Full props to the Mississippi Free Press:
NEW: We've published a MASSIVE timeline on the Mississippi welfare scandal focused on Brett Favre and the volleyball stadium state officials helped him build with millions in welfare funds.
Read the texts and review the docs to see how it all went down: https://t.co/h7UWJwue30
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) September 30, 2022
And for those of us [raises hand] who have only the vaguest idea what a ‘Brett Favre’ might be…
The egregious Brett Favre scandal is a story of someone who, by and large, has been impervious to consequences learning that there’s a limit to what he can get away with. @williamfleitch writes https://t.co/ikaAOBKLGK
— Intelligencer (@intelligencer) September 28, 2022
… Favre was the ultimate let’s-do-it-and-be-legends lunatic as a quarterback, blessed with a howitzer of an arm and a ceaseless, almost megalomaniacal confidence in it: There was no throw Favre didn’t think he could make, often to his team’s detriment…
But what truly made you want to throw a brick through the TV was the way the broadcasters treated him. Favre was mistake prone, cocksure, heedlessly self-destructive, and so pigheaded that you wondered if his brain was capable of consuming and retaining new information. But to the broadcasters of his games — and the media who covered him — Favre wasn’t a foolhardy hothead. He was a gunslinger. That was the term they always used: gunslinger. He wasn’t imprecise and impulsive; he just trusted his gut. Favre was forever elevated to a sort of frontier sheriff, the final-justice cowboy of a mythical western. Other teams had “stats” and “game plans” and “rational decision-making.” Favre’s teams had Favre. And Favre ate it all up, acting the homespun Mississippi boy who just was drawin’ plays in the dirt out there. He also wrung every bit of indulgent drama out of his career — what team he might sign with next; whether he was going to support his successor, Aaron Rodgers; whether he was going to retire, or unretire, or retire again. He actually had news stations tracking his flights and bus rides from the airport. Nobody wanted the spotlight more than Favre, and the sports industrial complex was ever so eager to give it to him. Favre Rage was a phenomenon that launched a thousand bloggers…
But now it seems he has done something unethical enough that nobody — not his lawmaker friends, not his onetime legion of defenders in the press — is making excuses for him anymore. Favre is enmeshed in a truly outrageous scandal in Mississippi, where local newspapers have reported that he not only sought and received public funds for the construction of a volleyball stadium for his daughter’s team at the University of Southern Mississippi (Favre’s alma mater) but that he transferred those funds from welfare programs meant for the poorest citizens of one of America’s poorest states. And it’s not just that Favre wanted the money. It’s that he knew what he was doing looked extremely shady and was desperate not to get caught. (To make matters worse, he also suggested “the prison industry” as a possible builder for the facility.)
Reading over the texts between Favre and various Mississippi politicians, one can draw a clear through-line between the reverence that football commentators had for him and that of the local politicians — and how willing both were to look past all his problems. The obsequiousness is pretty staggering. Nonprofit director Nancy New (the one in charge of the welfare funds under the direction of then-Governor Phil Bryant) made it clear in the released texts that she would do whatever she could to protect Favre, and Bryant himself texted Favre, after Favre requested the funds, that “we will get there” and “we have to follow the law. I am to [sic] old for Federal Prison. [smiley face, sunglasses emoji.]” Favre got the funds soon thereafter. Oh, and he also no-showed several appearances he was contracted to make for the state and refused to pay back the money he had been paid for those no-shows. But why would Favre feel he needed to do anything he was required to? He has been revered in his home state for so long he seemed to think he could get away with anything…
look, feds, I get you're not going to do anything about Trump before the midterm but could ya drop this croc-wearing, Jets-ruining motherfucker in the interim https://t.co/4GMMX58QS5
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 29, 2022
so the money got intercepted https://t.co/HI2keSQZRK
— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 29, 2022
Brett Favre is the face of a scandal, but Mississippi’s issues go deeper https://t.co/Wc3HiEXv7I pic.twitter.com/7W5R0sVmFs
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 29, 2022
cain
Yeah, that state has a lot of issues – it’s like an underdeveloped country – sunk in poverty. As long as they have Republicans in charge of the political order it will never reform. It amazes me how much GOP bullshit has happened to keep that state mired in corruption to detriment of everyone there. It’s a state where racism is the national past time
ETA – interesting how all the folks on that pics with the media are all white males. There is your goddam problem right there.
