blueridgeTiger

1949 versus Southeastern. My dad was in college at Southeastern on the G.I. Bill, and we all piled into the Studebaker for the drive to Baton Rouge to watch the Tigers and Lions play. The most interesting thing about that game is that the LSU coach was not satisfied by the effort of his first team, so at halftime, he pulled the first team sent them to the practice field for full contact workouts, and allowed the second team to finish the game.

My detergent is never locked at Amazon.

That was my senior year at LSU. I'm sure I was therr, but remember nothing of that game.

Moose Stewart - LSU, mid-1930s

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Why the Frick does ESPN spell Turkey

Türkiye

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I guess they liked it better that way

Leather has adopted an unusual style for this book. I have read at least 25 of his novels, and this is the only one in which the protagonist's voice is in the second person. ("you" - most books are in the first person [I, Me], or in the third person [he, she])). It is somewhat difficult to get accustomed to, but in this plot it is effective.

The wife and I did Athens to Venice last summer on Viking. It was fantastic, but those Ritz Carlton vessels we saw in port looked interesting.

I'm 84, so I probably bring the average up a little bit.

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The unfreezing of $100B is 58x the size of the $1.7B Obama's admin unfroze with his Iran deal (which led to a decade of melts by Trump fans).

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As much as I hate to, I agree with SFP on this point.

I rank our victory over Iran slightly below our victory in Vietnam.

My experience with MOUs in the Middle East (limited as my experience is) has been very negative. The Arabs and the Persians treat an MOU as merely a stage in the negotiations. In implementing the MOU, they'll reopen points supposedly already settled. This MOU and the 60-day ceasefire (likely extended) might get Trump through the midterms, but I doubt it actually settles anything.