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Indeed. It is part of the Human Condition to crave simplicity and thus people will cling to systems and arguments that give them justification for abdicating hard judgments and allow them to avoid facing the reality that life's problems are inescapably hard and you only fool yourself to believe you have all the answers. and of course Marco is exactly the type that can only handle ethical complexity at the about the 3rd grade level.

How many were Rusty Staub?

TBH, I wouldn't count on Rogers either. His throwing was one of his best attributes and who knows how much of that he gets back. Garneau is 34 so there is high probability he will fall off the same cliff batting wise that Barnhart has. Sanchez is young, has no power....what kind of receiver is he? Dingler is 23, you really wanted to see his bat start making some strides this year but he's been so-so at best. Crouch is too far away. I can't believe there would be much competition for his services so if you end up eating a couple of million, tough cookies. So I don't see it would do any great harm to not make a final decision on him until after a trade, FA signing or lacking either of those, the end of Spring Training. The only possible silver lining for Barnhart that might be out there is that he has wondered whether he messed himself up trying to switch hit this year. If he came back next year just concentrating on his LH hitting, maybe the bat recovers some, but you sure don't want to pin any hope on that either.

Keep your core strong. The terrible paradox of back trouble is that once you get to where it's too painful to do the needed physical strengthening, it's really hard to reverse a downward spiral.

The simpler the answer to any complex philosophical/ethical question is, the more certain you can be that it's wrong.

I was waiting for this shoe to drop. Moderna had been developing the mRNA tech since MERS/SARS. There is no real scientific/tech question it's their tech, only whether they did enough to protect it against Pfizer's particular implementation. But Pfizer's legal team is probably bigger than their research team so good luck.

Workman's best month at Erie by far - August OPS = 884.

Reuters data summary Second-quarter GDP contraction revised to 0.6% from 0.9% Gross domestic income rises at 1.4% rate in Q2 Average of GDP and GDI climbs at 0.4% pace Weekly jobless claims drop 2,000 to 243,000 Recession? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

exit velo. As I happened to have the afternoon sports radio come on in my car today and I was amused to hear several minute's prattle regarding various silly betting options on sporting events, it struck me that there must be millions of people out there watching sports with no interest in the actual net outcome of the human competition and it seemed a fan more interested in how hard Tork hit the ball instead of the rare but absurd game outcome of the AB summed it all up.

But did you have the over or under on the EV?

LOL - Indeed! Last years Wings would have killed to be an 'average' skating team.

anybody watching Parker in the 70's would have thought he was a lock for the HOF.

Back in the day, the minor leagues would sponsor skills competitions and supposedly Rocky Colavito won one in the PCL for outfield throwing over 400' before he even reached the majors. There are stories of him being able to throw to home plate from deep CF in old Tiger stadium - which was 440 when he played there (420 later), though some may be apocryphal. Dwight Evans and Barfield were certainly two I remember as well - I never saw Guerrero play much. And of course Kaline, but you had to have seen him in the 60's when he was still at the top of his game. And TBH, it more than a strong arm. We've seen lots of useless guys who can throw it over everyone's head for a two base error. One of the things that made Kaline such an assassin was that he was consistently accurate. More recently Kevin Kiermaier is no slouch.

I guess it depends on what the terminology means - (what exactly does that 'and' connect?) Do scholarships in this definition include a college's own scholarship fund or only government supplied scholarships? Huge difference depending. I'm sure private schools provide incentive scholarship money to some students, to 'legacies' for instance, that may not strictly need it. It may also be a bit of a misleading chart in terms that absolute number of dollars in each category is not given. That large red bar on the right may or may be any substantial number of dollars. The system at public schools is based on the infamous 'FAFSA', which I think everyone uses, 2o on the public side there is some level of uniformity for aid criteria. I think many private schools also require families to submit 'FAFSA' but how they use it may be more variable.

Very fair. When I started as a student at UM, the state made up something like 50% of the University's non-hospital budget. Today it is about 15%. Now that does sound pretty horrible, and it is, but you have to remember that huge research edifice didn't use to be there when state support was 50%, so it's not wholly an apples to apples comparison either.

I could write a book... Suffice it to say the problem of college cost is complex. It's not like big Pharma where there is some pot of profits to go after. Colleges spend all the income they take in, and mostly on middle class salaries. The educational model we use is expensive, but it is also the one demanded by students and their parents. But there is another more global and insidious economic factor at play that people tend to miss. As technology creates a more capital intensive and higher productivity economy, the relative cost of buying a person's time keeps going up compared to the amount of other goods available for the same cost. And education, the way we still do it, is 100% people's time, so it's relative cost compared to other goods will keep increasing until we are willing to adopt teaching systems that require fewer people, but that is exactly the opposite what today's college market wants - which is lower student to staff ratios.

Mittens also built his wealth on one of great government giveaways ever - the carried interest deduction.

This one had me a little puzzled at first. Aside from the obvious factor that military deaths suffered in the hinterlands don't generate much political pressure in Great Russian society, you'd still think that trying to impress a lot of non-slav eastern ethics into the army would leave a poorly motivated force, and it does, as what to they care about Ukraine? But then it hit me, it's a lot easier for a Slavic Russian to just put down his weapon and walk across the line to the other side in Ukraine than it is for a Chechen. Soldiers who don't want to be soldiers want to be able to go home and Ukraine is a lot closer to 'home' for a Muscovite than an Irkut.

cute. A few large bulk carrying ships have been built with multiple vertical wind turbines lined up in rows, but they present a lot of logistical problems with loading, clearances etc. Of course this guy has a solar panel on top that may be generating a good part of the energy claimed!

LOL - I've been holding at two, but I don't mountain bike. I am considering an E-Bike though....... But 35ft is the sweet spot for the boat on the Great Lakes. But that's easy before having pulled the trigger on the purchase.

Ha - forgot about Arkansas. I wondered a little about LA because of the big urban pop an NOLA but I guess that doesn't swing it much. S Dak seems like an outlier also. Maybe anyone with liberal tendencies in S Dak has already migrated to MN. When we were living there the pull of the Twin Cities on S Dak youth was pretty clear, both for employment and cultural reasons.

Wentz 5IP 2H 1ER 3BB 2K 1HR. 2K not much but 2H in 5 not bad.

true, but you could say MI is the only state where the crazies tried to kidnap the Gov. The level of extremism is certainly a marker, but not the only one. Another example would be Oregon/WA. Those states in general go blue today, but there is a real lunatic fringe up in the mountains that is probably a lot worse than the MI militia was in it's heyday, but you couldn't judge the average level of radicalism of the rest of the state by it.

I've read some observers of the War who feel that the profile of US arms transfers to Ukraine argues that the US is more interested in Ukraine bleeding the Russians out than actually helping them regain their lost territories (i.e. lack of APC's, main battle tanks, F-16s). OTOH, I suppose one line of thought might be that if Ukraine can bleed Russia enough, they might get a Russian withdrawal without having to retake it all block by block with the casualties that would entail. But that strikes me as banking on some internal Russian process that would remove Putin when the military pain got bad enough. That certainly appears impossible, but such such things always do right up until they aren't. It would also be nice if the Germans got on board and stopped playing into Putin's hands with their energy non-policies.

IDK. Maybe MS, AL, WY, ID, SC? The Plains states like KS, MO, IA have been GOP for a while but I don't think they are as religiously monochrome as a few in the deep south or just as radical as some of the mountain west.