Grr-owl

Poles or polls?

Tired players makes for a better game.

Champ. Every time he goes near the ball I shout, 'Hibb-oh-oueh!' at the telly.

Very happy to be reading this about Yze. Seems there's a communication problem at the team level he could potentially solve. Like a marriage, everyone's gotta buy in for it to work, coaches and players.

We still have Mitch Brown as well.... Given the potential for confusion, I suggest we refer to Ben Brown as Brown1 and Mitch Brown as Brown2. Both could be abbreviated further for typing ease to B1 and B2.

Do stats reveal a sweet spot in the draft? Far as I can see, high picks often don't work out. Maybe there's a range in there somewhere where a lot of top players are found....???

As I understand it, there are two blokes with great potential as outside mids.

But it means youth, or ‘players who’ll need a few seasons.’ How are we going to move up the ladder in the mean time? Have Blues, Dogs and Saints plugged their holes better than us? No jokes, please...

Seems maybe he's already in the right place, for us and for him....

And he's leaving...? Is that still happening? Any intel?

Well, as we have discussed, that's going to end before too long... hard to say exactly when, but it has to end in a once-in-a-civilisation deleveraging. It's how we recover that's going to be important. What do we have to sell - dirt, burnable air, agricultural goods....? Hmm... wonder if there's a way we can sell clean air, sunshine, freedom, space and footy.....

Is Vic's (well, Melbourne's) booming population and robust economy going to see Vic dominate at Fed level again?

Cheers. Great reply. What are PM's? China will have 2 workers for every 1 not. John Lee's work is worth looking into. Some smart people involved at the top in Aus's China policy.

I have been working on the assumption that the asset bubble has one more big blow to go. Wondering if Biden's election might mean that the last lungful of massive debt creation might go into actual investment in - infrastructure (not fossil-fuel based) and manufacturing (3d Printing) both of which will de-centralise the economy and raise the cost of transportation (shipping) which will encourage localized economic activity (ie. not in China) and therefore employment. The US's demographics are very good going forward, China's are absolutely disastrous, not sure about AUS. This wouldn't prevent the collapse of neo-liberalism (thank god) but might set the West up for renewal once the rubble is cleared away.... My timeline is 2025, but I'm willing to bring that forward. Is COVID just too much stress on a flawed model?

Think the neo-liberal era is coming to an end? Any thoughts on the size of that crash?

Geelong would be perfect for a Gugg. Wow. First class Opportunity blown.

For empathy? Think you mean ecstasy... ?

Watched it with my kids too - 12 & 13. Kinda dug it. Been saying, "hut, hut, hut, hut," ever since..." I sure loved it. One of a kind....

It’s an over-simplification, though. Historical events played into Hitler’s hand. The Great Depression, for instance.

Cause they never happened. Before anyone flies off the handle, no I don’t believe it. What kind of callousness would it take to insist it’s fake news??? Though, strangely, some American friends - medicos, believe it or not - told me as much.... ‘What has happened to ‘Fact?’

There were a number of people who did similar stuff in other parts of India too....

Also among the pioneers of many freedoms, including those for the slaves you mention - slavery being a universal institution until the British outlawed it in 1833 and the US followed in 1863. The Ottoman sultan laughed in the face of the British when they proposed it in Istanbul. Jefferson was well aware of what he was doing when he wrote "all men are created equal," and the political possibilities, associations and implications. He was a very very smart bloke. The British leveraged its colonial power to enforce the ban on slavery around the world, and managed eventually to bring along everyone except for Benin. It could therefore be argued that colonialism and the dominance of the West was instrumental, pivotal, essential even, to ending slavery, especially given the resistance the idea encountered in other civilisations which clung to divine authority for enslavement, and still do. Oh, the irony. The US is also, along with Australia and other Western nations, where everybody runs to when they want to escape oppressive government and religious regimes. Where else is there to run? You can't migrate to China, India, Russia, the Middle East or pretty much anywhere else on earth. You can't become Chinese; either you are born Chinese or you aren't. It is an idea of belonging built entirely on race, whereas as anyone can become Australian, or American, or a New Zealander or British... Take a look around at the faces in the crowd the next time you're at the footy. They're from everywhere. In my experience other civilizations have all the bad [censored] we do, but a smaller measure of the good. On this point, it can be instructive to reflect on the role that language plays in knowledge. That is, we know about the US failures and abuses because we speak English, and because it is an open society in which the failures and abuses are written about and reflected on in public. What do we know of the failures and abuses of other societies, those written in other languages? How many programs do we watch about the Chinese Civil War or the Cultural Revolution? If a history is written in Chinese and rewritten each time a new regime takes over, how do their own citizens understand their past? Can you understand their TV? Does their TV criticise the regime, interrogate their past, reflect honestly on it? How are people who criticize treated? Nah, the West is not so bad... Could be better, but. My fear is that unless we get over the political polarization and self-flagellation of the present, we're going down. Will things be better then?

See how his legs are bent? Coulda got higher.... ?

It’s the right way to have it. Put himself on the line. Do or die. If, as some say, the CEO is the most important position at a club, then it sets the standard for all: Excellence is expected.

Where’s Dr Evil on this?