gehringer_2

I can believe this

LOL - I don't even want to guess how many faculty-student/subordinate romances have gone on the rocks since 1974 or actually were abusive relationships, and now that the U has established that they might pay you despite you having no hard legal claim because of SOL, every one of the those wounded lovers may be looking for a lawyer. There have already been some suits filed this week. That may be the only thing I have ever agreed with Nolan Findley about, ever.

like Churchill said, the worst form of government except for all the others. And yes for sure the US today is getting to be a pretty poor example of democracy at all.

If I have a choice a choice of country where the minority elects the President and the Senate, or the majority elects the President and the Senate, sorry but I take the latter every single time. It's called democracy. It's pretty basic that decisions made by majorities leave fewer people unhappy than decisions by minorities - thus within the limitations of general rights protection, minorities are not supposed to have the right to rule. There is only one presidency, there is no possibility of maintaining distinction of regional input into that election except by giving some regional minority preference, which again, defeats democracy and leaves MORE people somewhere else partially deprived of their franchise. You cannot square the circle you are trying to describe.

1-4 wks if "hip pointer" was an accurate statement and not just short hand for an as yet un-diagnosed pain.

If you believe more democratic outcomes lead to class warfare than I guess as alternative solutions to class conflict you can take your choice of the total victory of the oligarchy (Russia), which does effectively end the conflict, or the total suppression of all social dissent (China). Or another way to put it is that if more democracy is something that will lead to more class warfare, then class distinction has already grown to such a toxic level in your society that you must face that there is no longer any way back to greater social equity without breaking some (nest) eggs.

meh - you don't build sustained success on gimmick plays.

31 NFL teams have a one or two syllable short form name. "Commanders" is a non-shortenable 3 syllabler. I guess Washington will end up the "Commies" in the end after all.

It would have generated a lot of buzz but I already like Campbell as a play caller more than Harbaugh....

Gattis is certainly the easiest choice.

If Warde has to make a hire I think it will be really interesting - I wonder if he will come up with someone not on anyone's short lists. I hope that knowing how mercurial Harbaugh is, Warde has been building his list for at least a few years now.

the left is looney about a lot of things, but the left's lunacies are mostly about things that don't threaten democratic government. Self rule is not at risk over people designating their pronouns or in a reparations debate or over which statues go where. It is when access to the polls and overturning elections and suppression of real historical truth and banning of books are the order of business.

exactly. I for one am dying for better balance between the opinions of people undermining the nation at every turn and the rest of the sane world.........not.

being swayed by that kind of thing is as dumb as judging public opinion by twitter - and just as easily manipulated. no country on earth has more anti-american chanting than Iran, and it's all paid advertising by the regime. Iranians that come here love America - heII, most Iranians in Iran love America.

They like an America that existed in their heads but never actually did in reality.

agreed. Cal was very good for a very long time but you never feared losing a game just because you were playing against Ripkin. A lifetime 112 OPS+, 276 BA?. 4 seasons over 130 OPS+, Trammell had 6 in shorter career.

ain't it the truth!

I think Warde Manuel is the real deal, even if his names do have 2 too many 'e's.

He's the 'fat white guy' DEI entry.

I thought 'brah' was Gaelic for 'forever'

To come back to earth a little, the schedule may have left the Ducks a little wasted, but winning the ones you should is a step in the right direction.

Kenny was sure they could not possibly over-turn - mostly because his skate was pretty much still on the ice. Mickey kept telling him that little flick of heel was going to be enough to void it.

He and Larkin the best two players on the ice for either team tonight. Seider may miss ROY but there should be a Norris in his future.

Correct, it was a comment, not an arg. I do occasionally go beyond dialectic as the only allowed from of discourse.

I find the distinction between legal and illegal immigration a marketing tour de force by the GOP since most of the immigrants that got this country off the ground came before there were any immigration laws at all - they just showed up - so they are no different than all the people that Americans today are so happy to label as different because they are 'illegal' when the only real difference is that they are little browner than the people who come from Western Europe that we decided had more right to that 'legal' marketing label. Guaranteed if we were being inundated by British Boris Johnson refugees without green cards no-one would care a whit.