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Well, he can’t risk not getting their votes in the next election. I can’t believe Pete Franklin had to apologize to that crypto-fascist dick.

Sure, it won’t matter in this case. I’m really speaking in generalities.

That’s because Democratic centrists have long had the broad general support of the establishment and to some degree the people at large, and extreme leftists have practically never had that. This is a conservative country with a warped sense of its own frontier history and present, and as such will tolerate as normative the extreme on only one side of the spectrum, because that side is friendlier to lone wolves, and people like to see themselves as rugged individualists responsible for and to only themselves. That’s what right-wing extremism promotes, which is the opposite of the collectivism left-wing extremism promotes. The more any policy requires or promotes any kind of social cooperation among people in order to work, the more likely it will fail in America.

What if they gave a different, less-insulting reason for requiring skirts? Would that make a difference? After all, what is the court ruling on here? The act itself, or the overtly-stated reason for the act? Does the school need only rewrite the dress code requirements and try again?

I don’t know if it’s an old-man problem, or a generational difference, or what it is. I suppose if they’d come out with these when I was in school, I would have liked them better. I did like the Swingin’ A’s uniforms at the time, when they were the only team wearing colors, but then, I was 11 at the time, and I also like any color and gold as a combination. I don’t remember being so smitten with the Indians’ blood clot unis a few years later. I just like the clean, crisp look of a white home jersey with the right kind of logo and font, especially cursive names along the front. I don’t mind the NBA city connects at all, but then, I don’t really care about the history of the NBA, either. I don’t view the NBA itself as being too concerned with celebrating its own history, anyway.

Here is the complete list of every player who had at least two hits and two walks in his debut game, as of this morning. Not a Hall of Famer among them, but who cares. So cool to see him sprint out of the gate like this.

These city connect uniforms are on balance pretty dreadful, and I hope the Tigers are the last team to get one.

Who are you guys and what have you done with the Detroit Tigers?

Highlighted the part below in bold red: Might those not be three underlying reasons why young white men shoot up public places? Also, the part about appealing to young men. Feels like the industry is spurring mass shootings with knowledge aforethought. 5. Gun sellers' new pitch: Man up! The Martinez family views rifles in the exhibit hall during the NRA convention in Houston last month. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images An emboldened gun industry is luring buyers with rhetoric of fear, machismo and defiance, the N.Y. Times reports (subscription): "Gun companies have spent the last two decades ... refocusing their message away from hunting toward selling handguns for personal safety, as well as military-style weapons attractive to mostly young men." Pressure points the industry has found useful in selling more guns: "self-esteem, lack of trust in others, fear of losing control." Why it matters: The tactics have been remarkably successful. "Firearm sales have skyrocketed, with background checks rising from 8.5 million in 2000 to 38.9 million last year," The Times notes. "Women, spurred by appeals that play on fears of crime and being caught unprepared, are the fastest-growing segment of buyers."

RIP, IE.

We are now ten full weeks into the season, so courtesy of Fangraphs, here is the Tigers' hitting performance by week-of-season. Highlighted are our MLB rank in runs scored and well as our wRC+ each week. "High"lights: The Tigers have not yet ranked higher than 20th in runs scored in any given week. Amazingly, the Tigers have never finished 30th, either—although we have finished 28th or 29th six of the ten weeks. We haven't had even one week with a wRC+ higher than 93 (average major league team for whole season = 100) Nine of ten weeks, we had a team batting average of .228 or less. Nine of ten weeks, our OBP was lower than the current MLB season OBP of .311. Our best SLG for any week is still 24 points lower than the current MLB season SLG of .392. Conclusion: we have not had even one good hitting week yet.

How do you mean this?

He does.

That is a complete mess of a batting order.

Can you imagine how bad it would be if he’s still been playing first? By the way … option Tork?

Maybe. Never know what goes on behind golden doors!

Here come the Kremlin twitterbots!

I wonder whether anyone with any influence on things has ever made an overt connection between banning immigrants and banning abortion. After all, if they can successfully ban immigrants, they’re gonna need the cheap labor they’ll lose as a result, and the most godly way to replace that cheap labor is to force poor American women to have their babies. It’s a long term solution, but then, visionaries do think long term. Lucky for them, these issues the #1 and #2 issues for rank and file red hats who vote.

Disingenuous stat. That bad 2020 team got to 12 under, but they also played only 60 games.

Man, you have been especially on fire of late, keep up the good work

He too worked for a relatively old-money billionaire family that values loyalty above all.

I’ll bet all the GoT prequels and sequels will be just as great as season eight.

I’m sorry, I can’t figure out what you’re referring to?