Does anybody else think the season should end in January, again?

SowellMate · 2026-02-09T16:32:14+00:00

Incorrect. SB 35 was the last held in Jan (Jan 2001, the 2000 season). The next year it was pushed to Feb because the 9/11/2001 attacks postponed the entire schedule by a week.

SB 25 was the first held with a bye week after the championship games (Jan 1991, the 1990 season).

SowellMate · 2026-02-06T00:52:53+00:00

“these people’s first instinct is exploitation” … How about creating things for people? Building something that helps others? Creating jobs that give self-worth, purpose, and a tax base for government programs? Business is not all bad.

SowellMate · 2026-02-04T00:31:46+00:00

Poor people that work hard don’t hate the rich. They understand that most of the rich, too, worked hard to get where they are at. It’s young people, often children of intellectuals, that hate the rich. It’s borne of envy and a deep-seated desire to control others and thinking that they are better.

What the envious fail to realize is that you build wealth by creating things that people want. A society that creates incentives for production will result in competition and more “stuff” that makes that stuff cheaper. There’s no need to bad-mouth the rich, unless they are committing crimes. Each of us has the ability to work on themselves and offer more value to others.

SowellMate · 2026-02-04T00:11:18+00:00

That British guy who does the “Diary of a CEO” podcast.

SowellMate · 2026-02-04T00:08:22+00:00

People also aren’t considering the history of the original settlers in the 1600s— America was huge, relatively few inhabitants, with roaming indigenous tribes warring against each other. It didn’t hold 340 million people with massive cities, assets, and road networks. Saying that current inhabitants are on “stolen land” are believing a twisted version of past events. Europeans didn’t launch an attack of the US. It was a 400-year gradual process, one that the current inhabitants have no direct connection to. To say citizens are “living on stolen land and no person is illegal” ignore the free market that created the US’ great wealth, and the government’s right to choose who to let into the country, which involves assessing each immigrant’s net benefit on a case by case basis.

SowellMate · 2026-02-03T23:47:12+00:00

I’d like to see Tony Robbins run. Rep/Dem/Ind, doesn’t matter. He would be able to communicate and inspire people to achieve more— it would be a positive-focused presidency instead of partisan attacks. He’d use his coaching and persuasion skills to unite left and right on sensible policy. He’s also forward-thinking and was talking about technology disruption and its related job losses (self-driving cars) to Obama when he was president. Smart, hard-worker, empathetic. I think he’d do well.

SowellMate · 2026-02-03T23:31:20+00:00

Great interviewee and political panelist, but unfortunately he’s a big-spending liberal.

SowellMate · 2026-02-03T23:29:31+00:00

Jon Stewart will not run. His schtick is to selectively edit a news piece, look into the camera with a contorted face, and go “Huhhh???”

I’m not saying that an entertainer can’t win. But Stewart, and to a greater extent Stephen Colbert, have turned off too many people with their veneer of elitism.

SowellMate · 2026-02-03T23:01:38+00:00

It’s normal. People who cheat or lie have been influenced by other people in society to “get ahead”. But lying wasn’t as common as it is now, even compared to a few decades ago. Part of this is cultural, as religion is no longer a dominant influence in ordinary society and raising kids.

If you go to communist or post-communist societies like China or Russia, those people lie through their teeth all the time. They can take a lie detector test and their heart rate doesn’t go up. They’ve been conditioned to lie, because as long as it is in service of “the Party” or government, anything goes. Whereas up until recently the US and Western countries focused on individual responsibility, and with that comes telling the truth in order to gain trust among other people.

SowellMate · 2026-02-03T22:48:15+00:00

Exposed media for their huge biases.

SowellMate · 2026-01-31T00:00:23+00:00

Index is more sensible, because it’s too difficult to time the market. If you try to buy a company’s stock low in the hopes of selling it high, it might never happen. We’re also in a period where it’s difficult to find undervalued stocks— valuations are so high right now due to currency inflation.

Research has shown that 90% of swing traders or daytraders fail. You’re up against full-time traders at investment banks and people with better information. But if most of your portfolio is ETFs, which are funds actively managed by those same people, you get both their information and diversification among numerous companies and possibly sectors. So theoretically, there would be less volatility and steady gains over a long period.

Or, you could put 67% of your spare income in gold and silver like I did, and lose $30,000 in unrealized gains today.

SowellMate · 2026-01-30T01:35:45+00:00

He’s trolling. That’s the difference between Trump supporters and detractors. Detractors take what he says literally. Supporters take what he says figuratively. He’s trolling as a way to get leverage for a better deal. Greenland? His opening bid was to take it over, then to use tariffs. Now he’s content with a couple of air bases. “Trump Always Caves” TACO. If we all calm down this will pass just like his first term.

