Street Hawk

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9th edition of taco bell 50k ultra marathon is happening this Saturday October 3rd in Denver Colorado.

This is one of the weirdest marathons you will see. Runners have to stop at all 10 taco bells. They must eat a menu item from 9 of 10 taco bells. By 4th stop everyone must eat a chulapa supreme or crunch wrap supreme. By 8th stop everyone must eat a burrito supreme or nacho bell grande. And they have to finish it under 11 hours. Race starts at 7:30 am

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I’m going to try not to overreact here.

But I do want to describe what we saw last night - and, more importantly, what it feels like.

With one very important distinction: I am not declaring that this is the truth. I’m describing the feeling.

And tonight, it felt like Lane Kiffin was the perfect fit for LSU, for Louisiana, and for everything this place is about.

Kiffin has spent his entire career being doubted, criticized, and hated on—and he’s never seemed particularly interested in giving a damn.

That sounds a lot like Louisiana.

He went in to the locker room and said “Now imagine if we had Pro players” up 31-3.

He went for two up 44-3…

He IS STTDB made in to a football coach.

Give LSU fans something exciting. Give them something entertaining. Give them a reason to believe that when they walk into Tiger Stadium, they’re going to see something they can’t see anywhere else.

And they will show up.
We saw that last night.
In a huge way.

And now LSU finds itself with perhaps the most reckless entertainer in all of football.

LSU fans have been begging for excitement for years.

Lane Kiffin might be the answer to that call.

Because since Nick Saban left, LSU has often felt like a program that wins in spite of itself, rather than because of everything it does right.

We know the talent this state produces.

We know what Louisiana football looks like when that talent is put on a national stage.

And we know how many championships that talent has helped carry coaches who, frankly, probably weren't good enough to win them on their own.

But somehow, through all of it, LSU has still felt like college football’s sleeping dragon.

Well tonight, the fiddler walked in and woke the dragon and the fiddler’s name is Lane Kiffin.

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This is clearly AI.

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It's not. Here's a different angle.

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AI fact check of Stout's posts:

Mixed — some real, well-documented facts buried in an explanation that's mostly wrong or unsubstantiated.

What's actually true:

Indian Americans, overwhelmingly from Gujarat, do dominate this industry — estimates put it at roughly 40-50% of US convenience stores/gas stations and around half of US motels. That's real and well documented.

Where Stout is wrong or unsupported:

- The mechanism is misdescribed. SBA 8(a) is a federal contracting certification program (helps businesses win set-aside government contracts), not a "0% down vs. 10% down" loan program. The actual low-down-payment SBA loans (7(a), 504) work the same way for every applicant regardless of race — there's no race-based down payment tier. That specific claim doesn't check out.

- The "Trump's SBA changed it framing gets the timeline backwards. The automatic racial presumption of "social disadvantage" for groups like Subcontinent Asian Americans existed since 1986. A federal court (Ultima Services Corp. v. USDA/SBA) ruled it unconstitutional in **July 2023**, and SBA stopped applying it then. The current SBA under Trump has been formally rewriting the regulations since 2025-2026 to make that race-neutral standard permanent — so crediting Trump's SBA with originating the change isn't accurate, though his administration is finishing the job.

- The fraud/nepotism allegation is unsubstantiated. Splitting ownership among family members to buy multiple stores isn't inherently loan fraud — it's how most small family businesses scale, Indian-owned or not. Stout offers no evidence of actual fraudulent loan applications, straw buyers, or SBA enforcement actions; it's an assertion, not a documented pattern.

The actual, well-researched explanation for Indian/Gujarati dominance in this sector: chain migration starting in the 1970s-80s, family labor (unpaid relatives cutting labor costs), tight community and trade-association networks, low barriers to entry (no degree/credentials needed, useful for immigrants whose foreign credentials weren't recognized), and reinvestment of profits into more locations. None of that requires — or is evidence of — loan program abuse.

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one that references Reddit and other social media sources? ooof

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In addition to everything it has access to online versus regurgitating Politard MAGA hack talking points...oooh solar bad, fossil fuels good. frick off.