That’s a good point. It’s just hard to imagine that the condition of Thomas’s hip was bad enough to scuttle the deal as is, but a distant future 2nd was enough to balance that risk out.

So this has to be Cleveland’s brain trust having their bluff called, right? Make a fuss about getting something extra, Boston isn’t willing to budge, so get a nothing pick in the future to save face.

So other than the president himself, that just leaves Miller. Hopefully he’ll follow his pals out soon.

Even worse is that outside of QB, the Jags look decent. Kaepernick could easily put them in playoff contention given how shitty the division is.

Wonder if any of the bitching about Ainge failing to get in to the Butler/George trades allowed this to happen. Hard to believe that Chicago would’ve turned down one of the young guards plus the Nets pick for Butler, and I’d sure as hell rather have Butler + Thomas than Kyrie.

It’s steep, but when a player like Zizic is made available you go get him. Cavs locked in as a playoff team this year, no doubt.

Is 55 a madhouse? Assuming it’s fine, but a lot of folks were worried about a few hundred thousand stretched out there.

Agree there; fearmongering nonsense, while a staple of local news, doesn’t help much. I just worry about the chilling effect shifting the needle further in the direction of “don’t bother reporting, it’s not worth the lawsuit” regardless of the merits. Also great use of Dennis.

Double checked the statute itself to be sure. The cause of action is if “disparagement” causes damages. Disparagement is defined as “dissemination in any manner to the public of any information that the disseminator knows to be false AND (emphasis mine) that states or implies that an agricultural food product is not…

It is, though. Statements need to pass both prongs of the test to qualify even for that exceedingly friendly veggie libel statute. If it wasn’t knowingly false, it can’t be libel and there’s nothing illegal about it.

So they made a knowingly false statement by calling the beef product “pink slime?” I honestly don’t understand how that label, even if it implies grossness, is knowingly false.

I think what the commenter was asking was about what statement made by ABC was knowingly false. I can’t find one, can you?

Riskier accounts aren’t really a good choice for that kind of savings, though. It depends on how loss averse you are. I went with a taxable bond fund for down payment savings, and there was some time when the return was negative. Fine for me, because my timeline was longer, but if I needed that money it would’ve…

I saw this out of sympathy, because I’ve felt the same way, but you’re being oversensitive here. The argument isn’t that white people are racist because they benefit from racist institutions, it’s that white people are racist because they support those institutions and resist reforms that would lessen the racial…

There’s a pretty clear link in your own comment: in this case, Republicans are bad to the extent that they support racist policies. Seems pretty simple.

I honestly don’t understand what your concern is here. Is it that you don’t want to be lumped in with racists? In that case, make clear that you stand on the non-racist side. What’s stopping you from speaking out against racists?

I don’t really care if a public option was her heart’s deepest desire. Honestly, I want my candidates to take the consensus views of the party. That’s a big part of change; liberal activists won a lot of arguments and made ground. Candidates stick to their platform.

Many of the alt-right protestors are literally nazis. As in nazi chants, flags, and other symbols. Look up photos of the protests.

I think he’s being enormously generous by allowing bozos like me to think “wow, I’m as good as that world class athlete.” Really inspiring message for dumb slow white guys everywhere.

I mostly just hate how so many people focus on personality and biography instead of policy. Yes, the Clintons are rich elitists firmly ensconced in that world. That doesn’t change the fact that she was pushing for higher taxes on the rich to fund benefits for the public as whole, a public option, stronger financial…