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Wow, the Lock of the Week just got blew up.

I am shocked, shocked, shocked to hear that athletes are speaking to the media in rote cliches. When did this start happening? Never mind his skill as a public speaker or interview subject -- what I really want to know is, how good a machinist is he? Because if he can't move his hands precisely enough to make a candlestick on a lathe that may mean he lacks the physical dexterity to play quarterback in the CFL. And what about Khalil Bass's guitar chops? If he can't crush Stairway to Heaven how can he crush running backs?

Gonna try a "clever" pick here: the new redblack RB Travon Van. He looked good in the preseason game against us.

Williams scored a sweet TD on a nice throwback pass against Montreal and he got cut. Veltung did less. I liked the calls at receiver. McDuffie looks like a CFL playmaker and Sheppard and Mayo both showed they could deliver, at least in the pre-season. Gotta say I'm surprised at the patience with Jace Davis tho.

Last year's excellent injury replacement lost for the season in preseason. Shades of Chris Garrett. Same injury, even.

Voivod! Weirdo Northern Quebecois jazz/progressive/thrash metal. Loved this guys forever but had never seen them headline a club gig until last weekend. This song was a highlight. They're playing Winnipeg and Thunder Bay (!!!!) soon.

That previous video was low-res and janky, so here's the game in HD courtesy of CFLTime again.

CFLTime has been killing it with their video uploads so far this season, they just posted the game about an hour ago. Nice to have someone covering me if I can't watch live. The video starts a bit late, around nine minutes into the first quarter, but the very first play is that excellent Randle endzone play that I was talking about. Black's call on it is just as crap as 17to85 says, tho Forde at least gets it right on the replay.

Oh, no doubt that it takes a ton of skill and timing to pull off, it's just that it's also penalty bait and I hate how important and prominent pass interference has become. I hate reflexively scanning for orange flags on any kind of incompletion where the db and receiver are within speaking distance.

That run where he was hurt looked so awkward, I've never seen a guy springback-cut like that.

There was a throw-behind to the endzone in the first quarter that he just casually reached back and flicked away. Fantastic play. Usually a throw-behind is a 50/50 shot at pass interference in the CFL. Not on #randleisland. Remember back in the good old days when quarterbacks tried to hit receivers in stride on deep balls? I hate the throw-behind. #oldguyrantsatclouds

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of firearm deaths in the U.S. are suicides. good lord. That's six 9/11s a year. And it's not even counting all the people who try and fail.

What if we took the notion of religion out of this? I've never seen any studies that really exhaustively break down shooters by religion (except for the radical Islam vs. non-radical Islam one that JP quotes above) so taking about religion of shooters is tough That said, some people hold that white shooters get an easier ride in the media than non-white shooters. I haven't got time to dig in this right now, but my gut feel is that this is more true than not. (I did go off half-cocked because I missed the context from Jacquie's post. So I'm cool with being called out on that. My bad.)

I don't speak for Jacquie but I don't think that's what she said at all.

Citation please.

While I agree with you in sentiment, note that an enormous amount of government taxation and spending -- especially with education -- happens at the state and local level, so you need to account for those things if you're comparing education vs. military spending in the USA as a whole. Also, education spending varies hugely by locality here. Elite public school boards in rich areas are hyperfunded. Public school for everyone else .... not so much.

yeah, I'm with Jimmy Pop -- my gay friends are terrified now and are looking over their shoulders, especially with Pride coming up in pretty much every city, especially with the cops getting that L.A. nutcase the same weekend. I am friends-of-friends with some of the victims and watching the social media mourning has been heartbreaking. Me, I'm not any more scared of life than I was on Saturday, but I'm a married middle-aged white dude. Nobody with guns has marked me as a target.

In Clerks, you gotta love that opening shot of Dante falling out of the closet. No explanation, just a cold open of a guy tumbling out of a closet to answer a phone call from his ******* friend. And the rooftop hockey game is inspired. The rest of it is pretty whatever tho.

Joe Pop kicked for us a few games that year, here's some video of him hitting one against Montreal.

The BC white road jerseys look fantastic, that reddy orange is an awesome trim colour. It's the home ones that look like jack o'lanterns without candles.

I'm not the youtube hero, just searched for it last night and was surprised to find it.

Full game on youtube for your armchair coaching pleasure:

okay, in retrospect "Mr. June" is less praise than I intended. It just seems like the guy is always in midseason form at the start of the season. Look at how burning hot he was in the first month last year for Saskatchewan. New team, new offense, new receivers, no big deal, he just slings the ball and puts up the numbers wherever he goes.

So pumped at how decent Davis and Bennett looked. Sure they were playing against backups, but the rookie pivots we've rolled through here in the past didn't look like they could even execute the game plan, let alone execute it against opposition. Liked to see them standing in the pocket, delivering balls, scrambling when needed. They looked like CFL quarterbacks. Really curious to see how our import RBs stack up against actual CFL linebackers, Montreal was playing all backups the whole game at LB. Kevin Glenn is Mr. June, that guy always rolls out hot when the weather's nice. He's gonna do some damage with that stacked receiving corps that Montreal has. Hope a young QB emerges on the Alouettes, though -- gotta keep the fresh supply of young QBs coming into the league.