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This is definitely the right place for this.

Not for me it’s not. When I choose a game I see this:

If you’re in Illinois, how are you seeing the game? I don’t see Tigers on MLB Network

I wonder whether Ken Buck has an urgent health thing? He is at that age, and frankly, he doesn't look particularity good for his age.

OK, that's new, because this is 2020: I was in West Palm this past weekend, and my wife wanted to have breakfast at the Breakers, and I swear there were at least four women we saw walking around there with this same look. It is a definite thing. Maybe they're blind to how bad it looks—or, maybe the look is a signifier of middle-aged-and-up willingly-beta women desperately trying to find and/or keep an ostentatious rich daddy, because that's what their entire worth is wrapped up in. How that relates to Noem's situation, I'm not exactly sure. But based on her reported affair with Corey Lewandownski, she may be looking to graduate from her second-rate insurance-company-owning husband to someone more yachty and clubby.

Now shine my shoes, uncle.

I believe it was the 48,000 hours of J6 video the Republicans were demanding to be released, because 47,000 hours of it was exnorative of their fellow travelers. I don't recall anyone on that side wanting the Biden interview to be released, since it was already cherry-picked to their satisfaction. But then, I don't read every letter of news ever published, either, so I could definitely be wrong.

I think their position would be, if she's wrong/lying about this, what else is she wrong/lying about?

In all fairness, Trump has been saying he'll pardon the rioters for at least a year now, so it's not exactly breaking news requiring 72-point headlines today. It's all part of the fire hose strategy.

Fascism is all about loyalty over competence.

That's why I said I'm not 100% sure.

Honest question: do you prefer the term "disabled" rather than "handicapped"? I know "disabled' is the politically-correct preference, but that word always struck me as meaning that such people are not even a little capable of doing anything—i.e., they are not able to do it at all—whereas "handicapped" strikes me as meaning, people can still do something but with some added challenges. But that's just me trying to use linguistic logic to understand it versus accepting the orthodoxy. Perhaps you can help me understand why "handicapped" is a bad term to use but "disabled" is fine?

Apropos of nothing, I'm OK with Rene Russo, but her look in general is not my bag. I would rather have seen Jeanne Tripplehorn in the role: similar look, but softer, and easier on my eye.

How else are you gonna keep your girlfriend interested in a baseball movie? 😉

I've been avoiding this thread because, based on its placement in General and not Political, I figured this was a pro-betting thread, so I wanted to respect that. But since you guys have opened up the floodgates, I'll just say that here I believe that gambling addiction is going to become the nation's #1 health problem in the next five to ten years, yet another thing we can thank our estimable Supreme Court for. 😏 And now I will drop this point, unless people want to keep talking about it, after which I can then blame you. 😁 From a personal standpoint, the best thing that ever happened to me was the moment I tried penny-ante gambling when I was in grade school and started losing immediately. I also got cheated out of winning by a bigger kid in my class. The last straw was, I had lost my last penny in five-card poker during lunch, I saw it was an old one, like, 1917 or something, and I said let me keep it and I'll pay you tomorrow, because I liked old coins. And the bigger kid grabbed my hand and forced the penny out of it to take it away from me. That was basically the end of gambling for me. Ironically, I run both a college football bowl pool and a March Madness squares pool (coming up next week!), but I do those because I love the pool-managing part, not the gambling part. And, true to form, I have won exactly one money position in the 26 years of the bowl pool, and exactly one first-round square in the seven years of March Madness squares. Meanwhile, I see the same people in my pool winning every year over and over again. That is just beyond my understanding.

So, looks like it's The Miggy Show in Lakeland today. Practically every tweet this morning by the beat press is a breathless report of what Miggy is doing right now. I don't know how to feel about that. I mean, I know how I do feel, but what I'm not 100% sure of is whether it's not such a good idea to have His Miggyness looming over this team once again. I've been so excited to read reports of camp cohesion this spring. I hope his presence doesn't put a damper on that.

A couple weeks ago 60 Minutes had a segment about that nutty Moms For Liberty group, the one with the sex scandals (natch). Scott Pelley was interviewing the leaders and they could not talk their way out of a paper bag. I mean, man, talk about C+ students just riding the crest of a wave. It’s just a matter of right place-right time for them. No one will even remember the organization, let alone know who these people are, a year or two from now. They couldn’t carry Terry Rakolta’s jock.

I feel as though Florida may be reaching their tipping point on the whole singular focus on this whole anti-woke horsesht. The legislature is rebelling against some of the stupider and more craven acts, like the proposed state law to punish local officials for taking down Confederate memorials, which is straight-up fascism. That and several laws long such lines were not even put up for a vote in the legislature by their house speaker. There will always be a lot of people who want to cruelly punish other people they hate on a non-stop basis, but they will never achieve majority status over people who may exist somewhere along the sliding scale of empathy for that kind of thing, but who just want a quiet, peaceful society, so they can live without that. I think that might be what’s happening in Florida, and in the end, Ron DeSantis is no Huey Long. He does not have the charm, charisma, or control of resources and militarized policing to force Florida’s residents to accept such displays of institutional cruelty. IOW, when it comes to this anti-woke crap, it’s a treadmill to oblivion. There’s no there there.

The tricky part about protecting people from the pollution is, what is determined to be the pollution and who gets to determine that. Once a society decides to tackle an issue like this, it opens the door to litigable value judgments about what constitutes pollution or even malice, and as we can see from the school library controversies, different people and communities have different values and judgements about that. It’s why the argument for letting everyone have access to everything and figuring out for themselves what’s pollution or not is so seductive, even though that itself has tremendous potential down sides. There is no perfect solution, which I guess is in part why the Constitution strives for the practicality of “a more perfect Union”, rather than the illusion of “the perfect Union”.

The thing I remember most about Justin Thompson, other than the predictions of his inevitable stardom, was how weirdly he torked the upper half of his body when he pitched, and you couldn’t help but think, “this guy is one big injury just waiting to happen“.

Prepare to be underwhelmed.

I think they’re doing that for business reasons, rather than promotional reasons.

I believe practically everyone who is all in for or on Trump have already revealed themselves.