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softlynow

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  1. Leaking is like any kind of civil disobedience. Be prepared to do the time. They go unpunished because our politics is fucked. Tell me how the law that protects RW would operate. What would the objective elements of a defense to 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e) be that might be applicable here? Or, what's your argument that 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e) should be repealed?
  2. Each (both!) side has their memes. Laugh at the funny ones, and move on. Or dwell on the ones you don't like and wander down vapidity lane hand in hand with the opposition. Your choice.
  3. I don't think I was trying to do that in either post I made this morning. I made one post in response to a very fine SAT word, and that point was pretty narrow. The other was in response to his bent trendline post. What is this narrative? I'm mostly a drive-by poster, and selective reader these days.
  4. Ah yes, both sides. If we're going to go back to where we lost the plot, though, that'd be the Reagan Revolution. All the economic policies that made America actually great started getting undone about then. And in the spirit of our aside, let me be repetitive about the reason: the me-now Boomers started voting themselves all the benefits, while denying future generations the advantages that propped them up. True leftism is non-existent as a ballot-box option. Despite the negatives of that side of the spectrum in the extreme, when it's not there at all, we get the Gilded Age Part III.
  5. You've got a pretty high post count for someone making that charge. We've been stuck on same shit, different day for, what, a year now?
  6. Bunch of Assholes Trail of Tears
  7. Sooooo, back to the topic. I'm not so sure Harris is the best bet at the top of the Dem ticket, but I am pleased with Dems "evolving" on pot. I guess we should consider this a positive outcome to the opioid crisis. Some drugs are truly dangerous. It's time to let people self medicate with those that really aren't.
  8. Are there any interesting position-player-as-pitcher options for the Sox?
  9. The top of this page is hilarious if you, like me, were unable to watch/follow the game, and checked here first before checking the final. Y'all freaking out, in April, on the champs when a 6 run cushion goes to 4. Chill, our boys have this.
  10. RIP Mrs. Bush. If you don't have a positive view of her life, you're a troubled person, IMO. Her passing is a reminder of why decency is gone. Her generation, the moderating influence on the culture warrior generation, is dying out quickly. Boomers going nuts with mom and dad not looking over their shoulders.
  11. softlynow

    Tax reform

    No, it's not in the least interesting that anyone in this administration would say something so idiotic.
  12. I feel like this is a good thread for a Sleestak appearance. Has he made it here yet?
  13. When Beto makes his move . . .
  14. Jake's going to K bunting, isn't he?
  15. Rick Perry or Danny Goeb would be better, so that's not saying much. Hell, Ben Carson, Sarah Palin or Leslie Cochran's corpse would be better. Kasich would be the only of any of these who would show actual competence.
  16. We're getting a new answer to this question almost daily.
  17. Fangraphs says .291 before today. .164 in our last 3 games.
  18. It's really pretty simple for most. It was 8 years since someone of their party was in office, and, given how shitty the Trump admin. was likely to be, it very well could be 8 more years until the next Pub admin. If you're looking to advance an otherwise stalled/about to stall political career, you needed to make that jump. And a few, like Tillerson, actually felt duty bound.
  19. I was in court for Adrian Peterson's initial court appearance in Conroe. I remarked to the drug test tech that he was about to observe the most famous junk he'd ever see. A few minutes later AP gave his specimen and the tech told me AP was clean but a real dumbass (despite being clean, he admitted to using while on bond). AP might have gone to jail that day, but the State fucked up. At the same approach to the bench where the State wanted the judge to set AP's bond aside, they FIRST asked the judge to recuse himself. The judge used this error as an out to not rule on the request, saying he could make no rulings until the recusal hearing was complete, which would be a few weeks later. Not the coolest story, but it made an otherwise boring workday somewhat interesting, and I had multiple clients text me when I kept wandering in front of CNN's cameras.
  20. Hopefully it's the spark the offense needed.
  21. The real bottom line is that the selfish boomers have to die before things will get better. Sorry, mom and dad!
  22. softlynow

    Sean Hannity

    "If we take Hannity at his word . . . " I'm not sure what class of people would do such a thing, but whatever the class, it would not take long to call the roll.
  23. In the final analysis, the only way to hit the curveball is to do it yourself.
  24. Yeah, I agree. And even if this is a mistake, it's the kind just about anyone in office makes.
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