Recent content by Icky Mettle

And that’s just from reading that.

I can just see Trump-supporting conspiracy theorists reading through these Epstein files, with their jaws dropping to the floor, saying to themselves, “Oh my god. Trump is either knee deep in all this or the deep state has really been working hard to frame him. Occam’s razor points to the latter.”

It hasn’t been (I don’t think). Maybe an0moly either has connections or thought the penultimate was the finale.

The real reason is because it’s highly unusual for a president to order the release DOJ files and it probably didn’t even cross his mind to do something that presidents almost never do.

2025 really has been an incredible year in terms of new music that has come out. In recent years, I was wondering if "getting old" was making it harder for me to discover new music that enjoyed. There would be some new albums released every year that I would like, but a lot of them would be by...

Yeah, I was kidding (if you were responding to my post).

That’s awful to hear. I am so sorry for him and his family.

Is Caleb expected to transfer?

I was just thinking about pay phones yesterday and wondered about their existence. They used to be ubiquitous. You would see them along city streets. Virtually every move theater had one (remember when we had a lot of movie theaters?). There was a big station of pay phones in SouthPark Mall in...

It’s amazing what some quality bigs can do. If we had Wilson and Veesaar on last year’s team I have no doubt we would have been a championship contender. I also think Cadeau would have thrived with those guys to pass the ball to. Put just one of those guys on the 2023-24 team and we likely...

I’m an atheist who enjoys the pagan rituals associated with celebrating the winter solstice. But my point is that when your kids are at an age where they believe in Santa, you don’t have to explain anything to them. At that stage they’re clueless about it all, as evidenced by the fact they...

As for (a), I don’t think that generally crosses the minds of kids who are young enough for really believe in Santa. They just don’t really grasp the real-life implications of socio-economic status. And if that is a concern, does it really matter if it is Santa or the parents giving gifts? Isn’t...

Yeah, most of the folks I know from the mountains are UNC fans. Most folks I know from ENC hate UNC if they have no connections to the school (my dad is from ENC but in addition to being a UNC alum, he is from a family of UNC alums, so he was in the minority). My experience with folks from ENC...

Most ECU fans I know are hardcore ABCers. Some of the most hardcore I know.

My wife is Jewish and no gentiles had entered her family until her generation become adults. When she was very young, she asked her grandmother why Santa didn’t visit her. Her grandmother told her Santa was just some made-up thing. My wife was devastated to hear that even though Santa was never...