All I know is Robert Woods is one of the most underrated players. I love that guy. And I am glad he will be with the Rams for 4 more years. Yay.

NoCal radio today…”Whom should the 4 get to replace Garappolo?”

49ers just put Richard Sherman on IR, too, for four weeks. They seriously don’t have any WRs right now, either. And if Kittle’s out… they could be in early trouble. They have an easy schedule in the beginning, though, so maybe they scrape through until they get some players back.

Wouldn’t shutting down FOX be a kind of mercy killing?

Fair enough.

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waterfield wrote:

Love Auburn-especially the old Placer County Courthouse. My son lives in Fair Oaks so we are there often-at least we were before COVID. I understand your skies are pretty crappy now with falling ash, etc.

It is pretty bad. Orange skies in the morning and evening. But it was even worse in Chico yesterday.

It looked like I was in San Francisco on one of those foggy days.

No. I am a 5-hour drive from Ashland. I spend several summers there because I was working on a masters in technical theatre. I’m in Auburn, in the Gold Country.

zn wrote:

Plus the entire “panic” thing is itself dubious. There is such a thing as disaster studies. Historians and social science people study events like the great SF earthquake in the past, or tsunami events in the present and so on. What people in disaster studies say is that there is more harm done by authorities doing things to “prevent or control panic” than there is harm done by actual or real panic. In fact disaster studies people say that the entire “people panic” routine is all fiction. Under the conditions of actual disaster, you are far more likely to get community solidarity than “panic.”

“Panic” is a thing in movies.

So what kind of “panic” did Trump-brain anticipate? Rioting in the streets? Cities burned down? Mobs congesting the freeways?

Naw the “panic” would be people hunkering down and…gulp…spending less money on a daily basis because they go out less.

Which of course would not be panic, it would be a rational response.

But less lucrative.

Right. The only “panic” he could have been worried about was panic on Wall Street. Not panic on Main Street. He could not possibly care less about that.

And…what’s ironic is that Bush DID have advance notice. Remember the memo about planes? That’s a bit different, of course, because you wouldn’t “say” anything about that kind of event, anyway, but…he ignored it.

A Green New Deal sounds expensive, though.

I should probably get an agent. I mean…I am not getting paid anywhere near that for my job, and I probably should.

zn wrote:

Saw a meme once that said that NPR is the preferred news source for people who support coups and drone attacks as long as the paperwork is filled out correctly. Or something along those lines.

I think Noam should come out and endorse the blue and whites.

I agree with all that.

I agree the protests are mostly peaceful.

I agree that the police are significantly responsible for the violence.

I agree that those facts don’t matter.

I agree that it would be better for them to back down until after the election, then resume.

I agree that they aren’t going to.

I agree that that benefits Trump at this point.

Billy_T wrote:

Taibbi basically admits that “policy” is irrelevant when it comes to Trump.

Well…Message, then. The Democrats only message seems to be “Not Trump.”

Biden has a slogan, apparently written by Melania, that I do not even understand: Build Back Better. WTF does that even mean?

There is no promise to increase people’s well-being through wages or healthcare or whatever. They’re not Trump.