Yutsano
Sigh. Mississippi has always been a corrupt den of racism and iniquity. It makes you wonder what the Manning family is hiding.
EDIT: I’M NUMBER 2!!! WOOOO!!!
HumboldtBlue
Fuck Brett Favre, and like every other felonious wealthy white man, we can only hope he faces justice.
It’s also awesome to live in the best fucking state in the union now that Newsom has signed a new paid family leave law and who is also addressing the oil companies fucking us over.
There is also this amazing scoop about an interview Obama did in the final days of his term and his thoughts on Trump and what comes next. Prescient is far too weak a word for this.
@Yutsano:
They’re New Orleans based and have been since Archie played for the Saints. Boys were all born and schooled there.
And if you need a moment for some musical nostalgia, Rolling Stone brings us the top 100 songs of 1982, a year that changed pop music forever. There are some absolute gems on that list.
Omnes Omnibus
My mother burned her Favre jersey when he supported Trump.
Old School
Sure, the funds would have been better off going to help the poor, but I find it a little strange that Favre is being portrayed as the villain when nothing helped him personally.
Has the Trump family ever been accused of using their influence to help anyone other than themselves?
Scout211
I have been reading about this scandal off and on for a year or more. What has happened recently that the story has now exploded and is everywhere?
Old School
@Scout211: New emails/texts have been made public.
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue: Interesting Obama remarks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Old School: It benefited his daughter who/is a USM volleyball player.
ETA: And he didn’t need the money.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@HumboldtBlue:
You have to remember when Obama was in the CIA he was part of their covert time travel operations:
p.a.
Favre’s $5M is just part of the $80M allegedly 🤬 misappropriated from Miss welfare funds. And that’s just s.o.p down there according to progressive sources.
And anyone wanna bet the under on the investigators/prosecutors getting threats for taking down the whole bunch?
Hoppie
What I find unforgivable is he can’t even pronounce his own name.
It’s not spelled “farve”.
Yeah, I’m a little strange. But this Balloon Juice.
Citizen Alan
The poster child for White Privilege is and always will be Kyle Rittenhouse, because if you keep literally everything about his story the same (white parents, Trump supporter, got an illegal firearm out of an insane desire to protect white businesses from BLM) but just made him black, he’d have died in a hail of bullets before he’d ever gotten a single shot off.
Everything else about that scumbag Favre I agree with. And yes, this is a 3rd World country. Somalia for White People.
zhena gogolia
@Hoppie: He pronounces it Farve? Ugh.
Scout211
@p.a.: Well, the investigator was fired this year. Link
Ken
Why must the press always focus on the negative? Shouldn’t they note that there aren’t yet any reports of human trafficking, or Satanic orgies, in the Favre story?
HumboldtBlue
@p.a.:
Oddly enough, Marcus Dupree, who is a Mississippi native and who was the most heavily recruited and sought after RB in maybe all of college football history, has received money from the welfare fund but takes umbrage at being compared to Favre.
SpaceUnit
Sure, we see it as a scandal but Farve could ride this to the 2024 Republican nomination if he hones his racist dogwhistle skills.
And he’d win Mississippi in a landslide.
p.a.
@HumboldtBlue: I remember him, from when I followed college concussion-ball.
Not overheating my brain at all to think there’s some pretty good livings available to journos & legal eagles investigating many of these foundations. Ain’t just tRump.
Steeplejack
Breaking from The Onion: “Brett Favre Makes Amends by Sending Photo of His Penis to Every Mississippian on Welfare.”
Old School
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, but not him personally.
Unless you want to count more comfortable seats while watching her play.
Leslie
@Old School: Seriously? He’s one villain among many, and getting the most media attention because of his former football career, but what he did was despicable.
Scout211
@Old School: He could afford to pay for his kid’s college tuition and even donate a few mil to improve the facilities in her high school and college volleyball programs. He most certainly benefitted financially. With stolen welfare funds.
Cameron
Volleyball stadiums are people, too, my friend.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Hoppie: Whenever I hear his name, I always think of this moment from There’s Something About Mary.
Delk
Cocksure lol
Mart
@Old School: He also took $2.3M for a start up company that is to produce a nasal concussion spray. Also the stadium is his alma mater and for his daughter. What the heck?
Cameron
@Old School: Well, that and keeping the appearance money when he was a no-show.
Stacib
@Old School: He KNEW where that money was coming from, and with all the resources available to him, he chose to take money from poor people. This dude was portrayed as an all-American hero, especially after playing and winning the night his dad died. This is unconscionable.
