BAH GAWD! COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS COMING!!!

 I did abandon Facebook as a daily place to post things and such, but there is one project I decline to let go, and that is BAH GAWD!  IT'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!

I will be making my BAH GAWD! posts here, on my own blog, and cross-posting them to Facebook. This will allow me a bit more creative leeway in terms of formatting, plus I can start inserting graphics and memes, such as when a Big Ten team inevitably loses an easy game that they were previously favored to win:

--yeah, Brother Booth, I'm looking at you.

Tagging will be actually become easier, as I won't have to edit the names in the textbook to reflect FB status; I can just type in folks as I see fit and then use the FB tag feature when I cross-post.

1. GLASS OF WATER FOR LSU!  Brennan is out indefinitely, and I am not sold on the other guy.
2. GLASS OF WATER FOR ZACH CALZEDA: Jimbo named Haynes King as his starter.  We'll see...
3. GLASS OF WATER FOR THE B1G.  That Covid/forfeit policy may come back to bite someone on the hiney this year --it SHOULD have cost tOSU its conference title slot last year, but whatevs.

I will likely post the first full installment on Labor Day, although a Kickoff Weekend version will be here in a few days.

Is Face Mask Skepticism Beyond The Pale? (Reason.com)

https://reason.com/2021/08/18/is-face-mask-skepticism-beyond-the-pale/

From the beginning, however, the Great American Mask Debate has been strongly influenced by partisan and ideological commitments, with one side exaggerating the evidence in favor of this precaution and the other side ignoring or downplaying it...  But rational discourse entails rebutting arguments by citing contrary evidence instead of treating them as too dangerous for people to consider.

I generally refuse to discuss masking with people anymore.  It's an article of holy faith, and I'm not prepared to expend the energy at this point against either side's positions. I'll wear one, but I don't like it, nor do I think it's going to save anyone's life.  

Folks, we've seen this movie before: Ultraviolet.

Chock Full O' Wisdom Today!

1. Men, zippers are your friends.  Keep them UP! 
2. When in doubt, get it in writing.
3. Email is forever, particularly when the Open Records Act is involved (Texas Government Code Chapter 552 passim)
4. When they pound the table harder and harder, they've run out of facts and the law is against them.
5. Any bureaucracy over a certain size becomes more concerned with its survival than its mission, and most politicians over a certain level are more interested in serving their own interests than serving the public.
6. Follow the money.
7. If the medicine cures one disease but leaves you vulnerable to something worse, consider riding it out.