HOW THE WEEK WENT
Not today, Saban! Well, yes, Saban….or, anyway, last Saturday in the second half. Tuscaloosa (motto: try our biscuits!) is a nasty town with bad biscuits. Saban is from West Virginia, a fact, like his height, that is not remotely his fault, but at least he doesn’t wear lifts. Hiram Williams was from Mount Olive, Alabama, one of his grandfathers fought on both sides in the Civil War, and he was a goddammed genius.
I’m a rollin’ stone, all alone and lost. For a life of sin, I have paid the cost. When I pass by, all the people say There goes another boy on the lost highway.
Just a deck of cards, and a jug of wine And a woman’s lies makes a life like mine. For, the day we met, I went astray I started rolling down that lost highway.
I was just a lad, nearly 22 Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you. And now I’m lost, too late to pray Lord, I paid the cost, on the lost highway.
Now boys don’t start to ramblin’ round On this road of sin, are you sorrow-bound? Take my advice or you’ll curse the day You started rollin’ down that lost highway.
After a month away from golf, I carded a 13-over round, so at least one thing went fairly well with my Saturday.
Sorry: there is very little news this week.
Duke ain’t 21st,
and got doubled up by Free Shoes U; they fell, but only to 20th.
Oregon State ain’t 16
and was off for the week.
North Carolina ain’t 17th,
lost to 1-5 Virginia….at home….and plummeted to………. 17th.
Utah ain’t 12th
but outlasted USC, so now they’re 13th.
UCLA ain’t 24th,
but they stomped Stanford, so now they’re 23d.
BIG MISS INCUBATOR
Florida State sure as shit ain’t 4th,
or so I thought: they dispatched Duke.
Oklahoma ain’t 18th,
and they barely survived Mickey and Minnie U at home, so they fell to 6th.
Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th,
and somehow they narrowly escaped 1-5 Arizona State. For this BS they get to sit at 5th.
Michigan ain’t 2d,
but they bulldozed Sparty (I know, I know: they got nothing this year) for a fourth blow-out in a row.
Missouri ain’t 20th.
They’ll get schooled soon, but not by SCAR: they rise to 16th.
NEWLY OVER-RATED
Air Force ain’t 19th. This is so dumb.
Tulane, the cream of the Uhmerican Conference, ain’t 22d, but that doesn’t mean it will get proven and voted that way this year.
James Madison is well-named but should not be rated at all.
OLD NEWS IN OVER-RATED
There are not nine twelve eleven ten eight teams better than Alabama: but, even if there are, Tennessee ain’t one of them..
EVEN MORE USELESS OPINIONS
best one-loss team: Bama (honorable mention: Penn State)
best two-loss team: LSU (keep trying, Irish!)
best three-loss team: Texas A&M
best four-loss team: Texas Christian
best five-loss team: Texas Tech
best six-loss team: Arkansas….which is better than any five-loss team
best seven-loss team: Sam Houston State
best eight-loss team: Wofford
That’s all, folks: no news to speak of this week!
Addenda
SPECIAL PRIME SECTION
Colorado ain’t 22d, and they took the week off.
TOLD’JA SO INVENTORY
we wish to hear their names no more
but no new hides were hung on the wall today
Tulane ain’t 24th
Colorado ain’t 22d
Texas ain’t 3d
Miami ain’t 20th
Florida shouldn’t be ranked at all
Missouri shouldn’t be ranked at all
Fresno shouldn’t be ranked at all
Ole Miss shouldn’t have dropped five spots for losing to Bama
Washington State ain’t 23d
Louisville ain’t 14th
Kansas lost at Stillwater and is now unranked
Ahhh… music links. Queued up for later listening.
best eight-loss team: Wofford
Go Terriers!
They tried to recruit my son at linebacker. Wasn’t interested. He kind of lost interest in football and started doing MMA instead.
Have him talk to Bud Light they seem to be doing lots of sponsorships.
My exes live all over the country. The lost highway is such a long ride…
best two-loss team: LSU (keep trying, Irish!)
Army nearly had them.
Wofford?
A term I just learned in a clickbait video: BLOOD BATTERIES! Whoever this jabbering nitwit is, he knows about child cobalt miners the the Congo.
The video is mostly about the head of Stellantis going off the EV reservation.
If you have your orphans push your car you can cut out the middleman on those blood batteries. Acceleration isn’t so great, but Glibs of leisure don’t have to rush.
Meanwhile…
Jeep Maker Stellantis Bets on a Chinese EV Startup, but Is It the Right One?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/jeep-maker-stellantis-bets-on-a-chinese-ev-startup-but-is-it-the-right-one-4bc01fff?st=8ujtj0yz7i3nl70&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Ancient Chinese EV maker, huh?
