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food is probably a place where workers' wages have been falling behind the rest of the economy. No way they can catch up without prices going up.

Finance page journalists lean right. I take some of that as agenda reporting.

all you had to do was lime treat the water to raise the pH and you have no problem - heck they could have installed a simple pH monitor and dribbled a tiny amount of NaOH into the water. Get the pH to ~9, which is where most municipal systems that soften their water operate, and lead will not go anywhere.

truth be told it was the Money's fault. When money is on the table for the implementation of a bad idea, it's the responsibility of technical people to push back as hard as is necessary to stop it. The Truth is, Snyder was a jerk through all this, but if someone had actually gotten to him with the science of what was going to happen, which is/was well known, I don't believe even he would not have stopped it. A few people pushed back a little, but nobody pushed back hard enough. But engineers are just as flawed as anyone else. Easy to say "well, they don't want my input, it's their responsibility now." But it isn't, because 'they' are ignorant of what you understand. I have no sympathy for any of the pols in the case because none of them wanted to know, but I have zero sympathy for the supposed "peons they tried to railroad when it was the higher up's fault". That arg doesn't wash either.

Greene out at home? Contact play?

"It raises the possibility that the apparent Democratic strength in Wisconsin and elsewhere is a mirage — an artifact of persistent and unaddressed biases in survey research. If the polls are wrong yet again, it will not be hard to explain. Most pollsters haven’t made significant methodological changes since the last election. The major polling community post-mortem declared that it was “impossible” to definitively ascertain what went wrong in the 2020 election. The pattern of Democratic strength isn’t the only sign that the polls might still be off in similar ways. Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on abortion, some pollsters have said they’re seeing the familiar signs of nonresponse bias — when people who don’t respond to a poll are meaningfully different from those who participate — creeping back into their surveys." ---from the article

BR has Wentz at 66 IP for the season. I had thought it was significantly more

Wentz seems past the AFL at this point.

Well, 'Welcome to the Show" *was* Circus music!

KC using a 5 men on the IF shift to get Reyes.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brady Singer: The healthy guy we passed on to take Mize. /....sigh..../

I know this horse is beaten, dead, buried, and forgotten, but I would still be giving Alexander's starts to Norris. Of course they've made sure it's too late to do that now by not keeping Daniel stretched out. You can try 16 ways to Sunday to persuade yourself it's not, but it will remain true that Tyler Alexander does not have MLB starting stuff.

2nd and 20. No problem. Now,, can they stop anyone?

I was less than impressed with the accuracy of some of his throws - of the 1st two TD's (don't remember the order), one was thrown over his receivers wrong shoulder, which didn't matter because he was 15 yds open, and the other did not lead enough away from the defender. Against a better secondary both of those plays might have failed. But those nits picked, JJ plays *fast*, and you can't teach that. The one 10yd TD on the pass over the middle in traffic was a thing of beauty - a Matthew Staffordesque delivery.

He spent half his life playing at the fool, but Al Franken is the smartest guy in a lot of the rooms he finds himself in.

To me, Meadows is the toughest call. You have no idea what you really have. 50/50 whatever you decide, you end up wrong.

also a good point. The toothpaste doesn't go back in the tube. The relationship between Russia and Ukraine can now never go back to the status quo ante - at least while Putin lives.

Correct. No question that 3rd parties - like the US - are also trying to shape the conflict to their own advantage. No denying that it is also a proxy war by which the US seeks to defang the threat we see in Putin for reasons completely apart from Ukraine's interest. That is just the real world. But when real-politik also happens to line up on the side of the angels, I can live with it.

so before this started, I asked the question about whether the Ukrainians were going to be 'serious' about defending themselves or whether we would find, like say in Vietnam or Afghanistan, that we could pour in effort from this side to no ultimate good, because if that had been the case, then none of the death and destruction war would be justified. Cut a deal with Putin and be done with it. And since history proves that the US is quite capable of misunderstanding the true nature of the clients we have picked in the past, I absolutely had doubts about this enterprise. But the truth has been that the Ukrainians answered the bell from day one. This is their war, not ours, and they have every right, and every moral justification, to fight to create a way of life different from what they could expect under Putin. And anyone in the "West" who fails the see the need for them to win doesn't understand the value his own freedom, because it's the "West" the Ukrainians are fighting for.

inverting of the old school "you have to win your job in practice" and coming up with, "you have to lose your job on the field"? I can see the value of the psychology in that for the rest of the team once you assume that the loser is going to leave the program anyway. Otherwise you might be concerned for the loser to have the battle play out in front of the fans.

'nuf said right there..

I think Pioneer could be giving them a better game.

IIRC, I think in more recent years I did see a ball assessed on Benoit - once, but back in the day you are right, they didn't have to because nobody took the time - still you would see an umpire occasionally wave at a guy to pick it up and they would. I think one of the big shifts was teams realizing that it froze runners when the pitcher held the ball. I think that drove the shift toward making the taking of way too much time more standard practice - and it leaked from there into all situations --And again you are right, the leagues never responded as it was happening when it was happening. If they had then, it never would have gotten to where it is now.

the comedy is that most important thing they are doing, the pitch clock (which I am all for), isn't really even a change - it's just enforcement of what was always theoretically on the books but the Umps just stopped enforcing a few decades ago.

no one in the BP for Det. Just Foolish to risk letting Manning go back out there again -- if it gets the bottom of this inning.