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Back To The Future  Three stabbings on two continents, teen mobs reclaiming the streets, and a war with Iran nobody seems to have time to process. Have we been here before? If you have been watching the news this week with the vague, unsettled feeling that you fell asleep in 2001 and woke up somewhere much older, you are not imagining it. Three stabbings in three days. Teen mobs are overwhelming city centers. A military confrontation with Iran. The decade has a familiar rhythm, and not a comfortable one. Start with Texas . Today a Collin County jury convicted Karmelo Anthony , 19, of murder in the 2025 stabbing death of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco. Both teenagers were 17 at the time. The case drew enormous national attention — not primarily because of the stabbing itself but because of the racial dimension that social media forced onto it , fairly or not. The jury deliberated roughly three hours and sentenced Anthony to 35 years. Two families...

The NFL Goes to Ireland ( Because Apparently We're Exporting America's Concussion Problem Now) So the NFL went to Ireland this past Sunday. Yeah, Ireland. Land of Guinness, leprechauns, and now the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Minnesota Vikings 24-21 at Croke Park in Dublin . First regular-season NFL game ever played in Ireland, and naturally, the Steelers won. Of course they did.  Now look, I'm not saying the Rooneys are running some kind of international goodwill tour to expand the NFL empire across Europe or anything. Okay, yeah, that's exactly what they're doing. But it's the nice kind of empire-building, alright? The kind where you bring football to people who actually call it " American football " because they already got a perfectly good football over there. Which is our soccer . (Which we were supposed to switch to because of all the head injuries.) But instead, we're going the other way. We're bringing the head in...