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  1. Ghost of LL
    Could've, but didn't.
  2. Ghost of LL
    I think it's both. And neither change with the loss of Belgorod or other similar territory in Russia's southwest.
  3. Ghost of LL
    Because we objected so loudly when the Soviet Union looted eastern Germany (and Poland, and Czechoslovakia, and Hungary)? Ukraine is rapidly getting to the point where it receives the treatment from the United States that has historically been reserved only for Israel. We arm it. It does whatever the fuck it wants. And then we run interference for it whenever anyone in the international community objects. The difference is that Russia has nuclear weapons, and the Palestinian Authority (happily) doesn't. But as I think we've seen, there are no red lines. If Russia were willing to use nuclear weapons to defend its state borders, it would've done so already. It hasn't. And it won't. And that means that Ukraine can take whatever it wants. And it means that the United States will provide cover in the international community for Ukraine taking whatever it wants.
  4. Ghost of LL
    I think it is becoming increasingly plausible and defensible to envision Ukraine seizing substantial parts of Russian territory and either holding them for ransom pending the payment of reparations or simply taking assets from them under the general guise of reparations.
  5. Ghost of LL
    Ok—aggy pushing the guy who just hit the home run down the length of the dugout in a bellboy’s luggage cart is pretty funny.
  6. Ghost of LL
    Oh, and I just checked, and the Rangers have a +143 run differential through yesterday. They’re on pace to have the highest run differential since the 1939 Yankees (+411).
  7. Ghost of LL
    How many position players have we seen pitch this year? It seems like it’s been a lot.
  8. Ghost of LL
    Goddamn, this team is good. This is rapidly becoming my favorite Rangers team ever.
  9. Ghost of LL
    Have we not yet discussed the blonde behind the plate who is with the guy who’s at least 400 lbs.?
  10. Ghost of LL
    That was efficient.
  11. Ghost of LL
    So do I
  12. Ghost of LL
    Are you coming down with dementia? Because you have sat across the table from me at Scholtz's and agreed that it has the best Rueben in Austin. And that conversation wasn't that long ago.
  13. Ghost of LL
    Just so long as the new Russian Civil War kills a whole bunch of Russians on all sides, I really don't care.
  14. Ghost of LL
    The ice cream sandwich is where you taste just how bad Blue Bell is. As it starts to melt, all you can taste is the processed. It’s just gross.
  15. Ghost of LL
    Literally all of them.
  16. Ghost of LL
    Ice cream sandwich. That's right--I'm choosing chaos this afternoon.
  17. Ghost of LL
    No, you don't. You have evidence from which you can infer that he wanted the SecState to commit election fraud. But you don't have him saying "commit election fraud." And that's important, because Trump would argue that when he wanted to Raffensberger to "find" another 11,000 votes, he was referring to votes that he believed had been undercounted due to technical failures with Dominion's machines, or Democratic shenanigans in Fulton County, or Jewish space lasers. Whatever. To conclude that Trump was telling the Georgia SecState, you have to disbelieve what Trump says and make an inference. Here, all you have to do is believe what Trump says.
  18. Ghost of LL
    So, I think that's what might be considered in litigation a "bad fact."
  19. Ghost of LL
    Saw Fast X. It's almost certainly the worst movie I've seen in the past 20 years.
  20. Ghost of LL
    I disagree here. For the first time in 50 years, the Democrats have an advantage when it comes to the culture wars. Abortion, Guns, Gays--the polling strongly favors the Democrats' position as to all three. And as you look at actual electoral results--see, e.g., the supreme court election in Wisconsin--it's working. So don't get too concerned that you have troglodyte friends who won't drink Bud Light anymore. Just take it as a nudge that you need a better class of friends who never drank Bud Light to begin with.
  21. Ghost of LL
    Abbott is so bad at special sessions. I think he’s probably called a dozen of them as governor. But I can’t think of a single one that went to his satisfaction.
  22. Ghost of LL
    Pretty terrible effort by the home team tonight.
  23. Ghost of LL
    Because the House is much more moderate owing to the difficulties in gerrymandering such small districts. There are 150 house members. In a state of about 30 million people. That means each House district has only about 200,000 people. When the districts are that small, it makes it real tough to do a good gerrymander. One precinct moved to a neighboring district can throw off that district. So they’re not quite clean districts, but they’re a lot more representative of the populace. The Senate only has 31 members. So each senator represents 1 million. That’s a lot easier to gerrymander, and the body represents that. It’s a lot more extreme.
  24. Ghost of LL
    You see, kids—assholery must at all times be met in equal measure with assholery.
  25. Ghost of LL
    Did I decide I needed a cruise on the Galactic Starcruiser? Yep. Is MrsLL all over it? Yep. is she buying a slave-girl Leia outfit for alone time in the cabin? Hell fucking yeah she is.

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