David Robinson

[David Robinson @david_robi45630]

@No3sports @PeteNokos A suspension is absolutely ridiculous. Get the damned women out of the football competition arena.

[David Robinson @david_robi45630]

@RomaroMiller You’ve played on that field (but it wasn’t bowled in) do you think the wind may have caused Trinidad some problems? Some of his throws were behind the receiver.

[Joey @joeylevet]

@SportBeatTweet

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Parkinson’s Law – Why the State Bureaucracy Grows When the Work Shrinks

In 1955, a British naval historian wrote a joke for The Economist. Seventy years later, it remains one of the most accurate descriptions of the modern state ever written. Everyone knows the slogan: work expands to fill the time available. Almost no one knows the mechanism underneath it. That mechanism explains Europe.

1. The evidence. Between 1914 and 1928, the Royal Navy lost two thirds of its largest warships. Over the same years the Admiralty – the office that ran the ships – grew by three quarters. There were fewer ships and more men behind desks. Then there was the Colonial Office, which kept growing while the colonies left one by one. It was hiring while the empire was shrinking.

2. The first mechanism. An official who feels overworked has three choices. He can resign, he can share the work with a colleague, or he can ask for two subordinates. He never chooses the colleague, because a colleague is a rival. Two subordinates are a rank. So one tired man becomes three. Then each of the two subordinates feels tired.

3. The second mechanism. Seven people now do what one did, and they keep each other busy with drafts, approvals, and comments on the approvals. Everyone works hard, and nothing is produced. You have been in this meeting. You have been copied on this email. You have watched three people sign the form that one person filled in.

4. The law of triviality. Parkinson noticed that a committee will approve a nuclear reactor in minutes, because nobody understands it. The same committee will debate the bicycle shed for an hour, because everybody does. Bureaucracy does not avoid the important question by accident. It avoids it by design – the small question carries no risk, and on the big one, someone’s name goes on the decision.

5. The ratchet. A business that fails closes. A department that fails gets a bigger budget, because the problem is now bigger. Failure is the bureaucracy’s best argument for itself. This is why the state never shrinks on its own: every problem it does not solve becomes a new office for solving it.

6. The civilizational lesson. Burnham described the managers taking over. Parkinson showed how they breed. Put the two together and you get Brussels. You get France, where the state spends more than half of everything the country produces and still cannot fix a hospital. This is not because the people inside are wicked. It is because the machine works exactly as Parkinson said it would.

7. The vindication. Parkinson was dismissed as a humorist. Then Milei cut Argentina’s ministries in half – and the country did not collapse. It barely noticed, except on the bill. The lesson is simple: you cannot reform a bureaucracy by asking it what to cut. It will always propose to cut the ships – and hire someone to manage the cut.

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

Today, my attorney defended me against a bogus protective order filed by Jeanetta Brantley, the woman who created the fake SeaTow transcript connected to the Nolan Wells case. I wrote an exclusive about the audio and transcript, and the fact that it was being weaponized against INNOCENT young men being accused of murdering Nolan Wells.

Multiple people were there today, including activist Candice Matthews. Court was reset for October 13th. I will be at the courthouse on that day.

It is ironic that I am being accused of harassment while they display behavior like this for clicks and views. They will not intimidate me or use lawfare to silence me. And I have the best attorney for the job.

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

This case is insane.

- Two had zero contact with her (white)
- One accused of kissing her (Latino)
- One oral sex (Asian)
- Three had intercourse (1 black, who is also accused of hitting her and bruising her), 1 Latino, 1 indeterminate)

What is Letitia gonna do?

https://t.co/FMNgaFmMLH

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

CRIS COLLINSWORTH: So the rain’s pouring, I’m covered in mud and Jac’s got the flashlight. I finally jimmy open the casket with a crowbar and I drive that stake right into his heart, Mike. Well, would you believe the darn guy’s not even a vampire?

MIKE TIRICO: Goff gains two.

[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

Collinsworth- “Man how about these Flock cameras? I’m glad they didn’t have those in November of 1986. I hit a guy with my Buick outside of Portland. It was pouring rain. I never saw him. Still don’t know if he lived.”

Tirico- “Goff’s pass is incomplete.”

[No3 Sports @No3sports]

Lane Kiffin parties with frat members after big win against McNeese state 🔥

[Bobby @RealBlackIrish]

A guy on tiktok posted a video of himself clearing tree debris from a path, and asked people to list other random acts of Whiteness in the replies…

[Sovey @SoveyX]

What really happened after the State Dinner.
The lost Xi camera roll has been found.

[Nick Plumb @PlumbNick]

When you hear “Baptist hospital in Montgomery, Alabama,” is this the residency class you picture?

Broken laws got us to the point where we have a doctor trained at the Government Medical College in Bhavnagar, India leading a residency program where 23/24 residents are foreign med school grads.

[David Robinson @david_robi45630]

@EverythingRebs Apparently it’s gotten harder to loot funds given to children’s hospitals.

[Brennon Chapman @BrennonChapman]

New excuse just dropped: Ole Miss was apparently playing music through the snap “again and again.”

Let’s update Lane Kiffin’s running list since Saturday:

• The return was more emotional than he expected
• He wasn’t as “in competitive mode” as he thought he’d be
• It’s hard to win SEC road games at night
• LSU had injuries
• Sam Leavitt missed practice
• Leavitt missed third-down/red-zone prep
• Leavitt left clean pockets too early
• Leavitt missed open receivers
• LSU had a guy open on the final drive
• LSU had TWO guys open in the end zone on another play
• A missed block cost LSU another TD
• LSU settled for 3 from the Ole Miss 3
• LSU gave up a TD right before halftime
• The players felt like THEY “lost the game” in multiple situations, not the coaches
• Chambliss kept beating the right defensive calls
• Chambliss is basically impossible to defend
• Ole Miss treated it like “their Super Bowl”
• LSU had to play at Ole Miss two years in a row
• The SEC’s scheduling format put them in that position
• And now Ole Miss was playing music through the snap “again and again”

It’s Wednesday.
At some point you can say Ole Miss just beat you.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Wild: Cam Skattebo has gone viral for legitimately GLITCHING out during last night's game.

We have never seen anything like this.

Skatt is a literal psycho 😭😭

[Luka Donthičć @landahoy14]

Jameis/ Skattebo backfield gotta be the lowest combined SAT scores in NFL history

[Pete Roussel @PeteRoussel]

In nearly 12 years as a sports agent, I've been to nearly every college football venue in the country and mostly for big games. Last night in Oxford was the best atmosphere, best fan experience, and best in-game operations I have witnessed. It was first-class and everything fans want. Congratulations to @KeithCarterOM and everyone who is part of the Ole Miss in-game fan experience team. If you were there, you won't forget it. And if you think that atmosphere happens elsewhere, I haven't seen it yet.

[Michael Borkey @MichaelBorkey]

Lane Kiffin lost to the program he said couldnt get good players, to the quarterback that refused to follow him, in the stadium he said wasnt big enough

Tough

[Vanessa Richardson @SportsVanessa]

ABC/ESPN using “Go Your Own Way” for the opening pregame package of LSU/Ole Miss was genius.

Because the only breakup messier than Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss may, in fact, have been Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

[College Sports Only @CSOonX]

A Vols fan could make a fortune this weekend in Oxford. 😂