Dr. Who

I'm checking with my Evangelical friends if that is a sign of the apocalypse.

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Both McD and Granato are admirable human beings. You want them to succeed, and I hope they do. In the contemporary NFL, the trend line is to hire an offensive minded HC. The league is never going to return to the old blood-and-guts days where RB is the premier position and defenses can consistently dominate. You don't want to have to continually replace OC. In our case, Dorsey is more competent, I think, than his critics admit, though the shotgun runs on third and short are infuriating. We've had some devastating injuries on one side of the ball. Nonetheless, McD is wasting prime years of a franchise qb. Josh Allen not winning a SB in Buffalo would be an absolute travesty. I think if things implode this year, Pegula may be forced to make a change. I still think there is an outside chance they get it together and make a run. Pimlach's take on Granato is right on the money, imo.

What's wrong with you? It's Sunday morning. And why don't you show a modicum of restraint and decency. A young man has died and you want to crow? You grow up.

Extreme boredom. I am a novelist in my spare time.

Mystical winesong miraculously whitens musky whiskers mystified when mercantile weasels mendaciously wrinkle midsummer wool made wormtongue mitigating wonders while many murkily wrought majestic wishes wax munificent mesmerizing wild mostly winsome musical wenches ministering wholesale melancholy wantonness whereupon mordant wizards mimic winters meantime we must wrestle mumbling woebegone miserable whining muttonhead workdoomers magically whisk much whining maximally `way made wondrously mute when men with martial weapons mightily win.

There aren't any good options. After yesterday, I'm starting to believe that God hates the Buffalo Bills. Went from a solid SB contender to a team that will struggle to make the wild card, imo. The single worst day for injuries I can recollect in over 50 years of watching the team. The last two weeks has just devastated what was shaping up to be a really superior D.

Lots of folks can't find their wallets.

I see you're related to William of Occam. I believe Sherlock Holmes was a lifelong bachelor and fictional character, but maybe him, too.

I don't buy it. I don't think Dahlin is uncertain about the future of the team. He's part of it, he knows the pipeline is filled with young and emerging talent. The holdup is calculating term when the cap is likely going to escalate and payoff if you're not locked in for eight years.

I hope Elam has gotten enough confidence back to play man coverage, because they need his speed to cover Hill. He's their best press cb, so unless Elam is a total lost cause, I expect he will not be a healthy scratch on Sunday. Miami's oline is not great, but Tua is getting rid of the ball so quickly. The scheme is helping them. Have to find a way to make him hesitate just a bit. I think if that happens, the Dline will cause him problems. Still not confident about how Dorsey is calling a game. I am glad that he is genuinely incorporating the rbs, though. Cook, Murray, and Harris each bring something to the table. I think Cook could be a star, actually, but I am a biased UGA fan. I hope Kincaid gets more play than last week. We need those yards out of the slot position. Overall, I am cautiously optimistic. Folks are going to hype Miami after 70. The Broncos are bad and they gave up. It should be a different story against a D that is starting to hit on all cylinders.

I hate those Fife-Flyers almost as much as I hate the Bruins. Nasty, thuggish brutes. No taste in single-malt Scotch.

If it is a penalty, according to the proposal, a goal is awarded. Don't know about judgement calls, but that is the trouble spot in the idea. Right now, it's either a goal or not. I think the idea here is terrific and it closes down the excessive slow play (though I don't mind that when it benefits the Sabres, I'm fickle that way), but now you introduce a gray area and I don't generally want to let a ref's interpretation intrude if you can avoid it.

Very nicely done. I agree with pretty much all of his aesthetic judgments.

I don't have high hopes for Bernard, but it appears they thought of him as a real consideration at MLB. The hamstring injury early on has kept him out the entire preseason. We'll have to see if he can play better than most expect. Dodson had his best game against the Bears, which isn't a high bar. They should have brought in a free agent who can at least play the position at NFL mediocre level. Maybe someone will shake loose after the cutdowns, but it's not a great situation. Elam was never a good fit for what McD typically asks of his corners. I think it's up to the coaching staff to find a way to use him to his strengths. They've tried to turn him into a different player and now he has regressed because he's thinking too much and has lost confidence. That's on Beane and McD more than the player, imo. 2022 looks like a terrible draft, though I believe Cook is going to be solid. 2023 appears promising. Kincaid and Torrence could both turn out well. Overall, Beane needs to hit more, especially on day 2 picks. The Bills are still a very strong team. MLB, OT depth, and QB2 ought to be where one hopes they can scavenge some kind of improvement through trade or waiver pick ups.

If you execute them, everyone respects you, but it's harder to sign free agents.

Rather astute use of analogical reasoning. I do think KA needs to "let go" a bit. The desire to control everything for optimum outcome is an unrealistic ambition. It could also foster a spirit of fear, lest you lose out on "maximum efficiency." It's a fault of an age of anxiety.

1) It is easy to ask a glib, enigmatic question in pithy manner. Long to expound what could encompass a monograph or even a book length exposition. Economy is ultimately a function of metaphysics. Ontology discovers the capacity of beings. Efficiency as it is now generally understood normally follows a univocal, pragmatic utilitarian criteria that is inattentive to the equivocities of Being. At another level, the modern project judges efficiency as one aspect of material and efficient causality. It leaves out Aristotle's final and formal causalities which are not addressed by the common considerations and orthodox methods apprised by institutions that propose what is normative, if not true. My views on economy and effective derive from a more robust metaphysics, though the typical response of modernity and the so-called post-modern is to call into question metaphysics of that sort as fascist. 2) It depends which arena you are talking about.

You need to turn off your redundancy echo amplifier. Ironically, it is inefficient. I have always preferred an aesthetic that allows for the drama of the unplanned. Efficiency is rooted in a rationality of control that among other things adjusts expectations for reality to what can be comprehended by method. It leaves too much of importance out. Beauty, love, wonder, none of that can genuinely be commanded, so it cannot be a product of efficiency. Gallifrey became decadent and arrogant when they forgot all that.

There's an entire race of planted aliens who are here to subvert knowledge of aliens. They undergo a thorough process of memory erasure so that they can't be subject to advanced memory recall by earth operatives. Of course, Timelords know their tells, even if they are unaware of their true provenance. One of them is a penchant to go on message boards of diverse nature -- and when triggered by the proper catalyzing declaration, eg. supposition that there might, indeed, be aliens with advanced technology, they loudly proclaim the opposite. The chief phrase in German they inevitably repeat with contempt and absolute certitude is "Es ist alles Haufen Blödsinn."

Efficiency is boring as hell.

Saw an opportunity for a joke that included quantum physics and took it.

I feel like you are struggling with the concept of these threads. OTOH, you've given voice to ambivalence with a low hum of perduring disgruntlement in an intelligent manner. OTOH, you've failed to grasp the polar-dichotomy of point-counterpoint represented by two diverse threads of this particular nature. In reality, you want to occupy an ambiguous quantum state between two universal polarities, which places you high on the Heisenberg scale with a relatively strong undercurrent of Schrödinger syndrome.

If Atlanta gets another shot (I'd be surprised, but I've read your reasoning and it's not implausible), I hope they go with something other than the Thrashers. The Flames were just perfect. (I was a kid then, but that team was very likeable and I loved the sweaters.)