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could be, though I thought I laughed more at the idea of merger because too many of the other Pac-12 teams were already too weak. The question is how/when will the BigTen jettison their weak sisters? IIRC the bylaws make it a lot easier to get in than to be put out. BTW - Have you looked at UM's '23 early recruiting results? Don't.

Lot of wheels turning. Hard to see this as anything but an indication that there isn't enough money, both member and NIL wise, available to PAC12 schools outside ScoCal for the conference to be where USC/UCLA want to keep playing.

FDR says "Hi". Oz may be jerk, but not every poll with money is. That's a little too broad a brush.

because Warnock/Walker is a choice. I don't think comparing JA polling of a public in a sour mood to an actual voting choice is necessarily informative. The 'other guy' is always a better concept than the real person it turns out to be. OTOH, Walker is .....just Walker so that's not much of a measure either. Abrams/Kemp is probably the real marker in GA.

that might be a bit weird for the '2nd' guy. You'd usually want more than horizontal move to make it worth your while.

this a case where good policy is bad law and vice versa. It is up to Congress to legislate restrictions on the use of carbon as CO2 is not a 'pollutant' under any definition already under the EPA's jurisdiction. So as terrible a climate policy decision as this ruling is, taken as a purely legal decision, I think it is more correct than incorrect. It's is a bad precedent to let regulatory agencies decide on their own what they are going to regulate, despite the fact that it in this case EPA is trying to step up and do something that somebody must do. The somewhat sliver lining in this is that utilities don't need the encouragement of the law to move away from coal, they are doing it now by choice because renewables cost less. Ironic that in this case it's the market which is on the right side of change.

Not easy for sure. I would think the key is the level of political 'hope'. When generations of people don't see change, they give up politically and then you get a self re-enforcing feedback loop. Obama instilled that kind of hope and got that kind of turnout but that was because of who he was. The typical congressional election doesn't. But in general, campaigning on the kind of actions that would give hope to minorities makes is pretty hard to get the votes of majority because they don't need what's on offer and only see the bill. If anyone had figured out how to square that circle we probably wouldn't be where we are.

yeah, the unis are all park service style. But federal park Police (who are also called 'Rangers' just like the folks that are not police, of course) are normally armed with a typical cop's rig.

She may have said that but she is wrong if she thinks state law is not enforced in national forest land. Go up north, there are no sworn federal officers in the Hiawatha forest, there are on Isle Royale. ( in the summer! )

State law has full authority in the national forest land. Isle Royale is the only “National Park” in MI. I think Old Fort Wayne in Det was a Federal compound at one time-WWII era- but I don’t think it is any more.

LOL- you left out that you can walk there, from MN, in the winter, if there is enough ice, (which becomes less likely with each ton of coal burned). Just you and the moose and maybe the occasional timber wolf.

Do children that were helicopter parented grow up expecting to be helicopter governed?

I want to pull this out because it I think it bears on an important point. I believe one of the reasons that some on the left have invested to much in the mindset of wokeness and micro-aggression is because it's a neat explanation for why the legal successes of the 60's, which at the time were thought to be the solutions, turned out not to be - at least not a complete enough solution. So the whole micro-aggression/lingusitic/semitoic paradigm arises as an explanation of why we are where we are despite the civil-rights legal reforms. But I think there is a much more straightforward reason that the explicit legal reforms of the 60's failed to effect a complete social solution, and yes it was because they failed to address institutional racism, but not because that institutional racism resides in the language of micro-aggression or unsurfaced personal racial hostility in most of white middle class America. but because it resides in the basic fiber of democracy in a geographically segregated society. You don't need lack of wokenes to explain that resource decisions in a democracy go to the majority, and when the majority (whites) live in districts geographically segregated from where the minority lives, then the places where minorities live get starved for public resources needed to help build social capital in minority society, and thus they can never catch up economically. That is the core of America's problem, not lack of wokeness. But that is a much more terrible and subtle problem to face because it explodes the myth of our democratic perfection. We have to face that to solve that problem the nature and structure of the Union is going to need some corrective surgery, and that will be a very big lift for our society. The only other alternative is for Whites and Blacks and rich and poor to stop trying to live apart from one another so the benefits of a geographically based representative politics get shared more fairly. Either way, not easy stuff. Much easier to explain away the failures of liberalism's great hour of triumph in the 60's by holding that we are just being too mean to each other. That said, there is a fight over basic wokeness that is still needed for America to begin to see the real problem but that fight needs to be redirected. Whites do need to understand that even if they don't really hold Blacks back because of conscious social micro hostility, they do hold them back simply by the way they vote ("innocently" enough I might add) in their own interests. The American system of government is a stacked deck.

Baddoo 3/4, SB tonight. He's on an upward trend. Walk and K rates OK, 7 for his last 23. What he hasn't started doing again is put the ball in the seats at all. Carpenter 2/3, BB. 1 K in 12 AB at Toledo so far, 21% K rate for the month of June (22 in 106 PA)

this is from Thomas Edsall's latest NYT column:

No - she has no brains either, at least not any strategic brains. She doesn't think past tactics, and that's exactly what gets the Dems and GOP to the relative level of long term success on their goals that they are at now.

little fool. How much harder is it to say "I urge you to write the white house and urge the president to work toward "x,y,z.." Just stupid and counterproductive to go after the only thing that stood between you and the abyss at the last election. Like I said - a slash and burn politician - for all intents and purposes just the liberal mirror image Jim Jordan.

Seeing many reports that the Ukrainians are bleeding Russian forces at an unsustainable rate, but no evidence yet that is having any practical effect on the ground, and of course it's no picnic for Ukrainian forces either.

Soto in control today. Nice. Candy and Schoop......./. sigh /

I think at this point in history it's the rebuttable presumption that truth is of no particular value to anyone willing to spend any significant time in Trump's orbit.

walk the #9 hitter twice - ✅

IDK, so far she's basically been a slash and burn politician. Does she get anything accomplished?

Not gonna argue with the run, but Miggy could have taken one swing trying to extend the rally before settling for the sac fly. Guess he doesn't have that kind of confidence anymore.

Tigers in their usual 7 men on the IF configuration I see.

Stern goading Trump into talking about banging his daughter may be been the most cringeworthy piece of radio I ever had the misfortune to have overheard. It would be tough to decide which of their stenches is worse.