Jake B

College football is almost here!

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate" my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations. poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

happy birthday matty

it’s been a big moment for the moon recently. it’s matty’s birthday. the 1975 is like the moon (or herpes). here’s my photos of the moon on 11/10/23 and 11/15/23. happy birthday.

@TheMcCollocaust yeah ok heard, but it would be nice to win something again, sometime. elite 8 was awesome but also our best moment as an athletic dept since......09 orange bowl win?

Dear Iowa fans, We are close………..

@JosephKahn See also: lost in translation

Before Sunrise is unwatchable because it's so good. It's such a beautiful encapsulation of young iPhoneless love, shot on analog film, a nineties time machine of a mysterious Europe that no longer exists, you feel like you are dying as you watch it.

@vincempls on the western side of the state, it's the wisconsin river from spring green to prairie du chien, north of that river begins the pines

@vincempls wassau is the upper limit line, everyone knows this. there is another, less discussed line just north of I-94 when you leave madison and milwaukee behind and enter the land of the Dells and the pre-northern woods.

To recap all the amazing comments about this important Wisconsin topic: North of Hwy 29 you leave southern Wisconsin behind. North of 64 you leave dairy farms behind and enter lumber/maple syrup country, and North of 8 is a lawless land of frozen hillbillies.

@HawkeyeInsano Body positivity what

Dear cyclone burners, you’re now allowed to take off that muzzle

@ESPNRittenberg @Hassel_Chris @CycloneATH #twss

@Hassel_Chris @CycloneATH The length and music choices didn’t help 🤦‍♂️

As someone who possesses the gift of being able to simultaneously piss off Hawkeye and Cyclone fans … this is a masterpiece from Pollard. Comparing what’s happening with the ISU women’s bball program to the Iowa women is like comparing the I State logo to the Cloneado.

@JesseGavin1 Forever loyal, forever true

Good luck to the media buyer at Fareway as they scramble to get all of their ads featuring Audi swapped out in time for the men's and women's Final Four telecasts this weekend.

Remember, if Kagan joins a Sotomayor/Jackson opinion, it’s likely at least plausible. If Kagan declines to join a Sotomayor/Jackson opinion, it’s definitely insane. And if *Sotomayor* declines to join a *Jackson* opinion, you’re in for a real treat.

@seattleiminyou Yea you’re right, it is pretty great

If you live in the midwest they make you have 3 kids with someone you went to high school with and you’re only allowed to vacation in Florida

Blaming refs is a loser move. So, honestly, fuck them.

@JoshSchertzSLU my coach

Helluva sports day capped by this guy reaching the elite 8! Thankfully a much better coach than 🍸🥂😂

Worth noting that Ben McCollum’s never lost in the Elite Eight. I’m not even sure if that’s allowed.

Fred Hoiberg in crunch time of the biggest game in program history:

@TheHoopHerald you say it like it's a bad thing

Ben McCollum is the right kind of nuts

Only difference now is McCollum is 44 and Iowa just made their first Elite Eight since 1987 in *year one*

Rent is due first of the month

Hey Nebraska