Bartimaeus

We drafted *literally* only backups, with the possibility of one ILB drafted in the 5th round who might start because we're so bad and have been so bad for years at ILB. This is a team that, although obviously flawed, went 13-3 with a brand new head coach and made it the NFCCG last year. I must admit I do not understand the strategy here - or maybe I do, because it awfully looks like we're pre-emptively slamming the door on the Aaron Rodgers era for no good reason and simply planning for 3 years down the line. Aaron Rodgers was not fantastic last year, but he was pretty good, especially once you realize how many TDs our RBs leached from him after he drove to the red zone because our receiving corps was trash and couldn't separate or catch in the red zone.

You can beat that same old drum all you want, but it's never rang more false than right now with the malevolent, two-bit lunatic we have. Biden is unlikely to be a good (...or comprehensible) president or leader, but I will gladly take "not good" over the malicious madness we've been experiencing. And I say that as someone who strongly believed in and supported a much more moral and intelligent man, and as someone who convinced a number of friends and family members (including some lifelong conservatives) to vote for him in a stupid, useless primary.

Packers will conclude their laughably terrible draft that makes no sense whatsoever today. Our first three picks have all been drafted to become backups, so I'm excited to see these later round picks be so bad that they're expected to all miss making the team at all the first year.

My initial reaction was "lmao", but then I actually read the article and instead got sad. The poor man had no part in the decision to drink it besides the fact that he continued to love and trust his psychotic wife, and the wife killed him in return by giving it to him without telling him (and mixed it into soda to hide its presence).

Photographer happened to capture Trump's disinfectant and UV "lightbulb" moment (yes, this is a real photo).

He should practice what he preaches.

I'd like to take this time to notify everyone that if you type ":p" with a lowercase "p", you get a "" instead of a "", which is what you get when you use an uppercase "P" in ":P". I think we can all agree that "" looks a hundred times better and more dignified than the weird emoji-like "". I would also like you to know that I will be silently judging you if you continue to use "" after learning this.

I have a friend who works at an OfficeDepot, says he's had to 'yell at' customers (whatever that actually means since obviously literally yelling at customers would never happen in retail) many times over the last month to respect people's personal space, including his own, and not sit on workspaces, etc. Has anyone ever seen one of those "list of insane laws that are never enforced that prohibit something suspiciously very specific"? That's because somewhere, sometime, people were dumb enough to do those suspiciously specific things, and the state didn't want any part of having to protect such idiots for such brazenly stupid behavior. I hate seeing personal liberties infringed upon, too, but there are way too many irresponsible, uncaring, unsympathetic morons that will unfortunately do brazenly stupid things that endanger the rest of us if there are no consequences. They still are even now, but there are less of them, and a few of them have had to face consequences for it. In a situation like this where such restrictions obviously chafe on *everybody*, I feel pretty comfortable saying that those restrictions will not last forever, but if that's not the case and a few years down the line this crap is still going on, you can say "I told you so" to all of us, Guard Dog. (e): For goodness' sake, I even have that friend that works at a local hospital, and even she has said that it has been nearly impossible to get her coworkers to not needlessly touch other or get up in each other's personal space. These are health professionals that work in the field, have seen footage of hospitals in other areas and seen how bad it is, who should absolutely know better, and many of them are *still* being idiots and not treating it seriously. They should be thankful that their governor pre-emptively called for a stay-at-home order before it started getting really bad, because it likely saved at least a couple of their hides (plus an insane amount of work even if not), but that's not how many of them see it. They just see it as people "overreacting" and them being infringed upon.

For the most part, I would not consider it either appropriate for or really even comprehensible to children - maybe young teen (somewhere in the 10-13 range) at the earliest. It's a really messy show that's all over the place in terms of subject matter, maturity, quality of writing, consistency of characters, etc. It's the nature of shows that have very different types of writers from episode to episode: some writers will have your characters act out-of-character and/or unreasonably stupid/weird/immature, or manifest new traits that are immediately discarded, just for the sake of a gag, while others have like a perfect idea of how characters and the world should behave and will write strictly within that framework to make some legitimately great and fully-realized episodes. Those better (IMO) writers also tend to write overarching story and character arcs over the length of a season or two that lend verisimilitude and depth to the world and its characters. Why they let these two types (and others) work on the same show, I really don't know. It was a frustratingly inconsistent show for most of its run because I never knew what I was going to get from episode to episode, and there were times where you'd get a few legitimately great episodes in a row and think the show was turning a corner followed up by a cliff-fall to just the stupidest crap. The show did get better and more consistent once its creator, Pendleton Ward, stepped down after season 5, and I'd say the first couple of seasons especially mostly just feel like random silly nonsense a la some random saturday morning cartoon meant for children (albeit with some weird subversive elements that sometimes work and sometimes don't). I would personally have difficulty recommending it due to its all-over-the-place and constantly shifting nature, but there are certainly fanatics out there that insist it's the best show to ever be made (...that I think are probably crazy).

