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Todd Marinovich. The Johnny Football of his day, ultra-hyped college QB who had a huge national profile and a bunch of monkeys on his back. He was a bust in the NFL -- the Raiders made him go to Betty Ford -- then he showed up at Bomber training camp in ... 1993? 1994? ... and blew out his knee on the first day. In 1999 he was a backup QB in BC behind Damon Allen and Khari Jones. Didn't throw a pass, but he used lots of heroin and famously once cut his hand on a crack pipe at halftime, he had to secretly bandage it and keep it hidden on the sidelines. Guy was a total mess, his father was a piece of work who devoted his whole life to making his kid into the ultimate QB. Just had a look at his Wikipedia page, still looks like he's bouncing in and out of trouble. It's sad, the guy is a musician and a painter as well, he's good at lots of stuff, but H is a harsh mistress.

Media in Britain and USA calling for Muslim internment camps: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-trump-supporters-calling-muslim-internment-camps-article-1.3228321

Alex Suber must really, really love our fans ... the team was 23-40 while he was here. Good job, fans!

Bombers D had a lot of takeaways last year but they also gave up gobs and gobs of passing yards, the most in the league by a fair margin. Though we were middle-of-the-pack in points allowed. Bend, don't break. This is the thing that has me wondering if we're headed for a 2012ish letdown ... in 2011, just like 2016, we made a ton of lucky plays on D but when our luck ran out in 2012, it wasn't pretty...

Although maybe a bit premature to talk about errors before his team is on the field and actually playing games. But I'll be surprised if they have anything more than a few isolated sparks of success in 2017, I'm getting the feeling they're facing a nightmare of MackBurkian proportions there.

Has there ever been a guy who was successful at being a GM, head coach, and coordinator all at the same time? That to me is the single biggest mistake that Jones is making, trying to do too much at once and it's showing in recruiting and on D especially.

I always thought Allen was a good back with speed, moves, and power, but I think he fumbles a bit more than a feature back should. I went to check on this and couldn't find season fumble stats anywhere where it's easy to find them. Does anyone know where to get the giant PDF stats dumps for last year? The ones they give the broadcasters?

Play of the year last year, I think.

Got on an XTC kick tonight. And speaking of rock covers by Canadian ladies, I just dicovered that Sarah McLaughlin covered Dear God. She really tears into the third verse. I bet this would cook live.

So many good moments. "You want a bad night? Try sleeping on one of these!"

Damn, suspending their big FA OL on the eve of camp? What kinda bad moon is on the rise out there? Dennis' twitter reveals nothing, he's just trying to borrow a TV for camp. Wonder if they're putting veteran players on the suspended list in order to get more bodies into camp?

http://3downnation.com/2016/05/21/16278/ Please please someone ask Dyakowski how he'll stay pumped up without the best fans in Canada cheering him on.... But seriously how do you turn a dime-a-dozen import receiver into a starting national OL? Is Toronto dumping a bad contract? Is Dyakowski's odometer just about used up? Some alchemy there...

I don't think Kushner has ever tweeted, at least not according to the Wayback Machine.

The President can't fire the VP. The VP is, in fact, the only person in the executive branch that the President can't fire.

oh god I can't believe I'm posting this. maximum nerd shame engaged. please ready your mocking gifs. The thing with the Klingons is even more interesting when you remember that the TOS Klingons were basically swarthy generic Asiatics. TMP gave us the modern bone crested Klingons. There are episodes of DS9 where Worf is asked about this and he says they don't talk about it. So there's already canon established that the Klingons occasionally transform as a species (or wholesale kill off a subspecies, maybe) so it'll be interesting to see if they explain how Discovery Klngons became TOS Klingons became TMP-forward Klingons.

There's a long road ahead. Giant investigation with dozens of players, many of whom are foreign nationals. It's gonna take time. Of course, anything could happen. Trump could get spooked and resign, the pee tape could emerge, a genuine national emergency makes people rally round the president, etc. But I think we're in for a long haul with fewer juicy leaks, as potential leakers find an audience with the FBI instead of the media. Like Winston Churchill once said: (Yeah, Atomic, in addition to being a communist stooge and an fascist sympathizer, I'll also quote a British Tory hero when I need to make a point. Complicated!)

Ah, Ryan -- the cold-eyed granny starver, the guy who's been dreaming of cutting Medicaid since he was a kegstanding fratboy. To see him snared up in this would be a pleasure worthy of Xanadu.

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Andromeda is a Mass Effect madlib. It's kinda like The Force Awakens, they're recycling story points like crazy. (see spoilers below) I played it for about thirty hours then got busy with other hobbies and just kinda drifted away from it. For previous Mass Effects, I've put my life on hold for weeks, locking myself in my office and living off lucky charms and pizza rolls. This one, not so much. If you're a casual fan of the series, I'd say wait until it's on discount to buy it. Everyone I've talked to says that Horizon Zero Dawn is really super good. sigh. guess I've gotta get a PS4...

So you're a Coast Guard Academy graduate. This is a massive achievement. (Seriously, USCGS people are badasses.) You've worked your ass off and now is time for you to celebrate your legit massive accomplishment with your family and classmates and instructors... and your commander-in-chief shows up and bellyaches about how rough his life is. I guess it's not just the millennials who are easily-triggered snowflakes! also wrt "no politician has been treated worse or more unfairly" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini

oh yeah, if gifs are your thing this is worth a look:

lol. The worm isn't just turning these days, it's spinning like a driveshaft.

Comey is gonna testify publicly to the Senate. Don't know what his play is, why exactly he'd insist on a public hearing, since there will be classified stuff he can't talk about .... but I will have my popcorn ready.

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/11/15624544/fbi-trump-comey-war

It's been this way since I've been here -- presidents will fly into town on Air Force One, requiring all kinds of local security and traffic disruptions, so that they can attend big-dollar party fundraisers. Those fundraisers sell tickets that are priced based on the proximity to the big guy. How this isn't selling access to the president, I don't know. Also, your top priority as a Congressperson is to raise $18K a day: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-are-members-of-congress-becoming-telemarketers/ This is what happens when your supreme court decides that corporations are people and money is speech, and this is what turned me off economic libertarianism forever. Don't let this happen to you, Canada.