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Greetings from what I'm expecting to be the Minnesota Riviera in 2050 or so. It'll be a great place to watch the Lake Superior waves lap up on the beach while nibbling on your Soylent Green, assuming that the Boundary Waters aren't on fire again and you, in fact, are not the Soylent Green.

 

whitlock comin'

 

Those of you discussing east-to-west water diversions may want to know that the Great Lakes Water Compact basically makes diverting water out of the Great Lakes basin at any scale an impossibility, can be vetoed by any of the states involved and would probably require the consent of at least one Canadian government entity.

Defending the Great Lakes Compact - Alliance for the Great Lakes

 

Fox & Friends had some congressman on this week talking about BIDEN’s Border Crisis and Brian Kilmeade, in his exasperated voice, says: “NONE of the other networks are carrying this. They’re all worried about January 6th,” rolling his eyes.

 

What the Critical Race Theory Panic Was Really About (and the Data to Prove It)

 

Yeah, I know what you mean.

I stomached about 10 minutes of the UT-Bowling Green season opener because I wanted to see what "my team" would do with its new coach.

But I soon realized what I used to like most about Tennessee games was sharing them with my daddy (who is long since passed) and the pageantry on display in the stands (of course, winning far more often than losing helped)...I used to talk so much about Tennessee the state and the Vols so much, my colleague at The Maneater, Pat Forde, nicknamed me "Tennessee."

But now when I watch the Big Orange I get a big pit in my stomach knowing that most of my fellow fans hold racist, ignorant, and/or despicable views and thus are people I wouldn't dream of sharing a beer with. @BTExpress talks about the Board of Deplorables we both used to visit, but it's gotten so openly racist and hateful it's too depressing to even sneak a view.

I was asked a few weeks ago if I wanted to "go home to Tennessee" this fall and the answer was a quick no. Nothing's really there for me to enjoy any more.

 

This should not be news.

Making White Protestant Americans scared of the pending takeover by "the other" is a tradition as old as our constitution.

 

Well we all know that no MAGAish political entities would ever violate political or legal agreements

 

"Preemptive excuse-making isn’t a sign of great confidence—the winning side never complains of cheating."

Opinion | The Stolen-Election Myth Has Become an Albatross for the GOP

Never, Rich Lowry?

 

Try being in the stadium when Donald Trump hisownself shows up to bask in the adulation of a roaring crowd like it’s 1938 Berlin. (Of course as soon as they showed him on the Jumbotron, Tua fumbled the next play and LSU never looked back. You’d think a state this religious would recognize the sign.)

Alabama football to me means bonding with friends of up to nearly 30 years standing now, whether that’s running into each other on campus or trading Facebook wisecracks throughout the day’s games. (I’ve lost track of how many spouses I barely know have friended me so their significant other doesn’t have to keep passing the phone all Saturday.) There’s some political stuff (the Old Row Greeks see to that always) but there is a pretty wide cross section. It helps to be in a state with a higher African-American population, because that also translates into the stands and most Bubbas know enough to keep their trap shut in public under those circumstances.

But I don’t know how long that will hold. And I don’t know if it gets to be a meaner-edged crowd when Saban retires and we aren’t routinely bludgeoning teams by five touchdowns each week.