Day: January 15, 2025

Time for some good old fashioned football talk. Let me start out by saying Sam Darnold is who we thought he was. That would be: A scrub. Seriously. Daniel Jones could’ve won that game. He sold the bag by holding the ball too long and missing easy passes once flustered. Yes, I too am a scrub, but takes one to know one, right? Seriously. There is a level of expectation that comes with an NFL job and too many guys that look like Darnold physically get the shot whereas QBs of a different stature or ones classed as runners get crapped on. Let’s not forget this man was drafted ahead of Lamar Jackson. So was Josh Rosen. So was Baker Mayfield and Josh Allen… I see you Amon-Ra St Brown. All that tells me is these professionals get swayed by the media coverage and the hype. College is no different. 5 Stars doesn’t really mean the kid is necessarily that guy. Sometimes it can. Sometimes it don’t.

Lamar is that guy and he’s going to be putting up big numbers against the Bills. It is going to be close, but that Baltimore run game is too strong. I give it to the Ravens. I give it to the Chiefs too. They have a legit D and Houston is out of weapons. Oh, and Patrick Mahomes is blessed. On the NFC side, Saquon is doing Saquon things behind that beauty of an O-line. They too legit to go down now. As for the Detroit matchup, it also does not matter. The Eagles-Lions Cat v Bird fight is happening on the 26th regardless. We can talk about next week next week, because I don’t know who is going to emerge from the conference finals. I’d put cash on ‘Quon tho.

Some Thoughts:

1. Mousepad sensitivity is on 12. I keep finding myself typing on a different part of the screen because my hands hover above the pad. Too much. It is not only slowing me down but it is crazy disorienting and makes me type funny.
2. I finally understand the term “get a life”

It is that time again. Let’s turn back to 2647 where I considered the larger ideas that Trump reflected:

We are an impermanent culture. It is in every commercial, every holiday, heck, it is even engrained in our churches and schools. Look around you. It is more common to find a brand new church building filled with the latest tech toys than it is to find and old brick and mortar institution. Schools are racing to build themselves up in the same fashion. It is a lot like our cellphone plans where you hold on to a model for a while and then give it back when the next one comes out. Same is true of our clothing. I can’t name ten items I own that are more than a decade old. All of this new and disposableness we allow is a sort of privilege because it creates an expectation that we need the newest and hottest and we, the American people, deserve only the best. 

~On Trump and Privilege (2647)

Today I drove alongside a car piloted by an older white gentleman. As he gunned his engine angrily to get in front of me, subsequently breaking to cut me off, I noticed the Declaration of Independence sticker covering his entire rear window. He isn’t original or even particularly interesting, but instead is reflective of a growing force of people of all ages who are tapping into a philosophy of American preeminence, and even above that the idea that a certain kind of American is entitled to more and entitled to the rights of leadership and majority rule. In truth, that American (and I am using the term to specifically speak of the USA here) is a minority now, but has the voice, money, and time to present as a majority. Moreover, they can further that false majority because they hold so many positions of power in the government and most Americans simply do not care or have already checked out.

Case and point, Hr.369 was recently introduced to Congress. The bill is entitled, “To provide for the elimination of the Department of Education, and for other purposes.” There is no text to the bill, but the title says a lot. I still want to know what these proposed ‘other purposes are’ but I don’t want to get lost in seeing the elimination of the DoE. Here’s the thing: when I said this was a problem back in 2647 I had no clue there would be such widespread buy in. Now it is beginning to feel like a society limping towards its final destination and that place is ultimately a darkness.