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We may see even more cases than ever of "best shape of my life" whenever Spring Training begins.

One of my favorite catchers Froot Loops.

You spell February funny.

Move in-person voting to Saturday and Sunday. That'll solve a few problems.

then volunteer to be a poll worker.

But you can't see what the machine spits out at the end..... But then you're in Chicago

It can hurt Republicans only if the elections are free and fair.

Yeah, who needs government-stabilized currency sitting in an insured bank account, anyway!

JAMA Network: People With a College Degree Have Survival Rate From Covid-19 From the study . . . When you think about those truckers blocking the bridge today into Windsor or those non-college educated whites and people of color who are dying from Covid, is it any surprise they have a higher mortality rate than college educated persons? It is incredibly sad to me to see people like this be taken advantage of and preyed upon with so much misinformation.

Holy cow. That ball is probably still in therapy to this day.

a couple things: 1) citing mark joseph stern on the supreme court is like citing triple7 about the tigers. does he know some of the facts and the basics? yes. is he occasionally insightful? as much as a broken clock is right twice a day. is he hyperbolic, over the top, and seeking attention for himself rather than offering any useful information? yup. 2) roberts didnt really take the liberals' position, he took a centrist position. like usual. 3) this ruling doesnt gut the voting right act. it doesnt say anything about the voting rights act. here is the deal, the alabama legislature passed a map that would have had one majority black voter district whereas the old map had two. instead, the new map puts some black voters in other districts. the district court (with two trump nominees who obviously forgot their marching orders) sided with the naacp and said this is a violation of section ii and they had to redraw the map. the legislature asked them to stay their ruling (which would have left the old map intact) while they appealed to the supremes. the district court said no. it said you have plenty if time to redraw the map now get busy. if you dont redraw it with a good map, we'll appoint an outside agency to draw one for you. the supreme court got the appeal and said yes, we will hear this and we will stay the district court's decision until we can rule. this means the ruling is stayed until the supremes can hear the appeal in the fall which, for all intents and purposes, means this new map is in effect for the next election. kagan says thats bs and the ruling should go into effect now and the supremes can hear the state's appeal while the state operates under the old map (or the redrawn map ordered by the court). kavanaugh says thats not fair to the state because it is planning the elections with the new map and that the supremes are not supposed to get involved in state elections so close to election time (technically kinda true). roberts says the case needs to be heard to clarify section two of the vra (which was changed in shelby county by roberts) and that the old maps should be in effect until the supremes can make that clarification. 4) i think kavanaugh is wrong and kagan/roberts are both kind of right. 5) democracy isnt dying. nor is it dead. life will go on in heavily gerrymandered states like illinois and alabama and pennsylvania and maryland and north carolina... 6) despite #5, i think gerrymandering is stupid and should be ended. post haste.

I'd guess the comparison is pretty apt in that the average person probably doesn't like freeways being blocked regardless of whatever political message is being pushed.

This is the distinction between what Murphy is doing and what Youngkin is trying to do in VA. Local versus state control.

I think they're called "Asshats" up there.

They could always ride their bikes through!

Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the boxes of documents that are missing.

Imagine if those documents were emails on a server

The org chart certainly looks a lot different - new people in charge of Personnel, Development, Scouting. David Chadd is still there, he's an assistant GM now, in charge of macarena lessons.