Cameron
“Favre” vs “Farve.” Makes me think of Egbert Souse.
Gin & Tonic
@Hoppie: Come sit next to me.
Baud
DOj wants to expedite the 11th Circuit appeal. Trump plans to oppose.
Gin & Tonic
@HumboldtBlue: With a name like Marcus Dupree he should be playing guitar, not throwing a football.
Gin & Tonic
Has anybody heard of or from commenter tybee? It seems he’d have been really close to today’s landfall.
Martin
Wait until you hear what capitalism has to say…
Omnes Omnibus
@Martin: Not according to Adam Smith.
Ken
Dedicated athlete, or soul-dead sociopath? You decide.
Scout211
@Baud: That’s good (DOJ) and unsurprising (Trump).
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
He has a fascinating if well-worn born-in-poverty-used-sports-to-get-a leg-up backstory. He’s from Philadelphia and went to school with the sons and daughters of those who murdered Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.
The Golux
@HumboldtBlue:
As expected, not only was I unfamiliar with 80% of the songs, but maybe 60% of the artists.
JML
Loved every minute of the Lietch piece from NYMag. It is a short and brutal take-down of an entitled asshole who can go fuck himself with a chainsaw. I just wish the sports media would throw some logs on the fire instead of laying low like the supine cowards they are, silently hiding in their dens while they watch to see whether ol’ Bert Farve skates on this like he has on pretty much every other rotten-ass thing he’s ever done in his life until they may safely re-emerge and resume kissing his ass and licking his boots like the good little supplicants they are.
In conclusion, fuck Brett Favre, a terrible person who should go to prison.
HumboldtBlue
@The Golux:
Fascinating era. We see the end of The Who and of Abba and the dawn of Madonna, Prince, and a whole slew of New Wave, Punk and metal bands.
zeecube
Open Thread? How about some Big Okra
cain
@Yutsano: You waited for me didn’t you – I should have just responded again to myself instead of ETA! Aieeee.. :)
Dan B
@Steeplejack: And Favre sent dick pics to lots of women. Good Christian no doubt. Peen’s for Jeebus! Disgusting.
raven
Will Leicht lives here in Athens and is quite the writer.
Abnormal Hiker
@Hoppie: I call him Bertt Farve. i figure the first name must have a reversal as well
ETA I see JML has the same
Barbara
@Old School: He made a pledge to the school and sought public money to fund it. That’s what some of the texts show. So yes, it did help him personally.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Good for your mom!
I bet it smelled bad while it was burning.
I worked as a cashier at a grocery store for 5 years, putting myself through college. The day I quit, I came home and set fire to my polyester zippered whatever-they-called it that I had to wear at work.
The thing melted more than it burned.
raven
Here’s Will’s newsletter link if you care to subscribe.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I would like to read more about that. Where would I start?
edit: okay, i found somebody on twitter. What does the TK in “Details TK” mean on twitter?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Don’t know.
JoyceH
@Barbara:
In addition to the stadium, there was 1 million plus that went to him personally, for a couple speeches that he never gave. He did pay that back, but only once it became public and the fact that the funds were for welfare.
Another Scott
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: I’d forgotten that.
Thanks! :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
redoubtagain
@WaterGirl: “To come”. Old newspaper term.
Scout211
@WaterGirl: CNN just posted the story.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Someone else just asked that in the twitter thread.
TK = to come, apparently “journalist speak”
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Sounds Russian.
Roger Moore
This is one of the ways racism displays itself in our society. Can you imagine how the media would treat a Black quarterback who had the same attitude? It’s actually hard, because it’s difficult to imagine a Black man who had that attitude staying as an NFL quarterback for long enough for the media to pay attention to him.
persistentillusion
@The Golux: Lucky you! As an Old, I now have ear-worms from my mis-spent youth to torment me for days. Or until I get another ear-worm.
SpaceUnit
That picture at the top is cracking me up.
I can’t figure out which one looks like the bigger dipshit.
Gravenstone
Working my way through the list, but great to see a callout to Axe! That song was ubiquitous back in the day at college.
