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It is one of the most lauded defense developments in recent decades, providing preeminent capability to U.S. military personnel worldwide – but that prowess evidently comes with a steep cost.  Just days after an Osprey helicopter crash off the coast of Japan that killed all eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members on board, followed by a preliminary investigation indicating a material, not personnel, failure, the U.S. military last month declared it was grounding its entire fleet.

Deep Voices #84 on Spotify Deep Voices #84 on Apple Music This edition of Deep Voices starts with a preamble on my time working Pitchfork and the impossibility of being all things to all people as one person. If you’d like to skip my self-aggrandizing and read about the music, scroll down to the playlist notes. You can also not read those and just listen. The music on this week’s playlist, in my opinion, is really good, and the amount of listeners (based on Spotify’s monthly listeners) is really low; only two of the artists make it into the quadruple digits.

Deep Voices Best of 2023 on Spotify Deep Voices Best of 2023 on Apple Music Here are the best 100 songs of 2023. Despite my best efforts, I did not hear every piece of music released in 2023, so take my evaluation with a grain of salt. A very, very small grain of salt. One of those grains that whispers in your ear and says, “Hey, that’s a great list of music.

Hello, clowns! Something magical happened this week. After I posted about eating a whole jarred truffle, someone (who wishes to stay anonymous), informed me that they could get me a fresh black one. I didn’t think it would be that easy, but sure enough, a few days later, I was staring at a big black truffle cradled in a pint container of rice. Holy shit. I’d purchased extra jarred truffles for the sake of fucking around with them today, but never in a million years had I expected to get my hands on a fresh one.

Deer are ubiquitous in Colorado – I live in an urban area but I see them a few times a month, most recently in Crown Hill Park – and yet I know very little about them. Perhaps it is the way they quietly inhabit the landscape, their coats particularly blending in during the many months when grasses and trees are brown. Colorado has two types of deer, the Mule Deer and the White-Tailed Deer.

One night, a couple months ago, I went out. We had drinks before the thing, a couple drinks after the thing, then we all went out after the going out. I was in that happy vibe-y place where I felt invincible even though I knew full well I was going to wish for sweet, sweet death as soon as I opened my eyes the next morning. Dear ones, dear reader, my loves: The next morning was indeed real fucking terrible.

Hello and welcome to another edition of the D-Line Examples newsletter. My name is Craig, and each week I humbly tackle reader questions about how to coach and play defensive line. If you have any questions DM me on my Twitter and in return, I’ll offer actionable real-world advice. We see a lot of zone read during the year and was wondering if you had any tips/drills to give your D-Line on how to defeat it?

Last week I wrote an essay for paid subscribers about the virtue of firearms. I’ve now unlocked it for free subscribers as well, so check it out!The carnage we saw in Israel last week is the worst nightmare for law abiding citizens. Terrorists invaded peaceful spaces, some from the air, and started kidnapping and murdering innocent people. No matter how you feel about the greater geopolitical issues, you can imagine the awful terror of being targeted in public by people aiming to do you and your family harm.

There is a fierce debate within Christian circles about the influence and scope of so-called "Christian Nationalism." Some want to apologize for it, others want to embrace it, but who really defines "Christian Nationalism?" This is critical. We are fighting a battle not about ideology, but about the very language we use every single day. Truth doesn't change, but words certainly do. A recent report from the Public Religion Research Institute claims that 55% of Republicans "