Nice. That commercial has been memory holed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMjYgqFrrQ
‘There goes another boy on the lost highway”
Why doesn’t he stop and ask directions?
“He’s just like his old man”
If you ask for directions, the cannibals are legally permitted to send you into a trap.
Michigan sure as hell is going to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy. And then coach Harbaugh is going to jump back to the NFL and take the Tyson Bagent led Bears to a Superbowl victory.
No doubt Harbaugh jumps ship. As for the rest of it, not so fast my friend!
I’ve been out of sports so long I didn’t realize Appalachian State is now FBS. I remember them beating #5 Michigan when they were FCS.
Ford’s per-hour labor cost, including benefits, would be around $67 this year and rise to about $88 by the final full year of the contract, in 2027, according to Wells Fargo. That is significantly higher than the labor costs of the foreign automakers, estimated in the mid-$50s per hour, and Tesla at $45 to $50. Those companies could face wage inflation in coming years, though, partly as a result of UAW’s richer contracts. Union leaders already have vowed to organize nonunion factories.
Well, we know that if the vehicle is comparably priced to competitors we know that’s coming out of margin or quality. I’ll let you all guess which one.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/uaw-ford-labor-contract-strike-452197d5?st=xhv1vey1umabf9l&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I watched the unions destroy the meat-packing industry in the 80s. It wasn’t fun then. It won’t be fun this time either.
Union largely responsible for Oscar shutting down its state of the art plant on Philly.
I guess those $100k pick ups are gonna get a bit more expensive.
Here’s to keeping my 2001 on the road for another 20 years.
2001: A Truck Odyssey.
Wasn’t that a minivan?
Full of stars?
How many Courics?
30 year auto loans?
Spending >$600 getting a wheel bearing replaced today.
*looks at all costs of the repairs the Ram needs*
*pays it*
Welp, the 2008 FJ Cruiser just broke 200K miles, and shows approximately zero signs of wear.
The 2022 Highlander hasn’t even had its second oil change yet.
It’s entirely possible we will never buy another car.
Another car besides the highlander? I thought there could be only one.
I like these posts, pretty funny. And informative, since I pretty much don’t follow college ball.
#metoo
I watch WVU when they’re on TV, they’ve had some entertaining games lately, but that’s about it.
OT: While looking at Sowell’s latest book Social justice Fallacies, I saw this doozie as the “Top Critical Review”:
So, the bailouts don’t count as government giveaways?
What am I missing here?
Nice editorializing (e.g., tiny, amuck, dangerous).
He probably counts the bailouts as proof that “capitalism can run amuck”.
Amuck amuck amuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lxMwfbUrYE
thanks
seasonally appropriate as well
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x2-4ttgjI40/T9zzEj-Nm2I/AAAAAAAABEo/JKyG7fbtL34/s1600/duckamuck+(47).jpg
I don’t understand the whole word salad. I read it three times and quit.
It’s a common trait among those who think 2+2=5. Endless, pointless word salads.
Did the reviewer call Sowell a racist this time?
He did come close to calling Sowell articulate by saying the book was well written.
Storybook, man.
Speaking of something missing…
capitalism can run amuck, even though we have seen plenty of evidence of how dangerous that is
You mean “asserted without evidence”, I presume?
Government run amuck has a 9 figure body count last century alone. What’s capitalism’s body count?
Nice smear but it’s openly advocated by a certain side and the support of one political party, despite the textbook disparate impact and institutional racism of the very organization that continues to this day.
If Ole Miss is overrated because they lost to Bama, how is it that Bama is under-ranked?
Cousin fucker conference.
Who was that woman comedian – “I’m so southern my family tree doesn’t branch”?
Because according to these articles nobody belongs in the top 10 and only a few teams are in the top 20.
Yes, I still think Don should post his own top 25; his articles are akin to a critic who doesn’t have a positive solution to offer.
The article isn’t about rankings: it’s about garbage enthusiasm.
I’ve tacitly endorsed many teams by not mentioning them; these teams are not over-rated:
Michigan
Georgia
Penn State
Kansas State
Notre Dame
Tennessee
As for a top ten, go ahead and crank one out: it shouldn’t take any more time to do it yourself than to mischaracterize and carp about the efforts of others.
I’m going to laugh my ass off if the Ford rank and file reject the contract as not enough.
He criticizes the position from the 100-year-old stance of evil eugenics when it is convenient, though no one other than an arch-conservative might advocate it these days.
Pay no attention to the people advocating abortion as a means of dealing with what they deem to be nonviable or imperfect fetuses.
*I am not immune to the concept at the most extreme edge, to be honest, but this person should not make such an egregiously disingenuous assertion.
Abortion is no longer about population control, it is about being fully self-actualized as a woman!
