Jordan Mailata on Sean Mannion: “He is an evil genius. The guy knows ball. … If I were to lock the three smartest people in the building in a room, Sean would be there by himself.”

Paying a little attention to the French Open tennis championship. All the women speak English, in addition to their native language (Polish, Ukrainian, what have you). How many Americans are fluent in a second language? An initiative to make Americans multilingual would open a lot of minds

take a moment to read the Pope

paid $5.39.9 for diesel today. Donald Trump gives a grand total of zero fucks about what his Iran misadventure is doing to the cost of operating working vehicles, those being machines that burn diesel: tractors, trucks, excavators, dozers, and such.

Hoping that the NY Giants' Abdul Carter and the people leading the NAACP "Out of Bounds" campaign get together naacp.org/campaigns/ou...

🚨If a state is making it harder for your family to vote, why reward them with your talent and your NIL money? I said what I said. You can still make it to the NFL, NBA, or anywhere else without propping up politicians attacking democracy and voting rights.

a good read. plus a little food for thought www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

@jimmykempski.bsky.social would it be worth asking players from SEC colleges about this? naacp.org/articles/naa...

@greghartpa.bsky.social @jdtbirds17.bsky.social @phillywannabgm.bsky.social @fonzz.bsky.social @phillyfrontoffice.com @chocomil.bsky.social @number1hurtsfan.bsky.social @lesbowen.bsky.social Howie can no longer draft kids from the SEC. That's the new rule naacp.org/articles/naa...

reading a Tana French novel. the fraud and scammers are known to some. but how will things play out? will any characters we like get hurt? can we trust there will be a decent conclusion? Watching Trump is like being in the middle of crime fiction, but with no confidence the good guys will win

using the amazing Merlin birding app to hear what birds are around. Merlin's hearing is far better than mine, and while I sit on the porch with my coffee, Merlin hears: red-winger blackbird american robin american redstart ovenbird song sparrow wood thrush red-eyed vireo least flycatcher (cont'd)

The corruption is out in the open. It's an amazing thing that is happening. I would have said "impossible." It is unfathomable.

Baton Rouge, LA "It feels like there's no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that's the real world.'" In Louisiana where they're gerrymandering away black representation. Will parents and athletes start looking northward, saying, "no thanks, SEC bigots"? www.espn.com/college-foot...

signs of the apocalypse: "in 50 or so years, by some estimates, snow could virtually disappear from the West" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

we need more weekday afternoon sports events to distract us from the political news

NY Times headline: "Vornado Chief Likens ‘Tax the Rich’ to Hate Speech" my thought on this is: Tax the Rich

Kilgore is still available--make a move Howeeee

don't doubt it. bring it on

I'm old enough to remember when April 22 was Earth Day

"In Bennington, Brattleboro and Rutland, Black drivers are stopped at double their share of the driving population. . . . searches in which contraband is found for Black and Hispanic drivers statewide continues to be lower than for white drivers" vtdigger.org/2026/04/22/r...

just gave donations to Pro Publica, AP, and The Guardian birthday presents to my.sel now more than ever, we need independent, probing, and candid journalism support the reporters, even if they annoy you. they're supposed to be a pain in the ass

it is STILL snowing!!

it is snowing!

i know who the Birds are. Don't know "allbirds." Confident, in my ignorance, that I will be fine.

winter has arrived. let's not make it nuclear.

the really bad news is that it is snowing

anyone else having erratic connectivity w/ this site?

@emilynussbaum.bsky.social thought I should alert you to this. the Times' approach to Trump''s "fuckin" may have been a more nuanced than my reply to you yesterday suggest. why is everything so awful? bsky.app/profile/jfal...

health research, climate research, scientific research, and now forestry research . . . all the research. essential organizations being dismantled, undermined shut down it will take decades to undo the damage caused by these ignorant, arrogant fools

the Phils having their late-season collapse to start things off is good in a way. I won't have to pay attention and worry for months if they're gonna make the playoffs.

fill the tank with heating oil. $5.11/gal good work, Donnie. planning, strategy, and good judgment bringing the benefits to the chilly masses

Seriously wish members of the press would ask Vance, Johnson, Rubio, Thune, etc if they believe Trump is mentally fit to be president. It's time to have the conversation

I might start a campaign to encourage proofreading. I'm not concerned about typos as much as murky, cliched prose. Writing is thinking. Bad writing is muddy thinking. Proofreading is an effective way to clear sludge. Reread what you wrote. Fix it. Write it shorter, clearer, better.

the bears have emerged! time to take down the bird feeders

riddle me this: If the US has been at war with Iran since 1979, as some Republicans have asserted, why did Ronald Regan ship weapons to Iran in the 1980s?

I'm bored. Howie needs to do something soon.

Nobel Peace Committee should make a deal with Trump. He gets peace prize if he agrees not to use military force against any country. Can't bomb Iran, can't send weapons to Israel. Etc. Special exception for Ukraine, where people who were invaded hope to make peace. Peace Prize for peace, Donald

U.S. power plants burning coal spend $1.5 BILLION on coal in just ONE month. statics.teams.cdn.office.net/evergreen-as... (Nov. 2025) Trump's EPA & Lee Zeldin say $14,000 per YEAR costs too much per coal unit to disclose to Americans amounts of toxic emissions & compliance in U.S. communities. 4/

Shiffrin, guys

sooooooo are they going to go after hot dogs next or #ConsumerConfusion #MadeUpProblems

appalling. we will pay for this for so long and in so many ways

how did Jobe escape the Birds?

go Birds!

good for Mikael Shiffrin www.youtube.com/shorts/wqrfH...

if you're a sports person, you might enjoy this profile of an amazing athlete. If you're not a sports person, you might be amazed by how far some athletes will go to become the best www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/m...

is it a "rebuke" only when you "buke" someone a second time

maybe stop calling them "conservatives" because they are not

Do you screen posts here with AI? Didn't know such a possibility existed "On dating apps, people are leaning on A.I. to help them seem more educated or confident; one app, Hinge, reports that many younger users “vibe check” messages with A.I. before sending them"

is the issue no "shame," or is it no "consequences"?

Eagles now have 2 guys (that I know of) with an Ivy-League pedigree: Hunt, Cornell, and Grizzard, Yale. Plus a qb from Stanford! can the big brains outwit the big bodies?