Dan Marlin

@danmarlin.bsky.social

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Father, husband, son. He/him. Recovering Twitter user. Sports enthusiast. Politics dabbler.

A timely Soviet joke: A man comes to a newsstand every day, scans the front page, and leaves disappointed. One day the vendor asks what he's looking for. The man says an obituary. "But, Comrade, the obituaries are at the back." The man replies, "Not the one I’m looking for.
All NL Central teams are exactly one game apart
Soviet hockey team watching Team USA celebrate in Lake Placid in 1980
The Athletic reported last year that a company commonly used by colleges and professional sports teams had also operated more than half of ICE deportation flights. Miami-based GlobalX regularly shuttles deportees to Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and elsewhere, sometimes on the same planes that only hours or days earlier carried sports teams.
Bill Mazeroski celebrating while running the bases after hitting the home run that won the 1960 World Series
Third, he’s an effective bullshitter. Sorry for the technical language, but I can’t find another way to say it. Listen to Warsh on economic policy, and he throws around a lot of big words that presumably sound impressive to people who don’t know anything about the subject. But there’s no coherent argument behind the verbiage.
People holding up Mass Deportation Now signs at the 2024 GOP Convention
YA Tittle resigned and bleeding from the head
Panthers had an 88.8% chance to beat the Saints
Latkes!
In response to the Holy Roller, the league passed new rules in the off-season, restricting fumble advances by the offense. If a player fumbles after the two-minute warning in a half/overtime, or on fourth down at any time during the game, only the fumbling player can recover and advance the ball. If that player's teammate recovers the ball during those situations, it is placed back at the spot of the fumble, unless it was a recovery for a loss, in which case the ball is dead and placed at the point of recovery.
Graphic showing Eagles and Chargers second quarter incompetence
The Athletic headline: “As end nears, Aaron Rodgers reminds everyone that his toughness equaled his greatness.”
Missouri State vs Liberty looks like “Most Lib”
From Anchorman: "There were horses and a man on fire and I killed a guy with a trident."
“It was like this weird revolving door of people in and out of meetings,” the ex-staffer said. “They fired some GAs and QCs, and then realized they didn’t have enough help and called a couple of them to come back after having fired them.”
List of fake Nintendo player names
Fake NYT headline: Voters Rally Around Their Landlords, Seek Relief from Affordable Housing
Fake NYT headline: Government Contractors Decry 'Socialism' In N.Y.C. Mayoral Race
Fake NYT headline: Shock Photos Reveal 'Muslim' Mamdani Without Beard As Child
Worst person you know just made a great point meme
Morty Seinfeld wearing #1 DAD shirt
Rob Lowe wearing “NFL” hat
Anyway, here’s a thought about how millennials see the world. (Please don’t put in the newspaper that I am 12 billion years old.) My thought is pretty simple. It’s that millennials, more than any generation in living memory, experience the world primarily through contradiction. That is, I think most people, historically, have found it hard to hold two contradictory ideas in their minds at the same time. If it’s dark outside, it’s not light outside. If you’re rich, you’re not also poor. Millennials, by contrast, seem to find it natural to hold on to contradictory ideas simultaneously. The millennial gaze, to me, is characterized by a kind of double vision. The best way to grasp the truth of any situation is to see the opposites from which it’s made.
Ray Zalinsky from Tommy Boy pretending to be an “American working man”
Whiskey bottle — Hercules’ Mulligan Eyr & Rye
Weather from Sunday-Wednesday in the Upper Midwest. 40 and partly cloudy on Sunday, 57 and windy on Monday, 70 and sunny on Tuesday, 43 and snowy on Wednesday.
UCLA vs Nebraska in the women’s Big Ten Tournament, but the DirecTV description says “Omaha” instead of Nebraska
538 Trump approval rating showing him at +0.1 (47.8 to 47.7)
To invoke the will of the majority and claim that it had a right to decide anything it chose were the political ploys of a demagogue. Brenda Wineapple Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
A spreadsheet of the 8 remaining CFP scenarios.