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If being critical of Israel, and not co-signing onto the resolution flatly equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, is itself anti-Semitic, then the Republican campaign to set the bar at "you can be either pro-Israel or anti-Semitic, choose one" has been wildly successful.

The masses are asses as a professor of mine once said.

More seats would also reduce the electoral college imbalance created by the Senate. I'd like to see them go to 500 reps. Nice round number but not that much harder to manage than 435. Even better would be floating the senate to 200 with the additional 100 seats allotted by population. Much bigger lift of course - but it's on my list with the Constitutional amendments to reverse CU and gerrymandering.

The Tigers' training staff compound:

You’ll have to forgive me. I’m excited that we won a game for a change. [Only old timers will get this]

No team can have enough depth to cover this many injuries. Making a list...who am I missing? I'm sure there has to be a couple more; Jobe JV Melton Olson Mize Skubal Carpenter Baez Torres Meadows

So on the ESPN Tiger site right now, Buster has an interview with Boras. So what Boras says is that the deal here is that they did not use an arthroscope on Skubal, they used a new micro device (come kind of fiber optic micro canula) that isn't much larger than a hypodermic needle. That is why they are looking for less than 'std' return possibility. The story is the new even-less-invasive-than-a-'scope treatment tech provides a possibility for faster recovery.

i understand all that and its not something i expect to happen. however, its been that way for a long time and parties have broken up before. its possible they could break up again. iran is fracturing republicans and anti-semitism is fracturing democrats as we speak. the social media revolution could still have as of yet unforseen consequences. we shall see.

Well, I’m quite possibly enraged enough to cover your “non-enragement”, and at least that of 100 more.

Imagine if that was Beef Stew.

Sorry you are going through that. Dementia is a symptom of Alzheimers, but there are all sorts of different types depending on where the brain degeneration is happening. Reach out if you have questions or need to talk.

You landed one of the better centers in the league. He is under contract for 2 more season at $20 million per. The 5th pick isn't exactly producing good results lately. Bailey, Holland, Ausar, Ivey, Suggs, Okoro, Garland, Young, Fox, Dunn. Then after seeing the cornucopia of small guards Sam has in that range, it was good move. It is odd seeing a GM take the blame though. Nico is confused.

having more than two viable parties would be even better!

yup - the difficulty with proportional systems is that they drive toward a net 'at large' system were people are not attached to particular geographies. That can be good and bad, but I think the bad outweighs the good. As an example of the worst result of at-large representation you had Detroit, where when the City's Black population started to grow at then end of WWI, they shifted to at-large election of all city council members to preserve an all white city council. That outcome was not only racist, but resulted in a politics were no-one spoke up for preservation of neighborhoods. Believe it or not, it took until 2009 before the charter was finally changed back to a district system (mostly).

It's a fundamental constitutional principle that every voter has equal rights, every vote must be given the same weight. If you *deliberately* manipulate districts to effectively vitiate some votes in favor or others that seems as straightforward a violation of the principle as I can imagine. Certainly one that should transcend any state's constitutional election management options. You could argue that the VRA already set a precedent by playing fast and loose with the principle and I wouldn't disagree with you. Sometimes no good deed goes unpunished.

Yeah but at some point you run out of places to gerrymander. I think Texas gerrymander could backfire since they are relying on a realignment from Hispanics. I’m not sure how many more republican districts you squeeze from the Texas suburbs. Same with California, you’re likely to get more districts in the Central Valley.

Proportional representation would be nice.

apropos of nothing I call the space to the left of the pitcher and in front of 3rd base "Iowa" when doing infield drills for my softball teams. It was because I was trying to stop my pitchers from making wild throws to 1B when running in the opposite direction (i.e., toward 3B side foul territory). Basically, you might be better off if your momentum is taking you in that direction allowing the 3B to run in and make a throw. I drew a "box" to describe the place where I wanted the 3B to take over the ball and i did such a bad job drawing the box that it looked like the State of Iowa. So, my kids have called it Iowa ever since.

I want as many purple and competitive districts as possible. Safe seats beget corruption, extremism, and lack of accountability. As long as states have odd shapes and unequal population density distribution, maps are going to be weird and gerrymandered in some way. Extreme partisan gerrymandering is no good, but gerrymandering itself is a necessity.

Change the ball to deaden it so as make contact less damaging than it is now?

max contract.

illinois is gerrymandered more than any state in the country. republicans have forced the democrats' hand on gerrymanders with their ridiculousness. its a shame, because its a terrible process and always has been.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer nazi

boy. for now.

Workman started that DP that got Bobby Witt? Very, very impressive.

I haven’t been following too closely, but I’m pretty sure KC is out of ABS challenges so our pitchers can F with them.

So --- Jake pitches the 9th?

Doubters?

you knew that after calling up everybody and their brother in front of him, something like this was bound to be the result. and he hit a pretty tough pitch to do it.

But how many pitches on the home run?

I worked in the chemical industry too long not to take a rebuttable presumption against all chlorinated aromatics.

LaMelo Ball and his partner had a kid. They named him, LaOne. How do I quit the human race?

Major League: Javier Baez Kerry Carpenter Gleyber Torres Casey Mize Connor Seabold Tarik Skubal Will Vest Beau Brieske Bailey Horn Jackson Jobe Parker Meadows Troy Melton Reese Olson Trey Sweeney Justin Verlander Minor League currently (Anderson and Watson just came back this week) Trei Cruz Sean Guenther Preston Howey Jake Miller Max Alba Colin Fields Jaden Hamm Andrew Sears Seth Stephenson Roberto Campos Nick Dumesnil Woody Hadeen Patrick Lee Nolan McCarthy Franyerber Montilla Alistair Tanner Cale Wetwiska Blake Dickerson Jose Dickson Kameron Douglas Ryan Hall Wanmer Ramirez Zach Swanson Danandres Colon Dugan Darnell Joe Ruzicka Josue Briceno Marco Jimenez Joseph Montalvo Jack Penney Steven Hrustich Antonio Florido Michael Massey Michael Oliveto Shay Timmer Paul Wilson Guillermo Bautista Eddy Felix Garrett Burhenn River Hamilton Wuilberth Mendez Jorger Pitre Mitchell Evans Nestor Miranda Dawson Price Ethan Schiefelbein

And never forget Georgia Championship Wrestling - the Tommy "Wildfire" Rich vs Buzz "Mad Dog" Sawyer feud remains the greatest of all time.

Savage!

Since the affair didn’t take place on team property, it’s ok.

Great tweet today that I read. Ted Turner spent 20 years making it easy for a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB has spent 20 years making it harder for a kid in Atlanta to watch the Braves.

Russini is now un hireable as a journalist. The real issue that the NFL needs to address is how Vrabel may have been using his relationship with her to manipulate the free agent market. If this is proven to have happened, he may be terminated andnever coach in the NFL again.

1987 was probably somewhere too. 😒😒