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Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com
Monday, December 08, 2025
Sunday, December 07, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Peter Attia: is there a tradeoff between strength and aerobic capacity?
- Jonathan Turley: The EU unleashes the DSA on X. This could be the end of the EU (Brexit was just the start). He's not wrong.
The College Playoff Committee Screwed Notre Dame
College Football Thoughts
Always find myself having these thoughts anyway and figured why not just write them down and share them on Substack.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Yesterday we went and got our Christmas tree and later I watched college football games while drinking beer and my girlfriend decorated the tree. We both got what we wanted. Plan to have a post with my college football thoughts later this morning.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Saturday, December 06, 2025
More Linky Links
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- EU fires a free speech warning at X. Have to wonder if this was a clumsy attempt by EU officials to get free "Blue Checkmarks" on their X accounts gone globally wrong?
- Harvest Now Decrypt Later (HNDL). Was unaware of this cyber threat. (HT Tim Ferriss)
- How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy recourses.
- How AI can actually increase employment - like in radiologists.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Newt Gingrich on the billion dollar theft in Minneapolis.
- From the archives: The Purpose of Technology.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Enjoy your championship Saturday of college football - I know I plan to. Too cold out for much work in the yard and only a few errands to run. Now for my first cup of coffee!
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Friday, December 05, 2025
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in truth.
More Linky Links
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- CNN's Jake Tapper skewered over calling DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. a "white man." That's OK Tapper will probably put his name on a book in a couple of years about how the Democrats and the media tried to deflect J6th blame onto white Republicans.
- More evidence of voter fraud and election interference coming from inside Venezuela.
- VDH: A Newsom nihilist nomination? Personally I'd like to see him run just to see other Democratic candidates bring up these points.
- NFL, union agree on new policy for picking playing surfaces. Met Life Stadium hardest hit.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Marco Rubio: America welcomes a new G20.
- Japan's new submarines are impressive.
- From the archives: You're Only as Good as Your Worst Day.
- Kevin Kelly with 12 assumptions about extraterrestrial life. Hard to argue he's wrong.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Trying not to get too worked up about the new Jan 6th pipe bomber news because I seem to remember just last month being told that the pipe bomber was a former female law enforcement officer now working for the CIA. Are we supposed to pretend that story never happened now?
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Thursday, December 04, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share,
- Are we on the verge of a new age in nuclear fission?
- From the archives: The Eisenhower Method.
- Dan Wetzel: CFB's calendar problem affects athletes more than millionaire coaches.
More College Football Thoughts
Even more college football thoughts and observations on coaching carousel moves and college football recruiting rankings. Never a dull moment.
Have these thoughts anyway and thought I'd write them down and share. Enjoy!
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Has there ever been a better way to make money in America than being named a target for Penn State's head football coach search? Candidates reportedly have signed $370 million in new deals with existing institutions. If the Nittany Lions did that for every American we could all have a very merry Christmas.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Wednesday, December 03, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- How NBA legend Michael Jordan is blowing up NACAR's monopoly. Excellent backstory to an important case.
- Wait - is this true or satire?
- Rand Paul's proposal to improve healthcare and lower costs.
College Football Thoughts
Some thoughts and observations after the latest playoff rankings and coaching carousel moves.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Did not address the question of if we are at war with Venezuela because I honestly don't know. Is Maduro still in power? Did he resign? I'll be monitoring that situation. Also did not comment on college football or the latest playoff rankings. Plan a post on that later today.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
The League
"In a widely lauded speech in New York in January 1922, Fielding Yost, head coach at the University of Michigan, said that paying men to play football 'robs the great American game of its greatest character-building qualities. The ideals of generous service, loyalty, sacrifice, and whole hearted devotion to a cause all are taken away. The game is robbed of the exhilarating inspiration of achievement merely for achievement's sake.'"
This quote seems quaint given the spectacle of Lane Kiffin abandoning Ole Miss in the midst of the school's greatest achievement to sign a $13 million per year contract with LSU. And Kiffin lacks the achievement of either SEC or national championships.
"At his [George Halas] suggestion, the APFA [American Professional Football Association] changed its name at an owners' meeting in Cleveland on June 24, 1922. 'I lacked enthusiasm for our name,' Halas wrote, because the word 'association' connoted minor league status in baseball. He suggested National Football League, explaining that baseball's National League was the sports most established, respected circuit. The other owners approved unanimously."
Some history I did not know. From John Eisenberg's The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH: The war in Ukraine - lots of questions but few answers. People can avoid the facts but not the reality.
- Dan Wetzel: Lane Kiffin is many things, but he's certainly no victim in move to LSU. He's not wrong. Fan of Wetzel's sarcasm.
- Keeping a close eye on AI. Everything in moderation - including AI,
- The case against an International Panel on Inequality. Socialism by another name is still socialism.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
We're at that strange time of year where the calendar says its December but its technically still Fall. Yet it's getting cold but it's really too early to be winter or Christmas season. It's like a seasonal DMZ. We really should have a name for this time of year.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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