When I read the original story, I thought your in-laws were just weird. Reading this story about your MIL’s hospitalization, I now think your BIL should be defenestrated.

I agree, but the measure is more about the associations people make when they hear the name and less about the number of shits you or I give (though I will admit Baylor is a better example given that metric). I think people will forget about all this with UNC pretty quickly, just like I think a lot of people have…

This article doesn’t answer the one question I had: does Ortega still make her taco pop?

One of the things I wished the story emphasized more was how certain Confederate figures are much more likely to be commemorated than others. There’s a reason Longstreet isn’t memorialized in statue form outside of a handful of places with actual ties to him (Gainesville, GA has one because he died there), and it’s…

Do they also have a statue for the best ever death metal band out of your town?

You beat me to it. This was my first exposure to the song, but I still love the energy in that performance. And those horns!

Very nice write-up, thank you. As a nearly lifelong Floridian, Tom Petty’s music was ubiquitous, and yet as many others have noted, never unwelcome.

That’s always a concern with data analysis. Often the first draft/back of the cocktail napkin analysis is the one that gets published, and that often requires subsequent revisions (either better data becomes available, requirements get refined, etc.). It’s kind of like journalism - you can be first, or you can be…

Great, now they’re going to go after Peter Frampton and that episode of The Simpsons where Homer goes to Lollapalooza.

Must be nice to be able to deflect from your own scoreboard burn a few days earlier.

Depends on where the game is. On most college campuses, no. At neutral site games, or games in pro stadiums, often yes. Not that it matters by that point - the people drinking beer are just trying to maintain from the tailgate.

Still not yet worse than that duet he did with Sheryl Crow.

And culturally appropriated stolen from Florida State. Though they should get rid of it too. Not only because it’s racist, but also because that would force the Marching Chiefs to learn a new song.

*cough* bullshit *cough*

I was going to blame her anyway for giving an X chromosome with the alopecia trait, but your idea makes much more sense!

As a bald white male, this confuses me. Aside from that, very interesting Random Roles (as is always the case when Will does them).

Like a greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray.

Hard to say. I don’t think we have good numbers on the Budd Dwyer press conference to use as a benchmark.