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Gender Detective...from 2012

and while I am at it, SNL 50 had a segment dedicated to skits that were done that they could no longer do. Most were gay-bashing. Kudos to them but I feel like they took the weapon out of anybody's hand who wanted to bring that up. Smart.

This, below, was considered to be parody in 2012 but is now true and common.

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Ohio State, the most BS "national champ" in 34 years

The historical comparison for 2024 Ohio State is probably 1990 Colorado. Colorado had a legitimate claim to #1 - until you examine their season carefully. Colorado, like Ohio State, had two non-wins: a loss to Illinois and a tie with Tennessee. Colorado, like Ohio State, had two screwjob "wins": one was the notorious Fifth Down against Missouri, and the other was the infamous phantom clipping against ND in the Orange Bowl. For Ohio State, the two screwjob wins in 2024 were Penn State and especially Nebraska.

I'm not a Notre Dame fan, but Rocket Ismail giving Lou Holtz the thumbs up, then scoring what should have been the winning TD, is seriously some of the coolest s*** ever.

I've recounted the PSU game before, but, to repeat briefly: the ridiculous standing up wrong penalty against Zion Tracy was worth 7 points; the Judkins fumble overturn was worth 3 points and probably more since PSU would have had the ball at the OSU 43; and the egregious and uncalled DPI by Caleb Downs on Dinkins on 4th and goal cost us another 4 plays from the 1 (and, remember, if not for the Tracy penalty and the Judkins overturn, Penn State would have been leading the game, not trailing by 7).

But the Nebraska game was even more ridiculous. Matt Rhule spent the entire game shaking his head at the laughably one-sided standards for officiating in that game. Go watch it yourself if you don't believe me. Uncalled false starts, uncalled holds, uncalled DPIs, a debatably correct catch overturn, a "winning" INT for Ohio State set up by an uncalled PI, an infamous bad spot (off by over a yard and a half) that cost Nebraska at least 30 seconds and a timeout ... that game had everything imaginable to get Ohio State to the playoff.

So that's the 2024 Buckeyes. They were the best team out of the 12 in the playoff, but they didn't deserve to be one of those 12.

And the problem is that as long as fans continue to have this attitude of, well, it doesn't matter what the refs do, you need to find a way to win, Big Ten officiating will continue to decline and the great favorites - Ohio State and Michigan - will continue to the benefit of the detriment of the sport. And don't believe for one minute it's coincidence that Michigan beat Ohio State but Nebraska didn't. Nebraska's defense held Ohio State to even worse rushing numbers but Michigan's the only team that will, in the Big Ten, consistently get reasonably two-sided officiating against Ohio State.

"You're killing our sport!" - Cael Sanderson

Eli Lilly to spend up to $27 billion in new domestic plants amid Trump tariff threat

Good to see a greedy corporation invest in America.

Will the unhinged left say, "THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP?"

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5164970-eli-lilly-27-billion-new-domestic-plants/

Drugmaker Eli Lilly plans to invest up to $27 billion to build four new pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in the U.S., the company announced Wednesday, a move that comes as President Trump is threatening import tariffs on pharmaceuticals.

The company said three of the future U.S. sites will focus on manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients. The fourth location will focus on injectable therapies.

Lilly said the sites have not been chosen yet, but the new locations will create 3,000 high-skilled jobs and employ 10,000 construction workers over the next five years.

Lilly previously invested $23 billion from 2020 to 2024 for new manufacturing sites in Wisconsin and North Carolina and expansions in its home state of Indiana.
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