Andrew Tobolowsky

I keep thinking when was the last time ANYONE just surrendered? WWII?

because bombing WAS the plan. They're not trying to take out targets, they're not trying to achieve a geopolitical result, they just think if they hit hard and fast enough Iran will agree to do what they want from now on. That's really the theory they have.

This is what I'm talking about. It's befuddling to everyone else because of expectations and norms but Trump is a guy who reportedly watches military moves and fast forwards through parts without active killing and Hegseth is a roided out fox news host - they didn't have plans beyond bombing -

Yeah, LOSING to the enemy is what has led us to this pass

Me personally, I think this is inching closer to understanding the war. Trump truly believes that if you just hurt another nation enough it will say please stop, we'll do what you want, that is the extent to which he has thought about any of this

*to the tune of born on the bayou* bammmmm adebayooo

*Me watching the battle of the ironsides during the Civil War*

I don't think Bam Adebayo should be scoring so many points, that seems wrong (morally)

In general the NBA has the problem a lot of places do now where rich and powerful people are just a lot dumber than you want them to be so they can't imagine that doing any one thing will initiate a response of some kind so they just keep doing versions of "no! stop doing that!"

But just for the hell of it, my personal, bespoke solution would be just to give the worst eight teams or so the same lottery odds, so it didn't really matter if you won 5 or 20

I don't think tanking is a problem you can solve, and I think when you place it in context - no one, anywhere in the economy, is willing to lose money to deliver a better product - it explains a lot. This time of year can be hard though, bad teams losing, good teams resting

*Iran taking a big sip of coffee and opening up Truth Social*

Ah but you haven’t heard about my History Funnel

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Would a good biblical scholar let his son do this

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Thank u

The mists part, a creature is there

Sometimes I wonder if my left calf would stop hurting if I didn’t shoot hoops every day but unfortunately there’s no way to find out I’m

Back to where it all began (my parents house)

Grandad and grandson

The hell I will

These guys (OP) can’t imagine there’s any reason why we don’t aggressively attack anyone we disagree with except that we’re weak and woke and don’t know how to win and there are unfortunately so many reasons

What if my post on bluesky makes millions of people not blame politicians for losing important elections, that’s you, that’s what you sound like

Apparently a lot of people got mad at this one -#1, don’t bother, I am just going to block you, I do not care about you, your life, you as a person, and certainly not your thoughts. But #2, grow up, thinking that something that is true doesn’t make sense is your problem, don’t make it anyone else’s

Merit review, work in progress: goat catching skills

Sports fans have no problem with this. If you lose the star player gets blamed, the coach gets fired. Thems the breaks!

They love the Bible (supposedly)

Funnily enough, I WAS up for an NEH grant I didn’t get on a history of the twelve tribes of Israel. I did not really need it, no one was harmed but it would be kind of funny if a book about the freakin bible got caught in the “tribal” search