The Beast

Also going away are some liberal arts programs from campuses as schools lose enrollment in them or students focus on more career focused curriculum. We need more programs that are career focused. What you did with working while getting your degrees made lots of sense. I worked throughout college but I think you had more responsibility the way that you went to school and the amount of work you did year round. I got to the professional world and worked as a generalist in a few fields and I am still thinking of going back to school while working a middle class job so I can have more job satisfaction and maybe avoid more corporate BS by working in health care. We will see. Either way, with automation and a changing workforce there will be more of a need for skills and actual professions as opposed to generalized degrees.

I’m starting to think that Nagy keeps his job if they win the last two games. Pat Fitzgerald? He shouldn’t be coaching in the NFL, it’s an entirely different beast than coaching at Northwestern.

When in the hell did this become about politics?

Good. Now create more of them for different occupations. Well, why not start with fixing loopholes so Amazon pays more in taxes? I don’t think Biden would go for a wealth tax aside from higher tax rates. I’m thinking Warren may be alone on that idea.

I remember the primary debates and I thought I would fit more in the Klobuchar camp with the reduced or free community college. I couldn’t get on board with Sanders or Warren with their proposals for college and Biden’s plan for college once he was the candidate seemed aspirational. I did read about the executive order that you mentioned and would think that some loan forgiveness tied to years of public or community service makes some sense, as does some reduction in student loan rates. I don’t know how something would get done through legislation and seem to think it would have to get done through an executive order.

It’s a nice idea, but how would something like it be implemented and would it be means tested? What were some proposals or arguments that you read on it?

Hahaha it was the first time I listened to him.

What are your top suggestions for semi sweet wines and IPAs this year? Going to Binny’s and could use suggestions. Even if it is not one of these two and is something new you have tried.

Adding it to my playlist for this afternoon, thank you for sharing! Edit: Nice slow beat piano tunes!

Yes, it sure seems like Pence will appeal mostly to the religious right and not the Trump base.

Levin was extremely angry and just ranting about how the election was stolen. Hewitt at least has something interesting to say even if I disagree with him on a lot. If there are other conservatives I should listen to that are better and are not peddling garbage to their base I’d be interested to listen to them. One thing I do notice is that they replay the same cuts over and over about Georgia and election fraud. Gee, I wonder why. Any shot of a 2024 run for Pence?

I have been listening to my normal podcasts lately and decided to listen to Mark Levin after listening to Kurt Schlichter backing up Hugh Hewitt’s show. Levin claimed that article 2, section one, clause 2 was eliminated by the Supreme Court not taking up an important election case. I don’t follow him because I don’t see what he is arguing in the section. Is Biden “illegitimate” because state legislatures changed the mail in ballot rules? I can’t really follow the why behind he is “illegitimate” from conservatives I have listened to.

https://youtu.be/StQJSjQjhlg

It’s hard to tell if it is staged or not. Shane and Tanny don’t seem to like Parkins either.

And now the pressure is on Mike Pence to announce the totals on January 6. I’ll take great joy if he has to announce who the president is then and will laugh at the BS shenanigans the Trumplican Congress will do.

Nat King Cole “The Christmas Song.” Small Town Titans “You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch” Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas album The True Value Christmas music CD that has older classics on it, like Perry Como and Jose Feliciano.

Bummer, I was looking at his draft results. Maybe Smith would be a better choice.

Wow, that’s an end of an era. Radio is such a volatile industry, I couldn’t take it. I wonder if this was more budget cuts because of COVID.

I would want to see what John Dorsey does as president and have him hire the GM who in turn decides what to do with Nagy and hires a coach. I don’t think the Bears need someone with fire as coach, there’s too many meatball fans in Chicago who have Ditka in mind and think that would work. One idiot called in the other day and wanted them to hire someone who worked within or played for the organization before since “he would know what being a Bear is all about.” Smith sounds fantastic, hopefully he gets hired by the Falcons.

The conservative show I listen to, Hugh Hewitt’s “The Rundown,” is focused on the Georgia elections and he is saying that Ossoff and Warnock are radicals, especially Warnock for some of his sermons. He plays those and Chuck Schumer saying “We will go win Georgia and we will change America!” His conservative listeners must be eating this garbage up and buying into the Democrats are socialists BS. The other moderate show I listen to, “Hacks on Tap” focuses on Trump, the election and current events. They did mention the electorate and the future of the two parties today on their episode. So I’m curious to know what shows you are listening to as I haven’t heard stuff about being focused on the bogus lawsuits and not the elections.

Thought I would share since this interview made my day.

Is he better than Colome? Would they sign anyone else for the pen or are they set?

Good trade in that they got Lynn and got better. Crappy trade in that Dunning was dealt with several years of control. Good trade because Lynn is needed more than Dinning, who didn’t look amazing last year. Good, not great. Hopefully the Sox spend more money to bring in another starter and players worth a shit (not Gio Gonzalez, Edwin Encarnacion, etc.)

Who would you hire if you were George and Virginia for coach, GM and team president?

I wish I understood why they just took one year flyers on players instead of signing them to multi year deals. Eaton is a poor man’s version in right field. What happened to the days where you would have someone like Dye or Ordonez manning RF for most of the year? Instead they sign a platoon guy? What the fuck? Hopefully Anderson gives it back to him if he’s a little b**** in the clubhouse. I used to like Eaton before all of the Frazier/La Roche crap. If he is in decline I hope this isn’t another one of the deals where he is DFA’d before the year is up. He also better not get fucking hurt and instead have a good year.