Every journalist rushing to the example of Noriega is a good demonstration of why journalists are shit historians-- two seconds of historical thought would remind you the War on Drugs was *not a great example of life legitimate and lawful use of American force abroad.* -OS

They going to park Maduro with Ghislaine in Bryan?

Georgia will disappoint you because you know they know better. Mississippi will never disappoint you because you know they have no better angels.

I, as a matter of principle, never want Alabama to win anything.

I'll say, I was not mad to see all them Permian oil boy's money go up in smoke against Oregon.

Dear readers, happy new year. A toast to good health, good luck, good cheer, and lots of Democratic victories in 2026. -WJ

Of course, the last second win against Michigan in the Rose Bowl would probably be remembered as the finest game of Vince Young's career if not for what he did against USC in the 4th quarter of the Championship the following year. -OS

It is kind of weird that Texas and Michigan have only crossed paths three times, and that they're all in the last twenty years, and that Michigan has lost to Vince Young, Quinn Ewers, and now Arch Manning. -OS

It started as a great day for the BIG 10. It ain't ending that way.

Dammit, Miami remembered they suck. -OS

Yikes, Ohio State. -OS

Brandon Underwood's done been hooked.

Fuckin' A, Arch.

9 starters out and that Texas D can still wield a knife.

It good to see bowl season hasn't been totally devalued. Because Texas vs. Michigan is good fuckin' football. -OS

Arch is going to be good. He just needed a season to get his feet under him.

Simmons is a killer.

I think its very likely the candidate in 2028 is someone who is not even being talked about right now.

No.

No.

At the other place, Chicagoans are very mad that we said the differences between their precious city and Houston are infintesimal. -OS

She's not going to be the nominee.

Agreeing to be the vice presidential candidate was the worst decision Tim Walz has ever made. In his defense, its also the worse decision I've ever made.

Our fundamental political crisis is that having cool stuff everywhere was only made possible by tamping down discrimination. Conservatives like artisan food and booze too, but hate that it comes with gay people living open lives and minority-owned businesses. -OS

The L is actually awful. We'd argue since Houston built the light rail line down the spiked Harrisburg freeway route in 2017... if you live in the East End of Houston you have a better transit network at your finger tips than just about any Chicago neighborhood. -OS

Houston and Chicago are effectively the same place. Shitty infrastructure. Ridiculous airport. Amazing food. Crazy people. Different shades of shitty weather. (Houston: hot shitty, Chicago: cold, shitty). -OS

We just got back from "Rancho Deluxe"-ing it in Livingston, Montana. Between the Absarokas and Crazies. Even stole a few cows and hit the Murray and the Mint. -OS

It's amazing how much of our freshman level surveys are these little tid-bits of information that are too granular for AI to copy if a kid missed class. Like a whole 5 minutes on the boarding house in NJ where Martin Van Buren spent a week recovering from gout in 1840. -OS

Approving a license and a proof for a forthcoming publication in the American Historical Review today. Feel like actual historians and not just human AI-detectors for a day. -OS

Notably not at all what we're even arguing. Actually the opposite. That the world of looney right wing militias created in the US after Vietnam, that traded in government mistrust were *mostly motivated by things other than Vietnam.* -OS

Fuck you, self-righteous bitch. Maybe have a thought? What sprouted the worlds of Ruby Ridge? Yeah, those were just a bunch of guys with really deep thoughts about Cold War Strategy and the marginal income tax. Get real, you fuckin' cherry-picking clown. -OS

Maybe try reading a book, Tom. -OS

And much the right wing types who felt betrayed by Vietnam were also White Supremacists. Like Louis Beam in TX who tried to terrorize Vietnamese immigrants and the world that sprouted Timothy McVeigh. -OS

Jerry Fallwell didn't try to set up a private, tax-exempt segregation academy because of the failure of strategic hamlets. -OS

Yes, as we recall, Reagan launched his presidential campaign from Neshoba County, Alabama, the site of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman's murders, because those folks were really upset by Operation Rolling Thunder. -OS

If only it was a simple as Vietnam creating government mistrust and not... you know... racial desegregation. -OS

Merry Christmas. -WJ

We're about to get airport drunk with siblings and siblings in law. This time of year, it's the little things you cherish. -OS

Going into cocaine bear mode. -OS

Now, on to today's main event. -OS

Tomorrow you'll have to call the kids back to campus for more sway practice.

11-2. But metaphysically 8-4 as always. -OS

I mean, is there a more Aggie way to lose than that?

Lol, Aggie

This is an embarrassingly bad game. -OS

We watched enough of Texas this year to know that they weren't a competitive championship team. And watched enough of Aggie getting shoved around by a mediocre Texas line to know that they aren't either. -OS

These are the problems with all the conference realignment conferences so huge you have unbalanced schedules -- neither Aggie nor Miami are actually any good. -OS

The Playoff Committee had to be watching that first half from College Station with a handgun and a bottle of bourbon on the table. -OS

Aggie and Miami playing the Impotence Bowl.