Chris Dawe

The Year of Maximum Baseball.

This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me.

Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.

A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.

Welcome. How can we help?

Extremely Matt Yglesias voice: I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a husband to not want his wife to suffer eternal torment

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

I keep thinking that the Trump administration's ultimate goal is a network of paramilitaries.

One of the infuriating parts of ad-supported streaming is that the services don't seem to review a show's narrative flow when they insert them.

It's also not unusual to see the same add twice in a row in a three-ad break.

Okay, this has my attention.

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.

Don't say the second when you mean the first.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

It's almost like you've read the previous edition.

Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.

And you know, I may have come into this thread with a minimal understanding of where this was all coming from.

Terry Pratchett has a whole bit in Thief of Time in which Yetis can die but resurrect themselves at a save point.

Oh God. Was there another World Series game today?

limited energy for this right now (or ever again) but are any of the dem's election post-mortems trying to figure out why abortion is more popular than they are

The game is being played by the Little League affiliates.

i do not know with what weapons world series game 3 will be played, but world series game 4 will be played with sticks and stones

(And the anchorperson on the TV goes)

God dammit Kelsey.

"Look at 1930s, 1940s Germany," the Illinois National Guard member continued. "There is a point where if you didn't stand up to the Gestapo, are you just actively one of them now?"

they say there was a time before the Game, once.

This is gonna go into at least 20 extra innings. The players will become so acquainted that several marriages with occur ON-FIELD, resulting in a new dynasty of champions. There will be no winners, because they are all winners.

I feel like the Mariners were much more considerate of East Coast viewers than these guys tbh

With all the pinch runners and defensive subs in the Blue Jays have so many banjo hitters incapable of even a competitive at bat against quality pitching you'd think the Mariners won the ALCS after all

rescheduling my morning meeting because it conflicts with 28th inning

I dislike "big tent." I like "solidarity." Solidarity holds on even when it's unpopular, which is dangerous, but it doesn't let people go. I distrust those willing to give up this group to get that group while saying "we need all groups." We DO need all groups; so hold tightest to marginal groups.

All I'm saying is that (a) Lisa LeClaire's 10/26 variety mix show on KEXP cooked so that I could cook and you should run not walk (www.kexp.org/djs/lisa-lec...), and that (b) KEXP Sunday is rapidly becoming my favorite KEXP day.

Nay, you should be required to.