I listened to Serial some years back. Good podcast! But it seemed to me the podcaster sort of fell for the guy in some way, maybe not romantically, but it had a tinge of Truman Capote writing In Cold Blood to it. Based on the evidence presented in the podcast (for whatever that is worth), it seemed like he probably did kill her but that he had good grounds for a new trial based on failures by the prosecutors to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence. I’d say at this point he’s served 20ish years and is beyond the age when most people commit violent acts, so they should do some type of plea deal where the state agrees not to re-prosecute the case but he agrees to waive claims against the state for wrongful conviction.
I doubt he's going back to prison at this point. As I understand it, there are other groups that have been actively working on the case since then and some of the stuff even in the original Serial that made him look guilty wasn't actually correct! (The "cell phone tower" evidence, for example, was complete bunk.)
I haven't been through all that, but AFAIK it's a pretty big step for a DA's office to actively admit that they have doubt about a conviction and request that it be vacated (not just make a deal with the convict to let him out early). That's what happened here.
It’s been some years but they did go into the cell tower stuff quite a bit in the podcast. I think the main issue he really had was that his buddy led the cops to the body and give detailed testimony that seemed to be corroborated by available evidence that he personally witnessed Syed kill her. However I admittedly do not remember all the details and as you say things have developed since. You are right that the admission by DA’s office is quite unusual.
Saw Don't Worry Baby in IMAX (early release) yesterday. Very flawed movie - lots of stuff to like (Flo Pugh, the production design, Chris Pine), lots of stuff to dislike (Harry Styles, some of the story beats) - I thought it was like a 2.5-3 star movie.
I order occasionally from doordash. Usually the service is OK but sometimes the drivers get lost in the Berkeley Hills. One time the courier didn't show up at all claiming that I didn't answer the text on my phone in time so I had missed the "window" and they were onto the next delivery. Customer service reversed the charges but I found it irritating.
I also got my booster - for some reason Kaiser said I already had had 5 Pfizer shots - which, not true - and also flu shots for the last 8 years - which also not true. I wonder whose medical records got mixed up with mine.
Florida exits OOC play having played respectably at 2-1 with a quality win over #7 Utah, a narrow loss to #20 UK, and a win over USF. Their starting QB has played all 3 games and has thrown zero touchdowns.
I received an email promoting an e-publication (are there still any other kind?) that touted it as "Fake News You Can Trust". That this is even a concept, much less one that has promotional value, is a troubling sign of the times.
Trump hoist with his own petard. WaPo reports that Special Master Dearie has asked to "disclose specific information regarding declassification to the Court and to the Government", to which the Trump defense refused for BS reasons other than he-is-a-known-liar-and-made-that-shit-up. In other words, Dearie has headlocked Trump's lawyers - admit you're wrong or face potential disbarment via false-statement charges.
They have given T and his staff all manner of opportunities to comply or make a reasoned argument based in some kind of reading of the law, and they simply have not.
No 1 and I have tickets for Yankees/Red Sox on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium. We thought about maybe going on Wed night since it is the Pirates and they suck so maybe Judge will hit 62 before Thurs, but we opted for the better opponent.
The San Francisco Giants game against the Colorado Rockies on Monday started ominously.
The first pitch of the game, a 92-mph slider from Chad Kuhl to LaMonte Wade Jr., was outside by somewhere between a mile and a kilometer (who knows the difference, really). It was called a strike.
Clayton Kershaw has been magnificent since returning from the injured list, and his win over the Diamondbacks, 5-2 on Monday night at Dodger Stadium clinched a bye for the Dodgers directly into the National League Division Series.
Kershaw allowed a run on six hits in his six innings against Arizona, striking out ten, including five in a row at one point in the third and fourth innings.
Since returning on September 1 from lower back pain, Kershaw has a 1.50 ERA in 24 innings over four starts, with 29 strikeouts and a 32.2-percent strikeout rate. After an uncharacteristically wild three-walk frame in his first inning back against the Mets, Kershaw has only one walk in 23 innings, including none on Monday.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by Power Bar.
In the fifteen years between 1953 and 1967 the Bears had only one winning season, 1958 when they last went to the Rose Bowl. Cal managed to play .500 ball four times in that span (’53 ’54, '65 and ’67.)
Cal trivia fun fact will appear on DBD every Tuesday and Thursday during the football season.
Just christened the media room with a new 75" TV which I will use to watch the Arizona game on Saturday. That means Cal will win, right? Otherwise the twists and turns of the game will be shown in exquisite detail.
DBD AV dinner
Is it AV bc you’re watching a movie with dinner?
Trying this recipe out for dinner tonight. Salt and pepper wings
https://www.madewithlau.com/recipes/salt-pepper-chicken-wings
Last night I made roast chicken.
The wings were really good. Got tickets to Phillies/Blue Jays at the last minute and bring the wings to eat at the game.
