bob boylan

I’m basically a poor-man’s Clark Griswold Jr.

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@GlassHalfUte Still bitter over the ass kicking y’all received in the 2019 Alamo Bowl? 🤘

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@Christo_MoNa @joelklatt @JoelKlattShow @OhioStateFB @TexasFootball @PennStateFball @oregonfootball How about Skattebo getting dragged across the goal line by his teammate, which is also illegal. Funny we cherry pick certain non-calls to fit our chosen narrative. Hypocritical much @joelklatt ?

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@josephmcgregor Skattewho? And Sam, he Leavitt at the press conference

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@HomesteadMovie @AngelStudiosInc Didn’t realize they wrote a screenplay of Chad Daybell’s wet dreams.

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@UnnecRoughness Brett Bielema has referred to heated bowl games as “borderline erotic.” Look it up

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@Steven_Hyden You’re welcome.

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@1_Eyed_Ninja @Blakes_Take2 @SunDevilSource I’m sure they are going to win tomorrow, on the ps5 in your mom’s basement. They play Wednesday you jackass

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@nihilists4jesus Is that why the program’s been wandering in the wilderness for 40 years?

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@IdahoBones My Mormon parents disagreed when I was young.

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If you want to see these two “cultures” juxtaposed brilliantly in the American workplace, check out the documentary “American Factory” on Netflix. If these assholes have their way we’ll regress to the way things were before the labor movement in our country. FUCK DOGE

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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@SheaSerrano I’m an ELL teacher. Would you ever have some time to talk to my students about how writing can be fun and give them some tips?

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@trevorpowersss As a shy weirdo who grew up in eastern Idaho, I really appreciate shy weirdos from Idaho who make great music. You and Doug Martsch among them

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@Doc_Texas I’ve seen a game at Holt Arena in Pocatello (or as locals call it, Pokey). It would be hard not to upgrade from that

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@dclynch07 @JoJoFromJerz Christ and our republic are in deep shit

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@DavidGayNews This is cool. Not quite as cool as his guest verse on Captive of the Sun

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@CFAPeachBowl @allcfbIG @AmyDollMP

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@CycloneLarry69 You loose meat eating tool

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@SV_RangerFB Congratulations from Indiana!

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@CycloneLarry69 Go eat some chili and cinnamon rolls you dork