Guy Chamberlin

I'll admit I remain ignorant of the New York Times retraction, and what exactly it negates about the larger story being reported everywhere, but seeing you desperately clinging to it while pretending not to be following the Arizona Recount Circus, is pure you. I'm pretty sure my facts can beat up your facts.

In no way am I saying there aren't smug and cringeworthy virtue warriors out there, but I also wouldn't be shocked if this video was conceived and produced by a Shapiro or James O'Keefe style provocateur. It's almost too perfect how it checks off the boxes. It's tailor-made for Tucker Carlson.

If you don't follow the story, don't weigh in with an uninformed opinion. And if you actually did read what's been posted here, you wouldn't be uninformed. There's really not another side to this story. The audit is a freak show by people who know the party is willing to give them cover.

The guy filming? Of course. I'm just asking if this clip is more likely to be shared by people outing the maskless woman, or by anti-maskers wanting to show how shrill and gay the pro-masking forces are.

Reese Mooney has made me totally forget about Richard Torres!

I have never heard of Torres until today, but if he's not starting by the time we play Buffalo, I'm going to be outraged.

Then there's Deguns, the huge gun shop east of Lincoln on Hwy 34. For years they flew a giant American flag. This January, for some mysterious reason, they took the American flag down and replaced it with a giant yellow Don't Tread on Me flag.

Thanks. I'm never sure. I appreciate your posts and genuine interest in other viewpoints and sources.

I agree, although that traditionally hasn't been the case. You usually get a social media check, interviews with teachers, fellow students and neighbors, an attempt to get a statement from a family member, none of which would require a correction, even if it does invite speculation — usually not practiced by the reporters themselves. Only follow up I saw involved the heroic actions of the teacher who subdued the girl. So it's hard to tell if the media suddenly decided to take this one "slow" or if this shooting -- lacking a fatality -- just got superseded by a fresh mass shooting.

Just that there were two points I was trying to make, and you only responded to the easy one.

So is this clip being shared by pro-maskers or anti-maskers?

These are moving so fast that we barely have time to digest them. The Rigby Idaho shooting was notable in that the shooter was a sixth grader -- troubling -- and a girl -- extremely rare. That was four days ago, and I can find no follow up on means, motives, parents, or consequences.

On the plus side, the return to mass shootings is another sign that America is emerging from the pandemic.

Well I was hoping you would take the first half of that sentence as an olive branch, and give the second half of the sentence a bit more reflection.

Gore only needed to prove a small amount of malfeasance in one state to make his case, and his evidence was every bit as good or better than the breathless anecdotes from the Trump camp. Imagine if Gore had taken that route. At the time, George Bush had been declared the winner only by the TV networks. What if it had remained too close to call for days, allowing for maximum scrutiny? I honestly think that people didn't fight for Al Gore because he didn't inspire that much passion, and he was caught in the middle of some generic Clinton fatigue. It occurred to me at the time that nothing in Florida would have mattered if Al Gore had simply carried his home state of Tennessee, which he didn't. Hard to believe, but GW Bush had run as a centrist in 2000, promising to work across the aisle, which he didn't. As for the bamboo tracing and China ballot conspiracies, I think you can trace these all back to The Epoch Times, a generally well-written but entirely agenda-driven publication of the Falun Gong which creates storylines to incite outrage against the ruling party in China.

I gotta admit, if the one invading marauder that the D.C. police had shot had been black, I would have to rethink my reaction. But that didn't happen. But you gotta admit, Devo, Fox News and other Republican apologists almost broke their necks looking the other way when the insurrectionists smashed one cop's head in a door, attacked another cop with an American flag, and literally took a s#!t on the floor of the U.S. Capitol Building. Not to mention threatening to kill members of Congress and at the very least physically stop the certification of the Presidential election per the explicit wishes of the President of the United States. There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around, but if you want to compare circumstances it's not that close.

