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I think it would be a fine line between obvious and oblique for Obama to engage in criticism of Trump. He can't make it so obvious that he sounds like Trump himself, and he can't make it so oblique that he sounds like George Bush Jr. He has to find the line where the criticism is clear, but also clearly doesn't look as though it is coming from the gutter like Trump's broadsides do. If Obama starts using the language of Trump to slam Trump, he loses in the court of public opinion, meaning the public not in the cult.

Mark Cuban is more Cuban than Marco.

Fetterman is over states' rights when it comes to voting administration.

If Metro is a big source of corruption for Wayne County, then it was a genius move to make it a kickass airport, considered one of the best in the country, in order to divert attention from the corruption.

casimir is clearly an idiot. I'm not sugar-coating it. Good on me, too? 😁

Some years ago, maybe twenty or so, I happened to be in front of him in a line to go through TSA. I noticed him, he noticed me noticing him, I smiled and said hi, I know you, and he politely smiled wanly, humphed, and went back to looking at whatever he was looking at in line. That's the closest I ever got to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I very much do the same thing here in Big Shoulders. I have routes going to the north, south, and west sides, depending on which way the wind can blow me home. I try to mix up routes to get a look at fresh things while I am riding. Been pretty lucky no cars have veered off their paths and clobbered me from behind in my 20+ years of doing this on the streets of the city. And all it would take is one to end at least my riding career. Some may say I should move onto the sidewalk to ride to get out of the way of drivers who have a legal right to the road over me, but doing so is statutorily illegal in this city, plus, I have all the same rights (and responsibilities) on the road as a car driver does.

It's all about the MAHA fight against the phantom War on Protein.

What if you hate people? 😉

League I'm in now has that same rule, and some of the women will refuse to take the automatic walk because they're there to hit. When I see that happen, I push back in left field to where I play guys.

When I was in the Detroit ad league back when I worked in that industry, our shortstop had been in the rotation for the University of Hawaii in the early 80s, and I was the first baseman. Not only did he throw the ball blazingly fast, he was also a left-handed thrower, and had a natural tail to his throws I'd never seen before. I remember worrying somewhat that I miss slightly miss a throw and it ends up busting my nose and a few teeth.

Someone thinks the neutering of the independent media is ****ing hilarious.

Are there politics for any decent-sized jurisdiction anywhere that’ not dirty and slimy? One of the major underreported (for obvious reasons) problems is that practically all local media everywhere have essentially punted their traditional responsibility for reporting on the goings on of local politics, which serves to keep them accountable to the people. Someone/something who can successfully gain access has simply got to step in and fill that void.

I’m fine with safety first bases—prefer them, actually—but safety home plate in co-ed leagues is an even better idea, to reduce the possibility that a 24-year-old ex-college baseball player trying to score will end up even inadvertently plowing into a 41-year-old mother of two playing catcher.

This is exactly right, and I think we talked about that very thing here toward the end of last season. Riley is saying the right things about it, for the most part. We’ll see whether it results in much improvement over the long haul.

“Controlling the zone” and “be selective and mash” are not mutually exclusive concepts. They actually sound pretty compatible to me. Not every player is capable or maybe even willing to work on these, sometimes not even talented hitters. And sometimes a hitter is so talented that that coaches don’t push as hard to get them get at either or both as they might someone else, because they’ll at least get some decent level of production out of them anyway the way they are.

One point for each stone the scoring team has closer to the center than the other team’s closest stone.

July 2028 will be a very different environment from February 2026.

Good thing the democratic convention is not in progress at the moment.

As we have seen countless times, they have no interest in making allegations and then proving them. It’s so much more effective, and easier, to make the allegations, walk away, and let the lingering stench continue to do the work.

The best thing Bezos could do is to sell the Post to someone who would care about and for it, like Bloomberg. The worst thing he could do is hang onto it and let it disappear into the mist. Which do you think is more likely? I know a lot of people here dno’t like the New York Times, but if we were to lose that too somehow, that would be a debilitating body blow to the independent press in America.

That is exquisitely 1972.

Who's Scott?

"Peeping tom" sounds too cutesy-poo, as though he's merely a bad widdle boy.