Patrick Meighan

Me too. I'm genuinely willing to take a little suffering in exchange for a good crypto ball-kick.

UCLA played a 9am game against a time-acclimated opponent, went 1-10 from the arc, played very sub-optimally, and still got an 18-point win against an NCAA tourney team. Certainly could've been better, but could've been way way worse.

The entire anti-vax movement is based on such load-bearing assumptions. "I don't need to get my kid vaccinated for polio, nobody gets polio anymore." Yeah, 'cause everyone gets vaccinated for it. Or at least they used to.

You *are* right!

We know where it is. It's in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. /rumsfeld

It's not the Final Four game, Mike.

Yes, a requirement that thought and debate happen, and a bar on any single autocrat being able to unilaterally plunge us into war in service of his own political or economic ends.

I mean, that's largely why the Founders constitutionally-required congressional authorization for wars: because it would make wars much less likely.

I bet there's also a Chinese New Year parade just a couple blocks over that the car chase can cinematically disrupt.

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My one quibble with The Pitt is that they're always, always right.

Doc #1: "We have to try this crazy, unorthodox thing."
Doc #2: "It's so crazy, it just might work."

*they do crazy thing, it works*

After the Plague: Legal Advice

We have always been at not-war with Eastasia.

You just need Tom to pay you some money to be your guy and then, like that guy, Tom will also be your guy.

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I'm sympathetic because of the PTSD he suffered from Watters's physical beating of him.

For so many years, on so many issues:

*every GOP voted yes* + *Manchin voted yes, and every other Dem voted no* = "GOP and Dem are exactly the same!"

Stop it, Kluwe, I can only like you so much.

"I'm for the dictatorship of the workers!"

(ineligible: anyone who currently is working)

"I'll never stop fighting against the powerless, for you. Unless the polls tell me otherwise."

Kansas trans folks: come on over.

(we really need to legalize much more housing construction, tho)

I think folks are bummed about other folks losing their jobs, which is (I think) pretty gettable, even if on balance one falls on the other side of the issue.

(There's probably about a million Picard "make it so" gifs, so just think of your favorite one for here.)

***2014***
My previously-uninsurable friend (stupid): "I have health insurance for the first time in my life!"
Me (smart): "This sets us backward."

They grow up so fast!

And yet there are, in fact, American cities that have built enough new stock to keep rents from rising as fast as they have in other (more supply-constrained) American cities. Did the owner class just forget, in those cases?

I'm sure plenty of anti-Vietnam-War folks were annoying. Also true of pro-Vietnam-War folks! But the anti-war folks were right.

To the extent that the song's primary point is that it's not the children of senators who tend to fight in a war, it still holds. Kinda beside the point which political party (if any) bears responsibility for the war.

If only Graham Platner had re-tweeted John Fogerty instead of a holocaust denier.

"So if Hitler said the sky was blue--" I'd verify with a not-Nazi, yes. There's plenty of sky-lookers out there.

My first thought as well.