Ricofoley

2 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

 

Oops.

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/

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“A Foreign Service Officer’s DNA is programmed to support policy and we’re schooled right from the start, that if there ever comes a point where one can no longer do so, particularly if one is in a position of leadership, the honorable course is to resign. Having served under six presidents and 11 secretaries of state, I never really thought it would reach that point for me,” he wrote in the post, which was obtained by Foreign Policy.

40 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

Man, if we're nauseous about "civility" now, just wait until John "Bomb the Brownies" McCain kicks the bucket in a few months.

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

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Saudi Arabia is moving forward with a plan to dig a canal that would physically enshrine its yearlong rift with Qatar by turning the emirate from a peninsula bordering the kingdom into an island, Saudi media reported on Tuesday.

 

Five international companies that specialize in digging canals have been invited to vie for the project, with bids closing on Monday and the winner to be chosen within 90 days, Makkah newspaper reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. The canal should be completed within one year of work starting, it said. The report was also carried by Saudi-owned news channel Al Arabiya and shared on Twitter by Saudi royal court adviser Saud Al Qahtani.

 

The Saudi government’s Center for International Communication didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The government has never confirmed the plan, first reported in April.

 

The project, if it is carried out, would geographically extend Qatar’s isolation from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt after they cut trade and diplomatic ties with the emirate last year. The allies accused Qatar of supporting terrorism and meddling in their affairs, charges it denies.

what a time to be alive

7 minutes ago, SimpleG said:

The Civil Rights movement was anything but civil

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.

Oh for fuck's sake