Reagan McClenny

@mhartl Fair enough.

@ReaganAMcClenny That wry parenthetical note was in response to this: >you cant [sic] even pass a world history class

Moses looked upon the obelisk standing in front of the Cathedral Basilica of St John Lateran in Rome

@mhartl @wallstmiles @bgcts “(I passed the class.)” 🤣🤣🤣 Well, that seals it!

@wallstmiles @bgcts Expert scholars generally hold that Moses is a mythic figure. There may be a kernel of historical truth, but the details are unreliable. I learned this in a course on the Hebrew Bible taught by Harvard Divinity School Professor James Kugel. (I passed the class.)

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@RShutt_ Listen, guys, hard times still "Hoover" over us.

Gas in Tampa is $4.36 this morning. Why would Joe Biden do that to me!?

@DFoxMuse Lots of us love him, man.

Because this fanbase has been pretty shitty to him from the jump. No matter what he does it’s always his fault so I get tired of it. Sure criticism is always warranted in a poor performance but we just won by 12 and all I see if Fox slander. Just hard to enjoy this fanbase.

@KylePorterNS @CharlieGolf_Co What’s going to happen: Rory cruises to victory. What I want to happen: Total chaos ending in a Texan’s victory.

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@KylePorterNS Spieth is leading by 5 going into the back 9 on Sunday, bogeys 10 and 11, and then makes a hole-in-one on 12!!!

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@garonnevik Can you define what you mean by legalism, please?

Legalism hurts people. It's not safe, or safer. It's evil mascarading as wisdom. It's shifting from putting our hope in Christ to putting it back in ourselves.

“We are so back” - Jordan Spieth fans after watching him double cross one off of a house and get up an down for par

@TrackSpieth Love that you’re going to church first!

12:05 PM tomorrow he is featured I’ll watch him after church my church ends at 12:00

@A4H74976106 @MattSmethurst 1 John 5:13 “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life…” 1 John 2:21 “I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.”

@MattSmethurst You can’t say it has to be one or the other. It has to be both. And when you think you already know, that’s exactly when you don’t. Anyone who pompously says, “I already know God,” actually shows they don’t really know God.

Alistair Begg on knowing vs. feeling in worship. This is magnificent.

The Texas Quote of the Day is in regards to the Comanches arrival into Texas in the early 1700s and the impact it had: "They [Comanches] came to the plains from the west, slipping through the canyon passes of the Sangre de Cristo Range in small, roving bands. Like so many other Native groups of the age, the Numunu moved to the great continental grasslands seeking new opportunities, to build a new way of life around the emerging ecological triad of grasses, bison, and horses. They were few in number, possessed little wealth beyond a handful of mounts, and seemed indistinguishable from their more prominent allies, the Utes. New Mexico’s Spanish officials noted their arrival to the southern grasslands in 1706 and wrote it off as a minor event. Yet by midcentury, the Numunu, by now bearing the name Comanches, had unhinged the world they had almost unnoticeably entered. Despite its modest beginnings, the Comanche exodus to the southern plains is one of the key turning points in early American history. It was a commonplace migration that became a full-blown colonizing project with far-reaching geopolitical, economic, and cultural repercussions. It set off a half-century-long war with the Apaches and resulted in the relocation of Apachería—a massive geopolitical entity in its own right—from the grasslands south of the Río Grande, at the very center of northern New Spain. The Comanche invasion of the southern plains was, quite simply, the longest and bloodiest conquering campaign the American West had witnessed—or would witness until the encroachment of the United States a century and a half later. But the Comanche invasion was far more than a military conquest. As they made a place for themselves in the southern plains, Comanches forged a series of alliances with the adjacent Indian and European powers, rearranging the political and commercial geography of the entire lower midcontinent. Seen from another angle, the Comanche invasion was a momentous cultural experiment. It brought destruction and death to many, but it also introduced a new, exhilarating way of life—specialized mounted bison hunting—to the Great Plains, irrevocably altering the parameters of human existence on the vast grasslands that covered the continent’s center. Finally, Comanche arrival to the southern plains was a major international event: it marked the beginning of the long decay of Spain’s imperial power in what today is the American Southwest. The Comanche conquest of the southern Great Plains was a watershed event that demolished existing civilizations, recalibrated economic systems, and triggered shock waves that reverberated across North America." ---- Pekka Hämäläinen, "The Comanche Empire," 2008. These paragraphs are the book's opening paragraphs. I read the first 54 pages of this last night. It's fascinating, being at the same time scholarly AND fun to read simultaneously. It won the 2009 Bancroft Prize in American History. Shown here: A Comanche camp at an unknown date. Photo courtesy the Oklahoma Historical Society .

@ATLHawks Like families with kids? Get out of here.

@ShamsCharania Good!

The NBA has cancelled the Atlanta Hawks' Magic City game promotion on March 16.

Most people will read this and think optimists live longer because they eat better and exercise more. The study says something wilder. Lee et al. controlled for smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol, depression, BMI, and socioeconomic status. The longevity effect still held. The most optimistic quartile lived 11 to 15% longer and had 1.5 to 1.7x odds of reaching 85 even after removing every behavioral difference. Which means something is happening at the level of biology, not just habits. Rozanski’s meta-analysis across 229,391 participants found optimists carry 35% lower cardiovascular event risk. Blackburn’s Nobel Prize-winning lab at UCSF found pessimistic attitudes are associated with accelerated telomere shortening. Cortisol suppresses telomerase, the enzyme that rebuilds the protective caps on your chromosomes. So chronic negative expectation literally erodes the structures that keep your cells from aging. The loop runs: pessimistic cognitive style → sustained HPA axis activation → elevated cortisol → telomere degradation → accelerated cellular senescence. Optimists interrupt that loop at the top. They show less emotional reactivity to stressors, faster recovery from acute stress, and they default to reframing threats as challenges rather than catastrophizing. The part nobody talks about from this paper: the authors explicitly state optimism is modifiable. This isn’t a personality trait you’re born with. Cognitive reappraisal training, morning sunlight for cortisol rhythm regulation, deliberate breathing protocols for vagal tone, structured gratitude practices. All of these shift the prefrontal cortex patterns that determine where you sit on the optimism spectrum. A 35% reduction in cardiac events from a trainable psychological variable is a bigger effect size than most supplements on the market. That’s the real story buried in this abstract.

@chadmumm How many speaking notes do you have for a typical golf broadcast vs. freewheeling in the moment?

If you could ask Jim Nantz one question, what would it be?

@ShaneRyanHere I don’t love AK, either. However: 1. The comeback was an amazing accomplishment. 2. His family being there humanized him. 3. A tweet/post about Tim Walz being your proof he’s a bad guy is lame and needlessly political. All these can be true. It adds up to a weird take by you.

On my weekly tourney preview post, I try to throw in a rogue golf thought, and this week I couldn't resist the Anthony Kim story, and the strange pressure to like it or else. My take:

@MikeBeauvais @grok Was this a real headline?

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of a 40-day solemn endeavour to mark the sacrifice and discipline of one man. That one man? That’s right.

@JennMGreenberg Hot take: English translations would communicate the Greek text much more clearly if they maintained the second-person plural pronouns and used, “Y’all.” For example, the Greek text reads, “Y’all are the light of the world” in Matthew 5:13. We have the word in English—use it! 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m still waiting for the Texas Translation of the Bible: Back in them days, John the Baptist was a’ preaching in the wilds of Judea, “Repent! The kingdom of heaven is fixin’ to git here.” For this was the feller spoken of by the prophet Isaiah who declared, “The voice of one hollerin’ in the countryside: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; he’ll be here right quick.’”