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IIRC back in the 60's we covered Columbus moderately heroicly as an explorer but the point was made that the Spanish killed and enslaved the locals. We also read Frederick Douglass and John Howard Griffin. And this was before the bottom fell out and the while residential exodus began.

the thing is the GOP shouldn't be fooled about what they bought. They may have coerced Trump to stay on board, but if he has decided his love is lost for the GOP, then he is doing no more than biding his time until he has wrung them dry for what is useful to him, and he will yet throw them overboard. With Trump you can count on it being the scorpion and the frog writ large.

always about $$$ - esp with Trump

this is the logic you apply when you call someone up from AAA, I'm not sure it's what is going to apply when you decide to spend a quarter billions dollars. I think when you do that the question is more like - 'is this exactly the guy that is a good long term fit with the team we are trying to build?" That is a higher bar. It's interesting to try and weigh up all these guys on various kinds of scales, but the only yardstick that is going to matter is the one that Avila is going to apply, and it's a good bet that is not one anyone of us are using. So basically I'm ready to be a little surprised by where they end up on this.

Zadina was noticeable tonight - in a good way. One guy I thought had some rough patches tonight was Hronek again. He seemed to be on the losing end of too many puck battles - though he picked it up in the offensive zone late in the game.

I'll go back to what Lee said about Avila - he tells you what he's going to do. Avila has said repeatedly that he wants to build a lower strike out offense. I do think that will give them reservations about Baez -- but I suppose anything is possible given the right alignment of circumstances.

Just watching Seider not mindlessly passing the puck up ice and giving away possession is such a reminder that is doesn't have to be the way it's been.

I would too if the Wings could be the 80's Oilers! And Coffey was kind of a unicorn - would a coach today put any kid coming up with Coffey's skillset on the blue line?

As groups true enough, but its not like you even need asians and hispanics to get it to a losing political proposition.

Nature abhors a vacuum. When nothing can be done about the one, the space gets filled by the other.

the one thing to realize though is that a little bit like trans-national business, science has also become pretty transnational. The scientific community sees all their host governments a piggy banks but also as nuisances at best. They generally have more loyalty to their work than their government - and I would say that is probably true both in China and in the US. No matter where in the world they work all these folks went to many of the same schools, attend the same conferences, work jointly on all kinds of projects inside the same world research culture and publish world wide to the same standards. I think this is generally a good thing. There are researchers in Wuhan right now who have the screws being put them by Beijing and are not liking it either. We should remember they are not our enemy.

Only if he plays bigger. Coffey's problem - at the end of his career was that when the game got tighter he still played too soft. The Wings have some experience with guys that haven't played as big as they grew. That's the only reason I would call being compared to Coffey mixed praise. I don't want a bigger guy that plays like Coffey did for the Wings, I want a bigger guy that plays like Coffey couldn't! So call that semantics if you like.

And I thought he had let himself get out of position on the 2nd goal as well.

14 pts in 13 games and some home games to go.

Mahomes and Chiefs playing GB without Rogers. Last half of the 2nd quarter has been a total clown show for both teams.

game was already changing by the time Coffey got to Det. Of course he was older too! It would be interesting to see what a young Paul Coffee would do in today high speed NHL.

so someone persuade me that we are better off now with this massive imbalance and scores of bowl games played to empty seats and probably terrible TV ratings, than with the old system where conference winners could all end the year happy and you had bowl games that played to established inter-conference rivalries and actually generated regional fan interest?

yeah - we are still carrying Niko, Garneau, Robson. Bryan Garcia is also a hot mess, though maybe somebody still think he's fixable....

The Chinese are going to run out the clock and we may never know a whole lot more. But '84 is also correct that where it came from doesn't really change anything about where we are now. Two things can both be true - that as genetic techniques get better the research establishment needs effective safeguards, and that the world and our national public health infrastructure needs to be ready for the next one that nature almost certainly will throw at us soon enough. So both possible origins of this bug should be informing policy regardless of which is true.

Terry is old enough now he probably doesn't give a damn. That is the one liberating thing about getting old.

Don't like the Coffey comp. They didn't win a cup until Coffey was gone...🏒

Nix that. McCoskey says today that he has one left.

10-2 or even 9-3 is a wildly successful season given what the program looked like that the end of last season. That said - it's perfectly fair for its fans to despair over a team that can't beat its traditional rivals. TBH - I don't really care if UM is great football power or not, it doesn't bother me if UM doesn't play in the same playground with the SEC, but it would be more fun to be a fan of a 2nd tier program if they could pull the occasional upset than to get to 10 wins with half being against East Cupcake. 🤷‍♂️ Of course, if they don't figure a competitive NIL system, this year's success, such as it is, may be short lived!

If that is the only point you are trying to make that is a fair enough point. OTOH, there is large space between 'debunked conspiracy theories" and scenarios that are unlikely enough that they should not be dominating our thinking on a given topic - which - until the evidence changes, is where I would put the lab leak hypothesis.

Times change. Views change. Sometimes the law is a little slower? Wikipedia