WACO, TEXAS
HOME OF BREASTAURANTS,
BIKER MASSACRES, AND
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
This is a man’s world, this is a man’s world
But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
You see, man made the Harleys to take us to Hooters
Man made John Barley and lots of big shooters
Man made Baylor and its rapin’ recruits
Man made a thousand new Baylor lawsuits
This is a man’s, man’s, man’s world
But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl
Waco’s lost in the wilderness
It’s lost in bitterness
It’s lost, lost somewhere in this, in loneliness
Having wooed and accommodated the forces of chaos, party leaders now fear that Mr. Trump will not only lose, but that he’ll cost them control of the House and the Senate, too …
Republicans: Making the world safe for Clinton/Warren.
The University of North Texas athletic department is paying $90,000 per month to buy out the contracts of three former athletic department employees…
The school hired [a new football coach] heading into the 2011 season and saw him provide the program an immediate boost…
[It] quickly signed [the coach] to a new five-year contract in March 2014.
[He] coached only 17 games under the terms of that contract. [The school] fired him after an embarrassing 66-7 loss to Portland State University left UNT at 0-5 last season…
UNT has been paying out [his] salary since…
And you know what’s interesting?
McCarney hasn’t taken a full-time job since leaving UNT. He recently spoke at a clinic at Iowa State and has spent time visiting his former assistant coaches who now are running their own programs.
Petersen has not returned to a full-time job in college coaching, while Villarreal said he would take time off after leaving UNT to evaluate the next step in his career.
None of the three guys getting full salary for doing nothing is looking for a new job! Weird, huh? They seem content to pull down all that money and not do anything.
Or, I mean, you know … It’s great to see Villarreal slowly chewing on that all-important next step…
It’s like university presidents on corporate boards. Nice work if you can get it.
… fashionably freezing
her ass off at a music
festival in Ireland.
Tweet from Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist Joel Benenson: “Polls drop. Trump dumps mgr. — S. Beckett: ‘There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.’”
However — UD has long argued that the urtext for the Trump phenom is Ubu.
We are seeing a very serious role reversal in the Clinton-Trump race. The very criticisms that men unfairly hurled at politically ambitious women are now actually true about Trump. The old stereotypes and attack lines for women have suddenly become part and parcel of who Donald Trump really is:
Who is the most emotional, off-the-wall, candidate? Donald Trump.
Who is shrill and flailing at his rallies? Donald Trump
Who has little knowledge or understanding of the issues confronting the country? Easy one, Donald Trump.
Who lacks basic competency in governing? Donald Trump, hands down.
Who routinely makes statements that lack credibility, don’t rely on facts and depend on his “mood” at the time? Yup, Donald Trump.
We shouldn’t necessarily believe the polling, [Trump’s] arguing, because Americans who intend to vote for Trump are too embarrassed to admit it when asked for their preference in surveys. Once you account for the fact that Trump supporters feel a sense of shame, and don’t want to acknowledge their true beliefs to pollsters, maybe he’s doing far better than the data suggests.
Is there anything to this? I doubt it – there was some chatter about this during the GOP primaries, but the polls tended to be pretty accurate – though it says quite a bit about Trump’s candidacy that he’s been reduced to reassuring partisans by telling them that he has secret supporters who don’t want to admit they’re voting for him.
In coming weeks more GOP leaders could decline to support [Trump]. The awkward pose of polite distance could turn into a stampede — or to change the metaphor, ships deserting a sinking rat.
A recent Science Friday investigated the absence of research studies of gun violence. Why does the CDC, for instance, shy away from supporting this sort of research?
The NRA “declined to come on the program,” but sent a statement complaining that researchers typically fail to mention positive outcomes associated with gun ownership, and only incorporate
“negative” outcomes such as suicide and/or homicides.
… jealous of Donald Trump’s success.
It’s been a way arty week for UD: A local production of The Drowsy Chaperone featuring her cousin; Bloomsday in Chestertown; piano/violin duets at my place with my friend Annie (Saint-Saens, The Swan; Schubert, Serenade; a stab at Mozart, Sonata No. 7); and, at the moment, a photography exhibit in DC – ‘eighties pix of The Smiths. (Here’s the book.) UD was dragged here
by her sister the Morrissey fanatic. (The photographer is the woman in the black dress/black shoes.)
The duets were initially nerve-wracking and then exhilarating. UD – a hopeless amateur at the piano – has never tried actually performing with another person, and Annie is a serious violinist. But UD accepted her invitation to play some pieces together, and it went pretty well. More importantly, UD experienced the great and somewhat astonishing pleasure of creating with another person celestial harmonies. She found herself thinking about a line from Albert Schweitzer — he recalls that when he was young something as simple as the two-part harmony in the song In The Mill by the Stream “thrilled me all over, to my very marrow, and similarly the first time I heard brass instruments playing together I almost fainted from excess of pleasure.”
