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Without going into too much background, I have had to actively reduce the sodium in my diet. I'm kind of lucky much of my diet was lower in sodium anyway and I just had to cut out a few bad offenders, like salty snacks and Tasty Bite side dishes and cottage cheese (!). But then I found that one of the bigger challenges for me was getting enough calories. So often calories equals sodium, and at first I was bringing in around 1,500 calories a day before reaching my sodium budget, and I still work out a fair amount. Within three weeks I was down almost ten pounds, and not in a good way, necessarily. So I had to further reconfigure my diet to add calories without sodium. I tried trail mix at first, but that blew me through my fat budget. I finally came around to adding oatmeal and baked potatoes, both of which I like enough to eat basically every day. So I am close to on balance now. Thanks for asking. 😉

I would bet you understand that King's Christianity and Mike Johnson's Christianity are not even close to being the same.

Whoa, wait, that's for his whole career? daaaaamn ...

Julio's defense is. Point being it's not as though Arozarena is blowing Julio out of the water when it comes to winning games for his team. Julio wins the tiebreaker on the star-marketing attribute.

Guaranteed Texas gets FEMA money, and just as guaranteed that California would not were this to happen there.

That party is going nowhere. Long before they field their first candidate, Elon will be back in the fold.

I understand that people don't agree with this, but I do wish folks would stop referring to Trump as "stupid" or an "idiot" or things along those lines. That serves only to absolve him of responsibility for his actions and behavior, as though his intellectual capacity is not developed enough for him to understand what he is doing, and worse, that he is acting in good faith to improve life for the American people but simply isn't smart enough to figure out how to accomplish that. The evil in his actions is not the result of lack of intelligence—it's the result of something else. Trump is not a well-educated or thoughtful man, but he is smart enough to know exactly what he's doing and how to manipulate not only his base, but the entire system, to achieve his ends, which is to destroy the structure of American government on all levels and and strip it for parts on his way out. A completely stupid idiot could not accomplish what he has.

Not everyone believes in prayer, it's true, but the religious belief predominating this particular government is dedicated to converting anyone and everyone who is not already in their fold, and that includes other Christian sects like Catholicism and mainline Protestantism that evangelicals consider barely Christian, if they are Christian at all. This I know from firsthand experience. We should always remember that evangelical Christianity is nothing like a let-and-let-live proposition. It is very much us against them/you, and if we're not completely on their side, we're doomed, both here and in the hereafter. So they couldn't give less of a **** about the idea of accommodating you if you think prayer should not influence government.

I think voters are willing to engage on the merits of candidates. I think it's just that their merit consideration set is completely different from mine, and probably from yours. As for religious fatalism, you probably agree that's baked into the condition of being a person without any real power to change their circumstances. Yes, this is America and we tell ourselves we can do anything we want if we just put our minds to it, but two things: (1) having the strength of mind and available resources to overcome substantial obstacles in the service of doing anything you want are exceptional qualities, not normal qualities, so people who feel locked in to their circumstances need something else to believe in to get them through life, which religions based on afterlife provide; and (2) is that really true in America, anyway? Or at least any truer than in any one of several dozen other countries we could name? We've had caste systems calcified into our national DNA for over four centuries now. That's going to take additional effort to completely overcome, and there is strong opposition even to overcoming it.

They do have very similar WAR, and J-Rod is far more marketable as far as MLB is concerned.

I think once they scored the fourth run vest was gonna be sitting to start the inning.

Who are you, anyway? 😉

Maybe they're having trouble seeing through the sweltering heat.

And Riley joins the fun! It's about time we scored six runs or something in an extra inning. Sick of being on the losing side of that prop.

Not any more. Gonna be Hernandez or Hanifee now, with Vest in the pocket in case whoever it is get in trouble.

Welcome back, Matt Vierling!

Torres loping down the line beat the throw by a mile!

We got three hits now! And two of them off Cade ****ing Smith!

Three-run jack? Trey Sweeney?! Really?!

He better be named an All-Star tonight.

Dodged a bullet on this one!

Must have gotten a better offer in a part of the private sector that directly benefits from it.

I think she’d probably say the Democrats, academics, media, and/or George Soros did.

Did he also blame Democrats for gutting it? Because that would be totally on brand.

The crime rate among undocumented immigrants is much lower than that among documented immigrants, which itself is slightly lower than among American citizens.