Was kind of hard to tell Monday night! Which is what I wrote about in this week's Tuesdays With Torbee:

Tuesdays with Torbee​

by:Tory Brecht



Women’s basketball fans tuning in to ESPN last night eager to watch Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes continue their quest for a second-consecutive Final 4 run may be forgiven for thinking the Leader in Sports, rather than Netflix, was the new home for WWE’s Monday Night Raw.

Head slaps, body slams, hook-and-holds and all manner of other moves more common to a wresting cage match were judiciously employed by the West Virginia Mountaineers in their attempt to slow down the Hawkeye scoring machine.

It almost worked.

The Mountaineers’ felonious, er, make that aggressive, defense held the high-flying Hawks 28 points below their college basketball leading 92-point scoring average. Of course to do so West Virginia needed to commit 27 called fouls (and likely twice as many non-called offenses.) Iowa made them pay for that overzealousness, shooting a scintillating 83% from the free throw line on the way to a bruise-inducing, 10-point victory and into the Sweet 16.

As they shiver in their ice baths today, the Iowa women should feel elated they took a team’s literal best punch and emerged victorious. It is no secret the blueprint to beat Iowa’s high-scoring, fast-paced, often finesse style is to muck it up and turn free flowing games into street fights (apologies to South Carolina coach Dawn Staley if that description offends her delicate sensibilities.)

Monday night in front of a deafening Carver crowd, the Hawkeyes showed a toughness they have sometimes lacked in the past. It was a gut check game proving they have the grit, tenacity and ability to win ugly, physical games if needed. With heavyweights LSU and South Carolina looming further down the bracket, it is a valuable lesson for a team chasing a difficult dream.

It should also be noted that Iowa held West Virginia to 54 points and itself played lockdown defense at times. Unlike the Hawkeye men, the Iowa women have the capacity to clamp down and stop the opponent from scoring, even on nights when their own offense struggles.

Hawkeye haters – and that’s a growing demographic due to the unprecedented and unrelenting publicity the Caitlin Clark Show generates – were quick to whine about the 27 to 12 foul call disparity, insinuating the officiating favored Iowa. What they fail to note is the Mountaineers likely could have been called for 50-plus fouls. West Virginia coach Mark Kellogg employed the old Tom Izzo strategy of physically harassing every opposing ballhandler and daring the officials to call every foul. To their credit, Monday’s crew did call the most egregious ones, while letting minor misdemeanors go for the most part. They also managed to prevent the game from descending into the kind of chippiness that marred recent games, like that between LSU and South Carolina, where a literal basketbrawl erupted.

It is likely every opponent remaining in the tournament will attempt to intimidate, physically harass and bully the Hawkeyes. The good news is Iowa appears not only better equipped to overcome, but to return the favor a bit. There was an edge and feistiness to not only Clark, but teammates like Kate Martin and Hannah Stuelke as well Monday night. It seems to me the Hawks are sick and tired of being pushed around and are willing to mix it up a bit, which will be key down the stretch.

Personally, I prefer the “beautiful game” of crisp passing, freedom of movement and cascade of three pointers. That is also where the Iowa women’s team thrives best. Unfortunately, that free-flowing style is not shared by any of the teams remaining on Iowa’s side of the bracket, so players and fans alike need to strap in and prepare for more bare knuckle basketball.
Or as Ric Flair once said, “If you don’t like it, learn to LOVE IT!”

State Auditor Rob Sand is calling out Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird for delaying payments for contraception for victims of sexual assault.

State Auditor Rob Sand says Bird paused payments to sexual assault victims for contraception and abortions on her first day in office in January of 2023. “Half of those survivors receiving such contraception are children and teenagers,” Sand said.

Sand takes issue with Bird’s office calling the pause an audit, and says Iowa schools and towns are audited yearly without interruption. “None of them have ever suspended business while waiting for their audit to get completed. This is a policy decision the Attorney General made and this sort of choice, word choice, is simply a way to help her avoid accountability for her own decision,” Sand said.

MORE: Sit-down with the Iowa Attorney General​

Sand said the holdup is hurting Iowans. “The trauma and the pain that the Attorney General’s decision is putting victims through in this case literally makes my skin crawl,” Sand said.


Bird’s office says they’re evaluating whether it’s an appropriate use of public funds, but Sand says it’s not taxpayer money being used. “It’s also worth pointing out that the money that is used to pay for emergency contraception doesn’t come from taxpayers. It comes from criminals from the fines that they have to pay when convicted of a crime,” Sand said.

