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In, like, '95 or '96, Joe Torre was asked about his rookie pitcher getting shellacked. He said good veterans have a game like that every 10 or 15 starts & for good rookies it's every 5 or 10 starts & that baseball writers should know that & not freak out like it defined the kid or the whole season.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

“Hope has two beautiful daughters, Anger and Courage.”

there’s another alternative to despair too good old fashioned rage can get you out of bed in the morning don’t let them take it from you without a fight every bad guy has a plan until you punch them in the mouth

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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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Two things. First, I have said this before but it gets special emphasis today: I never, EVER want to hear conservatives talk about originalism or judicial restraint ever again. There is nothing about Presidential immunity in the Constitution.

Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: "He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. ...

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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.

I recently said “Fred Ward” when I meant to say “Fred Willard” and now I’m imagining a very different version of “Tremors.” (And also “Henry and June.”)

Mail is homework.

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So coworker said that with the upcoming election that they’ll be glad to vote to stop paying the Biden tax they’d been paying since he came into office. I challenged him on that. “What new tax? What are you paying? Show your work.” He couldn’t, so I told him to stop lying.

Visitor on the patio.

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Gorsuch literally wrote, in almost those exact same words, "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

Gotta buy some fireworks for the 4th of July. I don’t really like fireworks, I just hate dogs. And veterans. And counting to ten. [please note: I do not actually hate dogs and/or veterans and will not really be buying any fireworks. If you do, have fun but please be considerate. And careful.]

Any country, any time, any election or succession or duel of ruling factions: if one side is the “I hate immigrants and refugees” party, has it EVER been true that they were the good guys in that story? Have they ever even been the *smart* guys in that story?

Sometimes, when I’m feeling reckless, I *don’t* allow something to stand for one minute in the microwave before serving.

Delightful thread. I saw Apollo 13 in the theater with Cliff Benzel, who was working at Grumman in April of 1970 -- with engineers who'd designed the lunar module. They told him what NASA was attempting would never work. They built the thing and they were sure it was going to burn on re-entry.

So my girlfriend is French and hasn’t heard of Apollo 13 and so while we’re watching it she has no idea how it’s going to end. I am predicting she’s going to scream and cheer at splashdown

Because they can. I mean, they’d also love to do a formal investigation of Taylor Swift, Rachel Held Evans, and Katharine Hepburn (for scandalously wearing *pants*) but, alas, none of them falls under the PCA’s jurisdiction. religionnews.com/2024/06/20/s...

The author of 'Jesus Calling' died last year. Why is a denomination investigating her?religionnews.com (RNS) — At a recent PCA meeting, critics of ‘Jesus Calling,’ written by Sarah Young, called for an investigation to see if the book was safe for Christians to read.

Roy Moore has weighed in on Louisiana’s 11 Commandments law. Now somebody ask him about Robert Morris’ resignation from Gateway Church. religionnews.com/2024/06/21/n...

New Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments churns old political conflictsreligionnews.com NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Under the new law, all public K-12 classrooms and state-funded universities will be required to display a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable fon...

Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

So, even within Christianity, the Ten Commandments aren't precisely the same across traditions — the text is translated and even *numbered* differently. This law appears to mandate the KJV version — a Bible translation entire Christian traditions reject. apnews.com/article/loui...

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into lawapnews.com Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

A few hours after learning that Aretha died my friends and I had this same conversation. That was trickier because the answer to “Wait … so NOW who is the greatest living singer?” wasn’t very obviously her godson. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/06/who-...

Who is the Greatest Living Baseball Player? - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com With Willie Mays now passed, who is the greatest living baseball player? I will provide two lists to help us here. The first is from Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100, which had Mays as the greatest pl...

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My read is that if the MAGA Evangelicals think about Jesus at all, it's with the unspoken understanding that his first coming was a failed experiment in loving one another and he's going to come again any day now as Mega Jesus to punch all the leftists and gays and blue-haired librarians into hell.

Worth investigating as well that the formerly Sola Scriptura crowd is straightforwardly rejecting the words of Jesus : newrepublic.com/post/174950/...

Christianity Today Editor: Evangelicals Call Jesus “Liberal” and “Weak”newrepublic.com A former evangelical leader is sounding the alarm about the direction his religion is headed in.

We don’t have a lot of traffic cameras here in Chester County, but we do have a very effective deterrent to speeding: deer. Just a LOT of deer.

I have a theory that much of the “organized retail theft” panic is due to the evolution of online fencing of stolen goods. Fencing was, like journalism, utterly disrupted by the internet and the current landscape involves a lot of flailing attempts to find a sustainable new model.

Since folks are chatting about incremental vs. revolutionary change, let’s take a beat to laugh again at how poor Glenn Tinder’s Atlantic essay on “the universal disaster of revolution” hit newsstands in December 1989. www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

I was alive and I waited, waitedwww.patheos.com Wherein we skim past a couple of heady essays from The Atlantic and The Los Angeles Review of Books so that we can remind ourselves of the giddy truth expressed by one-hit wonders Jesus Jones.

In Baptist polity (oxymoron), “resolutions” are not binding on congregations, but they authorize collective action on behalf of the convention. So the news is not that every Southern Baptist now officially condemns IVF. The news is that the SBC will now be LOBBYING to outlaw IVF.

So … any of the 100,000 members of Gateway Church want to share what they heard today in Robert Morris’ Father’s Day sermon?

WTF is “freedom ministry counseling”?

A pastor of a Texas megachurch who was Trump’s spiritual advisor confessed to “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a 12 year old when he was in his early 20s

Pastor Robert Morris confesses to ‘moral failure’ after woman claims he began molesting her at 12www.christianpost.com Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, which attracts an estimated 100,000 worshipers weekly, has confessed to inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady more than ...

Say “A picture is worth a thousand words” and everybody agrees with you. Say “Connotation > denotation” and suddenly they begin to object.

There’s a certain kind of evangelical-to-Catholic convert who imagines they have acquired a magical trump card enabling them to “win” all their prior losing arguments unresolved due to the evangelical crisis of authority. They exude an air of smug dimness and dim smugness that’s insufferable.