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So to recap: Charlie Kirk, media personality: political assassination, fly flags at half-mast. Melissa Hortman, Minnesota state legislator: not a political assassination, leave flags alone. Do we have that straight?

It was legal in Germany once.

I promise that if in an alternate universe Fox News were was the liberal channel and Brian Kilmeade said anything on it the regime didn't like, that would definitely threaten the Fox broadcast network with license revocation unless they fired Meade, whether he said it on cable or not. And deny it if you like, but you know that's true.

Didn't "The View" already do that at 9AM?

Kudos for successfully and coherently using "MAGA" and "intellectual" in the same sentence.

Apparently, John Oliver is not yet on his radar.

"Collective action" is for communists. Collusive action, however ...

Fun fact, the FCC doesn't regulate newspapers (yet), so regime can't apply any kind of licensing threat to them.

Too late, I’m already short on that.

Trump might be an idiot who doesn’t know where his own ass is, but he knows where other people’s pain points are.

FWIW, the Tigers are tied for 5th in hitters’ walk rate for the month of September, during which we are 5-9. We also have the highest OBP on 3-2 counts for the season at .484, as well as the 4th highest BA and 6th highest SLG. I do agree it does look very bad when we flail on 3-2 counts.

Honest question: If the American economy is certain to blow up, what do you recommend our action item be here? Jurisdictional diversification? Gold bars and crypto? Something else?

If Tarik Skubal is our only hope, then we have no hope, because that’s not nearly enough hope.

I was at the Manny Lee game the day before.

The criteria being considered here were (1) not a moron, and (2) follow the law. Biden was both.

I think it's only one side we have to bring around to that idea.

Based on what we now know, Griffin is really 6'1" and 205 lbs.

Yup—this tracks:

This actually seems like somewhat of a problem.

For your Canadians and Canadaphiles among us.

Took me half a minute or so to figure out what they meant, but it's so kinda cool. You Can Get To Every State & Province Minnesota Borders By Only Travelling South

By the way, here is the table showing the data on the map just above: The funny part to me is, when I was a carpetbagger in Nebraska, I had the sidebar discussion with some coworkers about whether Michigan qualified as the Midwest. I said yes, of course it is; they insisted no, Michigan's an eastern state—partly because it's in the eastern time zone, and partly because Detroit itself just seemed like a rundown eastern city to them. So imagine how pleased I am that among midwesterners ourselves, Michigan is considered more a midwestern state than Nebraska is!