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I always interpret it as he has a weird strike zone, but he calls it pretty consistently. As opposed to Thomas and Alito, who are Angel Hernandez on roids.

It's a big win in aggregate for democracy, but to play the cynic a bit: the GOP has gerrymandered virtually every state it controls to the max, Jack. With the NC Supreme court flipping conservative and overruling the previous state Supreme Court anti-gerrymander decision, the GOP controlled legislature is likely to push the map to 11-3 or even 12-2. The last ungerrymandered GOP state is about to be dealt with. OTOH, a ruling in favor of independent legislature theory makes the state constitutional anti gerrymandering statutes/laws in Maryland, NY, California, and Colorado very dicey suddenly. That's probably 20 competitive seats right there. And that doesn't account for if Gretchen Whitmer and the MI legislature decided to do a mid decade redistrict as well, or if Oregon strikes the Senate qourum rule preventing the unified government from doing what it wants. Again: it's a good thing in total, but they also very quietly shut another door for the Democracts to get out their self imposed habit of fighting with a hand tied behind their back.

Lotta cars posted in this thread who don’t seem to mind having a long scratch line all the way down to the paint on the passenger side of their vehicle.

Because you never interrupt your enemy when he’s busy destroying himself.

Get on the water in smaller boats with multi-ton carnivores above you on the food chain, well….that’s pretty much the definition of fuck around and find out.

This. It was perfectly enjoyable throw away shoot ‘em up. The chick is smoke.

As somebody pointed out: at some point if they’d been trapped, somebody would have had to drop a deuce.

I read an article about explosive compression. At that depth it happens so quickly, your brain wouldn't even register it. Also, did anyone tell these rich Nimrods that James Cameron made an Imax documentary of the wreck? You don't have to get into a poorly built soup can to see it.

idc how cheesy this movie is. The Kurgan slams, goes very hard.

This makes me feel so much better about Delta lobbying to add flights to DCA, which already running 10 million over capacity.

I had a buddy that owned a manual 93 turbo for awhile. It was a cool car, but required more active gear management to avoid turbo lag than any car I ever driven. If you weren’t almost prescient in your downshifts, the car could be down right dangerous to drive when you needed power.

I always felt McCarthy was a more engaging writer to read than Faulkner. The trick with Blood Meridian is to stick with it. It has an engaging narrative that will pull you along, but it takes a bit to arrive. Glanton is an underrated character in the book. People spend so much time focusing on the Judge and eventually his antagonistic relationship over the Kid with Tobin, that they miss the more traditional bandits on the run storyline of the Glanton Gang that powers the book.

I was shocked at the collapse. I'm not kidding when I say I got up, turned on the coffee maker, sat down to open cricinfo, and thought my wireless had dropped or something.

You absolutely should. It’s so much better on second read. Here’s a picture I took at dawn outside Marathon. I think of BM each time I look at it:

Stick with it, once Glanton shows up, the book takes off like a rocket ship.

Blood Meridian is the great American novel. A book about violence, racism, and the beauty of the American West. It was the last book I read before my kind shaky vision pushed me to audio books. I’ve read it twice and already hungry to go again. And that was only one of multiple books he wrote that are amongst the greatest books in the 20th century canon.

This is all I use it for, other than the DC subreddit.

Whelp, I guess it was the latter. I woke up expecting this thing to be nip and tuck, and it was all over except the trophy presentation.

No school like the old school.

I’ve said it once I will say it again: Look at the ocean. Swim in the pool.

Yo, I got bad news for anyone whose stood in front of a Paul Gauguin painting for more than a few seconds…..

I was a broke divorcee at the time. 5’9”. Don’t be a goblin and have a personality that people want to be around.