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PS: I officially retired as of yesterday. So I joined a few of you guys...

I have no idea what any of this means, but if you’re offended by a song but not by your guy bragging about grabbing women by the pussy, I’d say you’re full of ****.

This is why I never got my panties in any kind of bunch over the supposed influence DEI at schools like UM on the larger culture. All this stuff rolls mostly right off the kids' backs. It's millennial - and older - faculty that were the most charged up. The bulk of students just saw it as extra work and a distraction, and I'd guess for every student that got "proselytized" by it, one other was driven to become more conservative/reactionary. Personally I never saw anything particularly onerous in anything I was asked to participate in, my larger concern was always the return on investment on the resourced devoted to it. Interestingly, from what I've been reading, the research on diversity program effectiveness done by business says stop talking about who is right and wrong or oppressed and oppressor and just spend the time educating people on how to have their antennae up and be more inoffensive - you play on people's natural predisposition to self-improvement. And given that young people today tend to be deficient in sophisticated social skills today anyway, I can get behind that. Also apparently, simply dropping the 'E' seems to make a difference in how people respond. Folks seem to be OK with "Diversity" and "Inclusion" but "Equity" immediately makes them think their own jobs are at risk. One analyst I heard discuss this said "Equity" is a problematic term because people don't parse the difference between "equity" and "equality" very well.

Maybe because governing is hard and trolling is easy.

Old enough to remember when you would come on and lecture people for comments like this a couple of years ago....

The court system was way to nice to him. The whiny rich boy cry baby criminal deserved a much worse fate, but the system is designed to protect the wealthy and powerful. In fact, the whole country is being way to nice to him, even some of the liberals. It's a disgrace that this disgusting piece of trash has been normalized. It's a symbol of who we are as a country I guess.

One interpretation of Cleveland is that he believed it was the government that was the primary culprit in mal-distribution of wealth because of a highly regressive regulatory and tax-system (largely tariffs in the pre-income tax days). So he might have a foot in both the left (anti-wealth disparity) and right (anti-government 'interference') in today's paradigms. Some of the leaders around the turn of century were pretty economically radical. Hayes apparently favored nearly total inheritance taxes. With money running US politics today, no leader today can be as patently anti-rich as some of those guys were. There are certain steps that a system may take that turn out to be irreversible, and it appear to me that Citizen's United was one of those. We've politically empowered monied interests to the point where they can stop the political process from ever controlling them again. If the US fails to repair its broken politics and thus ultimately fails - and right now I see little prospect of that repair, CU will be the root cause.

1809 Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston Ma In 1824 a young Poe was part of a junior honor guard that escorted Marquis de Lafayette around Richmond, Va during Lafayette's return to the US celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Victory at Yorktown.

My intent for those four years, or at least the first two, is to just bury my head in the sand as much as possible for a bulk of it and protect my sanity. Maybe midterms impose some much needed guardrails if we haven't already careened off a cliff at that point.

It’s not like the Lions have never outscored an opponent by 11+ points in the 2nd half.

No, but his buddy RFKj may be the worst pick in the world to try and end it.

The PRC are sure to play Trump like all the other moguls.

We also have: (1) coup attempt (2) traitor who supported the enemy during the war (3) lifetime sexual predator. That's just the highlights.

Meanwhile 36% express a favorable view of he GOP... which is really no better? You keep sharing these polls and using them to spike the football when they all kinda show that the GOP / Trump aren't really well liked either. Weird

Start to the season. I think their strong finish last year offsets their atrocious start to last year. I don't think there is any way they start this year the same as last year... And it's all kids so I don't want to guarantee anything... because along with all that energy and growth potential comes a lot of roller coaster and learning curves and such... But I think an extremely high amount of (the "young guns") energy fuels a great start to this season... But that's just me...

MAGA is really ****in’ weird

Always good advice, even if it came from a lapsed Anglican.

Because, to paraphrase James Carville, it's all about the economy stupid.

The tariff boogey man is all the left has currently.

1807 Robert E. Lee born in Stratford, Virginia. I’m often about book recommendations. ‘Lee: The Last Years’ -is a very good book on Lee. The author is Charles Bracelen Flood, copyright 1981. He lived five years after Appomattox. The book is catalogues his post war life.

This scene has resonated with me since November

Ditto. My plan as such is to do as much good as possible where it can be done and not violate the oaths we've taken because we are responsible for our own honor and can't help it if the system is rewarding the worst violators of those oaths. I was planning to return to Michigan when the wife retires from federal service in a couple years. So, we shall see.

If one has to explain the troll, the troll is lame

The stud playmakers on both sides of the ball are all in their 20s and most are signed for a few years. They'll be back and should have more chances. That said I'm in the dumps right now and will be for a day or two. Pistons and Wings are hot, and pitchers and catchers report in a few weeks.

Great season, tough way for it to end. I thought we were going to fold earlier when the injuries piled up. Get healthy, make some defensive additions and we’ll get after it again next season.

Peace out gents.

This is one of the biggest shockers in memory. Complete division sweep. 15 wins. 1st round bye. Home field advantage all the way. Road to the SB goes through Ford Field. Matched with a 6th seed for the division round. This was a complete cupcake setup

I will still take this over an endless parade of 6-9 win seasons.

The refs want the Lions to make the Super Bowl.

Gonna need some luck too like SF got against us last year with our miscues.

They need a steady diet of Gibbs in the second half.

You may ask yourself, "Where is mybeautiful game?" You may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?" And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?" And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have we done?"

It’s a long way from over. The Washington D is like soft butter. But you need to stop gifting them points, and the D needs to make an adjustment. Simple as that. Do those two things and you win this game.

Defense has been horrible no doubt but I have to give Jayden Daniels his due, just an unreal talent.

Glenn has to figure out the halftime adjustments of his life.

Great , Jameson, but get in the frickin’ endzone. Ridiculous reckless hotdogging. Gave the refs time to call an illegal block on some Lions if they had wanted to.

Jaymo is a stupid hot dog. Act like a F'ing pro.

It’s not “game”. We have plenty of time to turn it around, and we have before. These are not the SOLs. But they do have to tighten up this ****, like, pronto.

3rd and 1, why are you not handing the ball off. Why would even consider going empty set. Ben is over thinking some of these situations. I mean come on. Hand the damn ball off and get the first down. That simply can’t happen.

There was no reason to be in the gun with an emoty backfield on 3rd and short.

Field Goals attempts for the other team is going to be a win for us all postseason. Not going to be a lot of stops resulting in punts i don't think. Hope you get 1 or 2 turnovers a game.

I haven't followed this but I did see some really wild chart porn on how this traded. I can't believe people are this stupid.

that was pretty bad. You hate to say the fix is in, but the fix is in.

How you know you are old. When you see the score is 93-92 with under a minute left on the clock and you think its the end of the game. 98-95 Suns to start the 4th.

I don't think they will score a lot of runs as the team stands now. If things go reasonably well, I think they will have an average offense. Their infield defense is a big problem. I do believe believe they have a top 10 starting rotation and Hinch knows how to work the bullpen, but you never know about pitching health. I'd love to see them add Flaherty or Pivetta.

Yes - you are correct. Truman has served more than half of FDR's term but I forgot the amendment didn't apply to till the Presidency after him. Apparently his prospects for re-election in '52 were pretty bad anyway, but that just goes to the point about most presidents not sustaining their popularity.

The Dodgers overtook the damn Yankees on my list of pure hatred as well

Do you see the disrespect here? Do you see how small and off-center the Lions person is. USE THIS !

this is amazing