I expect we will know by the 25th.

zn wrote:

103 – 49ers vs. Dodgers (’48)

That was when the Dodgers had that Japanese guy who played WR and CB and scored 3 TDs on offense, and had 2 pick-sixes. IIRC.

Of course, that was back before the salary cap.

wv wrote:

Ease him in slowly, or maybe dont even play him until November.

The thing is that Donald doesn’t want to come back unless he can be the guy he was when he left. He doesn’t want the courtesy treatment. He wants to play. He wants to come back with everything, of not at all.

I think his return depends upon his willingness to make compromises.

wv wrote:

Hunter is right about all of that. And the corporate-dem-party will pay attention to actual results. And IF they think in certain instances they need to ‘move left’ — they will promote candidates who are good at faking ‘moving left’.

For the most part though, they wont even bother with that. They will simply keep counting on big money winning elections.

‘Insurgent’ progressives will win from time to time, as they have in NY.
Many of ‘those’ will sell-out eventually as AOC and Bernie have basically done.

Blah blah, just my opinion.

I do not believe capitalism can be reformed at this late stage. I think we will see a lot of fake-reform in the future, and I think we will see monsters, soon.
(i know how i sound)

w
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I saw a quote lifted from Twitter the other day which said something like, “The middle class was just a temporary concession from the oligarchy who lived in fear of rising communism. Once they were safe from that, they went back to squeezing everybody back towards peasantry.” And I’ve thought about that a lot.

It was interesting to see the reaction to the DSA primary victories. They won 3 or 4 primaries in districts that were heavily blue anyway, and my feed has since been flooded with hand-wringing and cries of alarm from both Republicans and Democrats about the far left, and how it’s the biggest threat to the US today. So the DSA now will have about 1% of the House? And they won’t get any committee assignments where they can impede the destruction of the planet. And as we know, DSA is a fair distance from “far left” anyway, but the point is that alarms are sounding in all quarters about some pretty insignificant gains. It’s hard to believe anybody is really all that worried about it, but the significant thing is that the Dem party is very loudly and clearly telling everybody who they are. And since they are junior partners in the corporate oligarchy, and hold all the cards, there is no reason to expect anything but the usual absorption of some of them, and the political destruction of anyone who holds out on them. We will not vote our way out of this mess.

Bash on, regardless.

What’s real anymore?

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I woulda got Francis St. Paul, Milton Wynn, and Stedman Bailey, though.

You would not have gotten Dwight Scales, either.

w
v

Yeah, because he never played for the Rams, mister. He played for the Chargers or Falcons, or one of those other teams in Arkansas.

wv wrote:

zn wrote:

He’s a ghost. It’s a new trend in ghost stories, where we see the world from the ghost’s perspective, and in the process ghosts become an entirely different kind of metaphor.

I know he’s a ghost. I did not want to give it away.

w
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Oh, great. I was going to read it, but what’s the point now? It’s obviously just a work of fiction.

Key and Peele did some quality work, and that is some of it

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wv wrote:

zn wrote:

IF Alaric Jackson is suspended it would only be for 6 games at most. Not all season.

I read that, but i wasnt sure if it was set in stone or just a ‘probable’ outcome.

At any rate, its enough time to lose homefield and get Stafford Bulgerized.

w
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In football, there are many more ways for things to go wrong than there are for them to go right.

That’s why you always pick up the ball first, even if the whistle is blown.

I don’t know who Dan Towler is. Never heard of him.

Where is SJ39?

Keith,

I was stunned and saddened to see this news posted. Words fail me at these times. Every sentiment, however deeply felt and sincere, seems trite or cliche coming out of my mouth.

When my daughter died in 2001, I got a phone call from a friend of mine with whom I had been close in high school. He had experience with grief and loss himself. His wife – also a close friend of mine – had had to go through labor and birth to their only son who had died in the womb the day before, like 3 days before his expected Due Date. He called to warn me that people would say goofy things to me, and that I should accept the loving intentions with which things are said, and pay less attention to the words. And that was good advice because I heard things about my daughter being “in a better place,” or “what a blessing it is that she doesn’t have to suffer any longer” from my own immediate family, as well as friends and acquaintances.

About 6 or 7 years later, I saw a play called “Rabbit Hole” which is the story about the aftermath of a couple whose young son was killed by a car when he darted into the street after a stray ball. The mother of the boy had had an elder brother who had died from a heroin overdose some 10 years earlier, and at the beginning of the play, her own mother arrives to stay with the couple. At one point in the play, the bereaved mother asks her own mother if the “feeling ever goes away.” She puts down her sewing and reflects, and says something like, “No, but it changes over time. It’s like a brick in your pocket. You’re very conscious of it at first, but after a while, it just becomes this thing that you carry with you all the time. And then, one day, something will remind you, and you’ll feel the brick there, and you say to yourself, ‘Oh…THAT.’ And it becomes a part of you.”

That really hit home with me, and I started to silently cry sitting there, hoping nobody would notice because I was surrounded by students and a couple other teachers who were chaperoning the trip with me.

I will say that, quite often, when I notice the brick, I think about how supportive the board was to me when this happened. The responses I got to my post announcing my daughter’s death were overwhelming. It meant a great deal to me, and I’ve never forgotten it. There was a tremendous amount of sympathy expressed to me by people I’ve never met face-to-face.

And I want to make sure that you know that you are truly loved and respected by all of us here, and your grief is a pain in my heart. I’m proud to consider you a friend, and I want you to know I’m thinking about you every day, and wishing you a glorious recovery.

Jeff

Puka Nacua has 4,191.

A full season will put him past Flipper, and possibly Fears.

On television, during the World CUp, they have been calling it Los Angeles Stadium, not SoFi.