I would pay really good money to be able to take my kids to a Pizza Hut Classic and have them sign up for BookIt! And play coin-operated Asteroid while we wait for our waitress to bring our drinks.
So apparently my hometown Pizza Hut (where my dad still lives) has rebranded as Pizza Hut Classic. They brought back the old interior, the old logo, and so the lunch buffet again, even cups. Didn't know this was a thing, tried to capture as much of the aesthetic as I could here.
That time Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter were doing a live TV segment and David Ortiz purposely interrupted by running the bases and yelling “third deck” like he had just hit another homer at Yankee Stadium 😂
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Sec. Marco Rubio just OBLITERATED Sen. Rosen (D)'s lies
ROSEN: You were at a PARTY instead of helping JD Vance negotiate with Iran!
RUBIO: "You don't know what you're TALKING ABOUT! I know your staff wrote up this CUTE statement for TikTok, but it's NOT TRUE. And it's not real. That's NOT what happened."
"I was not at a party. If people are going to SLANDER me. I'm going to answer it!"
"You're 100% inaccurate and 100% wrong. Here's why. Number one, the vice president of the United States was there...Mr. Witkoff, the president's envoy, and Mr. Kushner, were the team [Trump] sent to Pakistan. I was NOT at a party. I was next to the PRESIDENT."
"Because in the midst of those negotiations, I was in communications with them. And in fact, I think there is media reporting from that evening on how multiple occasions I went into a back room. I came back out and spoke to the president and was constantly updating him."
"On that evening, I spoke to Mr. Kushner and our negotiating team and Mr. Witkoff on at least SIX occasions, including twice on a secure line from the phone they had access to over there!"
"I'm the national security advisor and secretary of state. I was co-located with the president in the midst of a high stakes negotiation so that I could immediately inform him about events occurring halfway around the world."
"I was where I needed to be at that moment because we had a very capable team on the ground in Pakistan, led by the vice president, led by the vice president of the United States."
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The next player who hits a home run, starts running at contact and just drops his bat, circles the bases at a reasonable pace with his head mostly down and afterward heads to his dugout to maybe high-five his teammates without some choreographed BS and "acts like he's done it before" ... is my new favorite player.
Yes, I'm old.
But this crap is getting ridiculous.
Really appreciate all the mid major Division 1 schools reaching out too current players on our roster without contacting our staff first. You all are a class act.
If it keeps up am going to start putting your programs on blast for everyone to see on social media.
A church in Nantucket has CANCELLED its annual 4th of July reading of the Declaration and Bill of Rights after 25 years. The reason? Its leaders now believe the founding documents were bound up with the ideas of "whiteness" and have been "unequally applied" across American history.
But the church forgot the most important part.
It's true that the promises of America weren't applied equally: Slavery, Jim Crow, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the denial for generations of women's voting rights.
But what CHANGED all that? What philosophies and documents did brave pioneers like Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. utilize to fight these injustices?
Our founding documents. The very documents that this church is now calling problematic. They're not the problem. They're the solution. We must live up to them, not change them to fit our current worldviews.
The Curt Cignetti College Football 27 cover looks like the poster for a 1994 Disney movie in which a recently divorced NFL head coach decides to coach an underachieving high school team of misfits as a way to reconnect with his son who's grown distant after his parents split up.
My word. This is incredible. A real-life version of that scene from The Life of Brian: "Stan, you haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!"
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Meet Kamryn Penny, of Charlotte NC.
In January, he was shot in the back during a robbery, which paralyzed him from the waist down.
Doctors gave him less than a 1% chance of ever walking again in his life.
He just walked across the stage to receive his high school diploma! ❤️
Alabama & Georgia are the only schools to have their teams make the CFP, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Softball, and Baseball Tournaments in the 2025-26 school year
That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.
Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.
The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.
Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.
Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.
So let me get this straight…
Spencer Pratt runs on cleaning up the streets of Los Angeles, fixing the homeless crisis, making sure reservoirs and fire hydrants actually have water, saving dogs and making LA safer and cleaner for everyone…
…and the media calls that “MAGA”? 🤔
Since when did wanting functioning infrastructure, safe streets, and competent leadership become controversial?
Shouldn’t that be the goal of EVERY politician regardless of party?
I guess some people would rather hand out free stuff while cities continue falling apart.
We didn’t need restaurants, bars, clubs, breweries, and extra curricular activities outside the stadium because the game itself was enough. All we needed was a road to get there and a parking lot.