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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.

I have come to hate Amazon's misleading delivery estimate when you are purchasing anything. Many times over the last few months I have seen something I want to buy with the promise of coming today and it doesn not. This latest purchase i just made is is the most egregious example: I bought two things where one item said "FREE delivery Today 2 PM - 6 PM on qualifying orders over $25" and the other said "FREE delivery Overnight 7 AM - 11 AM. Order within 13 hrs 8 mins", so I ordered them right then, and when I get the confirmation email, it says they are both arriving next Monday.

What, you don't like flat-bill caps?

I didn't realize that he was as old as 56-going-on-57, so he's rapidly approaching his Soaring Eagle Casino phase.

The calculation is obviously that this will hold up better in court than simply deleting the footage.

He had a bad streak from April 16 to May 28 in which he gave up 28 walks in 32 innings. Take that out and he’s given up only one walk in three innings. We can work with that! Sign ‘im up!

What do you mean by this?

I have a similar relationship like that with several restaurants here in Big Shoulders, and they all know me as John Smith, because my real first name sounds like two or three other real first names and they frequently get it wrong; and even worse, they frequently ask me to spell my very long real last name for the order. But nobody can screw up John Smith, and anyone who does, you might not want to trust them to make your food.

He’s giving in to guitars in his old age.

“Photomat” is the major fail here. 😉

He sold the team before he had to allow negroes to play on his team.