Stealing third late in a game with a 7 run lead is pretty weak. I’m not a huge fan of most of the unwritten rules, but it’s almost universally agreed that you don’t do shit like that. Taylor knew what he was doing, and he certainly knew there would be consequences.  He should consider himself lucky he didn’t wear one…

A single win in a red or swing district would be a nice start.  I’m all for loading up the safely blue districts with socialists and progressives, but it’s silly to think they can win everywhere.  Just like with the 2016 presidential election, I prefer the progressive candidate, but will choose the centrist over the…

I’m happy she won, but the fact that nobody in the media treated her seriously was a good thing, and probably the biggest reason she won. Do you really think Crowley and the DNC would have lost this race if they knew what kind of fight it was going to turn into?  They would have mobilized the unions and the rest of…

*Brown desert carpenter

I don’t understand why Latinx was used when referring to a single person, who clearly identifies as a woman.  Seems Latina would be the proper descriptor here.  I understood Latinx to be the gender neutral version of the word.  

The facility is named after T. Don Hutto, one of the founders of Corrections Corporation of America

It’s been well documented that Trump supporters at these rallies can be unstable and even violent.  If signing a few autographs and posing for a few pictures helps calm them down, so what?  It certainly doesn’t impact his ability to accurately report on the story.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of Jim Acosta and CNN. Do we really need to pile on even more because the guy tried to cut some of the tension among people at a Trump rally? Being able to relate to some Trump supporters on a human level isn’t an implicit endorsement, normalization, or any other show of support…

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Counterpoint: they’re all beautiful dogs.  

We had INS, which was still part of the justice department and the executive branch.  If ICE hadn’t replaced INS, this administration would be using INS in a similar manner.  And if ICE is abolished, some entity will still be responsible for enforcing immigration laws.  And as long as that’s part of Jeff Sessions’s…

41. Deceptively athletic

I thought the race was fine. Not the best, but certainly not the worst of the season, either. The track wasn’t the reason for a lack of action, anyway. I mean, if your take is that F1 is a parade with no on-track action anyway, so it might as well take place at a historical, visually appealing circuit, that’s cool.…

It’s hard to say what that effect is, though. I’m certain it’s not empathy for his staffers getting harassed/booted. I’m sure he couldn’t care less what happens to these people in their private lives. He’s a sociopath, unable to feel his own humiliation, let alone someone else’s.  And I’m not sure he possesses the…

Get rid of ICE, and then what? Unless the plan is to do away with immigration laws altogether, someone has to enforce those laws. If not ICE, it will be someone else with the same objective. And as long as they’re taking orders from this executive branch, they’re going to behave the same way.

This article is preposterous. Bullpen days are pretty common when starters get hurt, and the team can’t shuffle the deck in a way to cover all the starts. The Cubs just had one Saturday (and it also did not go well).  It’s not in any way, shape or form the same as having an opener, like Tampa did with Romo.  

I don’t think she’ll get fired.  I think she’ll decide she’s had enough of being the lightning rod and move on.

I doubt she lasts much longer. Sounds like she’s more of an opportunist than an idealist. While she obviously doesn’t have a problem with the policy, it still feels like a lot of this was to drive up her own stock within the administration. I imagine she’ll hit her breaking point soon, and there’s still a very…

It is a sick irony that governs the White House line on this issue: that people fleeing horrific violence in their home countries are actually the perpetrators of that violence, and for that reason we should not offer them safe harbor.

As disgusting as it is, I have no doubt he perfectly encapsulates most in the administration’s thoughts on this. His crassness is no less cruel than Sessions saying it’s the parents’ fault for trying to smuggle their kids into the country illegally. That’s how they view this. They’re fucking sociopaths, unable to feel…