Sir….the Japanese World Cup tourists discovered Texas Roadhouse and are calling it the "best cost-performance steak"

The World Cup absolutely mogs every other sporting event. It’s what the Olympics wishes it was X100. You’ve got Europeans road-tripping across America and having their minds blown by Buc-ee’s and Bass Pro Shops. You’ve got a small Kansas town falling in love with an Algerian club that chose Kansas City as their homebase. You’ve got South Korea training in Utah to prepare for the altitude in Guadalajara. For one month, the whole world forgets we’re supposed to hate each other over differences that barely matter. It’s the closest thing we have to world peace.

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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Best tweet of the last 24 hours right here. Maybe the month.

The 4 types of college essays

Truth be told, we need *more* standardized testing, not less. But instead of the results measuring schools, they should measure individuals only, such that students must be held back or don’t graduate until they pass the necessary standardized exam(s)

Well this is jaw dropping… As a tomboy growing up who loved sports and throwing the football with my father, there is no way so many of us wouldn’t have been caught up in this mess. Creating mass psychosis and medical patients out of normal childhood development is a devastating practice.

All four justices on the Seventh Court of Appeals in Texas are Texas Tech graduates.

The schools are not going to go broke paying 20M’s a year(NCAA settlement) to athletes. The boosters are doing the heavy lifting in regard to NIL. FSU’s big money booster pool is much smaller than many of their rivals’.

Incredible quote from Big 12 coach in @DanWetzel's column on the Sorsby ruling: [Link to column below]

The schools won't go bankrupt because billionaire boosters are spending a few tens of millions (vacation money for them) on players. This can go on a lot longer because those pockets are very, very deep.

Perhaps the most obvious example of the Nobody Deserves the Negative Consequences of their Own Actions Era we've seen yet.

Exhibit 43567 on how imbalanced the playing field is at this point in terms of NIL and personnel, and there's no fix in sight. #FSU fans upset about football recruiting & personnel should also take note: this is systemic; it's not just about a single coach.

This is ludicrous. At some point, a sport needs to be able to enforce its own rules. Otherwise, what's the point?

Finally getting my head around the surface of the water after a school year that tested my stamina greatly. Apologies to all those who have emailed me in the last six months to three years and are still awaiting a response

Just learned that _Paul and the Resurrection of Israel_ is on sale at Amazon for $24.65, which is the cheapest I've ever seen it. Take advantage! Buy an extra few as gifts! amzn.to/4ogr5io (affiliate link)

They say players in the modern NBA don’t play defense What in the world are you supposed to do with this?

My dumb idea of the day: We should establish something like birthstones, but for men. Instead of each month getting a gemstone, each month gets assigned a cut of meat. January: New York Strip February: Filet Mignon March: Porterhouse And so on. You’d ask a guy his birthday and instead of saying, “Oh, you’re an amethyst,” you’d say, “Ah, February. Filet Mignon. Sensitive, expensive, and a little smaller than expected.” I can hear the commercials already “Celebrate his birth month with the timeless elegance of brisket.”

There's still a full second on the clock when the ball hits the ground on that drop in the end zone. Absolutely should have been an extra play.