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Nixon is looking up from Hell, nodding and smiling.

Yes, national treasure. Kareem has consistently proven to be one of the most thoughtful observers of our national social condition we have in America. Feel free to disagree.

As long as home runs stay up as high as they are, stolen bases are probably not going to increase dramatically, as teams are not going to want to reduce the potential for homers with men on base down to solo shots. This might go double for when they implement a pitch clock without deadening the ball.

Why isn’t Kareen Abdul-Jabbar considered a national treasure? He’s one of the best opinion writers practically no one is reading, and this is the smartest take on the whole incident I have seen. ”When Will Smith stormed onto the Oscar stage to strike Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife’s short hair, he did a lot more damage than just to Rock’s face. With a single petulant blow, he advocated violence, diminished women, insulted the entertainment industry, and perpetuated stereotypes about the Black community.”

lol “liberal media”

I suppose the flip side could be that if the shit comes down on him and the jig is up, he could be a sniveling fool who crawls into a fetal position in the corner and begs for his life. That probably comports with how most people view him in the end, or at least would like to. Does he think there's a ghost of a chance he could find a way out, or does he thinks there's no way out and only death awaits him? This speculation all depends, of course, on whether there is ever a jig to even be up. The more likely end for him , I think, is that he remains a free man, indeed an ex-President of the United States with all the privileges that entails, continues to build on his ill-gotten billions, and eventually dies in the technical good graces of the law and the country. I'd like to be proven wrong on that.

I think attempting to push the button to destroy the world simply because if he can't win, then nobody wins, is the opposite of smart.

Disagree. If he knows he's a goner, a dead duck, I think he pushes the button on the way out.

Originally the middle of both first base and third base were also at the same kind of midpoint that second base still is, but they were both moved in toward second to get them completely out of foul territory. That way if a batted ball hit the bag, the umpire would no longer have to guesstimate whether the ball hit the part of the bag in foul or fair territory. After the move, if the ball hit the bag, it’s fair.

From my camera in 2006. 2006 ALCS Game 4_ 079.avi

Clinton-appointed judge in California. That's all they need to disparage the ruling. Beyond that, this is all nice and feel-good for the lefties—I personally like it very, very much—but won't mean a thing until they finally drag Trump into and through the system.

You kid or you don't, but either way, this is why I think the biggest risk is Putin pushing buttons to take the whole world down with him. Because is there any way Putin or anyone else believes he can be rehabilitated back into the community of nations as the leader of a nuclear power? Everyone including Putin knows what the potential outcomes are: either he wins, or he dies. Right? Or am I missing additional potential outcomes? After all, what would Trump do in that situation? Push a button, of course, because if he can't win, then nobody wins. And Hitler definitely would have pushed a button if he had one, instead of going out by his own hand like a weak little bitch. So why would we assume Putin will accept a loss, which would just lead to his death?

Oh OK, I didn't really notice that. And I totally see what you mean: #Worldle #66 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

To that point, sorta: I saw McCartney three times in maybe five years, and even though he switched up the songs from show to show, which is really the important part when you get down do it, his between-song banter is practically the same every time. He related the Jimi Hendrix/Bag o' Nails story in exactly the same way each time. Which is fine—I'd rather he mail in the banter than the music.

OK. I would counter that if this statement were an actual problem, US would be working hard to fix it and mollify the offended parties. If they're not doing that, they must not think it's much of a problem.

Perhaps, although I don't know what stake Chris Rock and Will Smith would have in the Oscars business that they would agree to pull a stunt of this nature just to goose TV ratings for next year. On another note, if you're in the game and you think someone is a weak bitch, you slap him, not closed-fist punch him. You punch only people you have a healthy respect for.

OK, let's grant your point for a minute that Biden made a mistake, his staff tried to walk it back, and he shouldn't have said it. So what happens now? The remark is still sitting out there with the rest of the world. How do we fix this, in your view?

That’s true to a degree, but on the other hand, once you get to a certain point, it could be one of any of a half dozen words, so you just throw in individual letters hoping you get the right one. I didn’t. Wordle 282 X/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

Maybe they are working on shortcomings in preparation for future games?

Biden merely said what everyone is already thinking. Just because he said it out loud doesn’t commit US to lead the mission to remove Putin from power. In fact, it can’t be US because then we become the big bad guy everyone casts a wary eye on. We have a recent history of effecting regime change, sometimes against the will of the people (Exhibit A: Iran, 1953), so other countries would understandably be suspicious of just what we intend to accomplish after. The last thing people want is to see the bully providing actual protection for everyone else, because the price of that kind of peace is generally higher than people want to pay. And make no mistake, the rest of the world generally regards America as the world’s bully. (We ourselves might have a different view of that.) It feels like Biden’s might have been a message to anyone who might have anything to do with actually removing Putin from power. If that’s not going to be Seal Team Six storming the Kremlin to frog march him out—again, because we can’t be seen doing that—then who are we talking about? The Russian people at large? The oligarchs who have occasional access? Inner circle elements who have continual access? Fifth column elements within the FSB or Putin’s personal protection unit? I’m not sure who else could effectively remove him.

He’s totally right. Putin is getting his ass handed to him over Ukraine because the rest of the world is bankrupting his country of financial and intellectual capital, while he bankrupts himself of military capital. What makes anyone think that while, or after, getting clobbered in Ukraine, he could successfully wage war against anyone in NATO, let alone US? I don’t think there is any risk that Putin will wage war against US and win. That’s as close to impossible as anything could be. The biggest risk is once he realizes the jig is up and decides to push buttons in a bid to take the rest of the world out with him.

If Putin is not thinking rationally, which is a good possibility, it’s already going to escalate into war, regardless of who here says what.

An off-the-cuff remark, and an unserious one at that, is exactly why we have Space Force today.

“Global uproar” drives more eyeballs to advertisers than “measured response” does.