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Belief in democracy is the first casualty when your belief in your cause reaches religiosity. There is a kind of ideological convergence that takes place with all movements that decide their issue too important to just work and teach and advocate until the people are with them.

so it sounds like they don't really know anything about Mize yet - when they put him on the DL it was on the basis of him missing a start and not because they had any medical diagnostics yet beyond - "the kid says his elbow hurts." So we wait for the imaging.

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correct. Though I'm not sure even the "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" paradigm captures the full fatalism of Calvinism, which is along the lines that you are just destined to be what you are. The children of Ham are cursed, etc. Parenthetically - In defense of Calvin, from what I've read, he wouldn't necessarily recognize "his" theology in where his followers/interpreters took his movement.

well, to call 'agricultural' the cause is a bit of euphemism. MN, IA, WI, OH all have deep agricultural history. The difference was agriculture based on slavery and the ensuing decades of denial of economic opportunity or wealth accumulation to a big segment of the population that happened to be the descendents of those slaves.

It seems we know the real alternatives, regardless of whether we are willing to admit the political reality they imply to ourselves or not: Either improve living conditions and income for the US poor, or keep putting a lot of them in jail. I think America's real political/moral problem is that a majority of the public is perfectly happy with the latter instead of the former as long as it's cheaper for them. And of course even the savings is only short term, net national wealth would go up if the poor became more economically productive.

Sf and LA are also really high income! LA still has poor areas, prolly more so than SF, but how does the ratio of rich to poor tracts compare to a place like Det? Same arg would apply to NYC, which has poor rough areas, but so much more upscale population that overall crime rates taken over the whole city are never as bad as in a Det where most of city population is poor. so what I’d be curious about is when you break down an area like Little Rock, are rates higher than in LA in areas of equal income, or does it just come back down to a high proportion of low income areas with rates just like similar income areas elsewhere?

Probably because he’s making noise about ‘absolute free speech’, implying no bannings for looneys, at least until they start bad-mouthing Tesla stock…

I would guess it relates to lower pop density in CA cities and their generally high income

Always nice to see an org with poor, corrupt leadership make itself even more paralyzed with dictatorial purges..

they gave up 5 in that inning, but came back with 5 of their own the next inning and 2 more in the 7th to win the game. So Madden's back to being a genius I guess.

yeah - I think I even used to know that.....Seems now that you mention it I remember making a post about murder rates in the past after I had run down some numbers and the argument was that they tracked the highest poverty census tracts, but IIRC at the time the context was not red/blue or state vs state but just was that murder rates in some cities weren't really better or worse than others because of some unknown variables, but just because some cities had a higher proportion of poor census tracts, where murder always averaged something like 40/100K, while in non poverty areas it always tends to be 1-3/100K.

LOL. the Yankee relief saga continues. Boone put Chapman in in the 11th and Aroldis issues the walk-off walk with the baseas loaded.

Joe Maddon starting to suffer from Smartest Guy in the Room Syndrome?

Johnny Kane been in the sauce or what?

Always amazed to see how high Alomar on some of these counts.

he fooled one, that was enough.

I don't think Fulmer is fooling anyone tonight.

That is why Joe keeps getting chances - because when it works, he has a pure swing and miss fastball.

Let me guess - Homicide actually tracks a state's educational attainment level, and the blue state have better schools?

yes. Akil is serviceable going left right in, asking him to go back is a bridge too far. He may have better speed than Victor but we've seen Victor show more ability go back and that needs to be the determinant for CF at CoPa, or Kaufman

I wonder if a young player can maybe have too much success in ST and end up unready for pitchers who are playing for keeps.

Tork, Reyes and Cabrera have the three hardest hit balls of the game for either team.

My Lord he hit that a long way.

And Baddoo pops out on the 1st pitch. NOT GOOD