Yeah, right. Of course. And she would have an interest in that version of the story.

I suppose this will unfold. I wonder if there were any behaviors last year during the season that just never made it out. You would think some Rams reporter would have caught wind of some stories about Tre if he, you know, stated a belief in mermaids, or something.

I tend to think the cohesion/improvement on the OL is more responsible for the 7-7 red zone TD statistic than anything else.

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

I don’t see anyone stopping this run game. The D doesn’t look right just yet. I watched live on Game Pass and had to listen to K.C announcers just awful . It was like they wouldn’t even mention a Rams player’s name and holding interviews during the game completely ignoring the Rams play.Worse than the infamous preseason Browns game a few years back.

Yep, and yep. Watching the D give up opening drive TDs in both games is disappointing. No Quinn sightings yet, but still. And Ogletree has been largely invisible, though I don’t know if that’s a bad sign, or not. I just know I saw a lot of him last year up until his injury.

Yeah, the KC announcers obviously did not care enough to prepare for the game. Seemed like they knew the names and numbers of about 10 – 15 Rams. The highlight of their coverage was the interview with the Modern Family guy. He was pretty funny. But I started muting the game at times because of the announcers.

It’s true. Posting on a phone is a pain.

I found this CD at the library a few years ago.

nittany ram wrote:

wv wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Yes, our destruction of the biosphere continues unabated.

Everyone should really enjoy awesome creatures like the leatherback sea turtle while they can because we will likely be the last generation to see them.

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Do you ever just sit back and feel ‘awe’ and ‘wonder’ over the variety
of life-forms on this planet? I do. I mean, think of hummingbirds. And leatherback turtles. And mantis shrimps. And tapirs. Vampire Squids. Luna Moths. Ya know. There’s just a shitload of life-forms on this little dysfunctional planet.

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Yeah, the great diversity is awe-inspiring but what I like is that I share ancestry with all the myriad creatures that comprise that great diversity. It’s the interrelatedness of it all that gets me. I share ancestry with the tapir, giant squid and the redwood tree. I share ancestry with millions of species living and extinct. That includes every species that is living or has ever lived. They are all relatives.

On the other hand, that makes sending Xmas cards a chore…

Well, goody for YOU, Mr. Nittany.

I am not related to those critters.

I am descended from the angels that built Atlantis back in the Golden Age.

zn wrote:

There are many differences but here is one key one.

That has changed over the years. The right has gone from being conservative traditionalists who believe collective moral norms are paramount to being sociopathic individualists who defend the power of a wealthy few to dominate a society.

The left believes in using public resources to both limit the arbitrary power of the wealthy few over the majority and to give more individuals in general more opportunities to live comfortably well and pursue happiness.

Yes, and Taibbi nailed that one with precision: “The most successful trick was linking the corporate mantra of profit without responsibility to the concept of individual liberty.”

On the question of contempt for the poor, afaik that is a uniquely American thing. I think we are the only culture that equates net worth to spiritual worth.

Matt Taibbi is the very best.

Coupla bits I liked:

If this isn’t the end for the Republican Party, it’ll be a shame. They dominated American political life for 50 years and were never anything but monsters. They bred in their voters the incredible attitude that Republicans were the only people within our borders who raised children, loved their country, died in battle or paid taxes. They even sullied the word “American” by insisting they were the only real ones. They preferred Lubbock to Paris, and their idea of an intellectual was Newt Gingrich. Their leaders, from Ralph Reed to Bill Frist to Tom DeLay to Rick Santorum to Romney and Ryan, were an interminable assembly line of shrieking, witch-hunting celibates, all with the same haircut – the kind of people who thought Iran-Contra was nothing, but would grind the affairs of state to a halt over a blow job or Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube.

And this:

This avalanche of verbose disgust on the part of conservative intellectuals toward the Trump voter, who until very recently was the Republican voter, tells us everything we need to know about what actually happened in 2016.

I agree with Taibbi that the key to the Trump revolt is the fact that Republicans have been promising that they care about Main Street and its values for 40 years, and when elected, they do nothing to fulfill those promises. It isn’t just the heartland, though. It’s the 80 million evangelicals who have gone to the effort of putting planks on anti-abortion and gay “rehabilitation” into the platform. No way in hell are they ever going to have those promises delivered on by the Republican establishment that has been promising all that forever.

And I sure do love it whenever anyone mocks George Will and/or Andrew Sullivan. I can never get enough of that.

So RFL is sleeping around, huh?

Looked to me like Hayes and Donald were out of the game before the Cowboys first drive ended. I think they only played about 5 or 6 snaps. The entire starting unit was out quickly, in fact.

Goff threw mostly out of the shotgun. I expected they would work more on being under center, and they played him less than they said they would. I was less impressed with Goff than the other posters in this thread, I guess, but that one throw had a vapor trail on it the likes of which we have not seen in a while.

Mannion and Spruce were the standouts to me. Liked what I saw of both of them. Spruce is just one of those “gamers.” Oh, and Higbee. Nice touch giving him 89. He did not resemble his forebear in that jersey.

And she is likely the REAL author of Shakespeare’s plays.

nittany ram wrote:

Bowling Green has an underrated D line coach that gets a lot out of his kids.

That’s not necessarily good news for the Rams. Could mean the kid has already reached his ceiling.

You said the same thing about London Fletcher. Exact same words.

From 1998:

nittany ram wrote:

That’s not necessarily good news for the Rams. Could mean the kid has already reached his ceiling.

PA Ram wrote:

Two words: Eric Kush.

A star in the making.

I hate “reality” television.

But he’s good. Very good.

It was a little surprising to hear someone explain that inch-wide shoulder straps on tank tops are a more formal look than spaghetti straps.