In a statement, Attorney General Bird’s office says the State Auditor is playing politics and spreading misinformation. It goes on to say they’re in the final stages of the audit and will release it when it’s finished. No timeline was given as to when that may be.

Alyssa Brouillet, Communications Director for the AG’s office said, “The State Auditor and Planned Parenthood are flat wrong. It is a shame that the Auditor is playing politics with a critical audit of victim services and blasting misinformation to boost his own profile. We will publicly release the report once it is final. While not required by Iowa law, the victim compensation fund has previously paid for Plan B and abortions. As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance, Attorney General Bird is carefully evaluating whether this is an appropriate use of public funds. That audit is ongoing. Until that review is complete, payment of these pending claims will be delayed.”

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Climate change is messing with time itself.
The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

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The planet is not about to jerk to a halt, nor speed up so rapidly that everyone gets flung into space. But timekeeping is an exact science in a highly technological society, which is why global authorities more than half a century ago felt compelled by the slight changes in Earth’s rotation to invent the concept of the “leap second.”

Climate change is now making these calculations even more complicated: In just a few years it may be necessary to insert a “negative leap second” into the calendar to get the planet’s rotation in sync with Coordinated Universal Time.



“Global warming is managing to actually measurably affect the rotation of the entire Earth,” said study author Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the University of California at San Diego. “Things are happening that have not happened before.”

The core problem in timekeeping​

Timekeeping has traditionally had an astronomical basis. Earth is a type of a clock. In simpler times, the planet would spin one full revolution on its axis, and everyone would call it a day.
Technologists, however, demand excruciating levels of exactitude. Atomic clocks and not sundials now tell us what time it is. In atomic time, a second is defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Cesium atom. The goal of the people who want to get things exactly right is to make sure that atomic time is perfectly in sync with astronomical time.



For example, GPS satellites need to know exactly where Earth is beneath them — and precisely what time it is — to accurately get you from your house to the nearest Arby’s.
But Earth doesn’t spin at a perfectly constant speed. Our planet is in a complicated gravitational dance with the moon, the sun, the oceanic tides, Earth’s own atmosphere and the motion of the planet’s solid inner core.
Unhelpfully, Earth’s core is unavailable for close scrutiny and “is a bit of a black box,” as Agnew noted. Geophysicists can infer some details about the planet’s interior by drilling into select areas of the sea floor. And as The Post reported last year, scientists have discerned changes in Earth’s rotation that appear to match 70-year oscillations in the rotation of the core.

But when scientists try to describe what Earth is doing at any given moment, they have to factor in a lot of slop and wobble.


The planet’s fluctuating spin rate is carefully tracked by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (formerly the only slightly less bombastically named International Earth Rotation Service). In the early 1970s, Earth was clearly slowing down in its rotation, and a gap was forming between atomic time and astronomical time. Thus was born the “leap second” to adjust for the fact that the “day” was getting a bit longer.

Twenty-seven leap seconds have been added to Universal Coordinated Time since 1972. The addition of a leap second happens at the last tick of the clock on the night of Dec. 31.

Making the leap​

But hold on: Earth is not slowing down anymore. It’s actually been speeding up a bit. In fact, there hasn’t been a leap second added since the end of 2016.

Here is where the casual reader’s head might start spinning. The melting of the ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland shifts mass — meltwater — toward the equator. That process increases the equatorial bulge of the planet. Meanwhile, at the poles, the land that had been pressed down by ice rises, and Earth becomes more spherical.


These two changes in the planet’s shape have opposite effects on Earth’s rotation, according to Judah Levine, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo.
The new paper by Agnew contends that, although the core is causing the planet to spin faster, the planetary shape changes caused by a warming climate are slowing that process. Absent this effect, Agnew wrote, the overall acceleration of the planet’s rotation might require timekeepers to insert a “negative leap second” at the end of 2026. Because of climate change, that might not be necessary until 2029, he found.

Levine, who is not part of this new study, said the science is credible, but he was not prepared to sign off on the conclusion because it is inherently tricky to predict what Earth is going to do.


