Yeah, I as going to head south to catch it, but once I heard how ridiculous it was going to be, 92% in Seattle sounded great.

Same, I have family in Boise and they expect the population of the area to double for the eclipse. There’s one highway running north/south right through the totality, and the anticipation is that it’s just going to be a parking lot for about 50 miles. I’m still having a hard time believing it, since there’s so much…

The thing that strikes me the most is how much more lawyer’d the official statement is now than previous statements. The league is at least learning that they need to appear to have at least a 3/4 assed reasoning behind their decision.

I seem to recall a recent meta-analysis, might be this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26149164

Completely agree. Regarding the plateau, it’s a weird psychological space. A while back I had to really tighten my budget after helping out a friend, and while I knew that the math would work everything out in a few months, I still felt anxious during that time. Spent a lot of time coping with stress by planning for…

My first impression is to be amazed at how ridiculous white grievance can be, but people are just really terrible with even the slightest bit of nuance. Sports fans know that contextual factors (park factors, quality of teammates, style of play, game situation) can affect counting stats (try racking up assists…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe most AA policies factor in family income in addition to race.

In some, mostly GOP-controlled, states it is. It’s doing great in places like MD/MA/WA/etc.

One thing that I want to see discussed, but has so far been ignored, is why you would even go with Medicare for all instead of a Medicaid-based plan. After all, Medicare is tailored to seniors, and even relies on Medicaid as a backstop, while Medicaid is used by all kinds of people.

Got shot down by a Maverick? Looks like McConnell was in the danger zone.

It’s the perfect Trumpian detail that he’s so pissed about the fake leak of a publicly available document that says, right at the top, that it’s a public disclosure form.

I see the issue; to me that’s just a problem of losing a cheap plan because BCBS had to raise prices. It sucks, but it happened before the ACA, has happened after, and will continue to happen in the future.

Except that there were hearings and endless public debate about the ACA. Newspapers have archives, so you’re free to head on back to 2009/2010 to see for yourself if you can’t remember.

I’m sorry things went so poorly for your family, but BCRA would make all of these issues much worse. No one’s saying the ACA is perfect, just that we should fix it, not make it worse. While the ACA had nothing to do with your stepdad’s BCBS plan (literally, it did not touch large group plans), passing BCRA will…

I think I’ve found the laziest way to cook eggs every morning, but want to see if it can get even easier: heat pan, dump in eggs, then throw up broiler for a few minutes to cook from both sides. Since there’s no flipping or stirring in the pan, there’s no stick (cook in cast iron, and hate that cleanup) and the final…

Yeah, plus Battier in year 2, which LPShea corrected me on. Completely blanked there. Heat handled their window about as well as they could have.

That’s a good point, had forgotten about those additions. Battier was midlevel and Ray was with an exception? Something like that? Either way, you’re right that they were key additions and clearly better than JR/Shump. That was some impressive work. I still see that as more of good front office work by Miami and…

Sure, but my focus is more on his own contract. The GM doesn’t have to make a bad signing to make him happy; winning makes him happy. Shump/JR trade was a good example: bad long term, but still smart because it helped them get a title. Most of Cleveland’s problems just stem from the fact that they’re a top heavy…

When you’re the best player in the world, you get to do that. If Cleveland doesn’t want him, I’m sure he can find a roster spot with another team.

Congratulations to Rom Romberts for his new job.