Captain C
Maybe it just comes down to Favre being an utterly selfish, oblivious asshole, but otherwise I really can’t understand how someone already said to be worth a hundred million dollars had to plunder a fund for the poorest of the poorest in the poorest state in the Union to build a volleyball stadium at his daughter’s college (and I think, his own alma mater). Centimillionaires donate $5 million buildings, especially athletic facilities, to colleges and universities all the time, and are happy to enjoy the prestige and that their name is put on it forever (or at least until a billionaire donates more to upgrade it decades later); didn’t he have one single person in his orbit who could suggest this as an alternative? He already knew it was wrong and didn’t care except for getting exposed, wasn’t there someone to point out that the bad publicity and possible criminal defense lawyer fees might amount to more than he would gain by not paying for it himself
ETA: Even the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned-and-despised Koch brothers know this. I had my colonoscopy last year at a new NY Pres facility named for one of them.
Gravenstone
I remember driving back to Ohio for Thanksgiving during Favre’s first season in GB. On the way I tuned into some college station out of Valparaiso, IN and listened to the student news reader struggle mightily in the correct pronunciation, “Brett Fahv-ruh?”
HumboldtBlue
@Roger Moore:
Oh, the examples are legion. Randall Cunningham and Michael Vick weren’t “classic pocket passers” but instead relied on running with the ball to be effective. Doug Williams wasn’t “smart enough” to be a starting QB in the NFL and on and on.
It was Cunningham and then Vick who finally broke the mold of the old heads in the NFL in how a QB can call, direct, and play a game (look at the fawning praise heaped on Jesus’ son, Tim Tebow who had the accuracy of a blind man and passed about as well as an 8th grader) and we have seen over the past 30 years the evolution of the position.
Today we see QBs like Jalen Hurts of the Eagles and Lamar Jackson of the Ravens who are not only men with cannons for right arms and who can put a pass into the smallest window, they will also scamper for 40 yards on a broken play when the pass protection melts.
It’s coincided with the extraordinary explosion in popularity of rap and hip-hop on the music scene and folks like Spike Lee behind the director’s eyepiece, and nobody blinks an eye at a black QB these days.
I remember working a second job as a clerk at a gas station in Vegas mid-90s when Clemson came out to play in a bowl game. One proud Clemson supporter (who looked and sounded like every racist southern asshole you can imagine) came in and while I rang him up, we discussed the upcoming game and he dropped the tried and true “we’d win if we didn’t have that N-clang at QB.”
@Gravenstone:
There are a few names and songs on the list I have never heard, and that was one of them.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@The Golux: Ditto. I could have sworn I was still listening to music in 1982, but I only recognized the names that I knew from the 70s.
I had a hiatus in my music-listening for some reason from around 1982 to until the kids were old enough to be controlling the radio in the car, mid 90s.
El Muneco
@The Golux: I was 15 that year, so I recognize about 75% of the artists, but I’m around 40-50% on the tracks – my read on the list is that the compiler is kind of pretentious, so they reach for “deep cuts” even when there was a more popular song that was almost as good.
Roger Moore
@Captain C:
Everyone assumes Favre is rich, but I can’t help but wonder if he hasn’t squandered a lot of his football earnings. Plenty of players do. That would explain why he’s so eager to get other people to pay for his pledges and why he cares so much about getting every penny he can. Or maybe he’s just a greedy bastard.
Wretched
@Hoppie: Agreed, Thank you! Farv nearly rhymes with Barf.
The Golux
@HumboldtBlue:
And since I have little interest in those genres (except for some random New Wave artists), it explains my indifference.
Jay
https://defector.com/brett-favre-wanted-inmates-to-help-build-his-fraudulent-volleyball-stadium/
raven
@HumboldtBlue: One of the great 30 on 30’s “The Best that Never Was”.
HumboldtBlue
@The Golux:
Oh, I hear ya. Many of the songs the compiler listed I have always considered meh, with many of them sounding rather similar to each other. I’m much more interested in the hip-hop, rap and funk that came out of the 80s as opposed to Depeche Mode or Flock of Seagulls. They did coincide with the phenomenon that was MTV and became hugely popular because of that channel. I also do appreciate the intersection of so many great sounds from around the world that had found a space where they could all be heard, both in original form and in sampling from one genre to the other.
@raven:
Yeah, I watched that a few months ago, very interesting.
On another note, ESPN2 is featuring two Georgia High School teams tonight, Buford versus somebody.
mrmoshpotato
Sad. Just sad.
And it looks like Brett wasn’t (isn’t) just a douchecanoe, but a doucheBARGE!