“There’s a very great uncertainty about this,” Levine said. “A few years ago, there were predictions in the other direction.”
Nick Stamatakos, head of the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Earth Orientation Department, said in an email that, although it’s more likely a negative leap second will need to be adopted, there’s no way to know for sure what the planet will do.
“It is like a weather prediction of a big storm or hurricane. We can’t say for certain what will happen and when. However, we can say there is a higher percentage chance of a negative leap second than say 25 years ago,” Stamatakos wrote.
He noted that his brother-in-law teases him every time a leap second gets added, declaring, “Wow that was a long year — an entire extra second!” Stamatakos’s response: “Well, in that one second, the Earth rotated about four football fields.”

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In October, Tony indicated that this would be his last season at Iowa.

I hope he has a change of heart & returns.

The story from today:

Iowa Basketball's Tony Perkins won't decide Future with Program until after the Season


Tyler Tachman
Des Moines Register
Feb 22, 2024

EAST LANSING — Iowa basketball guard Tony Perkins is waiting until after the 2023-24 season to decide his future basketball plans, though he is keeping his options open.

Perkins, who is in his fourth season with the Hawkeyes program, has the opportunity to return to college basketball for the 2024-25 campaign because of the extra eligibility granted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He could also pursue a professional basketball career.

Perkins hasn’t closed either of those doors.

“Right now, I haven’t really been thinking too much on it,” Perkins told the Register. “I got an extra year (of college eligibility) if needed. But it all comes down to the end of the season. If it’s a spot for me to come back and it’s a way for me to come back, I will consider it, of course. If other options open up, then I’ll go the other way. It all depends.”

Perkins has been phenomenal for Iowa this season. He is averaging career-highs in points (15.2), rebounds (4.3), assists (4.2) and steals (1.7) per game. Perkins’ case for making an All-Big Ten team has some significant momentum.

It would be a big development if Perkins were to return to Iowa next season, giving the Hawkeyes a high-level, veteran playmaker to go along with some exciting, younger building blocks. Payton Sandfort could return next season, too, though he will likely also have a decision of his own to make following this season.

If Perkins would decide to move on from the program, the keys at point guard could potentially be given to Brock Harding. The undersized but crafty freshman guard has shown flashes of electrifying play this season and has given reason to believe he can lead the Hawkeyes’ offense in the future.

But before making a choice, Perkins is focusing on this season. The Hawkeyes, who have rattled off two resume-building wins in a row, are in a frantic chase to try to earn an NCAA Tournament bid. Iowa (16-11, 8-8) has four regular season games left and then the Big Ten tournament to try to build their case to make the Big Dance.

“I’m just focused on right now,” Perkins said about his future. “Then once that time comes, I have my meeting with the coaches, I’ll worry about it then.”

I live in the country and found out about a week ago that my well is going dry. I have a large cistern that feeds 2 houses which I was able to find a farmer to put 3500 gallons of water in last Thursday. I have contacted a well drilling company as well as researching whether it's possible for me to hook up to city water (which can be accessed just on the other side of Hwy 34). Both options will take a few months before I can get hooked up. Anyway Google says the average person uses 3000 gallons a month or 12,000 gallons for a family of 4. That seems high, but maybe I'm wrong. I won't be watering the lawn, livestock, or filling a pool. I'm trying to figure out how often I will need to ask the farmer to put in an additional 1200 gallons or so until I can get hooked up to a new water source.

“Happy Days are Here Again”… eat your heart out! Trump is gonna use “B-I-B-L-E, That’s the book for Me” as his Presidential campaign song this Fall! A little Godliness is what politics needs.

Hawks have been agressive bringing in OL for spring practice visits. Brooks, Herron and Heath for Swarm 25 and Nielsen for Swarm 26. Some posters on this board have dissed Barnett but everything I've heard or read says he is liked by the players and a good recruiter. FWIW, the cupboard was pretty empty with injuries, early departures and poor recruiting.

He has brought in a few four star recruits the last two years. Fingers crossed that he lands another good class and turns our OL play around this fall.

The millennials are killing me, they really are. If they're not driving like retards, usually texting and driving, or taking 30 minutes to pick out a six pack of hoppy IPA at the grocery, they're saying 'yeah' instead of you're welcome. Seriously, this is a thing.

The Pho Bar I go to for lunch has these kids working in it, all tatted up and pierced twelve different ways and that's not so bad. But what is bad, when they bring me my Pho bowl and I say, thank you, they just say 'yeah'.

Drives me so nuts I'm not going back to the place, ever, even if they fire these little nerds...

Finally. Someone has spoken out against these business owners who love and support all of the violent crime surrounding their stores. We start putting a few of these fancy pants convenient store owners behind bars when someone gets shot on their corner, things will start to change for the better.

