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Also, if you don't have a rooting interest yet, pick a team. It make it a lot easier to get into the game. Also, once you pick a team, it becomes easier to understand the penalties -- any penalty against your team is obviously bullshit, and any penalty against your opponent is plainly correct.
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Don't bother trying to understand what the penalties mean right away. Someone messed up. The key thing to understand is how the downs work and the two main ways a team can score (touchdown, field goal).
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I agree. I don't see a good case for Rivers -- he never won anything, and while he was consistently very good, he was never the best quarterback in any period in which he played. It's not a Barry Sanders situation, where the player was an absolute standout, despite a lack of postseason success.
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Does Eli Manning belong in the Hall of Fame?
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His hand is too low in that drawing. That's not how you do the gesture.
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Ashli Babbitt said, "Oh, what the heck?"
And did treason with Q-Anon dreck,
She thought it'd be fun,
But before she was done,
It became a real pain in the neck.
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That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the image too!
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"I was inspired by Justice Alito's warnings about the danger of autocracy from regulating poisons in rivers, and I'm baffled at how that same vigorous, obviously genuine commitment to democracy doesn't extend to Republicans disappearing people to foreign murder prisons. No explanation I can find."
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This is the way you write if you have no confidence in the Supreme Court. You write this way if you think the only thing that will stop Roberts and Barrett from giving in to Trump is shaming them.
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The language about not "micromanaging" the District Court is targeted directly at the Supreme Court. This is the way you write if you lack any confidence that the Court will do the right thing, and so you're trying to humiliate them in advance if they make the wrong choice.
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Towering over them all is the Mrs. Dalloway and she is naked dancing, her small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. She never sleeps, she says. She says she’ll never die.
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The fact that you want him to make a coherent point just shows what a ideological person you are. He's skillfully navigating between two opposite ways of thinking by saying nothing of value or substance.
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This sentence, as written, makes the opposite point to the one I think you mean to make.
I mean, it's an asinine point, but that's no excuse for making it in an asinine way.
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Democrats have a wide-open presidential primary in three years, and a party that's utterly rudderless. If you're a liberal-ish person considering running, the obvious play is to call for Schumer's head tomorrow, unofficially start running, and never take your foot off the gas.
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The Democratic leadership tends to assume that the people complaining are a bunch of whiny, Bernie-loving leftists who most voters will dismiss as unrealistic. But there's no constituency for this move. The Democrats are basically taking an action every voter they count on will despise.
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It's telling that the Senate Democratic leadership never made any strategy to oppose this. The only plan you ever made was to try to trick your fellow Democrats into not knowing that you were caving. When you looked at the CR, the only enemy you truly tried to defeat was us.
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So performance antics against Trump are bad?
Actually voting against Trump (the least performative thing Congress can do? Also bad.
Just admit that you're against opposing Trump in any way and save us a lot of time, dipshit.
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"Look, it's cold in Newark in March. The turtle in my pants is definitely longer than five inches. It's above average in size, actually."
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The good news is, this will definitely get as much condemnation and ridicule by the mainstream press as when Harris suggested some inflation was caused by price gouging.
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I think the Bengals are second to the Seahawks, who seems to be deciding they don't really want a football team next year after all.
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Would taking Rodgers actually be a good idea for any team?
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I feel confident that if the Nazis could have chosen between some of their stuff being broken and what steps were actually taken to stop them, they would have picked the broken stuff.
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God what an asshole you are.
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Some people I went to college with celebrated "Beaster." They hid cans of Milwaukee's Best around the quad and then did a Beaster Egg Hunt to find them. If someone threw up, they all had to surround the person and shout, "He is risen!"
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Cool! When are you going to start?
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Ok, but why should we trust you? Even if you are reporting fairly, there are still questions about which stories are selected, which subjects the paper focuses on, etc. that come from people who have made clear they cannot be trusted. Those people are your bosses.
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I'm placing a bet now that your ambivalence towards the system won't keep you from cashing a check from a billionaire who decided only his favored opinions should appear in the Post. I'm confident in my bet, because you're a fucking tool.
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Shipley was the one telling us that the non-endorsement and spiking of Telnaes' cartoon were not a big deal. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, he was given the choice between losing his job and dishonor. He chose dishonor, and he still lost his job.
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Exactly. It wasn't that long ago that the Post was depicting liberals as not understanding journalism because they didn't think publishing a range of opinion meant making space for fascists. Now, journalism means a billionaire only publishes one view, because he owns the paper so fuck you!
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Bezos's letter is another reminder that free market types will NEVER stop depicting themselves as rebels, when they have one of the most popular mainstream views in the world. It would be like if I went around shouting, "I think The Godfather is a good movie, and I don't care who knows it!"