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I'm pretty positive that if you gave the founding fathers a glimpse of the country today it'd be fairly clear to them that they fucked some stuff up. The maddening people are the people who live in the here and now who won't so much as entertain the idea that certain things could be improved upon. I mean... the goddamn Bill of Rights is a set of amendments. The rights that we consider the most sacrosanct are all things that they forgot to put in the first time

I'm legitimately terrified of what it's going to be like when that stuff gets more prevalent.

The writing at the A.V. Club is still good, but the site's never really felt right since they forced it into the same layout as the other ex-Gawker sites. For one, there used to be a giant pulldown menu where you could jump to any TV show they've ever reviewed, and that went away. And it ruined the comments sections which, I kid you not, were actually good. It was a really good community of people. When they switched the comments to Kinja style or whatever it's called, a lot of the regulars left. In short, fuck Univision.

Not the first time that a small Balkan nation has found itself unexpectedly in a major conflict with Western European powers

I mean, obviously, but whenever it comes up in the news that he's over there for some meeting news organizations feel the need to go through the motions of pretending like he's actually working towards some kind of amicable solution.

Don't worry, the Jared Kushner peace plan's gonna get rolled out any day now

Can't believe so much breath was wasted debating whether it was acceptable for The Atlantic to fire this idiot. Never should've offered him a job in the first place.

Support the troops, etc. etc.

Read yesterday that in terms of acreage burned, this year's wildfire season in the west is 25% ahead of where last year's was

Gianna Michaels

I have a pretty good friend who's asexual. I dunno, it's a thing.

Gotta get the deficit up higher before Democrats take power back so they get blamed for it and credulously get suckered into obvious bad faith arguments that spending needs to be cut immediately

Every Democrat should loudly support this

The ambassador to Estonia, a career diplomat, resigned over Trump's EU/NATO comments https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/29/u-s-ambassador-to-estonia-resigns-in-disgust-after-trump-anti-europe-rants-nato-european-union-diplomacy-transatlantic-alliance/

The hagiographies that are going to be written about him are going to break my brain

Occam's razor explanation is that Trump has no idea that this is a primary

For sure, man. For sure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/saudi-moves-forward-with-plan-to-turn-qatar-into-island what a time to be alive

I don't have a doctorate in history or anything, but I seem to remember there being several assassinations of some note. Restaurant etiquette tho

As they mention in the article towards the end, a common solution that's been presented is pushing the mound back a little. But, assuming that you want to keep all baseball diamonds from at least high school on up adhering to MLB regulations, think of the number of diamonds around the country that you'd have to alter to do that. Also Fan Graphs had a piece a couple of weeks ago showing that there's been some evidence that something has changed with the baseballs and they're not traveling as far as in the past few years and home runs are down some. It's easy to imagine a scenario where something slightly changes again with how they manufacture the baseballs and home runs drop even further and you end up with an environment where there's still a ton of strikeouts and practically no scoring at all. Anyway, based on the ideas he's already floated, I'm terrified Rob Manfred is going to try addressing this in the dumbest possible way. They've already changed the rules in the minors so that teams start with runners on 2nd if the games going into extras. And something leaked out a while back where Manfred floated an idea at some kind of rules committee meeting where teams would get to set their own batting order in the 9th inning of games. Which... just... what??

Thanks Wade

I imagine this will be roughly as impactful as the National Review's big "AGAINST TRUMP" issue

I don't know enough to know if any single one of these predictions is correct, but I've definitely been seeing more of them lately. Specifically since the trade war stuff started.