Monday, September 07, 2026

Catching Up

It was, in the end, a very busy weekend for me, as evinced by my lack of posting.  I didn't do as much as I had wanted to, but that is my fault.  I will summarize my ethnic fests I went to this weekend tomorrow; today I slept in a bit, hit the gym, had coffee with a friend, made some pasta for a few days, catch up on some work, and then helped a friend complete a move -- his dog is quite inquisitive, and we all know how much I love inquisitive dogs.  But it was fine; they are just...friendly.

Is it me, or is the UM clock scandal immensely funny?  No one believes that this was anything put on by the Big10/UM to keep them from an embarrassing loss, so why doesn't the conference just say "We screwed up" and move on?  They're not going to replay the down or give WMU a win, so...they are just making a bad situation, and for all they have done to show themselves as meaning more than the SEC... this just kills that.

Rehabilitating Richard – The Analog Antiquarian
Interesting, and I need to check out the rest of the links on the page.  I have read a couple of Langley's books, and saw the movie, and they are delightful, though I am not sure she is fully correct -- or, if she is, she will need more work to verify it, and I suspect the evidence (if it ever existed) is long gone.  I think part of the issue is that Shakespeare and everyone else shit upon Richard III at every opportunity, and people with a sense of fair play have put it on themselves to defend him.  This is fine and admirable, but there is the Princes in the Tower bit, and I find it hard to believe that Richard III is blameless -- one way or another -- in their disappearance.  Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln...

The Republican Party’s Midterm Nightmare Is Taking Shape - POLITICO
One would have thought POTUS would have thought of this, and that either he did and did it anyways, or disregarded it... as I said tonight, I think Trump 1 was a hell of a lot more fun than Trump 2.

College Football Kickers Were Underpaid. Then They Started Texting. - WSJ
I am not sure that the people who cooked up the current system thought this would happen, or would be a good idea, but here we are...

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