“We have a lot of violence around convenience stores and gas stations,” said St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones. “So how can we hold those business owners accountable and also bring down crime? Some of the things are already doing, we’re finding other mayors are doing as well.”

Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime wraps up first set of meetings

All eyes are on Memphis as leaders from states across the country meet in the Bluff City for the first-ever Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime.

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Comedian forced to remove picture of hot dog in his hand on promotion poster in effort to stop kids from getting fat. That oughta work.

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Key Gauges of US Economy Advanced at Healthy Clip to End 2023​

Augusta Saraiva

The government’s two main measures of US economic activity posted strong advances at the end of last year, pointing to an economy that’s still expanding at a healthy clip.

Gross domestic product rose at an upwardly revised 3.4% annualized pace in the fourth quarter on the back of stronger household demand and business investment, according to the third estimate of the figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis out Thursday.

The government’s other main gauge of economic activity — gross domestic income — rose 4.8%, the most in two years. GDI measures income generated and costs incurred from producing goods and services, whereas GDP measures spending on such goods and services.

In theory the two indicators should be equal, but over the last several quarters an unusually large gap had opened up between them, with GDP increasingly outrunning GDI. The discrepancy raised questions about the underlying pace of economic expansion.

The group responsible for officially dating recessions at the National Bureau of Economic Research uses the average between GDP and GDI in determining turning points in the business cycle. The average increase in the fourth quarter was 4.1%, the most in two years.

Consumer spending — which accounts for two-thirds of GDP — rose at a 3.3% rate amid stronger spending on health care and financial services, even as goods outlays were revised lower. The stronger nonresidential investment figures reflected upward revisions to spending on structures, intellectual property and equipment.

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation metric — the personal consumption expenditures price index — rose at a 1.8% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the least since 2020. Excluding food and energy, the gauge rose 2%, slightly less than in the previous estimate.
The report also showed that adjusted pre-tax corporate profits rose 4.1%, the most since mid-2022. After-tax profits as a share of gross value added for non-financial corporations, a measure of aggregate profit margins, remained historically elevated at 15.1%.

Recent earnings reports have shown publicly-traded companies are enjoying a bump in gross margins as they finally get some relief on input costs — a dynamic which is not necessarily showing up at the cash register for consumers. That helps explain recent investor optimism as the S&P 500 heads for a fifth straight month of gains.

President Joe Biden has zoned in on robust earnings as reason to believe that companies are taking advantage of consumers with high prices, particularly at the grocery store, as he campaigns for re-election.

More recent economic data have indicated consumers may be growing more discerning following years of spending fueled by pent-up demand. Data on personal consumption expenditures for February is due Friday.

Looking ahead, the trajectory of inflation and the labor market will be key in determining how long consumers will be able to continue supporting economic growth. A separate report out Thursday showed continuing applications for US unemployment benefits rose to 1.82 million in the week ended March 16, the highest level in nearly two months.

Bumbling Joe Bidens latest handout just stuck every taxpayer in America with somebody else's college bill.

The Biden administration’s latest student-debt handout will cost nearly $6 billion and benefit 78,000 public-service employees.

Biden’s executive actions to forgive student-loan debt comes after the Supreme Court blocked the White House from erasing over $400 billion of debt under the HEROES Act. The president promised to defy the Supreme Court in the wake of the ruling last year and figure out alternative paths to debt forgiveness. Since becoming president, Biden has forgiven over $130 billion in student-loan debt.

Shifting that debt to all taxpayers.

It’s a girls’ day out!!!!

A-list pals Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock were seen leaving an upscale plastic surgery retreat in Connecticut Wednesday.

The pair — who seemingly tried to stay undercover — was joined by Jason Bateman’s wife, Amanda Anka.

The group was photographed leaving renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Neil A. Gordon’s office at The Retreat at Split Rock in the ritzy town of Greenwich.

The Yale School of Medicine graduate is part of a “small, elite group of international facial plastic surgeons” who specializes in “facial rejuvenation and rhinoplasty,”

The center also offers injectables like Botox and Kybella, per the website.

Per the photos, Aniston, 55, attempted to cover her face while leaving the office in a large, black floppy hat.

The “Proposal” actress added a pair of white sneakers, several gold necklaces and dark shades.

