College football is culture.
How Is ESPN Doing?
The giant has fallen. But where did they land?
A Birthday Thought
What makes a loser?
Lou Holtz Also Started 1-3 at Notre Dame
Marcus Freeman is right on track.
Oh Yeah? Well Marshall’s the Best Program in College Football.
Hard to fault Notre Dame, really.
XX. Golden Hour
“These vapid gazes don’t prehend the grayer-colored sky.”
XIX. What Did You Do While They Were Gone?
“We didn’t touch the beach this year, but summer has its sands.”
XVIII. Upon the Return
“Nowhere have I seen a bigger sky.”
XVII. Moontowers
“I’m glad they held on long enough to be too old to go.”
XVI. Heat
“The sun in the oven left in way too long.”
XV. The Coming Home
“A call’s within these habits, within the rites of touching down.”
XIV. The Leaving
“It’s not much more than airport stores and one last sweat before the sky.”
XIII. Lake Austin, Lake Travis
“and there’s something ’bout a lake which makes it differ from a river”
XII. The Toll Roads
“Natural laws are natural laws.”
Unemployment, Inflation, and Shocks
The relationship between unemployment and inflation is in the discourse. It’s relevant, but it also misses the point.
XI. From Barton Springs to Stubb’s
“But still somehow, towards the ends of days, it gets a little naked.”
The IRS Is Paying For Your Uber (But It’s Worse Than That)
The IRS’s mileage reimbursement rate is an aggressive subsidy of tech, gas, and oil.
On Grandma Marlene
1935-2022