Rivalry Week

Michigan State's biggest game of the year is against Michigan, and they didn't show up.  But, I grew up rooting for the Maize and Blue, and frankly, I still like watching them beat the Buckeyes.

Yesterday, I went to the Apple Cup with a friend of mine from work.  The Huskies definitely had a disappointing year, but it was a fun game.  I do like Husky Stadium.

Go Blue!

Happy Thanksgiving

Yesterday I tried apple pie with cheddar cheese on top for the first time ever.  The cheese was scarcely noticeable, but not bad. 

Just, FYI.

Two Posts in One Day?!

But I think it's interesting, that anytime anybody right now is critical of the current President, he or she is dubbed a "never trumper," even when that individual is an advisor to the current Vice President.  This embarrassment of a President needs to go.

Read in the Comment Section of Balloon Juice

And, so, so apparently accurate:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Busy Week in DC

I've been busy with my Master's Program, so I haven't been writing as much, but I have definitely been paying attention to he hearings on impeachment, the Roger Stone conviction, and the President's pardons of three soldiers who have no business being pardoned. 

I can't believe that this is where we have progressed as a country, that one party is so desperate to hold power that they would abandon their claimed sets of principles to prop up a guy who is so obviously, painfully inept at the job and who so clearly is more interested in advancing his own interests than those of the country.  It's shameful, and I don't understand how any of their personal sets of ethics allow for them to do so.

Freaking Spartans

That is all.

Oh Dear Lord, No

The NFL should not move a team to London.  This is a bad, bad idea.  I know that you want to increase your international footstep, but if we have seen anything, it's that Europe is disiniterested in American-style football. 

Oh, and Gordon Sondland had his memory jogged by other testimony that he read.  He now confirms that there was a quid pro quo.  This, of course, is a surprise to nobody who has paid any attention to the evidence available to the public, but it's an important moment because it undercuts the President's and the Republican's arguments that there was none. 

It'll be interesting to see the spin for the rest of the week on this.

Home Brew

It turned out!  It's supposed to be an Irish Red, but I used the wrong yeast, so it's more like a Belgian amber.  i'd show pictures, but I haven't loaded any onto my laptop. 

In other news, Huskies are having an off year. 

And the Gordon Ramsey AT&T commercial is the best of the year ("Use the cocktail stick!")