Author: Don T

Live, from the First World! New Year’s Eve Eve Open Thread

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In the Caribbean, at a dinner table littered with work papers, sits something in a dark blue suit. He would be handsome, if not for the Steve Bannon hair and figure. He is doodling happy faces, with dollar-sign eyes and tongue, around the phrase “Statehood for Puerto Rico NOW!”--and is

A Weather So Cold It Would Stare At You And Wave “Go” With Its Hand: Tuesday Open Thread

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I spent most of last week until yesterday in the United States and got to experience cold weather AND daylight savings time in the flesh. As I now sit at home shirtless with the fan on, I can say in good faith: I Feel Ya I will never complain again about NFL games starting

Where’s The Love?! – Titans 2021 Preview

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Everybody loves scoring: players, gamblers, singles, spouses, addicts, etc. NFL fans are no different. Every football fan wants to root for an offense that feasts on opponents as ravenously as the Taliban over U.S. military equipment. Point is: the Titans deserve more prime time games because But TVs continue to show

Pointers for The Apocalypse – Monday Open Thread

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The NFL starts in ten days, while we’re still in the homestretch of hurricane season. I saw no NFL items of note, while Ida struck Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane, destroying the electrical grid. Having once gone four months without electricity at home, and several weeks without water service,

Losing the Anxiety – Monday Open Thread

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We’re halfway through the preseason. Not really; that’s a soothing miscalculation because there’s two more preseason games. But I can lie to myself like that noooo problem. And yet it’s true: the season will get here soon, and the games are fine as a nothing better to do. Not enough to

Your 🎶Football Football Foooooot-uh Baaaaaalllll🎶 Open Thread

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You know, in this pandemic… NEWS  By which I mean, NFL News dammit—it’s August already wooo!! O, unrelenting march of time: blessed be your proportional dispensation of both the terrible and tolerable. Indianapolis QB Carson Wentz will have foot surgery, will be out 5 to 12 weeks per head coach Frank Reich. Let’s turn

European Euros 2020 (In 2021!) Roundup and Last Group Games Thread

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Two weeks of daily European Euro action end today, to the delight of work productivity enthusiasts and other Dementor-types. My answer is holding accountable every employer who has spent the last year scheduling mandatory talks on mindfulness and workers' emotional state. Take frequent breaks, they say--how about a single, two-hour

Better Than You, Swarthie: Argentina Preview – Copa América 2020 (In 2021!)

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Some Hispanic folks will try to out-white anyone by pointing to European lineage, paleness, or micropenis. The President of Argentina volunteered anecdotal evidence. Last Wednesday, el presidente Alberto Fernández received a state visit, in Buenos Aires, from the Prime Minister of Spain. Fernández was getting  smarmy with a colleague from la

Luv Ya

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tWBS died a year ago. It’s still shocking because tWBS was so alive—combative, emphatic, warm... He could take any Russian in a freezer vodka contest, an evening equally likely to end in a hugfest or duking it out with strangers. He was a personable devil and a great friend. tWBS