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For a moment I thought that last word was “bat****”.

And white boots. Don’t forget the white boots.

The Taylor Swift Economy.

I got parking for tonight’s game at the Laz at 150 W Jefferson for $14 on ParkWhiz. I bought it yesterday.

Oh boy, is Baddoo gonna be out now for a few weeks?

Yeah that’s the part I’m concerned about. He’s going to have to come off the field way before he hits 30, or else accept the couple of losses he’ll get you there over a whole season.

A year and two months in.

Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson are players who are not likely to enable the club to succeed long-term? I don’t know who you have in mind instead, but that’s a high bar.

Fox News has been going double-time on Burisma today.

I never believed Billy Graham was unimpeachable, and I don't think the son fell all that far from the tree. But I could agree to disagree.

You would get no counterargument from me on this.

Honest question: who do you think are the honest, above-board, even unimpeachable television evangelists? I'm not asking this as a springboard to criticize or as a gotcha—I'd like to get the impression from someone who might be sympathetic to them.

If you insist.

That’s what I’m wondering: does he know just how much trouble? A guy who has never gone through the system probably has no idea, or maybe he believes it’s not actually serious and is a minor nuisance that can be negotiated. And for him, that might be right, who knows. The one thing I do know is that he will leverage his popularity and the implicit threat that entails, and that will be part of the calculus Justice takes into consideration.

My neighbor thing is, a guy moved into his mother’s three-flat next door to us a couple of summers ago, and he likes to bring his guitar and amp onto his front-of-the-house balcony and serenade his neighbors with his practicing, I guess. It’s shapeless, formless, noodley electric garbage he plays, but nevertheless he is out there most nights from maybe 630pm to almost 10pm. It’s not super loud, but it is loud enough to have to kick up the TV volume a couple of notches. We’ve never crossed paths and I’ve never met him, so I can’t fairly ask him to moderate this behavior in any way because that’s not the way to meet a neighbor. As long as it’s not disrupting us by being too loud or too late, I guess we just have to grin and bear it. If he … ahem … amps it up much, though, we may have to meet him after all.

Well, you have to admit that it’s really unusual that it’s happening in the corridor, whereas it’s not at all unusual when it happens in Needles.

Ugh this post just caused me to have a terrible flashback to my childhood going into the bathroom after my mom, the combined smell of Pall Malls and … well … let’s just say, worst smell imaginable.

Lol we’re tied for fourth.

He’s going to pick the best bat that will get to the majors by 2026.

lol, no seriously. Is this really catching him by surprise? Is his head so far up his own ass, fluffed as he is by hangers-on, that he had no idea he would be actually criminally prosecuted? That maybe he genuinely thought it was all just part of the big game? I wonder that about him sometimes, just how much he honestly believes in all the things he says, versus knowing it's not true and just pretending 100% of the time that it is.

I wonder whether he was genuinely surprised?

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They do this by characterizing those on the left as their enemies, and the reason is their enemies is because the left made those on the right their enemies and are trying to destroy them (when in fact most liberals basically barely think about right-wingers at all). Not only does they reflect victim mentality, but even more dangerously, they labor under a siege mentality, and the reason that's dangerous is because when you're under siege, you have to counterattack, and woe betide the "enemy" being counterattacked who doesn't even realize he's assumed to be trying to destroy the right.

I think this is related to the idea of, the tighter your circle of people is, the fewer strangers you see on a day-to-day basis, the more likely you're going to be conservative. Conservatism is predicated more or less on fear: fear of change, fear of others, basically, fear of the unknown. That's why it's called "conservative": at the very least, a high share of them want to converse the way things are right now, because it's a known quantity. Better yet, they'd to go back to a bygone era, frequently that of their childhood, because for them it was a safe era with a known outcome. They want to stop the world and get off. I also think this is why conservatives generally want to live in far-flung exurbs or, better yet, rural areas, where there is only a small circle of people just like them that they see every day, day after day. People they can feel comfortable complaining about other types of people to. And flip side, why liberals prefer the city: there are lot of interesting new people to see and perhaps meet every day. Or at least why people in the city tend to be liberal: they're comfortable being around lots of people, including people they don't know or haven't met yet. I understand this is basically Geopolitics 101.

There is one prominent reputable hitter in last year’s lineup that did correct to career norms. Unfortunately, not for us.