Special Projects desk is on the job.

She’s amazing. MOST of her speech was amazing, but...

You went to college to LEARN? You poor, poor soul. You go to college to get a piece of paper that costs $30,000 and gives you the right to apply for jobs you won’t get unless you know someone.

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I’m going to distract from your macro discussion with my entirely irrelevant micro anecdote, which is mostly a humble-brag about how much money I make.

Well of coarse, you are the true prophet of woke! With a look at one internet comment you have in your wisdom looked into my very soul. We need you to constantly remind those not as aware that YOU have been here first.

Yes, let us reject those who only recently decided to agree with us. They are not the true believers of ‘woke’ but blasphemers in sheep’s clothing! I say we ridicule them for now agreeing and therefore discourage them from taking part. How dare they only agree with us now and not before!

It does not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_net_goal#Goaltender.27s_statistics

There’s a really strong current of thought among technocratic elites that they don’t even HAVE an ideology, just expertise. So anyone that disagrees with them is just uneducated, rather than possessing a different set of interests. One side simply knows that privatizing your education, your healthcare, your…

This one

Yeah the real questions here are on the traffic. “There’s no way this story is true... unless you took the RFK to the GWB on a Tuesday at exactly 7:30AM and didn’t stop for gas on the Turnpike and stayed in KOP until at least 6 which means you were in the mall for 5 hours to beat the traffic on the Franklin. I call…

“a man going back and forth like John Travolta.”

This...this is beautiful.

Diana, your work is incredible and important and thank you.

Yeah, agreed. OTR can make sense, I think, but when you’re talking to the person at the top of the food chain, you’re just getting free spin.

I think it’s kind of sad how he sidelined his own best judgment in deference to a figure of authority, an authority whose own judgment is not to be questioned, and it cost him his own better interests while only furthering the narrow interests of the organization that authority represents.

I love self-defecating humor!

I brought this up yesterday but as an FSU fan I’m kinda hoping Jimbo Fisher takes the LSU job and FSU makes a play for Strong.

I have little belief that Trump will change his personality. I do believe, however, that the triangle formed by “why people voted for Trump,” “what Trump said to draw those people in,” and “what Trump is inclined to do” might have the biggest spread of my lifetime. There is ample room for him to do things that…