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4th quarter GDP revised down to 0.7%. Of course recession can't be official until the release of 2nd quarter figures.....

I have to think Partridge wants a public exoneration. Would they admit nothing even if it's going to cost them more? Or maybe it reads better to ask, "How much more are they willing to settle for to not have to admit anything?"

you and me both (trip scheduled late April)

My basement is finished but I did it myself, but it probably doesn't count because I had a van all those years and not a pick-up. Actually I had a red-blooded GM B-body "door-gate" station wagon when I started working on it. Man, I miss that vehicle design.

Diesel at the corner Speedway was $4.99 just now, unleaded at $3.69. Brent crude futures are hanging around $103 and the S&P has lost $2.5 Trillion in value.

Yeah - add Japan.

This one is pretty dumb. I don't pretend to know if what Partridge claims is true, but if it is, the U is going to look pretty stupid if they fight it. Just write him a check and make the public apology/exoneration (which is probably what he really wants anyway)

If they didn't leave it open to US players with foreign ties they wouldn't get enough MLB players on the other teams to make it interesting. It would be the US, The Dominican, Mexico and a bunch of single A teams.

Captain BoneSpurs says oil would be getting through the Strait if shippers would just have more guts....

Ed's table says you are correct.

Action->reaction->action->reaction->action->reaction-..... the more people you kill, the longer you stay on the treadmill....

Lions' 'window' is turning out to have been more like a dryer vent.

technically he was out of ICE's jurisdiction as he was a naturalized citizen. Doesn't leave the FBI any excuse, but Kash has been too busy making up to MMA stars.

Suspect was deceased but not by gunshot. I just took an active shooter safety course and they recommended a fire extinguisher to the head .....if possible of course. The whole damn country is going to have to train up and be ready because this is just the beginning.

KC-135 lost in Iraq a an accident with another airframe. https://breakingdefense.com/2026/03/kc-135-tanker-involved-in-epic-fury-goes-down-in-iraq-centcom/

weird game. Tigers have had only two baserunners but both scored, so really efficient offense! (🙄). Have only 2 hits and no walks but have only K'd twice. Not a combinations you expect from a Tiger team.

Iranian hackers hit Stryker HQ in Portage. https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2026/03/iran-linked-hack-suspected-in-disruption-of-global-michigan-based-company.html

Chris Partridge (now with the Seahawks) has filed a wrongful termination suit against UM and Manuel. https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2026/03/ex-michigan-coach-sues-school-ad-warde-manuel-over-scapegoat-termination.html

Ben Afleck has sold "InterPositive", a company he built that uses AI to edit/retouch movie footage (possibly among other things) to Netflix for a reported $600M (give or take incentives) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-pay-much-600-million-194011342.html

One of these mornings after futures slip overnight and the open is down, I expect the recent pattern of bottom feeders showing up to make a morning rally is going to break and the downside is going to get tested harder.

saw this. the interesting thing is how little they figured about the drop in the cost of renewables. In engineering school they taught you how cost scaled with equipment size, but the idea that there was predictable curve for cost of technology vs production scale of that technology wasn't on any one's bingo sheet. Today it's a well developed idea in tech engineering/forecasting with correlated parameter values for various techs. We always knew it was true at some level - We always knew to build the engine in your Buick as a one-off would cost a hundred times what it cost GM to build a million of them per unit, but the idea that the same idea applied to technological progress as a whole, that innovation was also a function of scale, hadn't really stuck.

Methinks they saw the poll.

I don't know that it ever gets talked about much but the strongest arm on the Tiger IF is McKinstry's. He'll touch mid 90's.

maybe payments from future Iranian oil revenue to a numbered Swiss account whose password is "s.u.r.e.i.d.d.a.t.e.m.y.d.a.u.g.h.t.e.r.

in other news: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/ice-lawyer-congress-julie-t-le.html