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- True!

- Morgan Housel on Wild Minds. His new book is on my reading list.

- Kamala Harris' stepdaughter is promoting Hamas. Why am I not surprised?

- Admit I laughed.

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- Tonga eruption blasted unprecedented amount of water into atmosphere. "The sheer amount of water injected into the stratosphere was likely only possible because the underwater volcano's caldera."

- Northwestern expected to add Chip Holtz to staff on a temporary basis. Calling Skip Holtz a veteran coach makes me feel old.

- Evidence of Biden Burisma corruption is overwhelming. File under - no kidding.

- This may interest only me but Notre Dame just signed huge deal to remain with Under Armour.

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- VDH on if we've forgotten the Russian way of war. Maybe we have.

- Can't say he's wrong. Elon Musk calls Justin Trudeau a clown for blaming Muslim opposition on "right wing conspiracy." Trudeau is a clown. A dangerous clown.

- As mentioned before - Northwestern is getting sued by all sides in the hazing scandal. Oh what a tangled web Northwestern weaves.

- Springtime for AI. Have to admit I had not thought of this use for AI.

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- Heh Heh - now the 8 Northwestern students who claim they were the victims of hazing have hired legal representation. That endowment fund is going faster than I thought. Now now it seems like only the college President and AD are without legal representation. How long before they lawyer up?

- I think about this song and how prevalent it became in Hollywood often

- Alan Sepinwall of the new Justified miniseries.

- If you know your Bible this is both relevant and amusing

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- Freddie DeBoer on mental illness and therapy. Must confess that I find most people in the therapy cults to be the most despicable.

- Always bothered me that Northwestern decided to fire Pat Fitzgerald and none of his assistant coaches. Think calling him a scapegoat may be spot on.

- On a related note - former Northwestern assistant and former football head coach pens a letter in full support of Fitzgerald. It rings of truth.

- Tucker Carlson shores up his Twitter based show. Guessing he ends up making much more now that he's free of Fox News.

The Northwestern Fiasco

The Northwestern hazing scandal involving coach Pat Fitzgerald has the potential to be the slowly building storyline that overwhelms the entire college football season. The firing of Pat Fitzgerald has the potential to be a monumental milestone in the program's history. Let me be perfectly clear, nudity and sexuality have no place in modern college football. Don't think it ever did but I must say this story is bizarre.

Not a fan of reports from anonymous players being the basis of punishment for anyone. Also not a fan of the flames to this story being fed by the Daily Northwestern student newspaper. Sure the paper may be doing a great job but a student run paper is by definition not a bastion of professionals. Smacks of a woke university organ squaring off against a bastion of jocks. Sorry - not sorry.

A letter of support from the "entire team" that is signed by a reported 100 players in 3-hours? That also doesn't quite pass the smell test.

This scandal has the potential to empty the entire Northwestern endowment as rival Chicago law firms have a billable hour-fest. Also of mixed emotions on this but do know it would make compelling TV.

The reports are an ex-player was out to get coach Fitzgerald fired. One has to wonder if that player's not the child of Adam James by any chance?

Don't see any way University President Michael Schill survives the year. 

This could easily bleed over to other universities. Chances are the more highly ranked the school is academically the more vulnerable they will be. That's the way modern college football is run these days. Again sorry - not sorry.

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-  Peter Attia on the importance of taking charge of your own health. Take the message to heart.

- Interesting - Northwestern said to be considering reconsidering penalty on Pat Fitzgerald after new hazing info emerges. There's no place for sexual hazing in sports.

- Cluster Bombs are illegal yet the Biden White House insists on using them in Ukraine. Most illegal White House of my life.

- Jonathan Turley on why Mark Zuckerberg should release the Facebook Files in the same manner Elon Musk released the Twitter Files.