Yeah, NC and TX coworkers have been sources of several horror stories.

The Virginia DMV Real ID process is pretty reasonable. I've heard Kafkaesque stories from folks in other states about multi-cycle just-one-more-document runarounds and appointments it's impossible to get without driving three counties away or waiting three months.

I think they were both sort of modulating toward each other's tone at that point, but Gabriel would lie about it if you asked him.

Also, expecting coherence from prog rock plots is a mistake I refuse to make.

This and the IL still get me every time. "They can do a 10-day assignment to the International League now?"

Can't say I'd be thrilled about that for my kid's friend who either has to resign his South Korean citizenship before he turns 18 (with no guarantee of acceptance of the resignation), serve as a draftee there for 18 months, or avoid the country where half his relatives live for the rest of his life.

Don't tell me you never walled a Sim in.

I still can't believe VT actually prepared and executed.

Because the mystification narrative gets them out of the less comfortable truth that their ideas aren't universally appealing and they'll have to develop strategies for dealing with that?

There's a few UVa alumni that'll be sizing up extradition hideouts on the trip, don't you worry.

The question Kentucky had to answer on Stoops is "can he change, and if he can, does he want to change here?" He's younger than I thought, but I don't know that I'd be confident in a yes to either one of those.

Wonder whose home for wayward quality control assistants he winds up at next year.

place notably connected with the Mormon and Polynesian pipelines… central Pennsylvania?

I hate the superiority complex that the "University of"s lord over their State/Tech/A&M siblings with a service mission for obvious reasons, so Sparty's high-profile institutional commitment to terrible, stupid decisions infuriates me. STOP VALIDATING YOUR ENEMIES' WORST CARICATURE OF YOU!

Ugh. Sorry Sparty. The kind of thing that makes you decide there are better things to do on Saturdays for a while.

With what LSU looks like right now? There's no other way for an LSU run to end, for anyone.

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Worse than that was legal all night in Charlottesville in front of Chandler Morris.

Boise, Dallas and Bakersfield, right?

Boise is the hardest one to explain. Dallas was to take Texas off the table as a source of reclamation forces, Bakersfield was putting down a likely center of internal revolt.