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However you can also say that given a universe that began in a singularity, every point in the Universe, including ours, is also its center. A more metaphysical view would that in the end both Space and Time are illusory, so the apparent relative 'sizes' of things in the cosmos are illusory at a 'deeper' reality as well.

I liked this line from Mark Melman about SCOTUS in 'the Hill' https://thehill.com/opinion/3540502-mellman-the-decline-of-scotus/

LOL - You know his platoon split for this season has pretty much disappeared, but unfortunately it's because he's now not hitting a lick left-handed either. He is 1 for his last 19.

Dem and Dem leaning turnout should certainly go up - marginally - which can be enough to tip a lot of elections, but I'm not sure anything will ever get the millions of Americans that regularly don't vote to ever start voting regularly. That said, there is another possible outcome that may be just as likely, which is that the constant water torture that of all these drips of fact represent creates some reasonable about of 'deprogramming' inside the cult of Trump. With cult deprogramming, one outcome will be immediate zealotry in the opposite direction, which you already see in places like the Lincoln project, but more often you will just get turning away from that whole topic in the subject's like as the result of having been burned up/out by the experience. I think the likely outcome with these folks is not to embrace a character that is Trump 2.0, but rather to withdraw from politics, i.e. become non-voters. This will also serve of purpose of Dems winning elections, though again, the number that move will not likely be a big percentage of the MAGA, but given how close many elections are, their absence will swing enough to make a difference.

Greene, 31AB into his career, already with the highest OPS among the starters at the end of this game.

Skubal seems to catching the pumpkin disease.

so this Wilmer Flores is the Tiger pitcher's older brother?

bingo.

I'm guessing it depends on how white evangelical women really feel about guns and abortion. If when they go in the those voting booths they decide they have had enough of the patriarchy, I think that is what could produce your re-alignment - and maybe the only thing. But I'm still pretty sceptical. Working class evangelical women tend to be just as conned as their husbands (and ex-husbands....), so more likely the Dems will have to keep scraping for every vote just to not lose.

On the assumption that the most Chris will ever ask Al to do is move 'upstairs' then it's likely a fill from within,and other than Garko or Hinch who would any candidates be? And of course that has to assume that Hinch and/or Garko didn't have major input into some of the decisions that we are roasting Al for.

Meadows is guilty as Sin so he's not going to talk short of an indictment and a plea bargain. If you want Trump bad enough you offer Meadows immunity (or maybe Cippolone), otherwise don't expect to hear from Meadows.

it does shine a little light into why he probably feels so cheated - it maybe was there almost in his grasp if he could have only have gotten to the head of that mob again - but then he gets foiled by the Secret Service, the one group of people that he probably figured he didn't have to plan for, that would just do whatever he told them, refusing to listen to him. Just left that one little detail how to physically get to the Capital, out of the plan.

put this in the 'bigger fish to fry' basket. It would be nice if Turkey were more magnanimous, but right now Ukraine has to be more important to Europe than the Kurds, unavoidable.

the republic was saved by a driver who physically manhandled the POTUS to get him off the wheel. ..........damn.

LOL. It was a toss between that line and "who remembers when Jeff Sessions as AG was our biggest worry about the Trump Administration? - Good Times"

the legal soap opera around the Flint water disaster takes another turn. SCOTSOM rules that a judge acting as a one-man grand jury may not issue criminal charges, judges have no power to prosecute. So the charges against Syder and others who were recharged by Judge Newblatt as Grand Jurist, after Nessel tossed out the previous charge filed under Schuette, have now also been tossed. https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/06/judge-had-no-power-to-indict-in-flint-water-crisis-cases-michigan-supreme-court-rules.html

Jeff Sessions? A name that almost makes you nostalgic for the good old days....

I can add that to my long list of conservative logic fails

I think a huge change - at least in one sense, came with the STP turbine car. It was sort the dividing line where the paradigm was forced to make a shift from auto racing being about doing anything/everything that anyone could figure out to go faster, to "we have the tech to go too fast, from now on it's about how fast can you go within whatever rule set we put in place." That was a shift from one kind of world to another. Anybody could build a car to go faster today - but it takes a ton of very detailed (expensive) engineering at every exploitable margin to get the fastest car inside all of the design constraints. It's a different kind of task than when racing started. I'm also curious about what will happen to IC engine car racing - assuming IC cars are one day going to more or less disappear from consumer driveways. We didn't stop racing horses when people stopped using them for regular transportation, so does IC engine racing live on as a cultural legacy like horse racing, or do the electric car racing circuits eventually displace it. And of course the constraints of electric car racing seem even stranger.

I'd have gone for II Samuel 11:4. That would have been fun in elementary school.

right. The trade was fine based on the information 'in the public domain' so to speak. The issue is exactly whether the Tigers had a player under their nose they never gave a chance to show his value.

Unemployment is 3.6%, the market correction has drained mostly forth - most peoples investments are still well ahead of where they were at the end of 2020, and gas prices may already have peaked. We'll see.

There is *some* truth to this, but even on this point the case is over stated. In almost every case the guy is going to come into the game anyway, the only question is this inning or next inning. Being half way to ready in the 5th when you are scheduled to in for the 6th is just not a big deal. The exception would be getting someone up in the 9th when your closer is already in the game because otherwise that guy might actually not have had to warm up at all.

I don't count this one as the worst they done, but a football coach at a public school is a state sponsored actor and as noted he is in a fundamentally coercive role. Thus it is exactly 'free exercise' (or choice not to) which is being denied. Now I do have a place in my heart for any student worth his salt who tells his coach to stuff it if he doesn't want to pray, In my ideal world every citizen should demand their rights. I also know most kids aren't cut from that cloth. I'm actually more offended by this kind of stuff on religious grounds. It terrible Christianity. The idea of praying to defeat a sports opponent or thanking God for having done it, so trivializes God as to be blasphemous anyway. The coach's preacher should be telling him to stop. But that is just another measure of the bankruptcy of American Evangelicalism. Just play the game, you don't 'deserve' to win anymore than the other guy and you can be confident God isn't going to make sure your placekicks fly true.

Once upon a time, you'd expect a Justice of the Supreme Court to be bright enough to get to this obvious piece of countervailing logic. Not the case with these looneys. Seriously, these guys have so little intellectual candle power it's just sad. This really hit home to me after Citizen'sUnited, when the conservatives made a fundamental logic error of conflating conceptual existence to actual existence that would have gotten them laughed out of any Philosophy 101 class. I've seen no signs of improvement since.