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She needs to resign completely so a new Dem can be appointed so they have a majority to make a new committee assignment.

no - - sort of backhand syntax there - I meant it has never happened to my memory. IOW those claiming sexism don't actually have a very comparable situation. May have been some around Teddy K but it wasn't this split and at the end it was clear it wasn't going to be much of a wait for him to pass. Infirmaty hasn't been Manchin's issue, just intransigence - no comparison there.

LOL - You can't beat something with nothing, and outside of Trumpism, the GOP's got nothing to offer. DeSantis is trying to do Trump Lite when Trumps biggest appeal to his fans is exactly how unLite he is.

That's cool, but taking nothing away from the play being as good as it was, I don't know how one would rate that better than Kiermiers catch against Vierling. I would consider most things with a leap as tougher catches than a dive. A lot more to worry about and alot easier to get the timing wrong. Maybe not as much ground covered but that's not the only thing that lowers catch probability.

Hey, we had a Governor called 'Soapy'

I'm old enough to remember a situation where a male democrat was holding up vital work in critically balanced Senate and not being criticized for it because he was a man, but I don't.

one extra player is allowed to be brought up for a DH but AFAIK it can be any player.

Exactly. Do what you have to do for your team and it's future, you can't really expect orgs to act against their self interest. You can expect them to shut up about it.

I can't agree with Sargent's analysis. The Dems may well love the idea of triangulating with moderate GOP House members, but the political value to be gained is less than the political cost of allowing the border to descend back into the kind of mess which has been common in recent years. That's just a political reality. So as much as the Dems want reform, I think the Admin believes ( and I would agree) that they will lose all credibilty with the moderate voter if they can be cast as just 'leaving the door wide open', at which point their ability to do that triangulation disappears. Basically Sargent argues the Admin gains credibility by being less severe at the border, but my reading would be the opposite. It's absolutely true it's cruel policy but that Suburban voter expects a competent government to be able to create some kind of orderly process. The current 'asylum' system is completely broken and 100% gamed by the vast majority that are trying to move for economic reasons. The US has to re-establish a credible reality that if you don't have a valid asylum claim, you are not crossing the border and that valid asylum claims are not trivial to prove. That is the only thing that will eventually stop the chaos. If that is established, then maybe there can be more reasonable discussions about upping admission levels. But as long as legal admission levels have little to do with actual entry rates, I don't think there is any political route to get there.

Streak at 5. Tigers had two 6 game winning streaks last season, no 5 gamers.

Turnbull with some innings under his belt - due for a better start tomorrow, right?

I wonder if Elias has numbers on that. Can't have happened for... 30 yrs?

Liked that Foley was staying away from Rameriz. He's the one guy in that line-up you'd rather walk that give in to. So some serious defense from Vierling, and pretty much the whole IF. Big difference when you catch the ball better than the other guys.

Jake sporting a 364 OBP in this last 7 games.

Yeah - Price is wearing down. His elocution isn't wasn't it was and he's losing his train of thought more often and Dickerson is filling more the time himself. But a failing Jim Price is still a lot more listenable than an energetic but grating Craig Monroe.

It was such a break to have Gibson in the booth for few games. OTOH, Monroe may be doing wonders for Dickerson's ratings - he is here anyway.

that was nice. I didn't think he had that kind of play in his fielding playbook.

Eric apparently never met nor hear of the Koch Bros, or Exxon Mobil, or RJR, or the Telecom industry, or Trial lawyers, or the AMA, or the Health Insurance industry, or ADM, or the Auto Industry, or ............ Of course there is an answer to his concern - it's called public campaign financing. What do you say Eric?

Remember, the beauty of the MVP award is that 'valuable' is in the eye of the beholder.

And in fact, Mason Englert is prolly the team MVP to this point. Who saw that coming?

Since they aren't going to score big very often themselves, as long as you have to keep staring pitchers that occasionally get rocked in the first couple of innings leading to huge losses the ugly differentials will continue - but they don't really mean much other than the pitching staff is short. Who knew?

ye of little faith.

But what is the purpose of the exemption in the first place? I think it's the idea that the 'public figure' is a person placed with the resouces to get out his own message. But that thinking is based on world view where communication is a constrained resource. Today's technology has turned that completely upside down. Today the larger problem - at least in the US - is not the opportunity to speak, it's the impossbiity of being heard over the malicious generation of opposing noise. Communication regulation once had to be aimed at providing or protecting the basic opportunity to speak, today it's much more important for communication regulation to maintain the health of the information eco-system by controlling the pernicious noise level that makes the right to speak in and of itself trivially useless. I think this kind of thinking is very mind-bending to Americans because it's a shift from long accepted truth, but the world does change. The idea that you could regulate someone's personal use of their private real property was once just as outre' - until the world become so polluted it began to kill us and we realized that your absolute freedom to use your property ends when the air and water on it moves off it. We need to think about *why* we protected free speech in the first place - it was to support and protect the the body politic's ability to reach reality based political decisions. When we find ourselves in a world where 'media' as an industry is actually acting antithetically to ithe increase in the public's understanding of reality and the thus the quality of political decision making, we need to start re-thinking what we think we know as true.

The truth is that if not for Sullivan, Trump would never have become President because Obama could have sued him and stopped his lying on the air long before 2016. If that's not an outcome that would have been better for America, I don't know what is. And from that it follows to me that if the Constitution was created as a vehicle to create a government that would make law "in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity" then I can't think of a law/legal precedent anymore more useful to be revised than Sullivan. Also, on purely techical grounds, the internet has also made the very idea of a 'public figure' meaningless. Any of us can become 'public' - as in known by half the world- in an afternoon via TicTok or Twitter. It's simply not a useful paradigm for a legal distinction anymore.

They also merged with Manufacturers - a even older Det bank. The blue badge that is that background of Comerica's logo is from the old Manufacturer's Bank logo.