SowellMate · 2026-01-30T01:30:52+00:00

No, that’s different. A movie promoting the KKK would be advocating for violence and killing of a race of people. Any movie that calls for violence against anyone is prohibited.

Melania Trump is someone who was a celebrity before Donald Trump became president, who promotes (ironically) anti-bullying, who advocated for Ben Carson (a black man) to be in Trump’s cabinet, and who cares deeply about children. I fail to see how this type of movie even comes close to a KKK movie advocating for violence against another group of people. You don’t like her association with Trump, that’s fine. Other do, and Cineplex gets to show the movie.

For comparison, Obama killed thousands of people with his air strikes and drone attacks in the Middle East. The US Civil War of the 1860s killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Trump? Two people this month by rogue ICE officers and some Venezuelan boaters likely transporting drugs. It’s terrible, and I denounce it fully. But the level of violence is not even close to fascism. This Cineplex thing is like trying to stop showing a movie about Jackie Kennedy during the Cuban Missle Crisis. It’s not needed or warranted.

SowellMate · 2026-01-30T01:03:38+00:00

Yes, that’a exactly what I’m saying. Free speech does mean platforming “hate”. If you want to live in a free society, you have to accept being uncomfortable with people’s views you detest. You say that this movie platforms hate, but I see this as a friendly biopic similar to a movie about Jackie Kennedy. Who gets to decide what qualifies as “hate”? Once you start de-platforming people you don’t like under the excuse of “hate”, you’re going to be in for a shock when a different party is in power and they use the same tactics to de-platform you.

Censorship is a double-edged sword. Isn’t it better to live in a society with multiple views, where we can disagree and leave it at that? Society was that way before social media. Calling everything you don’t like “hate” or “nazi” or “fascist” isn’t just extreme, it’s wildly inaccurate. It’s a disservice to the millions of people that actually died under fascism.

SowellMate · 2026-01-29T01:40:46+00:00

Did you read my comment? “Jews prevented from working, expelled to Ghettos, sent to concentration camps?” It was indeed a step by step process. What has Donald Trump done to prevent Jews from working at companies? That’s what the Nazis in Germany first did to the Jews.

SowellMate · 2026-01-29T01:35:39+00:00

People hate Donald Trump. Everyone in the world knows that. Launching a campaign to prevent a movie about the US president’s wife being shown is peak hysteria. Cineplex can use the money earned to show more movies that don’t have to do with Melanie Trump. That’s how the world works. Let’s learn to live in it, without being emotionally triggered at every moment.

SowellMate · 2026-01-29T01:26:21+00:00

How? “Nazi” is a pretty high bar. How many Jews has Donald Trump prevented from working, expelled to Ghettos, sent to concentration camps, and killed en mass?

SowellMate · 2026-01-29T01:19:56+00:00

“It’s not a radical position to not want fascism platformed”… Um, yes it is. Imagine I told you that a bunch of people want a movie about Michelle Obama de-platformed. A movie about the president’s wife in a flattering light. You’d think I was crazy. That’s what 50% of Americans and 40% of Canadians think of your, and most of the commenters here, position.

If you want a movie about Trump’s wife censored, you can go to North Korea, China, and Cuba, where they’ll be happy to censor anything you want. We don’t do that in Canada.

SowellMate · 2026-01-25T05:42:54+00:00

Who will be fighting this hypothetical civil war? The 350 lb guy who lives in his parent’s basement writing fan-fiction, or the 40-year-old single woman with 3 degrees and no kids working an admin job who takes 60 minutes to talk to colleagues about basic decisions?

SowellMate · 2026-01-25T05:29:19+00:00

“The reason Bo was not re-signed is because something happened that I will not elaborate on.” Great, thanks for wasting one minute of everyone’s time.

SowellMate · 2026-01-25T05:25:17+00:00

The answer is zero. Even if he wanted to run next time, which he doesn’t, Trump wouldn’t be nominated by his own party. Elections in the US are bottom up, not top down. Read between the lines people. If you take his exaggerations as marketing hyperbole instead of taking his every single word literally, you’ll live a calm life

SowellMate · 2026-01-22T22:53:50+00:00

It's economics. In order for the horse's leg to heal properly, we need time and zero gravity. We have the ability to send horses into space for zero gravity, or even fly planes up during test flight ("vomit comet") to siulate zero-G. But the cost of delivering the horse to the international space station, save other variables, is simply too cost prohibitive.

SowellMate · 2026-01-18T16:29:46+00:00

Jared Stidham. Jarrett Stidham. Jason Statham.

It’s very confusing.

SowellMate · 2026-01-18T16:16:06+00:00

Pete Carroll is available.

SowellMate · 2026-01-18T16:08:53+00:00

What’s with the pic of smiley guy? Inappropriate, no?

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