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I tend to believe that the desire to acquire a whole arsenal of weapons of war is probably linked to mental illness.

I would assume if Jobe closes all remaining big holes in his game, whatever they are, he’ll be in Detroit sooner than later.

Almost certainly at the behest of Papa Doc. Would have liked to been a fly on the wall when he went off on it.

Speaking of broadcasts, I was borderline offended when during the NLCS, a pitcher struck out a guy to end a tense inning, came off the mound all animated and yelling, and one of the announcers blurted out something like, “YEAH! GO ON, BIG FELLA!” I doubt it was Brian Anderson—it was probably Jeff Francoeur. But regardless, appearing to pick sides and cheerlead on a national telecast, even an ex-player analyst in an exciting moment, is just such a bad look.

The problem with that implied hypothesis is that if the ratings drop, networks will do even more crazy things on telecasts in a vain bid to capture the young ‘uns.

The Frazier reboot can’t be as bad as the Night Court reboot, can it? Not that the original Night Court was necessarily comedy gold … But yeah, if Seinfeld and David want to wrap it up, they better do it quick, as long as there are still enough people on this planet who still care about it.

It’s not about you, Eric. Did you even touch on that? I don’t even know. The mental health commentary was a counter to the idea expressed by many on the right, at least on the twitter thing, that it’s not about guns, it’s about mental health. Examples:

Legislatures have been legislating against the human heart since legislatures started legislating.

Trump's their modern-day Cyrus.

That could be actionable in a court of law.

It also doesn't make sense to liquidate all our minor league talent for Established Major Leaguers™ until it is established that the Harris regime is unable to develop minor league talent in the same way the Avila and Dombrowski regimes were.

According to much of the right wing media, they most certainly are right now.

I agree that it's something more than just the proliferation of guns leading to our mass shooting situation. Like of effective gun regulations is a big part of it, but I also think it's more. Canada has one-fourth the guns-per-capita the US has, but they have far fewer than one-fourth the mass shootings we do, even on a per capita basis. Canada had four mass shootings in 2022 and have four this year so far; the US had 695 last year and have had over 500 so far this year. If the US and Canada both had the population of the US, Canada would have something more like 35 mass shootings a year, not nearly 700. And it's more than the mental illness, a universal condition that occurs in literally every country on Earth, and quite probably with similar incidence rates. Again, if it were strictly the mental illness driving the mass shootings, wouldn't we see about one-fourth the shootings in Canada that we have in America, again on a per capita basis? Wouldn't there be more like 80 mass shootings a year in Canada, if all the mentally ill people there acted out with firearms the way they do here? I think it also has to do with a few other things we have that other nations generally don't: the rhetoric around guns as a political and social right; the rhetoric around divisive politics leading to irrational hatreds of entire groups of people; the recent right of civilians to obtain and own firearms which are essentially tools of war. I think all of those factor into it. But also, maybe, it has to do with a hypothesis I've noodled over the past several years: the sense of expectations people have about living in the US, with its seemingly unlimited freedom and liberty and wealth, instilled in them by the adults and society around them starting when they are little kids. The ideas that we can be millionaires, that we can be president of the United States, that basically we can control our own destiny in any way we want without having to regard anybody else along the way, if only we work hard enough at it. And, finally, the crushing disappointment and anger when all of that expectation evaporates and leaves people with nothing. Those are ideas embedded into the DNA of the American people starting back a couple of centuries, and which are unique to us (or as Agent Orange would say, US). Not everybody who's disappointed with their life is going to engage in a mass shooting. But too many people do. I don't even want to seriously address the idea the fascist Democrats are purposely trying to stoke mass shootings by forcing certain medications onto the people, as a pretext to take away everyone's guns, because that's just to ignorant to give another second's thought to.

I think it is less about the amount involved and its possible effect on his career, and more about his sense of entitlement to all favors large and small as a privilege of his position. He must honestly believe his lifetime appointment has made him bulletproof, so why not behave as such in all matters? After all, if he were to take the amount of the loan in account in terms of the effect it would have on his career, he would be tacitly acknowledging that there is corruption at hand, and irrespective of whether he believes it does constitute corruption, to get past any sense of internal cognitive dissonance, he must behave as though it doesn't.

What other country has access to as many guns per capita, yielding the same lethality, that America has?

I don't spend much time on Politwitter, either. Just dip my toe in enough to see who saying what these days.

It's even worse than that: he's second in line. In her defense, Michelle Kinney is a creative. I believe they think of the Constitution and the Bible in the exact same way: they don't read it and they may or may not even know what's in it, but it was handed down by God to Christians to beat everyone else over the head with it.

Maybe it's not a microphone. Maybe it's a room audio microphone. Either way, I did not click on the video to study some guy's acne profile.

Regardless, I don't see how the guy survives either a shootout or a "shootout" and makes it into the justice system. The next time a cop sees him, he's dead.

You see a lot of this kind of argument on that thing that used to be called Twitter.

When a YouTube video's thumbnail and description about a historical topic I'm interested in draws me in, and the video itself ends up being >95% some guy taking up the screen with his ugly mug and a microphone, and there may or may not occasionally be some picture related to the topic shown over their shoulder, taking up maybe 20% of the total screen. I blame Peyton and Eli Manning for this revolting state of affairs.

Not just meds, but meds forced on them by the fascist autocratic Democrat regime.

They frame the issue as an either or: either it's the guns, or it's mental illness. It's not either or. It's both.

Is that really going to make any difference in the court of public perception, though? Nobody remembers the vacations, but they remember the titles and the wins over OSU.