Anka, 55 — who made a brief cameo in Aniston’s Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show” in 2021 — cut an equally casual figure in a bright red sweater, boot-cut jeans and black booties.

In 2015, Aniston revealed she had tried injectables in the past, but wasn’t a huge fan of them.

“People think that I do a lot of [Botox] injections, but I don’t,” she told InStyle. “I’m not saying that I haven’t tried it but I see how it’s a slippery slope. All that cosmetic stuff looks ridiculous on me.”

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Politically....labeling this and owning the economy is risky in my opinion. If things go south in the next 16 months every R attack ad will be using this label. Smart or stupid?

Politically stupid IMO


Move over, Reaganomics. President Joe Biden is attempting to usher in the era of “Bidenomics”

This economic theory – which rejects the idea of “trickle-down” policies in favor of focusing on the middle class – will be a centerpiece of Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign. The president will highlight the achievements he’s attributing to Bidenomics in a major speech in Chicago on Wednesday.

Trickle-down economics, which was at the heart of President Ronald Reagan’s policies and continues to be the guiding light of Republican lawmakers, typically revolves around tax cuts for the wealthy and large companies. Supporters say the benefits flow down to middle-class and working Americans, boosting economic growth more broadly. But many experts dispute this effectiveness of this practice at lifting all boats.

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You cant go wrong.

Our offense was poor the last few years, actually bad. With that said, we needed positive change and I think these two hires will get us there. I know the naysayers will piss and moan, they whine about everything Kirk goes. I am willing to see how it goes. Can't be any worse.

Why the optimism?

Lester's offense is still aligned to a degree with what Iowa ran previously. Significant change can be unsettling to current players. He uses TE's which is critical at Iowa. He also wants to run the ball, another critical component of our offense. He spreads his WR's out to improve spacing and open the middle of the field to run the ball and for slants. Weather is always an issue come late October, so pass first offenses struggle later in the season.

I see Budmayr being the head phones guy on the field with Lester in the press box. His OC/QB experience will be helpful during gameday.

Read a column from a Western Michigan reporter who said Lester was a good recruiter. Budmayr seems to have the ability to connect to recruits also. They are from the Chicago area so they should help us in that area. Not to mention Lester and Budmayr have coached in the midwest for most of their career so they should strengthen our recruiting in the midwest.

The fact that almost half of Big Ten teams have QB's as WR coaches (I believe I read 8), should show that you don't need a WR to coach that position.

Kirk is right when he says synergy between coaches is critical. I trust Kirk to know whether someone can coach.

Sorry for the positive post to all the Debbie Downers.

Go Hawks!

I have one in my enclave. Man is it annoying.

Is this my chance to convince the wife I need to get into falconry?

Both hated by Iowa.

In twilight's glow, where dreams softly ignite,
Two souls entwined, their hearts begin to dance.
With whispered vows beneath the starry night,
Their love unfolds in a serenade's trance.

As roses bloom, their fragrant tales unfurl,
Each petal speaks of passion's sweet embrace.
In every touch, a symphony of swirl,
Their love, a melody, boundless in grace.

Through valleys deep and mountains high they roam,
Hand in hand, through life's enchanting maze.
In every sigh, their love becomes their home,
A sanctuary in the endless days.

Oh, love so pure, like rivers to the sea,
Forever bound, in sweet eternity.

What was most tear jerking moment?

This has been a busy week for Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, who has received two lucrative offers to play basketball outside of the WNBA.

On Wednesday, it was reported that Ice Cube offered Clark $5 million to play in the BIG3.


"We intended the offer to remain private while Caitlin Clark plays for the championship. But I won’t deny what’s now already out there: BIG3 made a historic offer to Caitlin Clark," Ice Cube explained. "Why wouldn’t we? Caitlin is a generational athlete who can achieve tremendous success in the BIG3."

After this offer was made public, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy decided to make his own pitch to Clark.

Portnoy is willing to pay Clark $10 million just to join the Barstool Sports intramural basketball team.

"I'll offer Caitlin Clark 10 million to play on our intramural hoops team," Portnoy wrote on X this Wednesday.

Some fans thought this offer from Portnoy was a joke, but it seems to be real. After all, he's a huge fan of the NCAA's all-time leading scorer.

Both offers are appealing from a financial standpoint, but Clark seems ready to take her talents to the WNBA. But first, she'll try to lead Iowa to a national championship.

Iowa will face Colorado this Saturday in the Sweet 16. As per usual, all eyes will be on Clark.