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It doesn't open a can of worms at all. We have a few reactionary online discussions for 5 or 6 days and then everyone forgets that the Flight Attendant script for Air Canada flights ever started with anything other than "Good morning, everyone..."

Then why do anything ever, at all?

Dune Set for December 2020, it's still more than a year away. It's one of my favorite books of all time and Denis Villaneuve has assembled a really talented cast. I'm worried they all pale in comparison to Alejandro Jodorowsky's project that never saw the light of day, but I'm excited nonetheless.

The King's Man A prequel to the delightfully, stupidly entertaining Kingsman movies, I've been looking forward to this for a while.

They do it for this. We're all talking about Air Canada now. Companies pay for marketing and PR expertise because... it works. That's why they make the announcement anyway. As for the change: it's a thing that hurts absolutely no one and makes the small number of people affected by it feel a little better. Why not do it?

I thought I made a poll for this... but I guess I didn't. Perdoneme.

Kickoff at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Cardinal Stadium. Coverage on the ACC Network. Louisville (4-3, 2-2 ACC) welcomes the Cavaliers (5-2, 3-1 ACC) to town for the annual showdown. After looking downright putrid against Miami, I thought Louisville maybe had a shot at this one. Watching Virginia absolutely pummel Duke last week might have set me straight. The ACC remains absolutely befuddling. Who ya got?

Saw yesterday that it’s the first time since something like 1945 that the World Series will feature six pitchers that finished in the top 20 in ERA that season. I’m hoping for some quick games and some serious pitching duels. But My gut says Astros. And that they do it quickly. 5 games.

It also explains why Louisville’s class for next year looks to be heading toward almost 30 guys. I think they have 22 or 23 committed and are looking to sign 5 or 6 more.

I thought he looked pretty solid in the time he played against ND. I think he'll go down as a victim of the latter days of Petrino. This year was cut short by injury. Last year was amputated by things he couldn't hope to control.

He only played this season against ND, right? So he should have a full redshirt available.

If this means I'm putting together a meal with the rest, then I don't want both pancakes and biscuits and gravy. Ditch the pancakes today, maybe ditch the biscuits tomorrow.

I can't disagree. After I fumbled around through some arrangement of Pitt, Wake, North Carolina, and Virginia for second place, I decided to bail and figure out who was second-to-last. Virginia Tech jumps out but they just won at Miami a couple weeks ago. BC looking like a contender. If Syracuse gets hammered by Pitt on Friday, they might be the clear No. 13 right now, which is CRAZY considering what people thought they would do before the season started. Pitt/Syracuse, VT/UNC and UVA/Duke will either start clearing things up or make a whole new mess this weekend.

Despite my better judgment, I was watching the opening hour of Packer and Durham on the ACC Network during breakfast this morning. They were doing an interesting exercise: trying to do a power ranking of the ACC's football teams. They both came up with the following... 1) Clemson ??? 14) Georgia Tech With Virginia and Wake Forest both dropping games to teams they should probably have beaten this week, do we even know who's good? Can we even come to a conclusion of who the second-best team in this league is?

"Deuce picks Cardinals to just cover the 2018 spread... finally."

Nope. There's just no way to look at this Michigan offense right now and think "Yeah, I like them to put up three or four touchdowns." Penn State wins. Penn State covers.

Speaking of that 39.5-point spread from last year's game... it wasn't even close. Louisville limped out of South Carolina with a 77-16 loss, the midpoint of a losing streak in which they surrendered at least 50 points to six of seven opponents. There are still vestiges of those defensive nightmares in the paper-thin unit Louisville is trotting out there now, but the offense is miles ahead of where it was last year. Still... it feels like an entirely different world after these last two weeks. SP+ has Louisville's expected wins up to 6.3 and has the Cardinals with a 78% chance of going to a bowl game.

Well... here we go. Cardinals are a 22-point underdog (which is a small victory in itself as Louisville was a 39.5-point underdog in this game last year). It's a noon kickoff at Cardinal Stadium. To me, the question is whether Louisville's red-hot offense can put enough points on the board to keep this respectable. Clemson will score at will.

Whew. That lack of depth nearly cost the Cards. Defense was completely dead by the end of that game. I thought I heard the announcers say that Wake ran almost 90 plays. Thanks to Hassan Hall and the special teams unit for being the separating factor in this one. This defense is only going to feel thinner as the season goes, but I’m starting to believe they can find two more victories against this schedule and make a bowl.

Not normally my thing, but it's holding my attention despite the main character being deliberately unlikable. I'm attending a lecture by the author at the Mercantile Library next week. May as well read the book. We'll see if it goes where I think it's going. Still a chance it turns out to be a decent book.

I've only watched bits and pieces of two Wake games this year, but you're dead on about that QB. I think guys are having genuine problems still with just how this system works, and that probably isn't something that gets fixed this week. Too many plays where two of the linebackers will commit to the run when one was supposed drop into pass coverage. Lots of tight ends free through the middle.

Louisville is headed down to Winston-Salem for a Saturday night game under the lights. Cardinals going in as a touchdown underdog against the unbeaten Demon Deacons. Wake is coming off a bye, but they played Boston College the week before Louisville did, emerging as 27-24 winners. Feels like we could be seeing another shootout.

Some of these guys are clearly struggling with the schemes. On at least two of the long completions, I watched the outside linebackers get confused by backfield motion and so both of them blitzed, leaving no deep coverage when the both safeties came up to cover. Fixable, but really annoying.

It's silly to talk about public education like a business, not to mention a little problematic to try and work your way through "the students are the product and the product is undesirable". But imagining for a second that it's not: what would management do here? You have a product that is inefficiently produced at significant cost. The cost to alter the product would be massive and likely require significant concessions from labor, while simultaneously requiring a huge increase in labor costs. It would also involve calculating any number of external factors that the company has no real control over. To me, the answer is simple... the company stops making the unprofitable product. But in this case, the company is government-mandated to continue making the product. So where does that leave us?