Michael Tupper

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was tired of the party lifestyle. Numerous high school boyfriends. Sorority at college. Internship in production at Miramax. Late night texts from Dolph Lundgren. Then came the LA Clippers D League Christmas Party incident. I had enough. I said if you don’t stop this I’m going to divorce you. That’s when we tried marriage counseling with the pastor at our church. But it turned out she was sleeping with him too so we tried marriage counseling at a DIFFERENT church and that went much better. She has repented and we are both in the process of healing. Due to the trauma associated with her past she has developed intimacy issues and we have yet to actually consummate our marriage, but these things take time. As a couple, we avoid things that trigger her emotionally: alcohol, parties, disco balls, MDMA, the music of P. Diddy, police sirens, Rocky IV, strawberries, corduroy, ground lamb, mayonnaise, Courtney Love. The work is ongoing but I know we’ll get there.

@brosonke21 I mean, it's not my fault the SEC is garbage too.

@mtupper17 6 teams already in the S16?

To be fair, the Big 10 is a mid-major conference.

Reminder that the 2-Seeds from the Big 12 are pseudo 1-Seeds

Farmers die from suicide at 3.5 times the rate of the rest of society. I'm convinced one contributing factor to Ag's tragic suicide rate is a lack of effective estate planning, as is the case with this Iowa farmer's story in the article. Look at the business model of farms, where there is oftentimes no clearly defined business, just a collection of assets. 77% of farms don't even have an estate plan, while many that do are woefully inadequate or outdated. Now look at the next generation operator's stress factors: a. Ownership and inheritance squabbles create family strife, so the owning generation simply avoids making difficult decisions, thereby leaving a huge conflict for their offspring to endure. b. Generational pressure to "keep the family farm going" with no defined strategy or business plan in place to make that happen. c. Add to the mix of stress: burdensome debt, societal expectation, isolation, small town judgement and the daily reality of Ag marketplace concerns and you're looking at a powder keg ready to blow up. I'm no mental health expert. I'm not judging this man or his family and I don't know all the details of their operation. What I do know is suicide leaves a wake of disaster for the family and friends left behind. If the thought of your son or daughter killing themself isn't motivation enough for you to set up a succession plan and clearly communicate this plan, then you're not just irresponsible, you're despicable. farmprogress.com/farm-life/life…

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

That Pearl Harbor joke really landed

They bury the Dad’s full quote at the end of the article. And they REALLY buried the lede. “Simmons recalled something his son had told him before volunteering for the mission that ended his life. “He said, ‘Dad, I can’t give you any details, but if civilians knew what we knew, a lot of the criticism [of the war] would cease,” he said. Simmons came away from Dover with a better impression of the war’s architects than he had when he arrived. Trump teared up and hugged him, evincing warmth and compassion at odds with the president’s public persona, Simmons said. He also credited Trump for looking him “straight in the eye.” “He extended his condolences father to father and conveyed how difficult it is to make decisions to put the children of other parents in peril,” Simmons said. As for Hegseth, “When I talked to him, I got the impression that he was torn because he seemed to be a very compassionate man, faced with difficult decisions as it pertains to war,” Simmons said. “I also let him know that Tyler was my only son. And you could see the emotion on his face. And I think those kinds of things you can’t fake,” he continued. “I was pleasantly surprised because the perception is they [Trump and Hegseth] don’t care, they’re going to do what they want to do,” he said. “I got to see a different side of them up close and personal.”

This is legitimately the funniest thing I've ever heard in an Oval press conference.

Hi there, Governor. Both of these photos show decommissioned projects that were completed. The photo your staffer shared on the left is the original Seven Mile Bridge connecting the Florida mainland to the Keys that was operational between 1912 and 1982 (refurbished for automobiles after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935) until sections of it were removed for the new bridge. 🔗pigeonkey.net/a-short-histor… 🔗keysweekly.com/42/keys-histor… 🔗ci.marathon.fl.us/community/page… The photograph on the right shows the U.S. Route 96 Neches River Bridge just west of Evadale, Texas. It was decommissioned when a new one was built a half a mile or so to the northwest because the highway was rerouted. 🔗texasfreeway.com/Statewide/Jasp… 🔗@30.3509846,-94.0857434,2027m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">google.com/maps/@30.35098… What a colossal failure of a dunk attempt this turned out to be. You and your team are LOSERS!! 🤣

Costed us a final 4

This is a great example of the failure of credentialism. Random people have to explain basic political science to a so-called “Professor of Political Science.” The Strait of Hormuz issue is the perfect “allies” test. The United States has very little direct interest in the strait, as almost none of its ships or energy flows pass through there. So before the United States starts doing all the heavy lifting, it is the ideal moment to ask those who actually benefit from the strait being open what they are willing to contribute. The fact that they all said nothing is proof of what Trump has been saying all along, that supposed “allies” are really just freeloaders. So this was never about whether the Europeans could actually help with a handful of dilapidated frigates. It was a test, and they all failed.

Iran has reportedly kidnapped the families of the Iranian women’s soccer team members who requested asylum & the women are now abandoning those claims and returning to the country to face torture or death. No prominent left wing American women’s soccer players have said a word.

There was no foul called here. It was also 3 feet directly in-front of the ref.

Somewhere along the way youth sports and livestock shows all lost the script and got ruined. Nothing teaches livestock husbandy like spending 3-5k on a hog just to be competitive at the county level.

Remember, KU says it isn't a rivalry.

“We played really well and the extra day of rest might be a blessing in dis-”

The faux outrage from people saying, "The Big 12 changed out the glass court for the men but NOT the women" are looking for a controversy that doesn't exist. Had the Big 12 Conference made the women play the entire tournament on the glass floor and then switched it out before Game 1 for the men, they MAY have had an argument. But 12 of the 15 men's games were played on the glass floor, until the glass floor became a bigger story than the games itself. So the league pivoted. Is the Big 12 supposed to risk more issues and injury because they're afraid of some nonsensical made-up storyline that is fabricated by a handful of social media trolls looking to create a wedge between the men and women? Just stop. And take your victim card somewhere else. Now let's play some ball and enjoy the best college basketball in the country.

Here’s Michelle Obama serving ribeyes to troops as part of a surf and turf meal that has been military tradition since WWII, but mainstream press has suddenly decided is a “gotcha” for some reason.

This is the only correct opinion.