BagBoy

Chris Christie was just on The Daily Show. Check it out when it hits youtube. He did really well.

79 is the new 59!

I suspect you're right about Bernie's chances, but I'm voting for him anyway. Every vote he gets will hopefully encourage him to try again next time, and/or someone else with views similar to his.

The CNN polls, or at least the ones they have been quoting for a few weeks now, agree with this. Bernie has no chance with Biden in. I want Bernie in for as long as possible. Even if he doesn't win, the longer he's in, the more people will begin to think someone like him actually can win, and is a viable alternative. He's a political breath of fresh air, if nothing else.

Lending credence to that thought, apparently Boehner's spokesperson said YESTERDAY that Boehner had absolutely no intention of stepping down. That would have been worth watching. I think the pope knows how awkward that would have been for them. I bet they are glad he didn't invite them!

Probably tears of joy for not having to be Speaker anymore. I'm not a fan of his at all, but I never envied him the Speakership in these recent Houses. It's like being a rookie kindergarden teacher for 435 ADHD kids on a sugar binge.

Luce became a Sabre in 1971, and I went to a few games in 1970. Feel better? I want to watch it, but I'm watching jints/skins. It's not easy being a skins fan. I hate all 4 teams in the NFC East.

The ratio between CEO salaries and average worker salaries has been skyrocketing since Reagan. Lower taxes for the richest seems to have made us a greedier country than we used to be. CEO's at major corporations are making $60 million. Why? Because they can demand it and get away with it. They might say, "Pay it or else I walk and then you might be stuck with Fiorina." The stockholders don't care about paying the better CEO an exorbitant amount, because they think the better CEO will make their stock do better. The problem here is than there is less for the actual workers. I would liken it to a world where Sidney Crosby is able to demand $60 million, and then the Pens only have $11.5 million for everyone else. We don't want a world like that. The only people who might want a world like that are the Crosby's and their families. At the risk of over-simplifying things, we have morphed into a country where everyone, especially the rich, regard this country as a place where a bunch of individuals live and try to do as well as they can, the rest be damned. We used to be a country that operated as a society, weighing the needs of everyone, not just the powerful. We seem to be getting closer and closer to "Let them eat cake.", and we know how that turned out for the enfranchised.

Is this next week's episode of VEEP? I still like Game of Thrones better. Honestly, the first thing I got out of this scenario is that the Obama/Clintons relationship is pretty bad as it is. This probably wouldn't help much.

In a perfect world, yes. But in a world where coaches and GM's seem to be buying into fancystats more and more each year, on those 50/50 situations players face so often, why wouldn't they shoot? Here's the thing about fancystats for me. If it wants to measure possession statistics, great, I'm on board. But why do it by shots? That's just a proxy for what we actually want, not the real thing. Why in the world isn't anyone tracking ACTUAL time of possession? They have been doing it in soccer for years. It can't be that hard.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some marginal players have decided to take more shots, even if ill-advised ones, because of fancystats.

same here.

I think there is some truth to that, especially considering the Florida/Ohio thing and how important those states are. But it's WAYYYY too early to get that specific.

"Oops."

Eichel could do all three consecutively and still pass dammit! And Zemgus, too!

The Pledge of Allegiance is a somewhat prickly subject for me. We recited it every morning in public school in East Aurora until 3rd grade when we moved to NC. It didn’t mean anything to me at that age. You just do it and move on with the rest of the day. Later in life, it kind of irritated me. The comedian in me thinks maybe I should have made that right handed-45 degree salute while reciting it. To this day, I can give you the “lyrics” word for word. That’s brainwashing. Heck, I wasn’t even an American citizen at the time! But like Drunkard said, it’s not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.

East Aurora is where I became a Sabres fan - 14052, baby!

Exactly how I feel. There is no way he's worth it from a cap perspective, a PR perspective, a locker room perspective. He's about as desirable as Phil Kessel to me, only not as fat, and way dumber off the ice.

Very good post. Thanks for that. I would add #9 which is that Iran has to forfeit all of their 20% enriched uranium and 98% of the lesser enriched uranium.

Politics aside, great avatar! ("Oddball" from Kelly's Heroes for those who are wondering) "Woof woof woof. That's my other dog impression" cracks me up every single time.

I agree that it won't happen overnight, but I think it will happen sooner than later in some places, and the places that accept this first will be better off as a result.

JJ, I know you're a smart guy, so I'm assuming you know that you sound racist when you say things like this. Think about it, before you know it, your children/grandchildren will be making "brown babies" of their own. The end of racism may be a utopian vision today, but it's inevitable, and I wish you would be more open to this.

That's one idiot. Here's another. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/us/white-supremacist-convicted-of-killing-3-at-kansas-jewish-centers.html?_r=0 What's the difference?

Vonnegut is probably my favorite author, and Breakfast was his best. I'll always remember his take on how to end racism. He did it in two words - "brown babies".

I feel the same way. Not to get all philosophical, but we do it with regard to our religions. Christians try to be as good as Jesus, Muslims try to be as good as Muhammad, etc. You just need to do the best you can, not be perfect. From a more utilitarian standpoint, ending slavery in the early 1800's was a utopian idea. Women voting was a utopian idea at the turn of the century. Civil Rights was a utopian idea, getting to the moon (and back) was a utopian idea. But people made all of that happen anyway.