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I think anyone should be able to terminate a pregnancy because they choose to for whatever reason, just as I did. You're saying let all children be born and let them suffer because the parents may not have the ability to provide care? You will offer to adopt and provide all the financial and emotional support needed, right? You're pro life but not willing to actually help children? Got it. You totally care about life as long as it doesn't inconvenience you or your pocketbook. How very Christian of you. Let me guess, you think ectopic pregnancies should be saved? LOL The same people trying to ban abortion are also against gun control. That is not false. Same people who don't give a shit about putting immigrant children in cages at the border. Same people who didn't care if old and fat people died from COVID. Same people who think rape is an opportunity that you should just relax and enjoy. Same people who don't care that women are dying from lack of pre natal care and post partum depression.

Then child support should start at conception? Government assistance should start at conception? If men are held responsible and it has a financial impact on others, abortion would suddenly become easily available. The same people who profess to be so concerned about the "unborn" couldn't give a rat's ass when the babies are born. Most who think adoption is the answer haven't adopted. Most who think it's wrong to terminate those with special needs aren't in favor of providing funds for life time education and care. Most are unconcerned that guns are slaughtering children more often than abortion. Most aren't in favor of paid parental leave, medicare for all, child care credits, free student lunches, student loan relief...all things that would likely reduce the incidence of needing to terminate a pregnancy. If only the baby killer crowd put the same amount of effort into pregnancy prevention as they did into stopping abortion. Why isn't Jesus preventing unwanted pregnancies and giving babies to those who are having trouble conceiving? Why isn't Jesus providing funds for those who can't afford babies? If you want to know when a zygote becomes an embryo, a fetus, a baby, read a science book. It's all in there. FWIW, the "Bible" says life begins at first breath. So it's settled.

Related, I'll ask again: who should be held criminally liable for an abortion in a post-Roe world? For anyone who is ideologically committed to the cause, these all seem like really simple questions, and it's hard to get straight answers to any of them.

The view from my chair.

I don't claim to have any idea when, to put in purely religious terms, an embryo becomes 'ensouled' but am peace with the idea that it's most definitely not at the point of fertilization and beyond that point the only person I believe who should be properly empowered to decide is the mother carrying it. Way too much moral mischief when any other person or institutions butts into that space with their moral pronouncements.

My advice is to try a reel mower. People powered, it’s great exercise, good for the environment and quiet. I’m not going to attaching my striping wheel to it so I lose that but the cut is magnificent.

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas five House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/jan6-committee-subpoenas-mccarthy/

Ok then, if it's all belief, then everyone's belief is as good as anyone else's and I guess we have to sit down and work out the best compromises we can through the political process instead of bringing moral absolutism to the table and calling other opinions valueless and calling opponents murders and the like.

It's OK. He already looks bad. 😄

Gee, little did I know I should claim moral superiority for my views since my grandfather's family was massacred in the Armenian Holocaust.

I was going to make the old joke about "hard throwing lefty with command problems", but when I looked him up I saw the term "pitchability lefty". I think that's term for a prospect who is not established enough to be a "crafty lefty".

It's tragic, sad, and funny all at the same time that a black woman would be commenting on how they are disturbed that they have to ride on a mode of transit with someone else who isn't exactly like them. Can you imagine if Rosa Parks boycotting the Montgomery transit system a second time because a lesbian woman came and sat down beside her?

You know nothing about my faith so that's a dumb thing to say and those who brag about theirs are often the most wicked. You are being a hypocrite or using language you either don't believe in or don't understand. To sit idly by while you know women are "killing babies" would be immoral and make you as guilty as the Germans in the 30's who stood by while they knew Jews were being slaughtered. or maybe it's something besides "killing babies". But you can't admit to that because then it breaks the foundation of your argument you've trapped yourself in.

That tweet was 9 years old. I wonder if her babies turned gay? Perhaps the prayers saved them?

agree, but I think 100% of us would enjoy that performance

Honestly, I'm happy they don't have a primetime game. Purely from a selfish fan-experience perspective but I enjoy the regularity of 1:00pm games. I remember a few years back when they have a number of "non-standard" game times and I didn't like it as all.

This is also the bottom line for me. Abortion laws are always highly discriminatory, only impacting the poor and powerless, and are fundamentally misogynistic as they leave the irresponsible male completely out of consideration, and were largely ineffective when they were in place in the past. I will go so far as to say I would rather have the law ignore the sin (even if I believed that) than have laws exist that are so biased and unfair. I don't question that there are people who have a serious religious view here, but there is also a boatload of hypocritical virtue signalling going on here by amoral pols playing to that audience.

We still wear them at work when in meetings with others. Technically it is not required, but it's very rare to actually see someone not wearing one in a meeting. This practice saved me from getting it, as I had a meeting with my boss on Monday (where she seemed totally fine) then on Tuesday she was a coughing/hacking mess and tested positive that afternoon.

I don't want to jump into that swamp again. But since you brought it up. Who do you trust more to make the decisions on choice. A woman, her physician and possibly (hopefully) her partner. Or a bunch of politicians? Also, I have yet to see any proposed or recently passed legislation that holds the sperm donor in any way responsible for assisting in the process (mandatory support with no exceptions, etc). Until the Pro Life Movement honestly answers those questions, I remain with my position that the decision is between a woman, her physician, and her creator. Hopefully with support from her partner. I refuse to discuss the subject any further.

