RI Smith

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The Democratic Party is so concerned about the fate of democracy in our country that it is preparing to do the only sensible thing, remove the candidate who won every primary so that party insiders can pick a candidate they prefer.

To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

When I was in undergrad, a symposium professor in my major would stop you if you said "uh" or "um" to force you out of your verbal ticks and fillers. This has inspired my decision to surgically remove exclamation marks from the minds of youths.

I'm going to become MLB's next wiz kid GM by teaching baseball players how to jump higher than a half inch.

Ancestry has to be the last website to discover AJAX and its implementation appears to be limited to "refresh the page number but don't refresh the search results."

Genealogy teaches you that, not only do many people have no idea what their parent's birthdays are, but many of them can't even remember whether someone is their mom or grandma.

I would like just one of these "size of your baby" apps to pick a set of objects that are even remotely the same size. "Your baby is the size of a bundle of carrots or a basketball hoop." No, those are not remotely similar in size. And I'm horrified for my wife to have to pass a basketball hoop.

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided

Spent the last 11 hours editing discovery responses and demand letters. Anything bad happen today?

Just watched a dumb true crime show with an episode that made a scare quotes episode about committing a ***federal offense*** I was really hoping that someone was going catch a short lobster, but it was just lame car bombs.

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Infuriating piece. 1. Jail can’t stop inflow of K2. 2. To try, takes all legal mail, scans, hands over copies, destroys originals. 3. COPIES still get doused in K2. 4. So now seize COPIES of LEGAL mail, send to PROSECUTORS for drug testing. 5. Sometimes non-replaceable LEGAL notes never come back.

One anonymous legal expert had this to say: "I don’t know what the 🤬 this 💩 is, but it’d be less insulting to the Constitution to walk into the National Archives, open up the glass case, and take a 💩 directly on the Bill of Rights." www.pennlive.com/news/2024/06...

Whistleblower goes back in ‘the hole’ at Dauphin County jail after fight over legal paperswww.pennlive.com He said guards confiscated his legal paperwork, something advocates say is "a flagrant violation" of incarcerated people's constitutional rights.

I'm going to take a controversial stand: you can agree with someone in principle and not their tactics. Disagreeing with their tactics does not mean you have betrayed the principle.

Watching Florida shellac Kentucky in the College World Series is ruining my bracket.

Tennessee fans giving the best mustache in baseball a standing ovation in his last game at home has been the best part of my day.

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It does not get any more pure narcissistic, egotistical god complex than sincerely believing the future of civilization hinges on your tweets.

So he’s saying he keeps putting his hand on a hot stove, which sounds about right

It's time for me to checkout for the night when people are trying to stan for Jeff Tiedrich.

You think the board was going to check those citations by themselves?

UPDATE: Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorship

Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorshipinterc.pt Students threatened a work stoppage if Columbia Law Review's board didn't reinstate the website and an article about Palestine.

This will be my new goto example of how outrageous your conduct has to be for it to absolutely be intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Burlington, VT police subjected high school students to a simulated shooting with no warning whatsoever. Absolutely unhinged. m.sevendaysvt.com/news/burling...

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It seems to me that when a federal judge accepts about $380,000 per year in gifts (of which he reports about $200,000), there is a prima facie ethical issue

I'm not walking out of this meeting angry, you are!

This is a hilarious bit:

Arkansas going down in the regionals is huge. Bigger than Wake going down. Oof.

ECU melting down?

Love when umps give a walk on a ball that was middle middle

"Are there too many home runs in college baseball?" No. Stop it, announcers. Get some help.

Oof. The piggies got angry and turned a close game into a blowout in one inning.

The Cocks don't choke and win it in 10. A rare day in this era of South Carolina baseball.

You're telling me Duke AND Vandy choked hard today? Be still, my heart.

There's few joys in life like a Vandy game where the whistlers are almost too miserable to whistle.

Ugh, Wofford just couldn't hold on. Sorry, Terriers, you gave 'em a run.

For weeks, we've reported that the prosecution's case was weak and that Trump was likely to hang the jury. He's now been convicted. How did the jury get it so wrong?

Maggie NYT tells on herself.

Five minutes away from my favorite sporting event of the year: college baseball playoffs.