{"id":4679,"date":"2024-08-31T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2024-08-31T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:22:16","slug":"sleepy-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/sleepy-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m still doing too much &#8212; my sore hamstrings are an invisible testimony to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had started writing a response to the interview with VP Harris, and SMA Tim Walz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sub>(Yeah, he was a pinned on CSM, but retired as an MSG, so I&#8217;m actually retroactively inflating his achievements more&#8230;)<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was underwhelmed, I was trying to be indifferent about it.  Whatever.  I&#8217;m not going to vote for her, and my opinion of President Trump gets lower pretty much every time he speaks.  There also won&#8217;t be a Libertarian on the ballot in Virginia, so I&#8217;m not sure if there&#8217;ll be anything worth writing in.  Glenn Youngkin, maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The folks on <em>The Fifth Column<\/em> were actually harsher towards the performance than I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/442-kamala-speaks-tims-grammar-bash-backlash\/id356090797?i=1000667237500\">#442 &#8211; Kamala Speaks! Tim&#8217;s Gr &#8211; The Fifth Column &#8211; Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I admit that I had it on in the background while I was working, but I don&#8217;t think it allayed my concerns any more.  I went from oh-hell-no to no, and I&#8217;m back to oh-no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the Senate polls, though, there is some points of reassurance.  I think it probably ends up being pretty much tied again.  Could be a surprise here and there;  Larry Hogan could win in MDDR, and maybe the filibuster stays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a few more years of running on continuing resolutions because there&#8217;s no way to fix the broken mess that is the Federal Budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what I was trying to do with what I&#8217;d started assembling was to write down little bits piece-by-piece, then write to those after having some time to reflect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But i wanted to consume.  Maybe i shouldn&#8217;t have done that, and waited to consume anything else until I&#8217;d spit out what I was trying to put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose that that sort of approach might work better for things that are more settled.  With something as fleeting as an election, maybe it&#8217;s impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we finished up <em>Hard Knocks<\/em> last night.  I actually do kinda like the staff that Eberflus has assembled in Chicago.  I was really happy when he came in that they got back on the 4-3.  Less enthused about the dink-a-lot &#8220;West Coast&#8221; offense, but it&#8217;s better than the stuff that&#8217;d been there the before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, on <em>Hard Knocks<\/em>, one of the interesting parts of the show was seeing who&#8217;d make the cut week-to-week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Bring Your Playbook&#8221; will lose all meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also started in on the Steve McNair thing on Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was tired, so we stopped after the first episode, but it sounds like they&#8217;re going to get into some conspiracy stuff later on.  Guess we&#8217;ll find out.  But it seems to come down to advice an elderly, reserved southern gentleman once provided;  &#8220;don&#8217;t go to sleep with someone crazier than you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reword in a style closer to what my friends would say, &#8220;don&#8217;t stick your d&#8212; in the crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staying with the NFL, my reaction to the stuff in Brazil with the Twi^H^H^HX ban is that the NFL should pull the Iggles-Peckers game scheduled for Sao Paulo.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*Searches the F&#8217;n Web*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/nba\/calls-rise-to-cancel-brazil-nfl-game\/ar-AA1pLV4F?ocid=BingNewsVerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Good.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The league can reimburse the teams for whatever costs might stem from it.  Want to be a part of the free world, you have to allow things you don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was the reaction I had almost immediately after reading the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4680\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s enough for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still doing too much &#8212; my sore hamstrings are an invisible testimony to that. I had started writing a response to the interview with VP Harris, and SMA Tim Walz. 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