I think Musk's problem with Twitter is that his philosophical goals and his economic goals are at cross purposes and I don't think that is resolvable. Philosophically he wants less moderation, but it's exactly lack of moderation that has driven the posters whose presence he wants to monetize off the platform. Bots are a problem but more from the cultural/political direction, there is plenty enough crap generated by real users to keep away the people he wants there more. I'm also a huge FOSS guy - have been on Linux for years - but if you open source enforcement algorithms you are asking for your system to get gamed big time. FOSS works in most SW because SW by it's nature only does certain things, so an exploit is an attempt to add function that shouldn't be there, so you gain security by finding and closing holes and that can be effectively done in the open. Moderation is an attempt to come from the opposite direction logically and that is more difficult. Musk wants the platform open 'except'. But that is a much harder problem because you need the algorithm to anticipate the unknown. Telling people what the algorithm doesn't anticipate is showing them the open doors.

Nope.

Look at what Mark Attanasio's ownership has done for the Brewers... that's an org in a small market that had perennial attendance problems, and now it makes money hand over first. Get the right owner in place with a good management team in Detroit, with the already existing infrastructure and iconic branding that the team has and the loyalty of Michigan sports fans, and there's no doubt they'd make way more money than trying to compete for the attention of the techbros of Austin (most of whom are either Astros fans or Californians who are fans of the Dodgers/Giants)

I can't shake the feeling that they really don't care. They need a red ass or two on this team.

I have to keep repeating it, but they hired a bunch of new people in player development (out of successful orgs) and removed a lot of guys between last offseason and this one. No guarantees that things will be different, per se, but the composition of player development is different than it was in the past.

Oilers-Kings was pretty good. Oilers left it late but saved their season … for now. I forgot all about the Blues-Wilds series. Didn’t watch one second of it, not even on highlights. Never said to see the Wild eliminated, after the Parise-Suter fiasco.

That he was meeting the metrics of the plan laid out? That's the problem, we have no idea. Sure you can say 'the only criteria is winning' but that's nonsense. You can win stupid and you can lose unlucky (don't we know), the key is to build institutional strength - which Ilitch talks about all the time. If that has been the objective and those were the benchmarks, that is probably why is he still here. As I said, no-one is saying a change may not be made, but I don't think it's hard at all to see why one hasn't been. Remove the fan emotion and it's easy to make a rational case for why Avila has kept his job - the organization has moved miles. It may not be the case we agree with but it's not an irrational case. The reality is the fans think Avila is dumb because he is not glib. Well sure he could be, but again, we have zero real idea because glibness and solid management/organizational skills do not have overlapping Venn diagrams. The lack of polish is easy to see, what the organization looks like internally is unknown to most.

lol. james harden comes up small in a big game AGAIN. that was so sweet. hope youre happy daryl morey.

I’d be happy to get one of the athletic guards next to Cade. If Sharpe looks good in pre-draft then I’m ok with that. I’m still high on Ivey’s fit as well though. Here’s Vecenie covering some of the points I’ve been making… https://youtu.be/RE2_Hkzha0Y

He talks like he does, but then again Mike I put the Tigers into a trust before he died and I've seen speculation that when Marion passes the siblings may demand Chris cash out. Without knowing the details of the Tiger Trust who knows how much power Chris has as Trustee to tell his sibs to take a hike (assuming that would be his preference) or if Mike even left the sibs as beneficiaries of it.

Org player.

So who do the 76ers blame now that Simmons is no long around? Fire up the Doc Rivers to the Lakers rumors.

I am just saying that managers don't matter that much. I have seen a lot of fans saying that Hinch turned the whole organization around last year, but a manager can't do that. I don't think Avila has been good. The one good thing is that he has stuck to the plan and hasn't made any fatal mistakes like trading away young players too soon. His trades have been mostly bad and his drafts have been mediocre, but he hasn't been nearly as haphazard as Randy Smith. I don't think Avila has been as terrible as some say, but the results are not there after so many years, so I wouldn't mind if they fired him and tried somebody else. I am not sure ownership is very helpful either.

I know a couple of the guys I'm going to list left via FA and I know a couple more were rentals which hurt their value but still it just baffles me that in a 4-5 year stretch we lost a prime Max Scherzer, David Price, Yoennis Cespedes, JD Martinez, Justin Verlander, Nick Castellanos among some others and got absolutely nothing in return to show for it. And yes I know this has been beaten to death but it's something that is just mind boggling to think about.

It would be nice if we could, but the baseball is not why they have a terrible barrel rate. If we were hitting a lot of balls hard it would be one thing, but we mostly are not. Tork and Candy and Cabrera have hit a few hard and come up empty, but the random nature of BaBIP is nothing new. Besides of course - both teams are playing out of the same box of balls.

this was always a developmental season. the season is boring so far because tork has been predictably overmatched, greene is hurt, mize and manning are hurt. skubal is the only real reason to watch now that miggy has 3000/500/600. when the rookies come back, there will be another reason to watch. the regulars arent going to be this bad all season. guys like candy and grossman and baez will get hot. baez is gonna have two weeks where he hits 400 and slugs 600.

It's like a political discussion. When something good happens it's because your guy made it happen. If something bad happens, it's somebody else's fault.

Betrayer summed it up well. Another thing, Dallas isn't letting him go. Teams over the cap like Dallas cant afford to let guys go for nothing since they wont have cap space to replace him. He is a second round pick, so there are different rules for Dallas matching. I don't think they can just match a max offer. But I imagine they will match as much as the rules allow.

Good line from Jimmy Kimmel's writers tonight, with an assist from the drummer: Kimmel: Bill Gates tested positive for Covid. I guess he forgot to update his virus protection. Drummer: ba-da-boom