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True. It would be hard to make a serious journalistic argument that TikTok is any less valuable as a news source than most AM radio or cable 'news' programming. It would be hard to top the basic ignorance of most of what they are talking about of 90% of the talking heads in US media. The imperative to cover everything practically before it even happens leads to a kind of complete 'know-nothing' level of reporting anyway. It might as well be a teenager with an iphone. An example struck me this AM when the SO has a network news report going about the Earthquakes in Japan and there was a very breathless report about the potential for a 4ft Tsunami. So yes - this could possibly be a fairly damaging event or a total nothing burger depending on the whether it's happening at low or high tide. But a know-nothing blow-dried on scene reporter doesn't have even enough basic knowledge of the ocean or time to have checked out that very basic fact that would have actually informed what he was talking about. Almost none-of it is worth listening to.

In 2000 US military spending had fallen to 3% of GDP and it probably wasn't going to stay there anyway. By 2009 it was up to 5% but fell back to 4% under Obama which is probably about the rough equilibrium value though we are again a bit below it. So maybe 1% of GDP for 3-4 yrs tops - which is close to the 1 trillion rough number you often hear quoted. In retrospect it *might* yet turn out to have some lasting + impact in Iraq, hard to see any at all in Afghanistan and I wouldn't venture a guess at how the costs divided between the two. Unless Trump gets re-elected I would guess we will end up spending as much for Ukraine in the end- that's a war which is burning through material in a way Iraq and Afghanistan didn't. I don't think we increased the size of the armed forces in any big way under Bush and given the asymmetry of the opponent we didn't build out any expensive new weapons systems expressly for those conflicts. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US

good to win but the team D is just deteriorating by the night. Lalonde needs to start singing them a new song or something. I hope these guys realize they are playing themselves itself into another big deadline firesale by Yzerman.

Ras ENG. Should do it.

can they hang on?....

inescapable conclusion.

and then Larkin takes a stupid penalty

Wings wake up a little on the PP and get one back

3-2 Sharks. You could see that coming for the last 3-4 minutes. Sharks were way over pressing and the Wings couldn't make them pay at all.

Wings D needs to be rebuilt again starting with Seider. None of the rest of them are worth Zamboni spit.

Gostisbehere with Chariot not working.

Ozzie hard to listen too tonight. Jet-lagged?

Almost had the lead as Matta gets his jock handed to him by Hoffman but the shot doesn't quite trickle in.

Given the current national profile and the years of credibility that Michigan has as an O-Line school, they will get their pick of +23yr old grad students from the portal. I don't think they will have trouble keeping up a strong O-Line.

In my lifetime I think the JFK assassination and the Vietnam War had the biggest impact on the national psyche. And maybe JFK the most. Before Dallas there was a kind of confidence/optimism the we were in control of events - of the future. That ended that day and we've never gotten it back to anywhere near the level it was in that era. Then Vietnam shattered the last illusions that good intentions were all you needed to get good results. Maybe I'm an exception - but I didn't feel the same kind of psychic shift after 9/11. There were a lot of changes made in our lives after it - so there was huge practical impact - but I've never felt the US was particularly a different place psychologically after 9/11 beyond that it was a place living with a lot more security measures.

Is the speed still there? He hasn't shown much this season. Could also be slow decision making I suppose but just haven't seen much burst from Edwards this season.

some guys grow up, fill out and lose their speed. Can only guess that is what has happened to Donovan.

Yup. Despite wanting to be a run first team, and partly because of the loss of Zinter, they still rise and fall exactly on how accurately JJ throws the ball. When he hits guys in stride, they are unstoppable - period. When he has receivers reaching back for everything the O struggles.

FIFY.

To circle back to Malloy - for a guy who whose zone discipline is good enough to walk 100 times, he has a fair amount of trouble finding the ball when it's in the zone - 152 Ks to go with the 110 walks. I assume the Tiger stat nerds found comps that made them interested in picking him up, but it's an unusual profile to say the least - I could see him being anything from a useful player to a >35% K washout.

More effects of global warming.

yup. 4 shots, weren't close to a good play on any of them.

by the numbers this was an odd one. Other than Cade, the Pistons shot 55% from the field and a whopping 54% on treys, but the bad ball handling always leaves them in a hole.....they had 8 more TOs

Why is Williams still coaching? Why is Weaver still GM? What does a guy have to do to get fired around there?

Definitely the worst play of a game with plenty of candidates. But victory erases all sins