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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. So? Different elections, different electorate. How about you answer the question you've been ducking for 20 years?
  2. You do realize that we are talking about redistricting in partisan legislative elections, right? Perhaps you don't realize that in many states partisan consideration is explicitly banned by law. In those states, they attempt to build compact districts of equal size around spacial, social, and economic communities of interest (AKA, "places"). Again, you're begging the question. It appears to yield a pretty horrible correlation, because the "areas" aren't actual places or communities but shapes drawn and curated to reenforce the position of the dominant national political party in that state.
  3. Oh hey you’re back. The bolded section above is all bullshit, but let’s imagine for a moment that it was true. Since local interests usually transcend all that bullshit, maybe you can answer the question I’ve been putting to you for twenty years.
  4. Yep. Hopefully it’s just an artifact of too much ibuprofen too often or a reaction to a vaccine or a recent viral infection or something, but there’s also some relevant family medical history in that direction as well, so … yeah. Preach!
  5. Things going well for the voucher crowd in Palestine https://x.com/amydfennell/status/1895681963815813615?s=46&t=WQWp8jCL9d3WDAPBWICDFQ
  6. A month ago slightly low platelets. now even lower platelets, also slightly low RBC, Hemoglobin, hemocrit. None of these numbers are dramatic, but there’s no easy explanation so we’re doing due diligence, as they say.
  7. Ring a ding ding
  8. I’m not ignoring anyone. But if I was it would be the fat ones.
  9. Welp. Now my blood work is weird. I feel great, I look good, according to various cardiovascular diagnostics I’ve got the heart and lung function of a 34 year old at 51. My resting heart rate is 43 bpm. but you know… the blood work. Maybe something, maybe nothing. Meanwhile I decided to totally change careers at age 50 because I love trouble so I’m doing all the shit you do at 25 except the stakes are much higher and I have two kids in college and I’m underinsured. in short, situation excellent. We attack.
  10. True but they also didn’t focus on anything, so…
  11. God JD Vance is such a pudding
  12. Exactly. That’s why they call it the myth of white supremacy. Everyone who makes it in this country works hard. Unless you are born two or more of really good looking, rich, smart or well connected hard work alone doesn’t get you much. And you need to be lucky also. I guess white boys have it slightly better at a traffic stop. That’s about it. And right about the time MLK started to point that shit out is when they shot him. Anyway that’s why “white trash” is such a potent insult. One time in middle school my friend’s mom called me and my family white trash to my face. Let me tell you- when a grown woman from HP tells a kid from East Dallas that he and his family are “white trash”, it’s a formative moment.
  13. Back in the 90’s my brother in law was talking to some girl at a humanities grad school type party in Hyde Park. Some kind of pony-tailed, New-Sincerity-scene-adjacent American Studies TA kept trying to work his way in and compete for the lady’s attention, but his efforts found no purchase. Making a tactical retreat, he found his way to the bookshelf nearby and began perusing the titles, then grabbed one very thick volume and announced in her general direction, “Gravity’s Rainbow? This is my FAVORITE book.” Suffice it to say he went home alone after he put on a live tape of The Reivers from his car and somebody stopped it and started playing Cypress Hill instead.
  14. "The genius of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow: he had to take all of his first year courses at, what was it, Cornell? One of his teachers was Nabokov. And everything he had in his first year’s physics went in to Gravity’s Rainbow. Whether it fit in or not, it just went in there. That’s one way of doing it." - Gore Vidal, 2006
  15. lol, Moses Brown started and went for 20/11. Welcome back Moses!
  16. are you asking what strategy will yield the most profit if the equity markets decline across the board?
  17. Soon as I see that thing near me I’m checking to make sure my wallet is still in my pocket.
  18. Agree with all that, but trading Luka this has replaced those for me. It’s not a perfect pass and catch in a close game. It’s not a fragile QB getting figured out and falling apart. It’s not the refs. It’s not just how baseball go. This was a direct fuck you to the city and the fans, straight from the management.
  19. I grew up in Dallas and while the cowboys were obviously king, the Mavs started playing at exactly the right time in my life (I was 7)for me to fall in love with the team, and I had a connection to it I don’t have with the Cowboys. We grew up together. I root for the Rangers and the Cowboys, but I love the Mavericks. Anyway I disagree that Jerry wouldn’t do anything this stupid. He would. But he wouldn’t and won’t do anything this painful for the fans, for better or worse, because he’s one of us, and his life is in the city. I think he understands that even though he owns the Cowboys, the star is bigger than Jerry Jones, and, the star is not The Star without the city and the fans. Thus to hurt the fans and the city diminishes him. That was even more true with the Mavericks, because there is no national brand. The Mavs are essentially a large market version of the Hornets or Pelicans. Nobody outside of Dallas really cares about the Mavericks, and local ownership from Don Carter through Marc Cuban understood that. And I believe the Adelsons understand it too, which leads them in a very different direction, because they aren’t local to the city. The Mavericks are a piece on a chessboard for them, and nowhere near the most important piece.
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