Handmaid Injury Research Paper

When players are out with an injury, game announcers will often say they are, “out with an ankle” or “out with a knee.” I’m pretty sure most of the players are out with two ankles and two knees; it’s just that one of them is injured and that is why they are not playing. I guess we all know they are referring to an injury, but the announcer’s job is to effectively communicate as much pertinent information as possible about the game.

Saying someone is “out with a shoulder” is lazy. If you know what the injury is, let us know. If the exact nature of the injury is unclear, at least tell us which shoulder you are referring to and that it is injured, not just that it exists. I should probably ignore it, but these people are professionals. Why aren’t

That is likely why the echo chamber of the media is so strong and will not disappear any time soon.

What the Hell Were They Thinking?

When the Colts took on the Patriots in week 6, everyone wanted to talk about deflategate/ballghazi and how the Patriots were out to get back at the team that called them out on their ball inflation shenanigans. It gave the analysts something to write and talk about but the narrative missed the mark. The Patriots won the deflategate game in a blowout and went on to take the Super Bowl so it’s hard to imagine the team being singularly focused on some kind of revenge against the Colts. The best revenge is living well and no team is doing as well as New England.

I think Indianapolis had the most motivation heading in. They have been improving each season since Andrew Luck arrived but they have been consistently handled by the Pats. They know that if they want to be taken seriously as contenders, they need to score a marquee victory against a top quality team. The Patriots offered that opportunity as well as a shot at revenge against the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last

That was the only winning venture of the trip. My other two football bets lost and the craps table waited until all my money was out on come bets with big odds until a seven came up and pretty much cleaned me out. While I would never give it up, the $10 win they handed me on the last come bet as they swipe away the rest of my chips is almost an insult. I took the $10 to a roulette table and lost it when the ball refused to land on black 17. Good trip. I’m glad I didn’t save a few hundred bucks and hours on the road by doing something stupid like playing a leisurely round of golf.

House Party

A few weeks back, John Boehner announced he would be stepping down as Speaker of the House and for a while no one seemed to want to succeed him in being next in line behind Joe Biden to be President of the United States of America. As partisan as our politics are now, there are equally large divisions within the Republican Party, and the next speaker will have to deal with the unruly Freedom Caucus which consists of many new representatives who would prefer to shut down the government than bend on their conservative principles.

The early favorite to be the next Speaker was California representative and House majority leader Kevin McCarthy. He dropped out of the running just before a vote that was supposed to make him Speaker and with no major support for the other