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I'm usuaklly of the mind that I want the team that beat me to win the whole thing—you know, it took the champs to beat us, and all.

Hey, @smr-nj, why the sad face? is your county in the lowest tier? Looks to me like Jersey is cleaning up in the literacy sweepstakes.

Anybody else kind of sort of rooting for Washington to go all the way?

I hear ya. I have almost completely stopped talking politics with people IRL, especially strangers, and even with my family. There's one guy I talk with where it comes up and we're of the same mind, but I get weary even then of my own doom-spiraling, and I usually end up telling him, OK, that's enough of that. Probably because he's still pretending things are completely normal and the mid-terms will offer Trump a rebuke in a free and fair election. We'll see, but if it doesn't, I don't think it will because the voters will gladly put them right back in, let's put it that way. This area is basically my only outlet, because I get to articulate my thoughts far more precisely than I can otherwise.

Yes, the infamous aluminum block.

He doesn't have Dombrowski's or Avila's MO, that's for sure.

He's clearly become an operative. Why are people giving him so much air?

Check out how your county ranks: https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-and-lowest-adult-literacy-rates/

I think everyone understands that today's Republicans are yesteryear's Dixiecrats.

@Dan Gilmore Still cost me a quart of oil every 100 miles either way.

Sounds like when they said Internet service would be too cheap to meter. They're partly right: it is too cheap a commodity for them to charge based on usage, but that doesn't mean they don't charge a high price as the market rate for you to get it in the first place. Andreessen obviously knows this and thus couldn't possibly be more disingenuous than he is striving to be here.

I also don't respect when anyone vaingloriously guilts people into thanking them for their service and/or shutting the hell up about whatever by highlighting sacrifices they say they endured so other people don't have to do it. There's a passage in Matthew about this very thing, which you'll hear in Ash Wednesday services: "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full." Ex-mils who guilt others about their own stint are receiving their reward in full whenever they do that.

You gotta admit Mariners are a kind of darling of the baseball media, perhaps partly because of its location in the beautiful PNW, perhaps also because they had so many great Hall of Famers pass through (A-Rod, Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson, KGJr, Ichiro, and King Felix might should be). Also, many people think they are way overdue for a pennant so they are a sentimental favorite, like the Lions were this year. Therefore, they get talked about in the national baseball media a lot, so I would definitely count them among the Next Six franchises.

1973 Chevy Vega. It was a ripoff at $850 in 1978. Had to put in a quart of oil every hundred miles or so, because it had faulty valve cover seals. It got so I had to buy motor oil by the case and keep it in the hatchback.

Ironically, if Skubal wins the Cy Young this year, or at least gets bunches of votes for it, that might slam the door on our being able to sign him long term anyway.

I don't think the Astros can sign Bregman since they let him walk, so I think there might be some bad blood there. But if they could and would sign Bregman, sure, I would do the deal, and the Astros might be talked into it on those terms. They have no one decent for RF that I can see.

It’s easier to pad on top of and then skim off a flight costing taxpaying suckers hundreds of thousands of dollars than it is to do the same to a flight costing $8,577.

OK, now I get Trump’s interest in no taxes on tips. https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/employer-payroll-tax-obligations-for-tipped-employees

Also, they can’t build houses if all the people with the hands to build them are deported.

I wonder how many of this kind of movie ideas the Trump administration will successfully thwart, using harassment and threats of investigations and IRS audits of studios and production companies? That would be one way to MAGAtize Hollywood.

Also, “African Americans”? Too woke a phrase. I’m sure Trump can come up with another word for them and mandate its use via some proclamation.

Never Episcopalian. Too close to Catholic. Assembly o’ God. There’s your state church.

Trump’s CIA is now embracing the lab leak story? You don’t say …

Christ Almighty, she's a complete dip****.