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apparently. Bread and Circuses as SB likes to say.

don't look for egg prices to come down anytime soon - from Jan 10 WaPo: (note: 40 million hens would lay something in the order of 10 billion eggs in a year.....)

Rates are going to go up everywhere but FLA and CA are going to get hammered. So we'll probably see more people dropping their coverages and the next round of catastrophes there will be more uninsured people wiped out. Although this guy in the thread above argues the net effect will go in the opposite direction with more people ponying up for insurance before the 'next round'. I suppose that's possible too.

Wall Street pretty excited this morning with a CPI report that the Dec "Core" CPI increase fell to 0.2% , from 0.3% where it had been stuck since July. OTOH, overall CPI was up from 0.3% to 0.4% on the month.

a lot of shows might ben more fondly remembered if they had stuck to the original arc and wrapped it up when it made sense instead of retconning plot extensions - but too much money on the table. I'm actually quite surprised they didn't engineer a miracle remission for Walter White.

The thing I don't get is why the Trump supporters aren't more upset about these clearly incompetent picks. Look at every administration that was ever able to achieve its goals and the accomplishment is directly proportional to the quality of the top tier of people installed. Trump is basically a solo operator, he just wants people to direct so he doesn't care if his picks are independently able to initiate in their roles, but even after holding the job once he's a fool, because the job is way too big for one man be at the center of everything that needs to be done, especially one as allergic to hard work as Trump. So he is basically guaranteeing the ineptitude of his presidency. The only things the Trump admin will pay any attention to are the things that get all the way to Trump himself, and that's pretty much a recipe for a government >95% on autopilot. For those of us who believe Trump is more likely to damage than fix anything he touches, that's actually fine, but If you voted for him I don't know why you'd be happy about that.

If it were me, the chance I would look for is a big man drafted too young that his original team has soured on or can't wait for. I know they just had a colossal fail with Wiseman along those very lines, but I'm going to blame that one on the choice, not the concept.

😱😱😱 I've lived through every year of WCF's reign, which long ago forced me into a very Zen state about the Lions (about all sports teams really). Expectations have been extinguished so thoroughly I never visualize the future, only accept the "What Is". On the plus side, that means this is all gravy. Seriously though, at this point you aren't playing any bad teams. You have to enjoy it for as long as the ride lasts.

I guess we've finally failed Mr Lincoln's test question: "of the people, by the people and for the people" has indeed perished, apparently too highbrow. Instead we've opted for, "of the grifters, by the grifters and for the grifters" in its place.

No question they are a better team with Montgomery, Anzalone and Arnold so all good. But I'd still swap them for Hutch or McNeill if I could!

Bert approves.

As a matter of fact that there was a time when a powerful House committee chairman actually had to resign his chairmanship when he got caught drunk in the Tidal pool with a stripper.

I guess the downside with Clark is the chance he is one of those kids who just developed so fast and so early that he was miles ahead of his cohort, but then doesn't have that much of a ceiling once everyone gets older and catches up to him. But he's just turned 20, too soon to worry seriously about that.

Why would they target him instead of her - unless it was just a near miss on the chosen target? Reports also say he's had a couple of previous coronaries, so maybe, maybe not.

Oh the mystery of the maths. If the Wings are basically a 500 team, they have a 50/50 chance of winning tonight, yet the odds of an 8 in a row run for a 500 team are one in 256.

Hard to imagine Ukraine offering a pledge not to join NATO when they know that lack is what got them invaded in the 1st place.

No doubt. But I think you can make a connection between the left's embrace of AITF as a platform for liberalism being a missed or at least incomplete understanding, with today's liberal misunderstanding of the Trump voter. Archie may have lost the script battles in ATIF, but he was exactly the early representation of and hero to the white male frustrated by a culture that was leaving him behind regardless of whether he was winning or losing, and the conservative viewer identified with his sense of frustration and even with his losses in those cultural battles. Archie was still the 'sane' one among all the nutty people, and that's what the left viewpoint viewer misses when they think about what the show signified to its non-left leaning viewers. And I think Lear knew this perfectly well. He was first and foremost trying to create a popular show and if he could bask in the approval of his Hollywood cohort while still winking to the silent majority that yes, they were correct, left was ditzy, he was happy to do it -- and bank the proceeds.

Duren is still young but his development seems stalled/painfully slow, and you don't really want that to be true between the ages of 19 and 21.

Unserious is exactly the word. It's almost funny in a way. I think about the kind of nose to the grindstone republican Paul Ryan was - and him being a big fan of Ayn Rand and her idea that the competent people keep the world running and it's the 'socialists' freeloaders that drag it down. But Rand had it wrong, at least in regard to contemporary America. It is the quiet competent people that keep the world running, but it's not socialists who are the freeloaders, it's the grifters, backslappers, influencers, the charter members of the 'good old boy' networks, the moneyed enfant terribles born on 3rd base, and all the other *unserious* people. And they are certainly having their hour. Someone needs to write an update to "Atlas Shrugged' with the real story.

He's such an incredibly petty babyman. It makes me wonder what weird pathology is at work in the people who are so attracted to him (and there absolutely are - no sense denying it). He clearly has some level of charm reserved for the people in his inner circle. But it's beyond me how anyone with his persona can make anything work for him at all.

Tag team!

I don't think the topics would have been an issue, it would be the caricatures like George Jefferson. And while liberals have always claimed AITF as an argument for their side, Lear always played a double game in the scripts. I lived in a household with a conservative older male and he (and his buds) always thought Archie was continuing to win the day in every way. You will note that while Archie was supposedly the punchline to the libs, it was was libs in the show who tended to be either unattractive (Reiner), brainless (Gloria) or obnoxious (Maude). The subtexts were no accident because conservatives also buy soap.

Someone here noted that the new 'Fanduel' deal is probably paying the Tigers something like $15M/yr less that the 'Bally' deal before the bankruptcy. Assuming that's true, I have to think that is what is really driving the increasing split between the teams that continue to commit long term money and the teams that are just refusing. I think for any number of recent decades most teams had pretty rosy projections about the rate of increase in revenue so they didn't worry a lot about committing what they knew would be dead money in the future, but if a bunch of teams have now actually seen a year to year decrease in media revenue (and I would assume that a lot of teams did worse than Detroit in the Sinclair bankruptcy) that has to be culture shock for those ownerships.

Yup. So much with a QB comes down to staying calm and of course processing speed. If you process faster you can anticipate what's coming and that reduces panic. Even when Darnold did get the ball off he was highly stressed - evidenced by him throwing behind his receiver a lot . His receivers were bailing him out with some very tough reach back catches.

Interesting. OTOH, on the other side of the ledger, shooting free throws should depress the opponent's points per possession on the following possession since FTs generally don't lead to many long rebounds and/or fast breaks - at least for a team that likes to run. Never seen a number about that though....