Adnan Syed (the subject of the original Serial podcast) has his conviction overturned, is set free.
https://twitter.com/serial/status/1571957561397739520
I listened to Serial some years back. Good podcast! But it seemed to me the podcaster sort of fell for the guy in some way, maybe not romantically, but it had a tinge of Truman Capote writing In Cold Blood to it. Based on the evidence presented in the podcast (for whatever that is worth), it seemed like he probably did kill her but that he had good grounds for a new trial based on failures by the prosecutors to disclose potentially exculpatory evidence. I’d say at this point he’s served 20ish years and is beyond the age when most people commit violent acts, so they should do some type of plea deal where the state agrees not to re-prosecute the case but he agrees to waive claims against the state for wrongful conviction.
I doubt he's going back to prison at this point. As I understand it, there are other groups that have been actively working on the case since then and some of the stuff even in the original Serial that made him look guilty wasn't actually correct! (The "cell phone tower" evidence, for example, was complete bunk.)
I haven't been through all that, but AFAIK it's a pretty big step for a DA's office to actively admit that they have doubt about a conviction and request that it be vacated (not just make a deal with the convict to let him out early). That's what happened here.
It’s been some years but they did go into the cell tower stuff quite a bit in the podcast. I think the main issue he really had was that his buddy led the cops to the body and give detailed testimony that seemed to be corroborated by available evidence that he personally witnessed Syed kill her. However I admittedly do not remember all the details and as you say things have developed since. You are right that the admission by DA’s office is quite unusual.
Right, his buddy Jay who (as I understand it) now seems to have had his story fed to him by the cops.
DBD AV Club
Saw Don't Worry Baby in IMAX (early release) yesterday. Very flawed movie - lots of stuff to like (Flo Pugh, the production design, Chris Pine), lots of stuff to dislike (Harry Styles, some of the story beats) - I thought it was like a 2.5-3 star movie.
Florence Pugh is damn near reason enough to see a movie.
You dog.
COURIERS
for take out delivery? no.
Drexel served as one for Blue Lou Boyle’s consul, Vincent Coccotti, aka Don Vincenzo.
Drexel, an associate of Coccotti’s, is a pimp...he does his pimping, but he also works for Don Vincenzo, in a courier capacity...
Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've out-fought Santino
*****SPOILER ALERT*****. ;-)
...It was Barzini all along....
Was there a way out for the Corleone family - I guess it's either get involved with the white powders or get Santino and Vito killed.
There’s a lot of money in that white powder….
yeah but you're going to lose all those politicians in your pocket. They don't want to be associated with that white powder.
It’s not like gambling, or liquor, or even women…
I order occasionally from doordash. Usually the service is OK but sometimes the drivers get lost in the Berkeley Hills. One time the courier didn't show up at all claiming that I didn't answer the text on my phone in time so I had missed the "window" and they were onto the next delivery. Customer service reversed the charges but I found it irritating.
TODAY IN COVID
Got my bivalent booster—nurse said I didn’t need to wait 15 minutes so I was in and out before I had to pay for parking.
I also got my booster - for some reason Kaiser said I already had had 5 Pfizer shots - which, not true - and also flu shots for the last 8 years - which also not true. I wonder whose medical records got mixed up with mine.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Wilcox listed as 10th candidate to replace Herm Edwards at ASU by CBS sports because of defensive prowess.
Yeah, the Oregon gig was not his style but ASU will be…
Could we have a repeat of the Bruce Snyder exodus?
We could only hope
Lol. If he wouldn’t leave for Oregon a few months ago why in heavens would he leave for ASU now????
Exactly -any coaching speculation articles that list Wilcox are laughable.
What is it like to try out as a walk on at Penn State? Let's find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2hOcx4uX8
Opponents have punted to K-State 3 times this season. They returned two of them for TDs.
Who is the worst of the 3-0 teams: Tulane, Duke, Indiana, Rutgers?
RU is 3-0? Will wonders ever cease?
Rutgers gets its first defeat this coming Saturday, though. Probably. They host Iowa at 4:00 PM EDT.
Iowa wins 4-3?
Ha!
pqtm
Dook is tied for the worst school so Dook...oh wait you mean in football...
Hmm, I thought dook was cantonese for the heel of a loaf of bread. But maybe that's what you meant!
why not both?
After 3 games, Minnesota has converted 77.5% of its 3rd downs. They have punted only 3 times this season.
We do that on our first 3 possessions of the game
Florida exits OOC play having played respectably at 2-1 with a quality win over #7 Utah, a narrow loss to #20 UK, and a win over USF. Their starting QB has played all 3 games and has thrown zero touchdowns.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/gamelog/_/id/4429084/anthony-richardson
Though he’s run for 27
But he has 2 tackles!
ICYMI: Northwestern paid $550k to lose at home to FCS Southern Illinois. SIU previously got smashed by Incarnate Word and lost to Southeast MO State.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401405083
https://twitter.com/Ben89rocks/status/1571218004792299522
Ouch!
I watched much that game - NU needs to switch QBs. I feel bad for that guy bc his brother killed himself at Wazzu, but he is not good
Per Reddit, SEC team Vandy has not been in Alabama's red zone since 2007. Fifteen years.
So pretty much the last time we beat Arizona in football, huh?
