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With new Commanders head coach Dan Quinn officially introduced yesterday, I thought I could take a deeper look at what kind of defensive system he’ll bring to Washington. Last week, I broke down Quinn’s defense in Dallas over the past few years and how he’s evolved his system from the zone-heavy Cover-3 days with the Seahawks to a much more aggressive style with extra rushers and plenty of man coverage. If you missed that overview, be sure to check that out as it goes over some of the basics of what Quinn did with the Cowboys defense and how he built his unit around his best players.

Hello, my beautiful clowns! Hope you’re having a stellar start to your week, because you’re the best and I love you all. I was at the grocery store the other day when I found a few new products on the shelf that I hadn’t seen before. They were miniature Doritos that came in the same cardboard canisters as Pringles chips, simply labeled “Doritos Minis.” I thought the baby Doritos were cute, so I absentmindedly took a photo of them and posted it to my Instagram stories without thinking about it too much.

The idea that different species (or even strains and cultivars of the same species) of Psilocybe mushroom elicit their own distinct effects is fairly pervasive amongst even educated aficionados, and often defended vigorously. It’s not uncommon for online vendors to describe certain strains as “euphoric, visual” and others as “introspective, creative”. I shouldn’t need to tell you that this is almost entirely a marketing ploy. However, those that subscribe to the “strain matters” philosophy will often refer to the so-called entourage effect coined to explain the different effects of cannabis strains: the idea that the particular cannabinoid profile determines whether a strain is energising and euphoric or is more likely to put you to sleep, for example.

You know it’s bad when your pet can get an abortion, but you can’t. This week, we heard the testimony of the four women suing Texas over its barbaric anti-abortion laws that they claim, put their lives in danger. Ashley Brandt, Lauren Hall, Lauren Miller, Anna Zargarian and Amanda Zurawski are the first to bring a legal challenge on behalf of women being blocked from accessing the right to abortion since Roe was overturned last summer.

On my way back from Turkey, and there’s nothing quite like international travel to help put things into perspective. There are much bigger problems in this world right now than the mask debate. Still, it would be tragic if people left the emergency thinking one of two extremes: “masks don’t work” or “any mask works.” Another pandemic will come, and we will need to be better and smarter. Hell, every winter, we could be smarter.

“I just adored every second playing the weird and wonderful human grease stain that is Tom Wambsgans,” said Matthew Macfadyfen as he took the Golden Globe for Male Supporting Actor TV category.  For those who didn’t watch Succession, the joke is a jab at his character and funny because it brilliantly captures the essence of Tom, as well as every other character in the show. It’s not an easy show to watch because it’s about a family who consistently back stabs each other in their efforts to gain power and although the story takes place in the very unrelatable space of the ultra rich, it somehow reaches the depths of many of our souls.

In a recentVarietyprofile, Joe and Anthony Russo, the filmmaking brothers most famously responsible for a string of super-successful Marvel movies, opined about the future of movies. Drawing on their own experience, professional plans, and intuition, they painted a picture of a film industry still figuring out how to incorporate the upheaval of the streaming era (fair) and about to undergo an even more radical transformation due to other technological developments. It’s here that the Russos’ thinking gets a little, well, fuzzy.

There seems to be some debate about just how responsible Greta Thunberg’s Twitter dustup was for Andrew Tate’s arrest. Who cares! Let people hold onto their folklore. As far as I’m concerned it, this is a Batman and Gordon at the end of The Dark Knight situation. “Because sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes, people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.” The Internet can have this one.

Honeyjubu. Nami’s Life. Choki. Ballerina Farm. These are a few of my new favorite lifestyle vloggers who fulfill my latent ASMR needs. I stumbled onto their YouTube/Instagram channels recently while trying to avoid the news, in between my K-drama marathon and book-reading break. Once I heard the quiet patter of Nami preparing her evening meal, amidst all her cute, Japanese contraptions, safe from the cold, I was hooked. Honeyjubu’s Korean side dishes aren’t really my thing.