I was going to say "color palette and animation style reminds me a lot of Adventure Time, only this show looks even more unpleasant in subject matter than Adventure Time was", but then it actually said "from the creator of Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward" right in the video and I was like "oh". Guess that makes sense.

So close to 9/11 on a single day...and some of these states are starting to reopen.

Samurai Jack. I'm halfway through season 1. Though slightly inconsistent, it's been pretty good. Enjoying it so far, don't know if I'll be able to watch 5 seasons of it, though.

Well, let's see, teams ahead of the Cowboys possibly looking for QBs... 1. Bengals for sure (almost certainly Burrow). 2. Maybe Redskins, but they might want to give Haskins another year...or they might Cardinals it in favor of getting a new guy. 3. Probably not the Lions, but there was some talk of them moving Stafford this past off-season, you never know. 4. Dolphins are certainly a strong possibility, especially since Josh Rosen seemingly appeared DoA every since he was drafted, and apparently the current plan is for Fitzmagic to keep starting. 5. Chargers absolutely need a QB, strong possibility of them taking one. 6. Panthers just signed Teddy Bridgewater for a year (or was it two?), probably won't draft one high but you never know. 7. Browns, whatshisface had a pretty big sophmore slump, but I'd expect them to give him at least one more year. 8. Sam Darnold on the Jets also probably gets one more year. Bengals (#1), Dolphins (#5), and Chargers (#6) seem like the most likely QB-takers in front of you, with small chances from a number of other teams. Hard to leapfrog them without selling the farm, too. Yeah, doesn't look great. There's also a a possibility of another team like the Patriots leapfrogging you, especially with their three third round picks. No, I think you're stuck with Dak, especially knowing Jerry Jones who loves "his guys" and has no interest in drafting his replacement already. As for the Packers, it's back to drafting projects we hope turn out in the 30s/upper 20s for us...

I have grown more and more anti-corporate and pro-union over the years, and it seems like there's a solid section of the population that feels the same way that doesn't feel like the Democrats represent them to any meaningful degree (and, of course, considering the Republicans would be a joke)...among for other reasons. So no disagreement from me there.

Yeah, it's kind of dumb, the Democrats are basically demonized for two big wedge issues: abortions and guns...and maybe immigrants as a third and lesser one? They're not going to drop the abortions thing anytime soon, but I wonder how much more or less support the party would get if they dropped the guns issue and took some left turns in a number of other areas.

Yeah, platformers like Celeste are way more my style, so that probably explains why I can't get into it.

I've actually been pretty terrified for Taiwan virtually all of Trump's administration, as he has signaled various times that he has little to no interest in helping defend allies. Don't know if he's said anything about specifically Taiwan, but this would seem to be the prime time for China to get away with something like taking Taiwan while the U.S.'s interest in protecting allies is seemingly at its weakest.

Everyone and their mom seem to love that game, but I forced myself to play it for like two hours and the controls were just so clunky and floaty that I could never get into or enjoy it.

I think I watched the first couple seasons some years ago and thought, "hey, this is actually...alright", but by the time I got to the third one, I'd really had my fill, since the format pretty fundamentally stays the same and there weren't any particular characters that I loved that were driving me to keep watching. I wanted to watch something silly, so I've been watching My Life as a Teenage Robot from the early 2000s, which I only ever saw a tiny bit of when it first aired way back when. Apparently, there were three seasons, but they only ever aired two...and I'm not really sure why, since it's actually quite good, especially for an early 2000s cartoon. I've been very much enjoying it and it's difficult to see myself not finishing the three seasons pretty quickly here. Now wondering if there are any other good ones from this era...

A new peak of 2,500 deaths was reached yesterday.

Sacred laws, institutions, and traditions that "guarantee" that we'll always be some semblance of a "stable democracy" only function so long as people are willing to uphold them, and Congress as a whole has been utterly abdicating its responsibilities and duties to the executive for many, many years now.

Oh, all of us Americans have a cancer all right...