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Btw - one other question. A member list doesn't seem to be visible here. Intentional or just oversight? I kind of liked that.

TBH, after watching the replay, that was a pretty terrible hop Altuve was trying to corral. I can't figure the scoring on the play though. The MLB box calls it a fielder's choice and an error. But Altuve never made a throw to any base. No play was made, everyone moved up one base and a run scored. That's just an error - or a single. Where is the FC? If there is a FC *and* and an error either one out needed to be made or two runs should have scored - i.e. say a throw home that did or didn't get the runner and then a misplay to allow a second run to score.

Could be but I'd flip the logic a little. Those seeing their children cut down on a regular basis by random gunfire are a lot less likely to care so much about the political theory if they can keep their children safer. Heck, look at how quickly the right wing has been to throw away constitutionalism at the first sign pressure on their white privilege, how much less do we think people burying their children will worry about the niceties? High level political philosophy is fundamentally a luxury for the well off.

The conventional wisdom would be to say that comes from having life too easy, so you would think growing economic insecurity, 20 years of war and now 3/4 of a million deaths might be somewhat of an antidote to it. Hasn't seemed to have been.

It does suck when you build something and you have to see the people that follow you not care about it. Been there.

As you can guess, everyone is still masking in A^2. Part of that is because so many people work at the U and have to during their day anyway, part of it is cultural. Washtenaw also has the lowest infection rate of any large MI county. Washtenaw and Oakland also have the highest vaccination rates of the large counties. So given the high vaccination rate does the masking matter? Good question. People here are not interested in getting the answer the hard way however. I would be interested in reporting from folks in Oakland county though, because that would be a good comparison. Vaccination rates and infection rates in Oakland and Washtenaw are pretty close - are people in the denser parts of Oakland: Southfield/Farmington etc., masking or not?

I don't know all the things they did but among other things they did fund a temporary bounty where they paid people to bring guns in. But TBH, what community benefits the most if there IS an unequal application of the law enforcing gun reduction. Again - lets not confuse theoretical benefits with practical ones! Afterall, Life is listed before Liberty even in the DOI. If you ask the average Detroiter if it matters to them if people in West Bloomfield have guns at home if their community can get more gun free I think you can guess the answer.

that's a good description.

Are we talking house to house searches here? I woudn't think so. But even those guns would eventually roll out of circulation as the next generation got rid of what they found in the attic. I'm not going to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Even under the worst case you describe the first guns that would be pulled out of circulation would be those used in the commission of crimes, which would then be much harder for criminals to replace. You would be getting results exactly where you want them.

Why not both?

That arm chair argument simple does not hold up in reality. Australia was very successful at getting illegal guns out of their society. Illegal guns have lots of avenues of removal. The police confiscate millions every year - without the legal trade resupplying the pipeline the illegal supply dries up as well. That is historical fact - not armchair theorizing.

so just for the sake of argument let's say Edvinsson is becoming all his boosters say he is - could he be in Det by '22? '23?

I beg to differ. Talk is cheap. If you are not willing to DO something to change the availability of guns then by definition are ARE OK with school shootings. You can make all the utopian noises you want about things that can never happen in practice: perfect law enforcement, perfect mental health support - and it's all garbage because we all know its just a deflection since none of those 'perfects' can or will ever happen. That's reality. The rest is bullshit. Rob is exactly correct.

Lynn Henning has Mel Tucker shipped off to LSU in his last column, but he says MSU fans shouldn't worry because MSU is bound to hire another coach just as good. OK Lynn! https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/2021/10/18/as-talk-mel-tucker-lsu-heats-up-msu-should-not-panic/8510234002/

so now we know a little bit of what Cortez's men must have felt after he burned his ships.

yeah - looks like you needn't have bothered with your cleanup. Sic transit and all that. If the old servers hadn't been moved to the cloud maybe we could mount a second story job on the harddrives?

could be. I was more Repub than Dem in those days and I don't remember people being enthused about Dole at all. He was viewed a bit like Biden was going into 2020. Now maybe that was a Michigan thing, where we had a liberal GOP history to begin with (ie. Romney/Milliken/Griffin) and Dole's support was stronger elsewhere.

that 's at least the 2nd DP he's booted in the playoffs.

yeah - I also think it was his in a walk if he wanted it. I suppose he might have made some terrible faux pas discussing domestic policy but it just seems unlikely. But he didn't want it, and the truth is that if you don't at least want it, you probably won't be very good at it. Sure there are periods when a 'caretaker' like Eisenhower can be judged relatively successful, but if you don't have an agenda to do something positive that drives you to want the office, you probably won't accomplish much. One think is for certain, the GOP would be a different party if Powell had been its next president instead of "W." Even if GWB personally isn't part of what his party has become, his political fecklessness is what let the people who took it over do so.

Sure, it can happen, but a lot of things have to go right to get a top QB outside the top 5. I think the better question is whether in a year that the top performing BCS teams don't have a QB the gets the spotlight as a top choice, there isn't a still a top QB out there laboring with a team not good enough for his profile to rise to 'obvious'. Of course ironically that is the guy you are likely to get with a lower pick as well.

LOL - I just brought up gameday to check the score and thought - '"gee - a close game, maybe I'll watch" and then Schwarber 'unclosed' it.

practicing the piano was one of my all time fav's - esp since I was a reel-to-reel tape nerd at that age myself. No piano lessons though....

What's the way out of the conundrum? If you don't stink you don't get a pick high enough to insure you get a top QB prospect. If you wait until the QB is the last piece you need you are probably too good to be able to draft him. I'm not trying to be smart ass here but I don't see how you make passing on a QB when you have a top 1-3 pick work unless the plan is to be winless two years in a row. 🤮

and - He doesn't care if there is a fascist takeover as long as they book at Mar-a-lago and let him have the White House back again.

you wonder he can still find lawyers willing to take on his cases.