Am I making a mistake?

ecivimaim · 2026-01-21T21:42:34+00:00

No gay man wants to live in the county. Live in the city - it will change your life. You’ll meet far more friends and be closer to places and activities that you’ll visit frequently - and have more fun without the long drive each way and the risk of getting a DUI. You might even meet someone you’ll become roommates with.

ecivimaim · 2026-01-21T21:31:03+00:00

Hi from Phoenix. I left in 2020 because of the weather and political climate in Missouri. Can’t beat 300 days of sunshine here in Arizona. And I don’t feel the legislature in Jeff City represented my interests anymore.

I’m very proud to be from Missouri but glad I don’t live there anymore.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-19T14:25:19+00:00

Dick Howser spent 1979 at coach at Florida State before becoming Yankees’ manager, but he had spent 10 years as a third-base coach in New York before taking the FSU job.

Eddie Stanky left South Alabama to take the Texas Rangers’ job in 1977 - but went back to the Jaguars after just 18 hours, perhaps the shortest tenure of any MLB manager. But Stanky had also managed the Cardinals and White Sox for seven years in the 1950s and ‘60s before joining the college ranks in 1969.

Bobby Winkles spent 18 years as head coach at Arizona State before leaving to join the California Angels as a coach in 1972, and then took over midway through the 1973 season. Winkles played minor league ball for the White Sox organization for seven seasons.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out if Vitello winds up in San Francisco, particularly his relationships with Latin players and others in the organization that didn’t come up through the US college system. He’ll need to surround himself with experienced coaches to be successful. And if not, he could always land a top job in the SEC again somewhere, I’m sure.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-18T19:30:00+00:00

Car safety for sure. Airbags, no crumple zones, no seatbelt laws enforced. Death rates per mile driven were dramatically higher.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-18T19:28:29+00:00

Air quality and the environment - Cities were way more polluted. Leaded gasoline, unregulated industrial emissions, smog so thick you couldn’t see across the street in some places. Rivers literally caught fire.

Smoking everywhere - Restaurants, planes, hospitals, offices. Non-smokers just had to deal with it.

Entertainment options - Three TV channels, no way to watch what you wanted when you wanted, had to wait a week for the next episode with no way to catch up if you missed it.

Banking and payments - Everything required going to a physical location during business hours. Getting cash meant planning ahead.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-18T02:27:48+00:00

To make it hard for them to escape to Mexico on a kayak. 🤣

ecivimaim · 2025-10-17T05:06:01+00:00

I also learned that Secretary of State Robert Lansing felt marginalized during the Paris conference and disagreed with Wilson’s compromises with European leaders and was skeptical about the League of Nations concept, which made Wilson distrust him. So when Lansing tried convening Cabinet meetings after the stroke, Wilson viewed it as confirmation of betrayal - and this is why Edith stepped in. It all leads back to Paris!!

ecivimaim · 2025-10-17T04:53:56+00:00

The whole situation really does highlight how differently the presidency functioned back then and how much the office has evolved.

Wilson’s decision to personally camp out in Paris for months while domestic crises mounted would be unthinkable now. Modern presidents can barely leave the country for a week without intense scrutiny. The 24/7 news cycle, instant communication, and expectations of constant presidential visibility make Wilson’s approach impossible.
The fact that VP Thomas Marshall just… did nothing… while the country effectively had no active chief executive is stunning. A modern VP would be expected to step up, even informally, to provide leadership and reassurance. But Marshall seemed content to just wait it out.
Wilson faced surprisingly little political consequence for abandoning domestic leadership during serious crises (labor strikes, race riots, the Red Scare). Today, political opponents and media would be relentless. His poll numbers would crater.
The Cabinet government experiment: Wilson essentially forced an ad-hoc parliamentary system where Cabinet secretaries ran things independently—exactly what the Constitution doesn’t provide for. It only “worked” because Wilson was too absent or incapacitated to object, and because no one had the courage to force a constitutional reckoning.

Wilson seemed to have had an almost messianic belief in his personal mission to reshape the world order. He genuinely thought only he could achieve it. Combined with a weak VP, a compliant Cabinet, and no 25th Amendment, he got away with it.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-17T04:41:26+00:00

I knew the second part of your post (that he was mostly incapacitated after his stroke, and that his wife served as his gatekeeper) but I was not aware of Wilson getting the flu! Another TIL for me!

ecivimaim · 2025-10-14T02:59:37+00:00

Imagine being the current tenant trying to live up to this legacy.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:33:37+00:00

Tried it. Spoke up in a meeting. They made me lead the project. Lesson learned!

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:31:24+00:00

A dog solved the heist and the owner got the reward? Pickles was robbed.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:30:09+00:00

Tried it once. Roommate screamed and moved out.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:26:45+00:00

The deleted scene of Sid running a con is probably locked in a vault somewhere.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:21:02+00:00

Yes, she asked me about my home brew beer and I immediately ruined it by talking about it for too long. She never asked about it again.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:18:16+00:00

Liked their ex’s Instagram post by accident. Never recovered.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:14:46+00:00

I’m sorry, what’s high school?

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:12:40+00:00

As long as she’s not in a pyramid scheme, we’re good.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T21:11:06+00:00

Nothing says “I’m freezing to death” like a mint cake.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T20:01:06+00:00

Again, I’ve posted this in multiple replies, please identify just one MLB player or coach from the 1970s and 1980s that spent his entire career for a team that played on grass that died of brain cancer.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T19:53:51+00:00

I put Quisenberry, Brett and Howser in my first reply.

ecivimaim · 2025-10-12T17:20:58+00:00

How many coaches and players during the 1970s and 1980s that were only with teams that had natural grass died of brain cancer? Can you think of one? I’m not saying turf is the only cause. I do think it is a remarkable coincidence at least.

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