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I think you’re both right if it’s any consolation.

Wearing them now. Haha

Speaking of sad songs and exposing my music obscure 'dorkism', Pitchfork asked on social media the other week: what are your favorite sad songs. These 4 immediately came to mind. Sure, they are off the beaten path but with pre-text may be worth the listen if you're on the hunt for new music to listen to. I also like to reiterate my point to people who say 'music is not good anymore': there's outstanding and innovative music out there you just need to be open to it and look for it. If you give the songs a shot, I hope you enjoy them..... 1 Jason Isbell - Elephant: The elephant in the room is that she is dying of cancer. Death is uncomfortable to talk about and sometimes we think that be comforting to the dying is not talking about it at all. "surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone." 2. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day: From the first verse you'll know the song is about losing someone to cancer. But what gets you is the imagery and his struggle with God for taking ones we love. 3. Bright Eyes - Poison Oak: This song is about the song writer (Conner Oberst) losing his cousin, who struggled from depression and drugs, from suicide. He sings: "I'm glad you got away, but I'm still stuck out here. My shirt is soaking wet, from your brother's tears." 4. Typhoon - Empiricist: This song is off of a concept album called Offerings. Just listening to the song is like plucking a scene out of a movie. The whole album is an emotional trip that tells a story about a man who's losing his memory. The album takes you all the way up to his death and into the after life. The imagery on this particular song of a man waking up in the middle of the night in the dark not knowing where he is and then being at his birthday party and not knowing anyone is crushing. "So blow out your past lives like they're candles on the cake"

Wow. I would’ve been satisfied if Davidsons missed free throw would’ve lost the game.

Good article. Very thorough….and a bit disturbing.

I think this is true, but i'm with @Seeking6: I still don't get it. haha. He had to know there'd be horrible economic consequences. Even if he got what he wanted out of Ukraine would he still really coming out ahead? Did he think the rest of the world was going to lay down and let him invade a sovereign state and not impose crippling economic consequences? I know the easy answer is that he's crazy, unstable, irrational, etc., but it still seems very dumb. And I can't shake that.

There's still the hundred of quotes and clips calling NATO weak, a bunch of suckers, made up of poor leadership, etc. He left the 2019 summit early after getting in fights with Trudeau and Macron. Now I'm not debating whether these actions were warranted, or is it necessarily a criticism of Trump. Putin is a leader who loves to control the narrative. This narrative was benefitting him because it gave validation to his criticisms toward NATO. Trump fought with NATO and its leaders until the end. I'm only pushing back against the assumption that Putin didn't wait to invade because he was afraid of Trump. There's a whole lot more to it. And by the way Trump withdrew from Syria because he didn't want to be the 'world's police'. Nobody really knows if Trump would've lifted a finger to help Ukraine when push comes to shove (he's said a lot of conflicting things when it comes to foreign policy). That said, contrary to what some may think, I agree with Trump that NATO needed to pay more of their fair share. I also think that we get into the middle of way too many conflicts. But that's not the point I was debating. I'm also not going back to assign blame to past administrations. Putin is to blame for this, period. The good thing is that, as of right now, we ultimately seem to be on the same page. I've felt as a country we've need this for a while. Ironically, Putin is the one bringing us together....against him.

I was just coming here to recommend Free Guy. I really got into the movie. We also took the kids to see Uncharted this weekend. It was entertaining but one of those movies that you just have to laugh about the leaps in the plot, physics and logic. haha. The kids loved it though.

Who knows what is in Putin’s mind, but i don’t agree with this theory at all. As you point out, Putin hates NATO - it’s one of the main reasons he’s invading Ukraine. Why would he interrupt Trump undermining and speaking badly about NATO at every turn. We’re talking about the guy who openly talked about pulling the US out of NATO. Trump was more successful at driving a wedge in NATO than Putin would ever be. I’m not saying Trump was doing Putin’s bidding, but their interests did align (albeit for different reasons) and Putin sure was cheerleading him from the sidelines. You really think Putin would even put Trump in the position to convene NATO by invading Ukraine while he was in office? It just doesn’t seem plausible.

YES, they hit a couple of crazy shots. BUT there is no excuse for the 6 or so turnovers in a row. Focus and close games!

WTH?

Bad d

I have to disagree with you. Not this game.

Was just going to say the same thing.

It was a commercial. He was doing the icky shuffle when his deli number was called, but he looked more like a retired offensive lineman.

Is that really Icky Woods?

Burn em XJ!

TJD has to be careful with those carries.

Him and PStew have to shoot.

Good. I hope he’s alone. I know there’s been debate about if sanctions are even working. Or if the sanctions were strong enough, especially the initial sanctions. I’m no foreign policy wonk, but maybe having ‘deterrent’ sanctions rather than ‘preemptive’ sanctions was a strategy to push Putin into this corner with his own people. Deterrent (or reactive) sanctions says to the Russian people: “we warned Putin and he made his bed - now lie in it. Your economy is collapsing because of Putin. This was his choice.” As far as the Russian people are concerned, it helped shift the blame to Putin and puts internal pressure on him. Preemptive sanctions could’ve possibly had the opposite effect by united them against the West because all of the sudden Putin can play victim. One thing I do believe, if Putin is going to fall he’s going to fall as a result from an uprising in his own country. Keep losing all the peoples’ money, Vlad. Keep losing the oligarchs’ money. I hope the invasion was worth it.

It seems, so far, that Putin has made a miscalculation. There are anti-war protests in Russia and around the world. He’s united Ukraine. He’s united NATO. He’ even united Democrats and Republicans. What’s scary is how somebody who made such a big miscalculation will react with his back to the wall. He came about this invasion in an irrational way. And you don’t like an irrational despot even talking about nukes.

Bad: Miller Kopp behind the back pass to nobody. Seriously, what in the hell was that? Hahaha. I hope he gets a lot of s*** for that in the locker room.

Russia's economy isn't that great right now.I think there are ways we can isolate him even more, but the question is how far will NATO go and and will that even deter him. Germany made a huge sacrifice by cutting off the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. I'm definitely no expert on this, but that seems like a relatively big move given how that's going to greatly inflate Germany's energy prices.

Pace yourself or you might not see the Sun for a week.