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I've mentioned my mom's dementia, or maybe I haven't. I don't know. But the charity that I've donated to and have gotten some help from sent out a blast that they are losing significant funding as a result of recent actions, funding that will stop research in its tracks.

I remember when Pudge showed up to spring training looking thinner than ever, like he lost 30 or 40 pounds, and they asked him why he lost so much weight and he said “I just got tired of eating.“ Thank God it had nothing to do with steroids.

Was thinking on a possible post-retirement project. These thoughts are of a time when I have leisure time to pursue, not fighting and clawing to pay a mortgage and put my kids through college. Having read a bit on the segregation problem/challenges of the US Military in WWII that I would do a long form on the attitudes of WWII US Generals and Admirals about racial issues with a couple of threads: What part of the Mason-Dixon they were born/grew up on Family that had fought in the Civil War for either side. E.g., reading about Terry Allen's ancestor who fought for the North at Gettysburg ...fascinating character. Patton's family were definitely Confederates. Religious background and how that had influenced these views College of primary military training and how that influenced these views (West Point, Annapolis, VMI, Norwich, others schools). If the views manifested themselves in peacetime/wartime events. How these views compared to allies they came into contact with...e.g., the UK was shocked at how poorly we treated our African-American troops. Anyway, I keep a journal where I stuff ideas like this in for future projects. This one was coming to mind as I was reading about the battles on Bouganville where the Segregated 93rd Infantry Division fought under a Broadway sized spotlight because they were unable to go into the line for their first action without having to be 1. put out as a shining example by Black press and 2. seen as an embodiment of all possible failures of the African American race by the racists both in the Army and at home. Not sure that is anything a lot of people will want to read but that wouldn't be who I would be writing it for.

This is pretty funny

Pretty close anyway. Nominative singular is Deus. DEI is actually the plural "gods." No doubt some smart a*s detractor will accuse Warnock of polytheism. 🤣`

I assume in the 2nd you meant 'indirect'. Indirect cost are generally allowed for administrative and overhead. For instance you can put the salary of your research in direct costs, but not the cost of paying his salary (office overhead) or providing his supervision. Those costs are all quite real and no org can function without them. I've never worked under an NIH grant but the one firm I worked for that did do work on government grants (mostly DOEnergy), the amount of G&A chargeable was already strictly limited as a percentage of direct expenses. IIRC we could put equipment purchases in direct costs but the equip reverted to the government at the end of the program. Then the dumb thing was that the government would maybe try to sell it or surplus and usually fail because the grantee was the one party prohibited from buying it back from the gov. One can see that they set it up that way to prevent feather-bedding, but it was still frustrating to see equipment you were will to pay a fair price for go to scrap because the law often didn't allow the only people that wanted it to buy it.

It's a greattime to be alive though! We just won't live as long.

Watched a conversation with Flaherty on MLB earlier today. It is more than obvious that he is happy to be back in Detroit. Win-win for both sides.

Some Blaha PBP from 40 years ago, calling a Knicks-Pistons playoff game from the Joe.

Or it could be some of us are not great about staying in the lines the first time. Rather that crowd a neighboring car and risking dings or scratches we try to get it right the second time

whoo hoo! usa! usa! larkin with the second star.

Tiger Territory covered the Tork malaprops and said it was not a good look for him. Needed to be fixed. Understood the general notion of him having too much data, too many inputs and needing to take an approach that worked for him. But, that was not a good thing to say.

LOL - I don't know if you are yet old enough or unlucky enough that you or your cohort is beginning to experience this, but the level of confusion and contradiction you get from the medical and rehab establishment about the kinetics and physical function of the human body as one's begins to get less reliable is pretty damn disappointing! And not bearing on Torkelson in particular but I sure hope athletes don't have to suffer through anything like the state of mixed messages the rest of us get.

Longgo spent a lot of time being annoyed at us for questioning Tork’s statements.

He's not an auditor. As far as I know, he has experience as an auditor. Anyway, audits are done to detect fraud or error. Auditors do cut funding which is not fraudulent or erroneous.

Tigers' clubhouse manager Jim Schmakel retires Well deserved. He must have so many great stories to tell after 47 years in Detroit plus 10 in Toledo.

Building on that. Multiple government agencies have open investigations against Tesla and SpaceX. Guess who is currently going over those agencies budgets with a fine tooth comb?

I have no idea what “amuse” is, but got a chuckle of the bottom of the screen shot they shared 😂