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just to play Devil's advocate - I can say you can look up who the best statistical players were on any baseball stat site - they will have their places right at the top - you don't need a museum for that to be confirmed or recognized. Being in or out of Cooperstown wont change anyone's understanding of what kind of hitter Barry Bonds was. Ergo - save the museum for the people the sport wants to 'celebrate' - with all the texture that term might imply.

I don't disagree with what you catalog here, but I'll specify that I'm talking residential segregation. We are much more integrated publicly, but the basic question is whether America is still a racist nation, and I would argue that despite all the changes that you note since 1922, it still hasn't changed that basic calculus that White American move away from where Black Americans live and we are still a vastly privately segregated county. That is the one irreducible part of the equation that, despite all the changes in law, and *public* behavior, which have certainly made life for Blacks in America much better, tell me that at heart, this country still harbors a fundamental racist bias. And I would argue that on a residential basis, this country is at best only marginally less segregated by where people live, go to school or go to church, than 100 yrs ago.

As nice it it would be to see Gaetz go down, it sadly won't have much effect on anything beyond his district.

Before the Constitution was even on the table, the founders at the Continental Congress put this in the Northwest Ordinance: It happens to be engraved in the wall over the entrance of Angell Hall at the 'U'. Just another example of a 'conservative' party that has lost any connection to founding motivations of this nation.

Just because there was one good war to defeat Nazism doesn't change the historical truth that 99% of all wars make things worse than they ever would have been otherwise. Empires are hard to control in the modern world and very expensive to maintain. Putin may do more to weaken his position in Russia by invading Ukraine than by making a deal for Ukrainian neutrality and he probably knows that despite his USSR nostalgia. The question is whether the West can avoid overplaying its hand as it did after the Soviet fall, which - while not to minimize Putin's paranoia - is at least in part what has gotten us here. With the death of ideological communism as world wide jihad, it would be the height of folly to get in to a WAR to protect the membership prerogatives of a supposed anti-communist PEACE keeping alliance.

yeah - More than one person I know that had a Roomba and a dog has had just such an unfortunate experience.

according to Henning's column about Dingler, who is not on the 40, is working out at Tigertown now.

If you have enough owners that want to play, there will be baseball on schedule.

I saw a thoery that Dieppe was sacrificial cover for a failed covert effort to steal a 4 rotor Enigma. It struck me as even if the Enigma story was true, it was more likely the tail than the dog.

what a terrible prospect. Then again it could speed the Commonwealth along the path to the future and the cashless society.

he didn't exactly do the world a particularly good turn in India either IIRC.

FIFY!

yeah - Hayes doesn't need to play 30 min. At this point either he is a bust or he's just still too young (20 1/2) and may mature into a better player with time. Either way playing him starter's minutes now seems pointless. You either keep him around on the 2nd unit for at least another year because you see something such that you still believe he will mature into that better player -- or not, but big minutes now aren't going to get him a year older any faster.

34/8/8 - closing in on triple double territory. But 3 FT attempts total by the 5 starters. Easily a 5 pt difference.

He's a D-Lineman isn't he? He's not supposed to like QBs. When Alex Karras was a Lion he hated all QBs, including Detroit's!

interesting point. No State of MI report today but cases today have hit their lowest level in several weeks in Washtenaw county.

the GMO thing covers multiple of issues. I would agree there is little evidence that GMO food is harmful to consume, but the issue of whether it is harmful to the environment to grow it is a different question. e.g - If engineering crops to resist glyphosate results in more massive quantities of glyphosate being pumped into the environment where it 'overflows' into other systems where it is toxic, you may still believe with justification that there is a problem with GMO.

What chance did he ever have with parents that couldn't spell?

fair enough - I really wasn't thinking about this law in particular as much as the concept of sanctioning an elected official who is dishonest in an official administrative (as opposed to political) capacity. The question of what to do about candidates - or for that matter elected political leaders that lie is a another question. It's basically something that the society has completely let get away from itself. Back in the day, there was a kind of standard about bald faced lying in office. You certainly could always get away with a ton of shading of reality, but there was still a level of of denial of reality that held. It was still strong enough 50 yrs ago that Nixon was forced from office over it, but for me there was a real turning point with Clinton. Regardless of whether it was a question that never should have been asked or the topic was irrelevant to his official duties, allowing him to remain in office after having lied under oath was simply a terrible civic precedent to set and IMO has made any kind of political truth telling standard impossible ever since. The irony is that he could have admitted everything and still would have left office with high approval ratings and Al Gore as President. In my book he turned out to be a great fool in the end. And I think our politics has paid a price ever since. I wish I knew how to put that toothpaste back in the tube.

that would be the key though wouldn't it?- it would seem to me you can require 'official' speech that comes out of someone's magisterial function to meet a standard of truth. Sure private time twitter would have to be something else.

always. 🤷‍♂️ Don't censure her, just run someone against in the primary and let the voters decide. It's supposed to be a democracy - at least so I've been told...

why would there be 1st amendment issues associated with requiring truth in official government speech? How would it be different from sanctioning outright lying by court officials - which is punishable in the judicial branch.

So does Spring Training start on time at Lakeland/Tigertown for everyone not on the 40?

It's was a joke MB. (that was "grinning, ducking and running" for the those that missed the pre-emoji internets) Deep analysis not required, though always potentially interesting.

So Calvin got a free ride to the HOF? <g,d,&r>