The Tailgate Society

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Category: CURRENT

  • Mount Rushmore: America the Spiteful

    Mount Rushmore: America the Spiteful

    Mount Rushmore is a stunning testament to American Exceptionalism and all the good and bad that it entails. Sometimes that’s the will to f*ck with the native inhabitants of a newly conquered land by blowing up their sacred places and replacing them with the faces of the men seen through a one-sided historical lens as […]

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  • HBO’s The White Lotus: The Surprise That’s Not a Surprise

    HBO’s The White Lotus: The Surprise That’s Not a Surprise

    Light Spoilers Ahead The ending of The White Lotus wasn’t all that shocking, which ultimately made me love the series even more. Like many shows, the first episode of The White Lotus revealed that there has been a death at a luxury hotel but we aren’t meant to know any real details. Nosy small-talkers at […]

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  • The Too Much Hype List

    The Too Much Hype List

    The Too Much Hype List is a periodic installment of things in media that have gotten hyped too hard, and thus I am avoiding for stubbornness reasons. However, this is all just opinion and should be treated as such, and you should absolutely enjoy them if you want. Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood […]

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  • Forgiveness: Behind the Scenes

    Forgiveness: Behind the Scenes

    Melvin Shipley’s American Dream was robbed from him by Marty Tirrell and his lies.

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  • Cooking through it

    Cooking through it

    At the beginning of 2020 – before coronavirus and quarantine and masks and social distancing – I set a goal for myself to take the time to make one nice recipe per month. I never felt much motivation to learn to cook growing up and even now it’s hard as one person living alone, but […]

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  • The Tiers of Thanksgiving Food

    The Tiers of Thanksgiving Food

    Every year people post hot takes on the internet regarding the foods of the Thanksgiving meal. To honor this beautiful tradition while stoking the fire, the tiers of Thanksgiving foods as thrown into a TGS group chat. Tier Three Tier three dishes manage to find their way to the dinner table on Thanksgiving much the […]

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  • It’s time to cross the street

    It’s time to cross the street

    When considered, so many of our problems in the United States are the result of our collective distaste for crossing the street. I mean it mostly in a figurative sense, but even quite literally it’s true. As children, we are taught to look both ways before crossing. There may be traffic coming that we need […]

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  • So Your Black Square Didn’t Work?

    So Your Black Square Didn’t Work?

    Remember back in June when you put that little black square up on your social media because you wanted to publicly show that you do not tolerate racism? You and all your friends made a statement with the black square communicating that what happened to George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and many other Black Americans is […]

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  • Let’s Talk About A Vaccine For COVID-19

    Let’s Talk About A Vaccine For COVID-19

    This is the sixth of several articles about COVID-19 and related topics by Dr. Jon Crosbie, an ISU alum, sports fanatic, and all-around awesome Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. It’s been a while since I wrote a medical post. Let’s talk about the new mRNA vaccines, which may very well be employed to usher us out […]

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  • The COVID-19 case against recent conference realignment

    The COVID-19 case against recent conference realignment

    The most recent era of conference realignment in college athletics settled following Big Ten and ACC expansions which moved the leagues to 14-members in 2014. These moves widened the geographic footprint of their leagues for cable subscription purposes, in particular to capture New England cable subscriptions. The move was widely successful financially for the Big […]

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