Any excuse to share my favorite meme of all time...

TIL there's a Brazilian steakhouse next to the B1G headquarters. Nice!

Now that I've read it all, I did like the article, as I think regression to the mean is for sure the biggest explanation of the Chiefs this year.

I see them turning things around to get to the playoffs, but it is hard to see them winning multiple playoff games, especially on the road.

Last year's blocked kick happened in KC

Chuck Klosterman, in his book about the '90s, offers the same thing, coupled with 9/11. However, he leaves it an open question how Gore would've responded to that event.

This whole thread has me just imagining Lairmore is Scully on the Stand

It's been so obvious this year how much better they are in short yardage this year compared to previous ones, which is even better in that it's being paired with going for it on 4th down a lot more.

Here in southern Brazil they do exactly that. It's pretty good!

but promotes an antisocial climate in which individuals become so enthralled with schemes for personal gain that they become blinded to the commonweal."

Hanson, Paul D.. A Political History of the Bible in America (pp. 17-18). /end

for without the sense of solidarity provided by a shared story, we feel no personal diminution through the loss of anonymous others, or in the case of humans on the other side of the globe, through the loss of anonymous millions!

Emotivism then does not promote lively public dialogue.../

if an inner-city child enters adulthood with a learning disability caused by exposure to lead paint or a young man on the other side of the tracks falls victim to gang violence, citizens (or should we call them “inmates”) neither hear the bell toll nor are they moved to action, .../

inasmuch as individual and affinity group stories promote a myopic vision of the world.

Rather than building bridges, they erect walls, and the casualty is the sense of neighborliness fostered by the traditional belief that “no man is an island.” In the world of “unencumbered” individualists, .../

and the affinity groups to which they belong.

Storytelling in the traditional epic sense of the etiology of an entire state or nation becomes an endangered genre. Serious consequences follow. The effort to identify the commonalities constitutive of group identity and purpose wane, ... /

for social reform and global equality.

Moreover, it would be inaccurate to view the ascendancy of emotivism as marking the end of the role played by stories in the formation of identity. What it does mean is that stories are narrowed down to private affairs within the lives of individuals ..../

Rather, it represents the most congenial philosophy for denizens of a new age who are enthralled with the immediate gratifications of a materialistic lifestyle, who celebrate emancipation from traditional duties and restraints, and who pursue personal advancement unhampered by concerns .../

So is the future to be conceded to emotivism? This must be taken very seriously by anyone concerned with the confusion that characterizes contemporary ethical thought, for the roots of emotivism run deeply in the culture. It did not triumph as the philosophy of choice by happenstance. /

If that consciousness has not been trained in virtue within the context of a clear definition of social values and commitment to a public notion of the common good (Aristotle’s telos), it is only as reliable as the whirling compasses of unfettered human hearts. [. . .]. /