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What company wouldn’t want an extra three months to cover their quarterly criming?

Of course he's my QB1. ☠️

A vast, organized ecosystem of indoctrination? You don’t say.

After the 35-5 start, the 1984 team went 22-23. Then they went 11-1. Then they followed that up by going 20-21. So, two different stretches lasting more than 40 games of the most magic team of all our lifetimes playing sub-.500 ball. It’s what all baseball teams do: they have long funks during long seasons, and then they win rings by getting hot at just the right time. Enjoy the ride!

Just in case they refuse to click through: Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip. Retail coffee prices in the United States in August jumped nearly 21% compared to the same month last year — the largest annual jump since October 1997, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, released Thursday. On a monthly basis, coffee prices rose 4%, the most in 14 years. Coffee drinkers have President Donald Trump’s tariffs to blame, in part. The United States is largest importer of coffee in the world and it relies on foreign countries for the beans, given there are very few places it can grow domestically. Nearly all – 99% – of coffee consumed in the United States is imported, according to the National Coffee Association. One of the most heavily-tariffed countries is Brazil, which is the United States’ top source for coffee, according to US Department of Agriculture data. Brazilian imports face 50% tariffs, among the highest that the US levies on any country’s goods, because of Trump’s anger over the trial and recent conviction of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally. Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, predicts coffee prices “will easily exceed the record as the full effects of the 50% tariffs levied on Brazil last month work their way onto store shelves.” Other coffee bean-growing countries are also being slammed with tariffs. Colombia, the second-biggest exporter based on net weight, has a 10% tariff, and Vietnam, the third-biggest, has a 20% tariff.

They may be stupid and ignorant about a lot of things, but when it comes to exercising cruelty, those ICErs are as smart and knowledgeable and resourceful about how to do so as required by the job.

They still hate the Lions enough in Chicago that when it comes to a Lions game vs, say, a Cowboys or 49ers or Giants game, the local Fox affiliate will pass over the Lions to show one of those other teams.

Tigers squeak one out against the Marlins, 2-0. Guardians hang on to beat the White Sox, so:

Total catnip for the red hats.

Little league triple!

Fair point

Oh my god, way to pull a gold bar from your butt on that missed sack!

If we have to try for 55-yard FGs early in the 2nd quarter, instead of going for it, does that mean we're not super confident in our chances here?

50/50 they knew it was gonna happen and did it on purpose

If you think no one in the mainstream media has any journalism ethics anymore—either because the RWM tells you repeatedly this is so, or because the NYTimes allows the occasional conservative op-ed, or because you sense the scales have fallen from your eyes—then might as well just give up already. Although I will grant you that CBS is basically gone as it’s being gutted from within after money and pressure from without.

Babies are innocent. Once they grow past the baby stage they are guilty as hell.

Mainstream media is as trustworthy as news as it's ever been. It's simply that the landscape has shifted underneath it.

Kilmeade has an evergreen fallback:

I think that might be because they are actually afraid of what God will do to them once they put any critical thought into it. Critical thought is the diametric opposite of faith, and as such threatens the very foundation of faith. It's why many fundamentalist people are suspicious of the very idea of education itself, even starting with grade school, but certainly at levels beyond that when young adults begin to be exposed to previously unencountered ideas. Ideas threaten God.

This gets me to wondering how much failed helicopter parenting has to do with this, if anything. Hypothetically, I can envision where many parents believe it’s going to be as easy as pushing buttons to control their kids growing up—then, when the kids reach the age of pushing back, the parents don’t know how to handle that (perhaps because their own parents didn’t model effective parenting for them), they freak out at the pushback, then go 100% hands off, leaving the kids to their own devices for basically the rest of their childhoods, while the failed parents simply focus on their own interests. How common is that, I wonder.

Because their particular strain of religion demands absolute certainty and zero compromise. It’s all related and of a kind.

Musta saw too many white people getting caught up in the ****canning.

I’m thinking about pulling the ripcord on ORCL right now, or perhaps set some kind of trailing stop on it. It’s already down some -15% from Wednesday's high. Probably should consider that for PLTR and my other tech as well. My only hesitation is the tax hit. Gotta figure something out.

Fire Harris!