🎨 Tubz 🛀 Unfiltered - Volume 53
Hippies Go Cray-Cray; NFL and CFB Recap; Shady Dealings by US Govt. Officials
Happy Monday, y’all!
Time names a Person of the Year each and every year, as I am sure you know, having done so since 1927. The first Person of the Year was Charles Lindbergh and the latest was Elon Musk (2021). Mixed in between: Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942), and Vladimir Putin (2007). Big ole yikes.
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New York Post: Protesters throw soup on Van Gogh’s iconic ‘Sunflowers’ painting
When protestors throw tomato soup — which is trash on its own except when paired with grilled cheese — on a painting and glue themselves to the floor, would you think that there is any connection between that and educating the masses on fossil fuel? Respectfully, that is a rhetorical question.
The kids, aged 20 and 21, one of whom appeared to get a hair dye kit from Lisa Frank, “are members of Just Stop Oil — a climate campaign group ‘working together to ensure that the government commits to ending all new licenses and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK,’ according to its website.”
Let me set the record straight: I am all for peaceful protesting, as every single one of us are afforded that right under the First Amendment. But these protestors should have consulted with someone, like an adult figure, about how to go about this the right way because there has to be a clear correlation between the actual act of protest and what you are protesting.
For instance, if I wanted Brewers owner Mark Attanasio to spend more money during the offseason, I would go near AmFam Field (going into the parking lot may be considered trespassing and I would like to remain a law-abiding citizen), blare some song about being broke, and proceed to picket like my life depended on it in hopes of embarrassing the 64-year-old and to get the juices flowing. Would it work? Don’t know unless you try, but I am at least sending a message.
Anyways, why did the young whipper snappers throw soup at a Van Gogh painting?
She said the soup was chosen as the damaging liquid of choice because Brits won’t even be able to heat up food this winter as the country faces a cost of living crisis.
I am not too familiar with life in England, but I feel like that might be an exaggeration. So, back to the drawing boards for the protestors, especially since what did Van Gogh do to them? Another rhetorical question, mainly because Van Gogh is six feet under.
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CFB RECAP
(13) TCU 43 (8) Oklahoma St 40: A double-overtime thriller in Fort Worth. TCU came back from a 24-7 deficit in the first half and a 30-16 deficit in the fourth quarter to move to 6-0. Love me some Sonny Dykes, the TCU head ball coach — he has the boys buzzin’ and I’m all for it as a resident Horned Frogs fan.
(20) Utah 43 (7) USC 42: Someone is going to have to get a wheelbarrow for the Utes HC Kyle Whittingham and his big ole cajones. Utah scored with under a minute left and instead of kicking the extra point to likely send the game into overtime, they lined up for a two-point conversion and QB Cam Rising (30/44, 415 yards, 2 TDs), who is a baller and a shot caller with 28-inch blades on his Impala, scampered into the end zone.
(6) Tennessee 52 (3) Alabama 49: FEELS LIKE ‘98! The Vols are 6-0 for the first time since 1998, the year they won the National Championship, after an all-time victory against the Crimson Tide. Alabama was penalized 17 times on Saturday, a record for a Nick Saban-coached team at Alabama, and Vols WR Jalin Hyatt caught six passes for 207 yards and 5 (!!) touchdowns.
The Tide had a chance to take the lead with 15 seconds remaining but missed a 50-yard field goal (Alabama kickers, man). On the ensuing drive, Heisman frontrunner QB Hendon Hooker (21/30, 385 yards, 5 TDs, 1 INT) completed one pass of 18 yards and then another of 27 yards, which set up the game-winning 40-yard field goal.
Once the K-Mart version of Eminem released the below banger earlier in the week, Alabama did not stand a chance.
NFL RECAP
Jets 27 Packers 10: The Packers are a bunch of sad sacks of sh*t. Not even respectfully.
Steelers 20 Bucs 18: Never count out the Pittsburgh Steelers. A 9.5-point underdog according to one sportsbook (no free ads), Steelers QB Mitch Trubisky stepped up in relief after Kenny Pickett exited the game due to injury, registering a 142.2 passer rating. He connected with wide receiver Chase Claypool with nine minutes left for the first touchdown scored by a Pittsburgh wide receiver this season. The Bucs scored later on, but Pittsburgh’s defense held its own on the two-point conversion.
Eagles 26 Cowboys 17: I went to bed at halftime because the Cowboys were getting embarrassed and because I am an old ass man trapped in a 30-year-old body. They ended up making it somewhat of a game in the second half. Former UW and current Dallas TE Jake Ferguson scored his first NFL touchdown. The Cowboys need Dak back. Hard hitting analysis that you will not see anywhere else.
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The National League Championship Series (NLCS) is set, with the worst seeds advancing, as the Phillies and Padres both won in four games against the Braves and Dodgers, respectively.
Houston advanced to the ALCS for the sixth straight season and await the winner of the Yankees and Guardians. Game 5 in that series is tonight (Monday) — 6:07 PM CST on TBS. The Astros are the first AL team in history to make six consecutive ALCS appearances. (The Oakland Athletics made five straight appearances from 1971 to 1975, and the Yankees made four straight appearances from 1998 to 2001.)
🤓 BATH TIME READING 🤓
WSJ: Government Officials Invest in Companies Their Agencies Oversee
Thousands of officials across the government’s executive branch reported owning or trading stocks that stood to rise or fall with decisions their agencies made, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
More than 2,600 officials at agencies from the Commerce Department to the Treasury Department, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, disclosed stock investments in companies while those same companies were lobbying their agencies for favorable policies. That amounts to more than one in five senior federal employees across 50 federal agencies reviewed by the Journal.
That seems problematic. Very problematic actually. But wait, it gets worse.
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