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THE HOT SEAT (a book about college football, Jim Harbaugh, American society, and existing as a human being) is available now anywhere books are sold!
New Jersey swamplandpublicaffairsbooks.com/titles/ben-mat…Joined January 2010

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they need to un-ban meat and fire for this one, for sure
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Fun nugget in this piece I just edited: it got so bad someone proposed banning meat, drink or fire to make more deadlock unbearable. washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor
My wife and I will get deeply annoyed at how much our oldest (boy/girl) kids "fight" (whining, yelling, light pushing) and then we'll hang out with a family with > 1 boy and within 15 minutes someone gets punched square in the face or tackled at full speed into asphalt
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The stream of profanities I mutter when someone starts talking about their daughters sitting quietly and playing without punching each other or running headfirst into walls twitter.com/owojeloche/sta…
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Who are the major Serious Public Figures (business, politics, etc.) who are known to have participated in college acapella ... Jon Ossoff, who else
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This one reminds me of “men won’t stop to ask for directions!”, which is something that you don’t hear about as much anymore.
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Roughly 1 in 3 Americans (32%) – including nearly half of men (46%) – are confident they could safely land a passenger airplane in an emergency situation, relying only on the assistance of air traffic control. Just 1 in 5 women say the same. today.yougov.com/topics/politic
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Watching pro cornhole on ESPN2 on the plane. These guys are elite. Hitting the board like almost all the time. One guy is wearing headphones and does like ten seconds of focused breathing before each throw.
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An emotional C.J. Stroud: "You want to win things like this. It means a lot. Me and Coach Day, we get up early and are on the phone constantly. It’s tough. My mom, she goes through a lot. Coach Day’s wife goes through a lot. I don’t regret anything. I don’t take anything back."
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You’ve got to pump it up don’t you know pump it up. You’ve got to pump it up don’t you know pump it up. You’ve got to pump it up don’t you know pump it up. You’ve got to pump it up don’t you know pump it up. You’ve got to pump it up don’t you know pump it up. You’ve got to pump i
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