buddha

yes, i saw the mcs sports radio outrage.

why do you think he's a fraud?

all to get that rapist named a justice!

of course! like how kennedy was a scheming conniver who only retired because trump promised to elevate his former clerk kavanaugh, but breyer is an honest selfless public servant who retired and - oh what a coincidence - his former clerk was elevated to his position.

if my side does it, its ok. if the other side does it, they're evil.

yes, but supreme court justices should not be making public comments about potential elected officials whose decisions they will need to rule upon.

he was trying to walk across i 595 at 630 in the morning? it was either suicide or he was drunk/high.

inject politics into the court? like ginsburg saying in the nyt how terrible trump would be for the country if he became president? cant have that...

i wouldnt give up anything to move in this draft. i'd be happy with hutch or thibs.

good game, even if we lost. refs screwed us.

LGRW

the okc tanking is so ridiculous.

the more games we move to streaming the better. the picture is much better and the you can watch it again without bothering to record it. its much better than cable/satellite tv. espn+ for hockey is awesome. the nfl on amazon will be too once it gets there.

we have peacock for the english league games and the rugby. cant miss my six nations.

listening to this game on white sox radio and the post game on chicaho sports radio was really fun. a meltdown culminated by javy baez beating the sox made them so mad. it was great.

if you look waaaaaaaaay up in yhe corner you'll see me trying to keep my 7 year old interested in the game...

bringing my kids to their first red wings game this saturday, so they better win!

i wouldnt take walker or johnson at #2. i would take thibs or hutch.

johnson has a similar athletic profile to travon walker, but not quite as good. unlike walker, johnson was actually productive as a pass rushing defensive end in college and was one of the best - if not the best - pass rushing end at the senior bowl practices.

sotomayor is probably closest to thomas in their upbringing, coming from working class bronx to princeton and then yale. unlike thomas, sotomayor openly credits affirmative action for her being able to go to princeton and acknowledges struggling to compete once there. but instead of being bitter about it (like thomas), she worked hard and caught up, eventually excelling. sotomayor, thomas, and president obama were all beneficiaries of affirmative action. and that's not a sleight to any of them. in fact, its an advertisement for keeping affirmative action as those are examples of the success it can foster to people who are given a chance to get into the best schools who dont come from your usual rich private high schools.

kentaji brown was born in dc but moved to miami. she was the daughter of a lawyer and a school administrator. she attended one of the best high schools in the miami area (the same school as jeff bezos) before being accepted to harvard, where she excelled. she then went to harvard law school. after graduating from harvard, she clerked for three judges (including stephen breyer) and spent a year doing corporate work at one of the most prestigious law firms in boston. she then spent three more years in corporate private practice before working going to work as an assistant federal public defender in DC (as an fyi to you non lawyers, an assistant federal PD is a prestigious and well paid position, she was not slumming it as a poorly paid county public defender). she was appointed by obama to the federal sentencing guideline commission. from there she went back to corporate work at one of the biggest and most successful corporate firms in america doing appellate work. in 2012 she was appointed a district court judge. in 2021 she was appointed to the dc circuit court of appeals by biden as a precursor for a supreme court. like all the members of the supteme court, she has had an exceptional career and is well qualified to sit on the highest court in america.

thomas was raised by a single mother one generation removed from slavery. raised in extreme poverty as a child, he was eventually taken in by his grandparents after he was homeless for a while because his house burned down. from there his grandparents got him into a local catholic school where he excelled enough to get accepted to catholic college. he did not grow upnspeaking english so he decided to major in english in college and did so, doing well enough to get accepted into yale law school. after graduating and failing to get a job at a white shoe law firm (because of racism), thomas went to work as an AG in missouri under soon to be senator danforth. from there he spent a brief time in the corporate world before resuming a government career, moving to a few different agencies before heading up the eeoc. from there he was appointed to the supreme court to replace the legendary but decrepit thurgood marshall. unlike marshall, thomas doesnt believe in affirmative action or abortion rights, so he received little support from liberals. the anita hill controversy made his nomination even more controversial. he passed a democratic controlled senate 52-48. since then, he's been one of the most influential justices in recent court history. the "originalism" constitutional analysis and the adherence to strict construction of interpreting statutes has become mainstream in conservative legal circles and is now the dominant legal theory on the court. it was not when thomas got there and the use of outside documents and sources to interpret the law (legislative history, etc) was much more prominant. thomas is also one of the best writers on the court. he is brief and concise and, unlike scalia, his opinions are easy to read, explain, and much more pleasant and largely free of the pot shots scalia threw in to his political adversaries. from abject poverty and homelessness, a non-english speaking grandson of southern slaves who was raised without running water in his home rose to go to yale law school and become a justice on the supreme court. thomas may be THE most exceptional member on the current supreme court.

but the pff mock draft tool let me trade #2 to the jets for #4, #10, and their first and third round picks next year. jags should totally get on the phone and call the jets.

better root for the lions to be 2-15 next year or else they wont have a shot at either of those guys (if they live up to the hype). unless you want to trade the lions' first round pick for the next three years.

i would agree with that.