Honus
@Roger Moore: not too hard. Randall Cunningham and Warren Moon come immediately to mind. But Favre is personally a bigger asshole than either of them. They had enough sense not to text pictures of their junk. “Real. Comfortable. Jeans.” Indeed.
raven
@HumboldtBlue: Collins Hill. I worked about a mile from there for a couple of years.
Baud
@Jay:
Hey, at least he didn’t try to hire children to build it.
El Muneco
@HumboldtBlue: And Warren Moon _was_ a classic pocket passer who came from a QB factory in college. Knowing he would get no love from the NFL, he went to Canada where he got himself on the shortlist of greatest players of all time in the CFL. Only with this big a resume did he even get an opportunity in the NFL, at a relatively advanced age, and even then was still on a relatively short leash until he had acquired some black ink in the record books and playoff appearances.
Jay
@Baud:
That we know of,…………
Booger
Can we coin the term Favretism? Like stealing money from the poor to give to your alma mater?
zhena gogolia
I’m trying to watch Putler’s speech. God, it’s as painful as watching Trump.
ETA: Then I watched Zelenskyy at Babyn Yar. What a contrast.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Wait for the JL Cauvin impersonation.
Suzanne
@Captain C:
My firm designed that building. Hope you enjoyed the architecture!
Will
The thing I love most about the Favre story is every time I have to hear those f’n country club morons whine about iphone welfare moms I can be like… “Oh yeah, you mean like your millionaire qb golden boy Brett taking millions meant for poor people to build a volleyball gym?”
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I just ran across a Cory Booker video and was astounded by how great Cauvin’s impression of him is.
HumboldtBlue
@El Muneco:
Yup, Warren completely slipped my mind. And of course, it took colleges to finally break the mold, so many talented black kids came out of high school and instead of being played at QB were shifted to DB or RB because of the lingering racist ideas the black kids weren’t “smart enough” for the position. Hell, I remember John Gilliam with the Steelers (tragic story, he ended up homeless and dying under a bridge I believe) and Marlon Briscoe with the Broncos.
Suzanne
And I DGAF about the NFL, but the misaligned spell8ng/pronunciation of Favre’s name always drove me nuts, and I remember purposely mispronouncing it FAHV-REE and someone heard me and got offended and I laffed.
Honus
@HumboldtBlue: “Jefferson Street” Joe Gilliam. And don’t forget Steve McNair, maybe the best of all.
Marlin Briscoe may be the best example of bias. Threw 14 TD passes as a rookie, still the rookie record for the Broncos, and they converted him to a receiver the next season.
raven
@HumboldtBlue: Joe, Jefferson Street Joe Gilliam
raven
Donovan McNabb
HumboldtBlue
@zhena gogolia:
You rang?
@Honus:
Steve McNair, damn, forgot him.
@raven:
Jefferson Street Joe, thanks for the clarification of his death. I knew he had suffered from substance abuse issues, sad ending either way.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: tybee last commented on the Thursday morning OTR and on the Thursday morning regular thread.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: They are fine, my friends live on Tybee and posted video of about 30 surfers out at the pier.
RSA
Thanks for that link—you’re right, it’s excellent.
schrodingers_cat
OT: Found this on Amazon Prime wanted to share it with you guys. It has zero to do with white male privilege
Virah (longing or separation from your beloved) in Raag Marwah. The music is divine
I like this dance cover too.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
I have been wondering where you were. Haven’t seen you in a while it seems.
Honus
@raven: of Rush Limbaugh fame.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
That’s kind of psychedelic.
raven
@RSA: ugh
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I am busy IRL and for a quick check on politics news I use Twitter.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Did you like it?
sdhays
@Roger Moore: Could be both, just like Trump.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
No worries. Good to hear from you.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes. It’s unlike anything I’ve heard before.
James E Powell
@HumboldtBlue:
While there are, indeed, many great songs on the list, Rolling Stone’s ranking are, as always, bullshit.
JML
@Booger: Favretism is brilliant. You get all the stars.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
FYI: “What Is Storm Surge?” Gift article from Washington Post with good graphics.
HumboldtBlue
@Booger:
Favretism
We’ll take it before the privy council, although I doubt there will be any opponents to that particular piece of linguistic genius.
ian
@Baud:
Unfortunately Mississippi has a real problem with children in adult jails
Link Southern Poverty Law Center
So trying to get prisoners to build something in this case is trying to get children to build something.
phdesmond
@Hoppie:
and why should the capital of Georgia be called Tiblisi when it’s spelled “Tbilisi”?
