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and tomorrow we can roll out Flaherty. This is kinda fun - Not quite Verlander/Scherzer territory but maybe as good as anything since then.

....aaaaaand Johny Kane for the post game. He didn't lose that gig for very long.

Maeda is really bad. And Foley sitting in Toledo being almost perfect for two weeks.

An editorial writer (don't remember who) wrote in the NYT that if the rich UNIs aren't willing to spend some of the their endowments to defend academic freedom, then they really might as well hang it up. He is spot on.

If you getting toward 60 and are overweight, your odds of being TypeII or pre-TypeII or borderline TypeII start getting pretty high -- the distinction between needing to lose weight and being type II almost disappears as a practical matter.

It's suddenly going to dawn on John Roberts that since he has sold the credibility of his court for a handful of GOP magic beans there is going to be little outcry from the public that it's being ignored.

wrong guy. I believe I've been trying to put across that you can't generalize because everyone's biology is unique. What may be easy for one may not be for another and vice versa. You are always going to find people at both ends of all these spectrums that are bad examples of what is or isn't "true".

and Montero was just named pitcher of the week.

LOL - yup - we go back to cam shaft driven diaphragm suction pumps pulling fuel out of the tank. Run into something hard enough to stop the engine and the fuel pump stops. The ideal fail safe. I spent most of my work life around electrical systems designed for explosive atmospheres, but still amazed they did it in a car.

I don't know if you are being facetious but the exact thing you describe does happens widely. I have at least one family who member realized he was drinking too much (he was), cut back and that was the end of that. He is person who apparently is not that susceptible to physical alcohol addition. It had simply become a social habit for him. Again, not implying this should be true an any particular person, only stating that it is true for a segment of the population.

just the point that even within things that are addiction by wide consensus, you can't generalize that any two people have a similar experience.

Like other all-male bastions (eg, the RCC) BSA was rocked by and still trying to put itself back together again after all the sexual abuse scandals. Getting a little more 'woke' is the exact antidote what had been going on under the cover of raising 'men to be men'.

But to Rob's point, is that ridicule any part of winning politics?

almost everything in biology is on some kind of continuum, any two people are probably facing situations of different degrees. This is pretty much true of all things that may or may not be described as addictions. Even to take the most classic case, there are countless people who got hooked on opiates or heroin and one day just decided to stop on another day, and just do, and countless others who struggled helplessly until it kills them (plus almost every situation in between). Those two groups undoubtedly have very different bio/neuro chemistry going on. We know the same is true with alcohol and it's probably true for everything else that people find themselves doing compulsively. There is always a natural tendency to extrapolate one person's/groups example as the guide for advice to someone else but that's always tricky business. to the degree I will contradict myself though, I'd agree with your post generally - for the average person with a moderate amount of weight to lose, a lifestyle shift is the best way to make a change in diet stick.

Mulally was the best thing to happen to FoMoCo in a long time - maybe since Peterson. Still, to give them their due, the engineering for automobiles is still challenging, it's just different. In Aero, you have to design for ultimate reliability, but also have the luxury of designing where you can rely on regularly scheduled maintenance and troubleshooting. In auto, you have to make things that survive all kinds of abuse, mud, dirt roads, burrowing animals, being ignored literally for years, and have accountants over your shoulder shaving your costs down to the decimal places of pennies.

This does seem to be the consensus.

culture though, is an apt word. It's vary hard not to eat like you've always eaten if you continue to live the way you've always lived. Many/maybe most people who change the way they eat enough to lose weight succeed because they have changed a lot more than that about the way they live.

I think the campaign finance rules must make campaigning for the sake of campaigning too attractive.

Tork couldn't beat the Twins by himself today. Be easier if some of his teammates showed up to help.

what difference does it make that people didn't see it coming? In the end Trump still won the votes he needed and she didn't.

some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.

and he looks like he's been gaining the wrong kind of weight.

Yeah - it's not accurate to say the the party ever anointed Biden. He did take it by winning the votes, not the party pols. You can argue Hillary was a different story - the SuperDelegate setup was going to make it hard for anyone else even if she hadn't finally outrun Bernie in the primaries. To say she wasn't an inside choice because she won the primaries when no-one other than an outsider like Bernie was willing to run against her also misses the reality. And in 2024 was just a total screw up looked at in term of nominating process.

Need to get Riley going.

Tigers scored 4 runs, Spencer had two runs scored and 3 RBI. So basically Torkelson 5, Twins 0.