"That is one magic loogie."

This would be an excellent line of thinking if the factories used to produce the stuff currently being tariffed still existed. Also, cheap labor exists in this world, and it ain't in the United States.

If only there was a deliberative body outlined in the Constitution that could handle a considered response to foreign tariffs! One that was leery about ceding its authority even.

You're telling me 2 months of ciphering isn't enough time to negotiate something that might crater the world's economy? Must be TDS! /s

Let's leave that to the nutters in Florida.

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/desantis-announces-support-as-florida-senate-takes-up-chemtrails-bill/

The chorus I sing with is having our spring shows this weekend. https://www.voicesofhopecc.org/concerts-and-events/upcoming-concerts/ You can probably guess what the closer will be. I'm more excited that we'll be singing ELO's Mr. Blue Sky. If you're near Chicago, come on out!

The Dems ran a gun control activist for the House in Florida? They probably weren’t going to win anyway, but for God’s sake at least give yourselves a chance!

I'm looking at retirement in the next couple of years, so I switched to mostly cash a few weeks back.

The last time we saw anything this idiotic was Smoot-Hawley. At least that was voted on by Congress, so the perpetrators could be gotten rid of in a couple years. Now that Congress has inexplicably ceded that authority to the president, we have 4 years of this idiocy.

8 points of a possible 87 will get you labelled as a TDA member. We already have several examples of people being deported because of tattoos that have nothing whatsoever to do with that gang. Plus, comment 1 states that even a low score doesn't disqualify for consideration as an enemy alien.

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/alien-and-sedition-acts

Not only that, the law cited requires "a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government". Further, it allows only for deportation of males.

Aside from relying on a 2 century old law, the current administration isn't even following it. They'll most likely continue on this lawless path because the people they're intent on deporting are unsympathetic. The Trump administration is not intent on following the law, it's just looking for grist for the social media mill.

I believe that is Russ Vought's stated goal, unless I am remembering wrong.

Isn't that what a blacklist is? Now that the word is out on Dr. Liu, it'd take a pretty brave outfit, which surely seem to be in short supply these days, to engage her as a speaker now.

It's a Hollywood blacklist redux. How long before we revive HUAC?

"Are you now, or have you ever been, in opposition to the war in the Palestinian territories?"

The string "uncertain" occurs 34 times in that Fed report. If we want the government to be "ran like a business" as DJT's supporters so often say, I'd say creating uncertainty is the last thing the administration would want to create. That's just me spitballing, however.

Does that guy ever sleep?

Of course, I immediately thought of this: https://youtu.be/R3niGu9d_pY?si=WfjnKok5O-2d4tX-

(Just a few years after Ty Cobb.)

OK, that sounds a lot less interesting. Perhaps even less so than actual musical theater.

Imagine your library job is to sit there while someone watches a taped play. It's a theater kid's dream job.

A few years ago, we went to the movie theater to see a Metropolitan Opera simulcast of Porgy and Bess. I don't remember how many cameras were used, but the sound was great. And I got to eat some popcorn.

Right? Racistly? (Though I'm not quite sure what racism has directly to do with a country actively working against scientific research.)

"You want to be gay in some small German town…well, people would probably pretty strongly suggest you move to Berlin."

I daresay you could substitute nearly any country for Germany and pick that country's largest city for people to move to. Even now, 100 years after Weimar.

Agreed! I'm with Schilling on the shift rule, too. The shift was a bunter's paradise. Too bad no one knows how to do it anymore.

There was some nice discussion on the baseball forum about how to counter the dependency on strike outs (and the proliferation of pitchers needing TJ surgery). One guy came up with what I thought was a nice solution: penalize teams whose pitchers don't go a certain (longish, like 6-7) number of innings by taking away their DH after the starter is removed.

Brilliant!

Isn't Team Red supposed to be an improvement over Team Blue?

When I was about 5, we lived about a block from a corner grocery (which have sadly disappeared in this city). My mom sent me there to buy some buns, either hamburger or hot dog, and I bought the wrong one. I had to bring them back and the storekeeper yelled at me. That happened 55 years ago!

I also remember it being at the end of the earth. I went back just a few years ago, and you could see the store from our back porch.