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Ian Campbell
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Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.

History 47%
Political science 31%

I simply cannot imagine Whittingham delivering a performance like we had against USC this year.

I think this is right and I also think we would probably have been a playoff team if we’d had Whittingham this year.

We are treating children kindly and indulging our friends’ curiosity even if we do not fully understand it

Fellas we are having a Jack Aubrey 2026

We are doing our duty, wherever it may lead

We are showing genuine appreciation for the arts

We are accepting responsibility

We are offering our fellowship to others and begging forgiveness when we fail

We are having a Jack Aubrey 2026

It is time to drink two (2) cocktails and watch Master and Commander

Even more lawlessness than is the norm for Boxing Day. Screen time limits do not exist and if you wanna eat only Goldfish crackers? Kiddo, you go ahead and help yourself.

Also my top criterion for a new coach is "does not know what OnlyFans is" and he crushes that one.
Kyle Whittingham’s the highest floor available, scandal-free, good stylistic fit, and should give us the chance to decide for ourselves when we’re searching for a coach next. If he wants to come it’s a good outcome.

It’ll be nice to have a grown up at the helm again.

Kyle Whittingham’s the highest floor available, scandal-free, good stylistic fit, and should give us the chance to decide for ourselves when we’re searching for a coach next. If he wants to come it’s a good outcome.

It’ll be nice to have a grown up at the helm again.

Perhaps no being has ever wanted bacon more than our friends’ dog

I gotta say there’s something about a third “scam likely” call on Christmas Eve that’s incredibly fucking depressing.

Inner monologue whenever I’m breaking down chicken wings

That said, when you do her process, it works consistently. Dark chocolate ice cream with crystallized ginger is in the freezer for Christmas Day and the texture is…exceptional.

Ugh so sorry. Hope you feel better soon.

The In-N-Out double double with fries offers exactly 970 calories of lunch, which is perhaps 70 more than recommended but should still work.

Love the Jeni’s Splendid cookbook but her process does seem to assume that you employ a full-time dishwasher.

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"if all else fails, go bother one of the local apex predators and maybe they’ll fix the problem for no reason"

Re: last post, it’s RFK and killing USAID that I will never be able to understand, let alone forgive. You have the means to save a child’s life, and with it a whole world, and you don’t do it? You actively stop doing it? Monstrous behavior.

Hell would be too good but it’s an acceptable start.

He’s better now, thank God.

I think, though, of the generations of parents who watched their child spike a very high fever and develop a cough, and who couldn’t do a thing but wait and pray. It’s an awful, helpless feeling.

That’s the world RFK Jr and the monsters enabling him want to return to.
Ugh, my poor kid has pneumonia. And apparently there’s so much demand for antibiotics right now that they could only give us three days of amoxicillin to start. Should all work out but God, this sucks.

Initially disgusted by this but I think it’s actually so kinky that I’ve wheeled around to a feeling of strange respect

This really works until they get into late elementary school and the shoe is on the other foot.

ME WINNING: well, buddy, we can't always win in life and we need to manage our feelings about that.
ME LOSING: this fucking sucks. What the fuck

Score a hundred points, smash the KenPom margin, simple game.

Michigan busting out a pretty decent full court press in a buy game for…fun apparently?

Yet another year of googling “wrap a present Wikihow” and still not doing a very good job

People need to be REALLY vigilant with what Tucker Carlson and JD Vance are saying about the Middle East right now. Their reasons for being critical of the Israeli government are Not Good.

This is not a broken clock being right twice a day. This is anti-Semites finding marks. Don’t be a mark.
people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

I am reaching levels of libbing out previously thought impossible
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Also FWIW it’s not at all clear to me that eg Duke would be holding up better than JMU is right now