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My cable bill has a $10 "Regional Sports Fee". I wonder who that goes to and whether I can opt out. I might try their chat bot to find out.

Me too. It had a Mark Champion feel to it, which I prefer as a fan. With Champion as soon as you put the Lions game on you could tell who was winning. His audience were Sox fans. They had a chip on their shoulder. He played into that. I always thought if I were born in Chicago I would be a Sox fan.

This all has a Seth Abramson "Big if true" feel to it.

Childbirth is “free” for low income people. As it should be. I imagine nearly every health plan covers it. So the government would reimburse the health plans. Then what gets cut to pay for that?

It does not help them just like attacking yhe Bidens for Hunters drug issues. Every family most likely has someone who has dealt with addiction. When people like them mock it then suburban voters walk away.

One of my workout buddies retired at 61, kind of forced. He could get by. Now he rides his bike 20 miles a few times a week. Helped coach a track team, plays hockey in 3 leagues. Also drives a golf ball pickup thing on a driving range at a golf course.

Doesn’t that assume you will live longer? I’m going out at 62. Have known too many people that have died in the age range of 65-72 that I will probably retire at 62 if I can still maintain a decent lifestyle for 10 years. I figure anything after age 72 is gravy.

I’m finding myself being drawn to more female vocalists than before. One of them coined it “chick fronted dad rock”. they just sound better to me.

I love that the GOP is going all in on anti woke and cutting Medicare and SS. Just a giant circle jerk.

I have an HSA and like it. Basically whatever I was paying before for coverage now goes into the HSA and it grows. Whatever I need to pay comes out of that. Makes me feel more aware or things. Before things were “free” but at the end of the year I had nothing left.

that's why I quit with the FSA..... ours carried over but one year I forgot to add more contributions and I ended up with $19.80 in the account for a few years until last year it came out for some dental work. Having to deal with receipts and all that didn't make me think it was worth whatever tax advantages were there.

I love alternate history. Imagine one where Rehnquist lives a few years longer, assuming he doesn't leave before 2009. Roberts was originally nominated to replace O'Conner. She was going to leave upon a confirmation. Then Rehnquist died and Bush withdraws that nomination and renominates him to replace Rehnquist. Who would Obama have picked in 2009 to not only replace Rehnquist but as Chief Justice?

are we saying big booty is a slur... b/c it's not. Nobody wrote a song about a small butt.

Because so many of them are simply hate filled. Not all obviously but those who are not get pushed aside by the national party leaders.

I think whoever proposed that should be executed

based on social media postings I am not sure. They think he's a globalist and establishment. Sure most of them will go. But Trump's support was razor thin anyway so peeling off just a handful is all it takes to doom the GOP. It'll be Romney in 2012 and McCain in 2008. They didn't attract enough. The difference for Trump is he brought them on board.

wow, until you said that I forgot all about Andrew Brietbart. I wonder where he would have fit in with all of this. Would he have gone the Jonah Goldberg, Jay Nordlinger route? Or full MAGA?

I'm embarassed to say I never saw it until early last year. My kids were younger back then so pop culture from around 2006-2015 wasn't a thing for me. I love the Cohens. Just never got around to it. I loved it.

I have The Fugitive on in the background. Is it time to have a discussion on.... this being a bad movie? I love it. I will watch it anytime it's on. It's gripping to this day, same with Apollo 13. But.... I have a hard time getting over the fact he was convicted. Even when interrogating him. The Chicago cop says... "book him!". It's like a caricature. And jumping off the empty dam and surviving. Not being discovered in Chicago until he's on the train. I know it's a big city but.... I'm not sure without Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones this movie survives. And since this is the second TLJ movie this page.... who wants to talk about Old Country For Old Men?

He's short, got a funny head of hair.... and an annoying voice. you nailed it.

I hate musicals too.... I'm the dad in Holy Grail who yells out "stop that... stop that. We won't have any singing while I'm around". Except the Blues Brothers. Can watch that all day.

So... no adoption? What about all those Baptists that adopt babies from Africa and China and Korea? I know quite a few from my school who did that. They don't count? Or is it spelled out that only gay adoptions don't matter? I don't want to know the answer to that.

When we visited we got the 3 day pass. We could have probably done without it but the ride from and to Midway to our hotel was about 2/3 of what we paid so it was nice to have it as an option. We used it on Saturday afternoon to ride up to Wrigley and walk around there just so I could see it. We didn't need it for any of our other activities as things were close enough to walk. I just like having it as an option in case we decide on a last minute excursion. once I pay for something then after that it's "free" as I see it. I told Buddha about our time near the Harold Washington Library and he shared that a week prior some dude got stabbed in the park there. Good times. But stuff like that doesn't bother me. Can happen in Detroit too.

I never liked it. I think it’s because as a kid when sick I was given it to drink because that’s what you do in Detroit and I threw up and it tasted like vernors so I equate it with puking. I smell it and it takes me back.