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Another rendition of Raag Marwa in the movie
Me Vasantrao (I, Vasantrao)
The teacher’s voice is Ustad Rashid Khan who is the best proponent of Marwa alive in India.
Besides the vocals I love the tabla
HumboldtBlue
@James E Powell:
Yeah they are.
Shalimar
@Hoppie: Favre is also from Kiln, Mississippi, pronounced Kill. Lack of spelling skills is an epidemic there, and we won’t even get started on Biloxi.
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue:
Check out the original:
Kent
Michael Vick.
But of course they put him in prison.
Gin & Tonic
@phdesmond: Anglos don’t know how to pronounce it correctly.
Cameron
Actually,it’s “Fahrve.” Y’know, as in “fahrvergnugen.”
HumboldtBlue
@phdesmond:
I thought it was spelled Atlanta.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Thanks.
Shalimar
@HumboldtBlue: I am ecstatic about how good Jalen Hurts has become, because he’s one of the best people on earth. It was very unclear early in his career at Alabama if he had the skill to play in the NFL because he did not have the accuracy to play well against the best college secondaries. His record even at Oklahoma against the best pass defenses was poor. I am so happy to see he has improved.
Kent
Back when we lived in Texas we would drive through Mississippi on occasion in route to Florida and I had a good friend and co-teacher who moved there because her husband got a teaching/research job at Southern Miss. What we discovered about MS is that even the nice and wealthy areas are extremely crappy. The nicest spot in any MS town like Biloxi is a crappy traffic-infested strip mall development with vaguely “upscale” chain restaurants where you go stand in line at a place like Olive Garden or Hard Rock Cafe. I mean that describes most of American suburbia, but MS didn’t have anything else. How anyone can live there is beyond me. Honestly Alabama is pretty much the same.
eclare
@Steeplejack: That is precious!
HumboldtBlue
@Shalimar:
He’s the son of a coach, and he knows hard work, and he’s put it in. He’s definitely been a revelation, and it’s great to see.
NotoriousJRT
@Omnes Omnibus: And it burnished his standing as a rainmaking good ol’ boy-robbing the poor to do so. He needs to be held accountable.
Joseph Patrick Lurker
Nina Simone is still correct
Mississippi Goddam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM
and Fuck Brett Favre
HumboldtBlue
@Steeplejack:
Watching the 15-foot storm surge that destroyed Fort Meyers was eerily like watching the footage from the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. They look nearly identical, just a relentless surging mass of water washing away all before it.
@Booger:
Also, I am stealing Favretism.
Captain C
@Suzanne: It seemed like a very well-designed facility (I’m neither an architect nor medical professional), the OR was full of flat-screens and new-looking equipment, and the experience was very smooth. I just pretended it was named differently.
catclub
@Captain C:
Owners of Professional sports teams specialize in getting their home cities to pay for their private facilities, since sports teams are job creators ( not). So the role model is getting the state to pay for your faciility.
Hoppie
@phdesmond: Most of us always call it Hotlanta.
.
catclub
@Shalimar:
pronounced Kill
actually always pronounced ‘the Kill’ since calling it just ‘Kill’ is stupid.
also Worcester and Cholmondely (chumley)
beauchamp (beechum)
prostratedragon
@Captain C: One day this spring I went past the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center following a matinee at the Met Opera. After lunch, waited for a friend by the David H. Koch Fountain at the Met Museum. The only sour notes on that very pleasant day were those two names.
HumboldtBlue
@catclub:
And what the hell is up with key for quay?
HumboldtBlue
Dorian Robinson-Thompson is putting on a brilliant show as UCLA dominates Washington. Passing, running, scoring, outstanding performance, and it’s still early third quarter.
2liberal
kyler murray of the cardinals also
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
20 years ago I went to Quitman, MS for a week on a business trip.
That was the first and last time I’ll ever go to Mississippi.
I couldn’t even count the number of racist ‘jokes’ that people there expected me to laugh at because I’m a southwestern Indiana white boy.
It sounds like nothing has changed since then.
Matt McIrvin
Yes, and… with what results? What did we get out of Republicans’ willingness to throw it around?
I understand Adam’s motivation to urge us to get in deeper than Biden is willing to go. But the track record isn’t encouraging and the stakes here are actually existential for global civilization.
brantl
@Old School: It benefited his daughter, on the volley ball team.
tybee
@phdesmond:
It’s pronounced “Atlanta”