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It's always a dilemma when evil people must be removed from power. It's immoral to leave them in control of other people's lives, it's equally true that they will never be dislodged by conventionally 'moral' means. And often their replacements will only nominally less evil. And what's worse is that in the middle of a situation it's very hard to tell how it will come out and whether you are going to end up doing more good or harm. You may not not know for 20-30 years. For me, I think Vietnam vs Iraq are the historical counterpoints. We thought we knew what 'had to be done' to protect the western world in Vietnam but we were absolutely wrong and if we had never sent a single boot I would challenge anyone to provide a believable story of why the world would be a worse place. OTOH, the near term verdict on Iraq was that it was a unmitigated disaster, but guess what - with time in distance it's beginning to emerge that things are beginning to hold together bit by bit in Iraq maybe the door was opened for a better future there even as badly as the neo-cons bungled the management of it.

Cade's putting up a lot of points but like early Kobe - usage driven, there hasn't been all star level efficiency to it yet. Probably couldn't be anyway with this cast around him.

I think what the man actually said on the matter is that you'll know a tree by it's fruit.

Why bother doing the production if you can't rewrite the story the way want people to think it went? 🙃

Other than deBrincat, Gotisbehere was Yzerman's find of the off-season. The guy is everywhere, all the time.

pre-destination is one of those wonderfully self-leveraging theologies. They say you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - theology is probably a salient exception to the rule.

When it goes right, I actually like Manning's stuff better than Mize's - or at least what Mize's stuff was way back when, but Manning has to shake that black cloud that seems to follow him around.

Jeez - he better not! He'll be almost 2yrs out when the the '24 season starts. If he can't pitch by then he's probably going down as a bust.

at 18 games, the NFL season is getting to be more about surviving attrition than building your starting line-up.

I think that is too strong a statement. Presidents don't do much to control short term and cyclic factors, but things they do can have huge impacts on the economy - it just usually happens after they are gone - esp tax and entitlement policies they support. Reagan tax cuts, Clinton tax increases that balanced the budget etc. The more favorable tax policies for the rich that Reagan backed have been echoing through he US economy increasing economic disparity ever since. OTOH, the infrastructure and Covid recovery spending is having a considerable effect on middle class employment and those programs could have been vastly different under a different President.

The are both listed as 6'7" but Thompson seems smaller than Rodman to me. Maybe the NBA just keeps getting bigger in general.

fair point

The collapse of the RSNs is going to make a number of teams less active, but as long as there are even half a dozen out the 30 teams still willing to bid against each other, the numbers will still go up.

strong game from Seider. At the other end, it would be nice to get more out of Rasmussen.

The 'Bobby Layne' curse meme was easy to get off the ground given the parade of non-discript QBs that followed him. Greg Landry was passable, but still not a guy you were going to win anything with.

The problem with people who basically get paid by the word is that they may ask you for (...checking..) 12 minutes and 47 seconds of your time for what you only need 5 seconds to hear: The pistons are a bad team with an unworkable roster and directionless management. 🙉

what's the last word on the prognosis for his arm? Is he supposed to recover 100%?

Not that this has anything to do with stadium financing, which is a different set of issues, but NW making the commitment to the upgraded venue got me wondering - maybe one of the unintended consequences of opening up outside sources of direct funding to players (NIL et al) is that it may be a beginning of a trend where the money available to a program like NW gets uncoupled from the resource base of their smallish university and instead flows more directly from the size of the media market it can command. If an effect like that turned out to real, it would tend to level the playing field between schools as the extremes of the big school/small school - urban/rural distribution, like say like PSU and NW

Does the backup program copy by file or by sector? and if by sector, are the sector sizes on the disks the same ( 512 vs 4096)?

Philly shut out KC in the 2nd half. Would not have taken the odds of that going into half-time

Ausur did not have a TO. Cade got to the line 11 times. Even when they do a few things right it's not enough.

Maybe makes him less desirable as a major league signing, maybe wouldn't discourage a team from offering a minor league deal with ST invite. How much is anyone going to care if they retain a minor league option for the following year on a 31 yr old?

If Spencer was actually concealing the neck injury earlier (i.e. if you can believe McCosky's report), then even apart from everything else I can sympathize with management taking a position that any player that won't be straight with the team about injuries is just too big a risk to give any contract. Of course that won't keep Harris from looking pretty silly if Turnbull has a big year! 🤷‍♂️

Terrible last two minutes of the half for Philly. Used up their TOs on a KC TD drive to get the ball back, only to go 3 and out and leave KC time and a short field to pick up an additional 3.

so in practical terms what does this mean for Spencer? If he still had 5 days (or whatever) to go to reach 5 yrs, does that mean if he accepted a ST invite deal he could have been optioned but now he can't? (or can refuse). In which case might that actually make him a less desirable signing - or not?