In both college and the NFL, it seems like running backs have become largely interchangable. Many good players but no superstars, no long careers. The third guy in your platoon will average as many yards per carry or better than your starter. The un-drafted or barely recruited running back might end up the better baller. Guys have a couple great seasons, then quickly fade away. But almost nobody is getting the 25 to 30 carries a game like previous eras. It's hard to have opinions about the revolving door of running backs, so I'm going with the guys who really want to be here.

Adam and Eve Schwarzenegger

I saw a couple nice pasess by Haarberg in the Spring Game. But several more that weren't very good. A little too quick to tuck and run, made a lot easier by the green jersey. Gonna say the glass on this one is 67% empty. But better to my eye than Smothers.

Major lumber shortage and months of backlog for plumbing fixtures and other big ticket low-tech home improvement materials. Big increase in demand for both. Contractors and retailers caught in the middle.

If you're talking about a dress code that prohibits men wearing leggings, that's a tough call.

It's not wrong to say that presenting a valid ID isn't too much to ask. Or to rummage around and compare voting hours in Blue States and Red States. But it is wrong to pretend that this is not orchestrated voter suppression by the GOP. They know it. They've admitted it. It's like baseball managers who study the deep analytics --- the little things that are less obvious and maybe even counter-intuitive, but they add up to a statistical advantage. Except in this case it's gaming democracy, which isn't as whimsical. Low turnout has long favored Republicans. High turnout tends to favor Democrats, who have the advantage in raw numbers. So voter suppression works for the GOP, especially if they can target specific Democratic constituents and Zip Codes, which they do. Republicans may act outraged at the mere suggestion they're doing this, but again, the honest ones have admitted it in private and occasionally in public. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/03/26/no-more-pretending-republicans-admit-vote-restrictions-are-all-about-winning/ Some of the redistricting stuff is old-school manipulation, and state Democrats played that game, too. But what's happening now is more comprehensive and coordinated, and yeah, pretty much undermines the spirit and purpose of Democracy. Let's leave the fact that Red State Senators already wield far more power than their voter rolls warrant for another time. Still blows my mind that Donald Trump's overt and unapologetic attempts to kneecap the United States Post Office for personal political gain weren't the bigger issue, since it's what we used to call treason.

I always thought a big problem with Taylor Martinez in the pocket was bad peripheral vision. It honestly looked like he didn't see the trouble coming. That doesn't seem to be a problem with Adrian.

Is that Adjusted Yards per Attempt, or straight up YPA? I still see Martinez at 7.0 YPA last year, down from 7.8 the year before. That puts him in similar position to Tommy Armstrong (7.4 in 2016) , Taylor Martinez (7.8 in 2012), and Scott Frost (7.8 in 1997). Taylor's worst completion percentage his freshman year happened to be his best YPA @ 8.3. Other reference points; Joe Ganz (8.5 in 2009), Tommie Frazier (8.4 in 1995), Turner Gill (8.9 in 1983) and the most overlooked QB in Nebraska history, Gerry Gdowski's 9.8 in 1989, with 19 TDs and 2 INTs. WCO related schemes brought completions percentages up, and I'm guessing the YPA down, but Passing Yards per Attempt is really no different than Rushing Yards per Attempt. If you can count on getting 4.6 yards every rush, 4.6 ypa is pretty good. But that's usually not the case, and the lower per attempt numbers just mean a less efficient offense. Nebraska quarterbacks in the Osborne era often had some of the highest passer ratings in the NCAA -- middling completion percentage and all -- but didn't qualify for minimum number of attempts.

Take a deep breath and answer the pertinent question honestly: Do you think the Republican Party is trending more in the direction of those fringe elements, or returning to its more mainstream roots? Why? Bonus question. (It's not a trap. It's also pretty pertinent): If Donald Trump remains the defacto leader of the party -- at the very least he appears to remain the litmus test -- do his words and actions more closely align him with fringe elements like MTG, Boebert, or Matt Gaetz, or with the right wing but less extreme establishment Republicans? Follow up: Do you consider Liz Cheney a fringe element now that she's a vocal minority in the GOP, about to get ousted as if she spit on the flag?