current mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDew...

Yet another day when I get to say "Corn is not high because a rent is paid, but a rent is paid because corn is high." 208 years and still correct.

Innovation made NPR's Best of 2025 games list: www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

The SCORE Act is bad news. c6359a8f-fa33-4b9f-9dfe-dc9c3c73e548.usrfiles.com/ugd/f96b62_e...

I really like the game Galactic Cruise but the least thematic thing about it is how company meetings are increasingly productive if more people attend them.

Why it matters

When a University President describes university spending as "losing money" the goal is propaganda, not truth. Almost every dollar a university spends is "losing money" -- their goal is to spend all their money down to zero each each to fulfill their nonprofit mission. thehill.com/opinion/educ...

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” — Bertrand Russell

TO AUSTERLITZ! (because it’s the 220th anniversary)

My colleague Dan Rascher got subpoenaed in the bathroom yesterday and so now I can't stop singing the Beat with modified lyrics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFbw...

I just realized my local Poke shop is sending subliminal messages to play White Castle

I am thinking about getting *way* into this year's winter olympics. Unfollow if you won't want a ton of hockey, biathlon, and of course, CURLING in your feed in February.

To be fair, I suspect 7 days in real prison would kill trump, so he probably figured the guy had already served a life sentence.

After ND went up on Stanford 14-0, I made the wise choice to switch us over to two episodes of The Diplomat -- far more drama and excitement, and less disgust.

I missed the news item, but appaently in keeping with the MAGA spirit, this years pardoned turkeys were called Ass and Hole.

what's it gonna be, lady? -- you gonna give that kid one of your xanax or am I gonna give him one of mine?

So the spices that people sailed half-way around the world for in the 16th-18th centuries, risking scurvy and god knows what else to get, which sold for more than gold, turn out to be hard to grow in temperate climates? Who knew???

For those in the states, be sure to Trojan Horse your friends and family into becoming boardgame hobbyists this Thanksgiving.

it's real and it's spectacular

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.

I am glad my inconvenince can keep Sean Duffy safe.

Womp Womp www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

@benmandelker.bsky.social nice to meet you this weekend! Looking forward to becoming a fan of Game Brain.

my client, Reese Brantmeier, who is suing the NCAA for trying to keep some college athletes out of college tennis just won the NCAA national championship: Brantmeier recently had to turn down money she won at the U.S. Open to stay eligible for NCAA competition.

This is a great game

We've got The Axe!

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond I want a girl who knows what's best I want a girl with shoes that cut And eyes that burn like cigarettes ... She's touring the facility and picking up slack I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

I almost feel bad for Cal for looking even worse than Stanford but Stanford still has plenty of time to fold late and let Cal win.

Gemini 3 fails the Ed Beach test. The correct answer is Diplomacy Phase of 3, not Turn 2, because Pope cannot grant the divorce until Diplomacy phase after marriage track has been advanced. The earliest THAT can happen is turn 2, meaning Pope's first chance to grant divorce is Diplomacy in Turn 3.

In other surprising news, police chief shocked to find gambling rampant at Rick's Cafe Americain.

This is a fun little game with a great physical implementation. The box is worth the price all by itself

Is ita crime to threaten to kill members of congress? Asking for an 🍊

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

Some airplane reading.

I know we have to do something, but I am not sure telling Larry Summers he doesn't have to deal with final exams or thousands of "my grandmother died" excuses as the semester comes to an end is really a punishment.

Fruti shaped is pretty vague. Pienapple? Kiwi? Banana? I mean once you include that last one, aren't most penises "fruit shaped" (albeit "deformed" changes things!)

I hope the Michigan one called the Ohio one a no-talent ass-clown, as namesakes tend to do.

TIL that the T-wolves are partnering with CATAN: www.nba.com/timberwolves...

I need a few groups of playtesters for my climbing/shedding game "Skybirds" We've ironed out all/most of the coding bugs, so now I want to find some avid card players to run through the game a bunch for VP balancing tests. Ping me if you have 1-3 friends you'd like to play cards with!

"Dane-geld" by Rudyard Kipling.

"Once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane" - Kipling

End anticompetitive conduct, and voila, market conditions improve. Imagine that! frontofficesports.com/ncaa-hockey-...