I need to hit up eldest for the vandy scouting report (not that she's the least bit interested)
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Where polygamy dies, football grows
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/09/10/why-were-sports-banned-hildale/
I received an email promoting an e-publication (are there still any other kind?) that touted it as "Fake News You Can Trust". That this is even a concept, much less one that has promotional value, is a troubling sign of the times.
NY Times has footage of the GOP trying to hack and copy voter software systems in Georgia. Someone is going to go to jail.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/us/trump-election-coffee-county-georgia.html
I'm not holding my breath...
Trump hoist with his own petard. WaPo reports that Special Master Dearie has asked to "disclose specific information regarding declassification to the Court and to the Government", to which the Trump defense refused for BS reasons other than he-is-a-known-liar-and-made-that-shit-up. In other words, Dearie has headlocked Trump's lawyers - admit you're wrong or face potential disbarment via false-statement charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/20/trump-lawyers-special-master-fox-news-judge-cannon/
Update: Special Master Dearie is apparently taking the government's side. If true, Trump is boned.
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1572295356322390016
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1572302210431881216
They have given T and his staff all manner of opportunities to comply or make a reasoned argument based in some kind of reading of the law, and they simply have not.
West Texas federal judge rules that taking away guns from felons is unconstitutional. Okay, now do voting rights...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-holds-gun-ban-felony-defendants-unconstitutional-90183298
White Houses refuses to delay aid or somehow use it as political tool. That's weird.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/white-house-hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico-analysis/index.html
Brett Favre helped the MS Gov funnel welfare to misappropriate welfare funds
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/13/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare/
jfc. they all need jail time.
PRO
I don't remember that part from the Queen's Gambit about beads
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnus-carlsen-chess-resigns-hans-niemann_n_6328dcbfe4b07198f011a888
Here's the throw and he's out at first. And I don't mean the runner.
https://twitter.com/badrinathbarry1/status/1572055867830198273
oh shit. Hope the ump is OK. That was a direct hit
No 1 and I have tickets for Yankees/Red Sox on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium. We thought about maybe going on Wed night since it is the Pirates and they suck so maybe Judge will hit 62 before Thurs, but we opted for the better opponent.
i would be going too if it wasnt Meet the Teacher Night for 10th graders
Your girl is smart. You don't need to meet the teacher.
Bills beat the Titans 41-7. Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs hook up for 3 TDs.
I'm going to Ravens/Bills in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to that.
that's going to be a great game.
During the Titan's first drive, they said the Buffalo D had only allowed 1 TD in the last 25+ regular season opening drives. That's insane.
given that i was not particularly vested in either game, i thought it was OK that there were 2 games on simultaneously.
Eagles beat the Vikings 24-7
Eagles looked good.
Giants win a very Coors Field game
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/9/19/23362253/giants-rockies-score-recap-thairo-estrada
The San Francisco Giants game against the Colorado Rockies on Monday started ominously.
The first pitch of the game, a 92-mph slider from Chad Kuhl to LaMonte Wade Jr., was outside by somewhere between a mile and a kilometer (who knows the difference, really). It was called a strike.
See, here it is, hiding behind that purple ball.
Home runs back Clayton Kershaw, earn Dodgers extra rest to start postseason
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/9/19/23362401/clayton-kershaw-strikeouts-dodgers-home-runs-nlds-bye
Clayton Kershaw has been magnificent since returning from the injured list, and his win over the Diamondbacks, 5-2 on Monday night at Dodger Stadium clinched a bye for the Dodgers directly into the National League Division Series.
Kershaw allowed a run on six hits in his six innings against Arizona, striking out ten, including five in a row at one point in the third and fourth innings.
Since returning on September 1 from lower back pain, Kershaw has a 1.50 ERA in 24 innings over four starts, with 29 strikeouts and a 32.2-percent strikeout rate. After an uncharacteristically wild three-walk frame in his first inning back against the Mets, Kershaw has only one walk in 23 innings, including none on Monday.
GBBR
GBBR
Mark Sanchez is no RG3
https://twitter.com/nocontxtanncr/status/1571601594612842503
CAL
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by Power Bar.
In the fifteen years between 1953 and 1967 the Bears had only one winning season, 1958 when they last went to the Rose Bowl. Cal managed to play .500 ball four times in that span (’53 ’54, '65 and ’67.)
Cal trivia fun fact will appear on DBD every Tuesday and Thursday during the football season.
Are you sure this is a fun fact? Not a downer fact?
Fair point. May need to rename the feature.
Fun Sized Fact.
It's a fact, but objectively worse.
Today's hot take: but fun sized Snickers are the best Snickers.
You don't feel guilty eating 3 or 4 of them...but screw the little square ones.
Totally agree.
1. Fun sized
2. regular size
3. king size
4. minis
Agree! Those squares are too small!
Maybe just a way of telling us that things could always be worse?
Yup and have been many times.
Go Bears!!!
Just christened the media room with a new 75" TV which I will use to watch the Arizona game on Saturday. That means Cal will win, right? Otherwise the twists and turns of the game will be shown in exquisite detail.
You won't be able to see or hear the band much though.
True. One of the weaknesses of PAC 12 network. I was going to go to the game if it was after dark
No complaints here