Happy Birthday to the late, great Julian L. Simon. IYKYK

Jeff Landry is a true miracle worker, perhaps the only person on the planet who can make me smile for Brian Kelly, who got $54 million to get away from this circus.

Go Tigers

Sorkin, alas, rounds up the usual suspects. nationalreview.com/2025/11/sorkin…

What a great piece. Literary, cleverly written, and, of course, encyclopedically fluent in the period.

I didn't know Shephard's "greatest ambition was to be a veterinarian at the Santa Anita racetrack”... Interesting The playwright Sam Shepard was also a commanding presence on the screen. As a colleague he could be distrusting and wary. wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via WSJ Books Section

Very important piece in Spectator where Toby Young says Bet.365 refuse to pay winnings on a bet until he's undergone checks through being a Politically Exposed Person as a member of the House of Lords.

Bookmakers who behave like bet365 did here deserve to lose their license. Same for the (de-)bankers mentioned in the story.

Humans started it, LLM scaled it. Academic slop has been a problem for many years.

Newsletter: Dabo Swinney went hard after Ole Miss & laid bare the chaos of the current CFB landscape. Will it actually change anything? Or did we all miss the point? open.substack.com/pub/davidhale/…

Looking into it.

Free Seamus Culleton telegraph.co.uk/gift/c45be9c33…

Food for thought.... Would a solution to the NBA tanking problem be to eliminate the NBA rookie scale? If drafted players could negotiate with the risk of returning to school (like with baseball), rookie salaries would be higher, which would make tanking for them less attractive.

Just what baseball needed – a version of the "his nose was offside" rule

Clemson’s own Charlie Blackwell-Thompson ‘88 makes the final call for the Artemis II crew as Launch Director! Go Tigers! 🐅

Free markets are the best way to create wealth AND reduce poverty ever discovered. One of the big puzzles of history is how the same lesson has to be learned again and again. Poland, China, India, and now Argentina are the latest experiments. Argentina with Milei: - Poverty

Astros no-namers pitch a shutout. Yea!! I thought those days were long gone. Baseball, eh?

See you at the Emirates.