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At the start of September, the New York Timesasked some important thinkers the question, “What is school for?” The eight different writers answered in eight different ways, which shouldn’t be surprising because it seems as though there isn’t necessarily broad agreement about the answer to the question. Education reporter Anya Kamenetz answered, “School Is for Everyone,” writing an essay that outlines the vision of Horace Mann, the nation’s first secretary of education and the person who believed the school and schooling should be accessible to everyone, regardless of class or background.

As we painted the basement last summer, Jonah began whistling and announced that he was following along to the music in his head. I said, “music in your head?” He explained that he has an endless soundtrack going on his brain all the time and that’s why he constantly listens to music on his headphones. Listening to our conversation, Steve paused rolling out paint long enough to share that he also has an inner music soundtrack.

I figured I’d start out the New Year hoping to make a few new friends (sarcasm)... You might think you know what Tesla is, but what is it... really? The below post from X, the former Twitter, is the reason I ask... That post quoted Roth Capital analyst Craig Irwin as saying that by using Toyota “as a benchmark,” Tesla is “egregiously overvalued.” Musk responded, saying that “he has the wrong frame of reference” because Tesla is really “an AI/robotics company.

This week’s dip into the archives concerns a question that’s been bothering me about history… The recent Channel 4 documentary about the new adventures of Ricardian car park botherer Philippa Langley has got me thinking about the Wars of the Roses. It’s a bit of English history so complicated that it kept Shakespeare busy for eight entire plays: the conflict’s causes include, but are not limited to, noble ambitions, royal incompetence, and the exciting discovery, in 1399, that if you deposed and replaced a king then god would not, in fact, stop you.

People are falling in love with the 3-3 stack and 3-3, 3 safety broken stack system. It is a good defense but not everyone plays it the same way.  Some great coaches run both defenses. I'll just compare the 2 I have been looking at, although there are many great ones. Miss State, Iowa State, TCU and Cincinatti play  the 3 safety defense. Tony Gibson is more a 3-3 stack with 4-2-5 principles, especially on the back end.

Note: If you are interested in watching me in a game of Twilight Imperium I’ll be playing on SpaceCatsPeaceTurtles Twitch twice in the next week. The first will be tomorrow (5/20) in a tournament game at 11:00 UTC / 7 am EST. Then I’ll be playing again next Friday (5/27) in another game at 16:00 UTC / 12 pm EST. I obviously won’t be reading it during the game but it’d be cool to have fans in chat!

Black lives matter. This document has an exhaustive list of places you can donate. It’s also got an incredible library of black literature and anti-racist texts. Donate, read, call, and email your representatives. We’re all in this together. All right, today’s donation request comes from Dave, who asked for either something about Alan Shearer or a piece about the history of the Premier League. No offense to Alan Shearer, but we’re gonna go with the latter since I was able to cook up something fun.

Before we get into our weekend comment diversion, let’s take a quick look back at the week. In our TV section, we kicked off with the fantastic return of David Tennant in Doctor Who and got really creepy with the end of HBO’s Love Has Wondocuseries. I took a look at the three worst human beings on Squid Game: The Challenge, and Petr covered a show that few have seen but everyone who has both loves and hates.

so if every criminal is high, does that make every stoner a criminal? that is the level of research you can expect from A.B. Further, if he cares so much, why does he only let paid subscribers comment? smells like a brainless pretty boy to me and I unsubbed real quick Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfq7azs46pZrCgkal6qr%2BMrZ%2BeZZSarq151qKroWWRobK5ecGeqZ6mo6S7gMHTppasp6WnsKaJz6iqrV6TpLqusc2tqnasoqqyZ8HTppamnZSewq6J1p6Z