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  1. 3 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Not so much. She's said that she finds modern country a bit of a bore.   She did a solo album a few years back;  "Mother", the title track being a cover of the Pink Floyd song. 

     

    You seem to know quite about Natalie Maines' career and music.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.     

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  2. This was the first season I didn't care for. Each of the episodes might have been better if they were only 30 minutes or so.  

    5:1 - homo/hetero VR bro affair was an unexpected premise, but not enough to carry the episode for me.  Kinda odd and not really my thing - had a San Junipero feel (same director) and that wasn't really my thing either.  To each his own.  Still, sadly, I think this was the best episode of the season.  

    5:2 - meh.  The satire of google/facebook being way ahead of the cops was humorous, but again, not enough to carry an hour+ episode.  

    5:3 holy shit that was terrible.  The last act was some like some terrible disney/Nickelodeon movie with the rescue mission.  Just dreadful.  Miley isn't that bad of an actress though.  

  3. 16 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

    So you just decide to give it the middle finger? Why not just disconnect your AC unit? Don't tempt fate! JFC....

     

    8 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Let's all pretend it's normal. Maybe it will stay around a while if no one freaks the fuck out 

    So we can't talk about it on the summer weather thread?  I thought we were sharing here, in the trust tree.   

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  4. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Time to start stirring shit up in the elections, and get us some gridlock going.  

    City Council is really fucking stupid, far more stupid than I suspected.  Whole lot of businesses are going to throw money at booting them out, and as things get worse, every person who has a bad encounter downtown and elsewhere is going to remember that come voting time.  

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  5. 1 hour ago, ocugolf said:

    Supreme Court just overturned Curtis Flowers’ sixth conviction for murder. This case was featured in In the Dark season 2. Its pretty amazing. He may have done it, but i don’t think you can prove it without reasonable doubt. 

    good.  Overturned on racial discrimination due to jury strikes.  They need an independent state prosecutor to look at the case and see if it should be re-tried (it shouldn't in my view).

    I think he probably did it, or at least it's more likely than not that's he's guilty, but that's not good enough for a criminal conviction.  

     

  6. Quote

    The Austin City Council early Friday morning rescinded city prohibitions on sitting or sleeping in public and panhandling — measures social advocates said wrongly criminalized homelessness — after hours of emotional testimony from passionate residents on both sides of the issue.

    Critics of the previous rules said they were ineffective, cruel and only made it more difficult for people with citations to find jobs and housing. Supporters said the ordinances were a needed tool for law enforcement to combat aggressive behavior in areas with significant transience.

    Council members generally agreed that the regulations needed to change. They split over a section making public camping illegal only if the person is causing a hazard, with Council Members Alison Alter, Kathie Tovo and Ann Kitchen asking to vote on it again in August. The other council members, however, wanted to move forward and final approval of the looser language passed 9-2, with Alter and Tovo opposed.

    The other changes, including lifting bans on sitting on sidewalks and panhandling, were approved unanimously. Council Member Greg Casar, one of the sponsors of changing the ordinances, added language after concerns raised earlier this month, making it clear that acting aggressively or threateningly is still illegal.

    https://www.statesman.com/news/20190621/austin-city-council-rescinds-measures-that-critics-say-criminalize-homelessness

  7. Who will provide the power? 

    We are probably a couple or three recruiting cycles away from being able to compete with elite teams, but the things I notice that separate us from the OU and UCLAs of the world:

    --lack of power throughout the lineup

    --errors, holy shit the errors

    --dumbfuck baserunning decisions, sometimes even by White himself

  8. Been working with my son on the finer points of catching and how to play the game.  We're making some progress - here's a clip from this last weekend.  What do you think?

     

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