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I've noticed that with Pink Floyd songs I appreciate them more when they are covered by someone else. I think I've heard their work too much on the radio for as long as I can remember. Maybe it's their style too. Perfect example is Van Morrison and Comfortably Numb.

My place shot up 50 cents overnight. Glad I got gas last night. Saved me $8. A cursory check around the area showed an uptick by 20 or 30 cents as I drove around for errands.

I think its going to be a shit show Tuesday and the outcome won’t be good. A dark day. Given the pandemic and trump/No trump and gas prices/inflation and roe…. I don’t see how these pollsters can demo turnout correctly but there seems to be a trend.

I was reading up on some bonds last night and found one that requires you to link to your fitness tracker and will give you the better rate if you average 12,500 steps a day.

and Jim Campbell had his own issues with the FO prior to Monoghan. They were the 2nd to last team to get a black player. Cheap. Bill Lajoie saved Campbell's reputation.

same conundrum that politicians are stupid yet smart enough to pull off elaborate global conspiracies.

After the 2000 census I suddenly went from Dingell to Conyers in my district. I had no idea until the ballot box. I always voted for Dingell and was happy to do so even in my previous political life. After I looked it up and they carved out a small area in my neighborhood for Conyers. It went back after 2010. Now I am represented by Rashida since MI lost a seat. Debbie Dingell moved to Ann Arbor to compete in that district after she and her husband and father in law represented that district since luke the 30’s I think.

I think hiring Harris, and before that Hinch, tells me Ilitch won’t be a cheapskate. Will be be like his dad and go ape shit? No. And I wouldn’t ask that as a fan. I’m now convinced he doesn’t want to just ride this org as a cash cow with as little risk and effort as possible. I think they will be payroll competitive. That doesn’t mean they have to be in the conversation for every big name free agent.

some, including him, could also pull a Frankie Five Angels.

If these cretins ever have to do a perp walk I expect LIndsey to be the one to pull a Jim Bakker and sob while in cuffs and being led away.

THIS WOKE BULLSHIT!

That's all good news and I hope it holds up. I really do.

Nothing to back it up with other than the idea that this could just be people deciding after covid that they like early voting. That this is just a pull ahead of what were traditional same day votes and given the idiocy in our electorate R's think early voting is "weak" and "not secure" so they aren't doing it to the same rate as D's. Trends before covid as it relates to voting behavior, not their preferences, might be an apples and oranges situation. Of course there's the Roe effect too to consider so who knows.

WHo was the longtime WSox pitching coach? Wasn't he well thought of around the league? Did he go somewhere else?

isn't it kind of a moot point anyway? So what if they do get them? That just means some people saw them. They won't be released publicly and nothing of substance will happen if the R's take the house.

doesn't it come down to how much they think the poor performance was due to the ability of the coaching/front office staff to provide the support a player needs beyond their own ability? They made some changes to the staffs so they saw a deficiency. If they see a connection then they'll consider keeping them. If they feel confident they can upgrade then they'll do that, or a mixture of both.

Here’s a name I haven’t heard in probably 20 years.

that's odd because I thought Trunk or Treats originated at churches. Keep them in house and proper... do demon costumes. Harry Potter, maybe.... but be careful That's borderline witchcraft.

Mess things up intentionally then when the Democrats complain throw out the "See both sides can't accept election results" card. Then the real overturning can be classified as a "both sides" thing.

the old adage... if the service you use is free the you are not the customer but the product being sold. Subscriber models have to be priced pretty low in my opinion. I throw some money to Patreons because I like their service but $1 to $2 a month is something I can look past. But get to the $4-5 range and I will question it.

Twitter has content generated for it. Charge the generators? To be fair Twitter is providing the platform to get that content out there. Nobody's reading and paying $5 a month for Joe Blow's Substack unless they see the tweet promoting it. I dont know how this will shake out.

The app I use has a 45 second skip forward. Greatest thing ever. Even the big podcasts do that. I like interview podcasts and Smartless is great for getting right to it. Conan's will have banter. Marc Maron will spend about 7 minutes in "therapy" telling us how he feels...