The Frankish Reich

Obviously he's not the guy he was at 29 - 75 for 75 in XP! (Peyton Manning days) AND a 64 yard FG (mile high, but still), but he kicked a bit last year in Arizona and was still pretty reliable - 6 for 6 in FGs, no missed XP, long of 57. I wouldn't be shocked if he becomes our regular PK regardless of Bass's health. You can certainly make a case that even at 41 he's the best kicker we have.

For whatever reason, I love athletes who embarked on an entirely different (not connected to sports) career when their playing days were over. RIP.

And so Corey Lewandowski continues to be invited to come in Kristi's backdoor, even while he ignores the financial disclosure rules. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/corey-lewandowksi-trump-aide-probe-expands Here's to hoping that his probe continues to expand.

The Irish presidency is among the weakest in the world. So he may win a meaningless popularity (read: name recognition) contest.

The bogus vaccine-autism link thing just won't go away. There is still no reliable/unretracted study from anywhere that comes close to proving a causal relationship or even a strong correlation. Meanwhile, geneticists are making excellent progress. They are revealing what is no doubt an uncomfortable truth for parents of autistic children. https://medschool.ucla.edu/news-article/is-autism-genetic Autism is hereditary and therefore does run in families. A majority (around 80%) of autism cases can be linked to inherited genetic mutations. The remaining cases likely stem from non-inherited mutations. There’s no evidence that children can develop autism after early fetal development as a result of exposure to vaccines or postnatal toxins. “Everything known to cause autism occurs during early brain development,” says Dr. Geschwind. I understand the discomfort. In a way research is saying that the "fault" is in our own genetic material and not in identifying some kind of environmental (including childhood vaccines) cause. That is a difficult thing to come to terms with. But very often the truth is difficult. We only make things worse when we propose fake "solutions" like repealing school vaccine mandates so that we can have both autism and measles, or pertussis, or whatever. A hard truth is still hard.

At least he wasn't the Percy Harvin of 2024.

This could put a damper on all that Nobel Peace Prize talk.

Acting Deputy Chief of some DOJ division I've never heard of admits that any Epstein file released will redact all Republican names. That's the headline. The real story: another idiot MAGA loser promoted way above his abilities, bragging to a woman he met online. Nicely done. Oh, and this appears to be one of his Facebook pages. Horny bastard who can't keep his mouth shut. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1019468564781551/posts/8835165936545069/ Only the best.

I don't know what to make of headlines because they are not written by the article writers. They sometimes change between print and e versions. I assume they are aimed at getting clicks. Solution? Start thinking beyond the old 140 characters of a tweet or the 10 words of a headline. In other words: read. Don't passively consume.

This Florida thing is insane. How did we go from "the COVID vaccine's cost/benefit ratio swings strongly toward cost with respect to younger people" to "let's let everyone say no to all childhood vaccines for no reason whatsoever." This will not end well, particularly in a state like Florida with, yes, a huge number of recent immigrants who travel frequently to less developed countries.

Yes, because you insist on reading only the free media. You get what you pay for. Again, I would challenge anyone to read the entire NYT article and come away with anything other than "they're covering this like the ridiculous conspiracy theory that it is."

See, here's the problem. Some Trumpy Tweeter posts a clip of a NYT story and mischaracterizes the whole thing. You people are not NYT readers, and it's paywalled and you're cheap (not that you'd read it if it were free). So you believe the bs characterization. The real thing: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/politics/trump-health-bruise-conspiracies.html And here's how it starts, long before it goes into the "why are people prone to hoaxes like this" explanation: For a swath of hyper-online Americans over the long Labor Day weekend, all of this was explanation enough: The president was either dead or about to be. Mr. Trump’s critics have speculated about his health for as long as he has been in national politics. And for his part, he has long declined to explain when and why he has sought out medical care, whether he was suffering from Covid or undergoing routine procedures. But there had never been a conspiracy wave as feverish as this one. On TikTok, influencers with legions of followers surmised that the White House was publishing old photos, suggesting that the president was being hidden from view. Reddit threads, one after another, were ablaze with commentary. On X, posts shared by anonymous critics disseminating dubious reports picked up thousands of interactions and shares. See the digs at the alt media conspiracists? "Hyper-online." "conspiracy wave" "dubious reports"

Trump either has some inside word from the SCt justices or he's even dumber than I thought. He just justified his tariffs as a great substitute for the income tax. In other words, his tariffs are a tax. Taxing power is committed by the constitution to Congress and only to Congress. He ought to be arguing that this isn't a revenue raising mechanism (a tax), but rather a foreign policy device (at least arguably a presidential power). His words will be used against him in a court of law ...

Did you see the alt media insight shared by some of our friends here about the Minnesota assassin? The one hired by Tim Walz to take out Amy Klobuchar? Now that's the kind of reporting that ought to win Pulitzers.

Are we allowed to wheel the guy in the iron lung into the polling place because he has to vote in person?

Trump is alive and he is suffering the biggest butthurt of all as his buddy Vlad dumps him for Xi and Little Rocket Man.

The same way I always have. China --> Canada --> USA.

And even worse, I've been told that some are not of predominantly northern European ancestry!

Please spend your retirement cataloging posts by your perceived enemies on a football forum. I can think of no better use of your time!

The Value Meal is back! I know most Trump voters order 2 for themselves, thereby calling into question the true value of the offer. But still, it's back!

That's what they want you to think ...

You really expect people who think Sweden is Norway to be up to date on that whole Brexit thing?

Don't try to beat dictators at their own game. The Chinese parade was impressive like a really good marching band. Ours reeked of the remnants of democracy - soldiers in fatigues smiling at the crowd, etc. I guess some people think that's a bad thing?

They are ridiculously overcharging in these cases. The Subway Sandwich attacker? They finally settled on the misdemeanor that it should've been all along. Isn't it nice to see grand juries doing what they were established to do?

You know who agrees with you? Trump himself. But he's afraid to say it out loud (he slipped up last week) because he doesn't want to lose that 2% who are anti-vaxx voters. And he really doesn't want to fire RFK Jr, which would just embolden him to take his 2% and launch an RFK 2028 campaign. Because it's all about winning. Not about good public policy. Well, that hand is rather puffy, no? Is that his hand-shaking hand or his carrot-waxing hand? Or both?