While I’m not sure OU deserves to be 6th, I’m quite happy to see that the defense is better than it used to be. And I find it quite humorous that USC is *just now* finding out how bad a DC Alex Grinch is. You’d think watching him over his time at OU would’ve been instructive.
I guess those $100k pick ups are gonna get a bit more expensive.
And less reliable.
Fire is a feature, not a bug.
I ran some calculations. Based on my last visit to a gas station my car gets 18.5 miles per dollar. I need to find some mpkwH ratings for electrics to compare.
That sounds a lil too good at today’s gas prices.
That’s about 4 times what I am getting in my truck
My truck gets 17-18, but that’s diesel so it costs more.
My 2005 Saab gets 27, and it’s still going strong after I put the junkyard turbo in.
I get 17-18 mpg.
The local gas station switched from E10 to ED15 during the COVID horseshit. So I now run premium with no ethanol Currently running about $4.40 per gallon in small town Iowa.
So, I am about 4 miles per dollar for travel costs.
ED15 . . . interesting typo old man.
If you get 15″ even with ED, I’d say you’re doing okay.
So you live in corn subsidy land and can get ethanol free gasoline.
I live in CA emissions NJ and can’t get any grade of ethanol free gasoline. Sigh…
Correct. Some stations have ethanol free regular gas. But it’s not common. Premium is usually, but not always, ethanol free.
We may live in Ragweed Country, but we don’t have smog that drives the laws to add oxidizers to all gasoline.
Gas is likely statewide so thanks NoVA. At least emissions tests are not required in my county.
If I had waited I could have got gas for under $3.
I get about 3 miles /kWh paying no mind to efficiency.
If I cared add about 10% better.
That would be about 19.5 mpd at my household average, not marginal, rate.
18.5 miles/$ sounds way too high. What kind of car are you driving? My car gets about 31 mpg and gas costs about $6.09/gallon for premium in CA. That’s about 5 miles/$.
Hybrid getting 57.6 mpg at $3.12.
But Toyota is evil because they promote hybrids over EVs.
purity spiral
I wish I could find gas that cheap.
Yikes. ~$5 in my home town.
At $3.50/gallon for regular (pretty much what it is in Tucson for regular), that’s around 65 mpg. What are you paying for gas?
Never mind.
Well, huh. It’s snowing.
And you aren’t even in Missoula (which was on our local news last night for the 12 inches of snow that fell there yesterday).
Abortion is no longer about population control, it is about being fully self-actualized as a woman!
Reproductive health care. No different than taking an aspirin for a brain ache.
The Democrats seem to think it’s a winning message, 80% of their ads talk about “extreme Republicans” and their abortion bans.
Another 10% talk about how the Republicans want to take healthcare and food money from poor people, just so they can give billionaires tax cuts.
10% more talk about how they want to increase teacher pay, because “the best way out of poverty is education”.
Typing all that made my brain hurt.
I keep getting ads from Joel Griffin telling me he will defend abortion. I’m not in the district.
One of the mailings I received (Ohio Issue 1 is on the ballot) talked about “common sense reproductive rights” legislation for the Pro Abortion side of the mailer.
40 weeks is common sense!
18.5 miles/$ sounds way too high. What kind of car are you driving? My car gets about 31 mpg and gas costs about $6.09/gallon for premium in CA. That’s about 5 miles/$.
Really. The Element gets 20mpg; at ~$4/gal that’s five miles per buck. The Civic get close to 40mpg on a good day, which is still only ten. Gas must be really cheap where he is.
Back in ’74 I bought a 6 cyl Mustang when gas went to .50 a gallon. Kept the ’69 Buick 225 as a family car though.
Mustang got about 20 MPG as I remember
Hybrid getting 57.6 mpg at $3.12.
/em>
Ah.
I bought the car when I was commuting trying to save on gas. I don’t know if I can get the data for my wife’s car.
Why is it that every big-time college football coach seems to be a raging asshole? Offhand, I can’t think of any exceptions (although I don’t really follow the game much any more).
Students come and go. Coaches are forever. They become the ultimate prima donnas.
So college football coaches are the NFL wide receivers of the college world?
Lost Highway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig
This Maine shooter is giving me Vegas vibes. Now they are looking at him escaping on a jetski (apparently owned a 2019 which is missing) and/or in a Chevy Suburban that crossed into Mass.
Did he escape river patrol by riding it over a waterfall, revealing a parachute with the III% logo on it?
As if proof were needed that bi-partisan means the marriage of the worst from both sides of the aisle.
Here’s your Republican party Kurt Schlichter.
A dominant platform is any tech company that meets certain revenue and active user criteria.
Anyone foolish enough to raise his head above the parapet.
Did you pay the vig?
Spending >$600 getting a wheel bearing replaced today.
Gadzooks!