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Only if they used the money elsewhere and didn't pocket the cash instead, which I would guess is more likely.

The Big City is lagging behind, at least where I go grocery shopping. Prices didn't seem to move up so much this spring and summer while everyone else was complaining about inflation, but in the last two months or so they seem to have really leapt up on CPG. OTOH, Meat and produce prices always wax and wane due to availability. I just got asparagus for 99¢ a pound and Starbucks packaged coffee for $5.99 on sale, down from $11.79. (I cleaned them out!)

I'm pretty sure 37 is part of the joke ...

It's starting to land with me that indicting Trump would be doing the rest of the Republican Party a huge favor. That way they don't have to be the bad guys kicking Trump out—they can hold their hands up to the base and say, hey guys, we don't want this either, but it's the Deep State and they have all the cops, so what can we do? The only wild card is whether they can herd those Trumpiest of red hats into DeSantis's corral.

If Garland wants to convict Trump, he has to have enough evidence in hand before he indicts. It's probably why Garland didn't indict Trump the day he was appointed. Had he done so and lost because his case wasn't buttoned down, it would probably go down as the biggest swing-and-miss in Justice history.

Looks like the Tigers are all in on the soft-tossing, low-strikeout, hard-hit, run-yielding Tyler Alexander Experience! But hey, we got him kinda sorta cheap. 😁

Longoria has not produced what Candelario is projected to produce since 2017.

Two things about that spot: They should have washed out the color on the Trump clip, if not made it in black and white. There is a danger that this very spot will motivate Republican voters because their still hero appears in it looking like a normal politician.

They absolutely did consult, and the recommendation to change it to “K” was approved.

I’ve been noticing that on most channels in the past couple years. I have DTV, so I’ve been wondering whether the dish, which sits on my deck, has shifted as the deck as shifted into the ground. It has been there since 2002, after all … We were trying to watch an episode of White Lotus recently, and the pixelation on the DTV box was so persistent we actually quit it, moved over to the Apple TV unit, called up HBO MAX, and finished watching the episode there.

I’ve been watching Amazon’s FreeVee for Mad Men reruns. The show has natural commercial breaks built into it and, of course, the commercials come mostly mid-scene, even mid-sentence. And, also of course, the same spots endlessly. The only lemonade in the situation is that they must have client-side frequency caps in place, so once you get deep enough into a show, or a second episode in the same night, the breaks are more like 30 or even 15 seconds, versus 120 or more seconds.

Today’s the big day we find out who gets tendered and who does not. I’m most interested in seeing whether Alexander and Candelario are on that list, especially Jeimer. I don’t see where we would get his projected production by anyone else in our system or on the market, outside of a trade which, sure, I could be talked into that.

Well, I for one didn’t want to see Twitter burn. I think it was useful in the form it was before all this started crumbling. I like the instant news aspect, and I think it served as a good forum for dissenting viewpoints on all sides. I think exposure to toxic right-wing posts on Twitter may actually have contributed to higher Democratic turnout. Without that exposure, the anger against the Republicans may have been a lot more concentrated and muted. I’m guessing something will take its place, but I worry that it will be two separate services fragmented between right and left with little to no crossover, possibly enforced. One of the might actually be Truth Social. That would suck badly. FWIW, my life and brain haven’t been ruined by Facebook, either, which has also been a net positive in my life because of the way I use it.

lol “space Karen”.

No collusion. You’re the collusion.

I think this is true on balance, since we still have more reasonable people than wackjobs in this country and their numbers are not growing—although I also think we will be gobsmacked when we learn that the investigation is revealing nothing actionable, while their media plays everything up as the unimpeachable impeachable truth.

Castro is versatile in that he can and does play infield positions, if not all that well. Put it this way: he is more valuable playing six positions than Clemens is playing three. Besides, Clemens has a noodle for an arm, and it’s not going to age in the right direction for him. Castro is probably never gonna be a star, but if he can find a way to optimize his talent, he might be a valuable depth piece for a second division team—including us in 2023–for maybe another three or four years.

Projection junction, there’s your function.

He sure did fool everybody, didn’t he?

Obviously the kid lunged at the officer, since police department accounts always confirm that's what causes cops to shoot civilians.

Depends how you define “success”, right?

Well, he's definitely not well known, since he's not winning his own name on Google.

What's "Bernie Porn"? I definitely missed that running joke here ...

I guess he's saying "countless Blacks" are qualified to be US senators because of their accents?

Every business building they are tearing down in the Big City here, they're replacing with "luxury" residential condos running in the mid- to high six figures and targeted to first-time buyers. This has been going on for years and many units built in the three-to-five-year-ago range still sit empty, along with practically 100% of their first-floor storefronts. I've long wondered whether there is more than just the hope of making a profit selling them that's motivating the feverish pace of building—specifically, whether local government grant money is factoring into guaranteed profits for builders.