I meant he didn't set the floor out of time outs. In general, he doesn't note subs.

Second, he didn't set the floor without time outs. Finally, it boggles my mind you could talk about the end of this game without mentioning the Spurs' best player went out with a possible concussion. Abysmal.

I only caught the last four minutes of the Spurs-Blazers, pulling it up on my phone while I showered post-pickup hoops. Mike Tirico is a terrible basketball PBP guy. First off, never mentioned why Wemby was out, as if everyone had watched the whole game.

Is it possible to support someone for narrow but important goals? Particularly when that narrow goal is preserving democracy from a corrupt fascist? What you see as clear eyed is what I see as a lack of ability to see nuance.

What if Cheney's support for Harris wasn't rooted in Cheney's ideology? What if was rooted in a singular common cause that made it acceptable for Cheney to support Harris because it was more important than the many issues upon where they disagreed?

It must be fascinating, and yet scary, going through life believing that correlation always implies causation.

If the point one is making is that Harris' platform was designed to appeal to conservatives like Cheney it is specifically relevant. No one denies Cheney supported Harris. The question is whether Harris' platform was targeted to conservatives such as her. I don't think there's much evidence for that

The results of the last election are pretty much directly contrary to that. Many Biden voters instead voted for Trump in 2024. Those would be persuadable voters, one would think.

This is a pretty simplistic take. Did Cheney support overturning Dobbs? Did she come out for climate change initiatives? Do you think Cheney was broadly supporting Harris, or supporting Harris due to Trump's threat to democracy?

In this past election, not everyone who voted for Trump was a hardcore MAGA. These were the purportedly independent voters who had voted for Biden last time around. That's who Harris was trying to appeal to. I agree that a dyed in the wool GOP voter would think any Dem was too liberal.

But you're making the point that Harris's platform was supported by someone as conservative as Liz Cheney. I don't think there's any evidence to support that. The support was limited to thwarting Trump's threat to democracy. The implication is Harris was running as a conservative. This isn't true.

First off, polling shows that Trump voters considered Harris too liberal. Second, I don't think that the overall Harris platform was supported by Cheney and her ilk, and I think you'd have to provide evidence to support that. They supported Harris because they were against Trump.

Wow -- I can't remember the last time I've seen you!

At the Bottle on Thursday.

I learned that Rod left the band after their second album, but still contributed songs thereafter.

I'm listening to the first disc of a 3-CD compilation of the London-based disco-funk band Heatwave. Wow. One critic noted that when Kool & The Gang retooled with James "J.T." Taylor, they probably had the first two Heatwave LPs in mind, and that makes a lot of sense. Classy funk w/some good ballads.

Has anybody ever been ordered to repay more than $166b of illegally acquired money? I know Trump likes superlatives, so I don't want him to miss out on this one if he deserves it.

I feel like Dems have been consultant-brain-rotted by Clinton’s famous “Sister Souljah” moment—and feel like they need to include scolding “Sister Souljah” lines in every speech or appearance. You don’t. You can offer a positive message & attack the corruption of the GOP. Your enemies are not Dems.

So yanking Wemby's arm all the way down while he's trying to get a rebound is "incidental contact?" I guess I don't understand what constitutes a loose ball foul. #NBA

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2.5 hours? Was this the director's cut?

It kept falling even lower, but then bumped up a bit during the pandemic, and only got back to 1.14 last year. Yet traffic deaths get a lot of social media attention, leading to a perception things are much worse, which simply isn't true. 2/2

I also think there is some aspect of people using anecdotal evidence to bolster their perception that driving is more unsafe now. In 1926, there were 15.77 deaths per 100 million miles driven. That number has been below 1.5 since 2008. 1/2

So many quotable lines. Charles Grodin is brilliant. I'm glad you saw it in a theater.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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The Hornets are struggling enough as it is, but the level of physicality that the refs are allowing the Magic to play with on the perimeter is appalling. This is what people think the Thunder gets away with (but they are wrong about that).

Just my opinion, but the band for Fall Heads Roll was the last really good band Mark E. had. I like a couple of the later albums, but that was the last one that I truly dug.

Nashville, on the ABC Movie of the Week. I was probably 12. I revisited it as an adult and it was much better.

Thinking about starting a book club, where we just sit in our own homes, read different books, and never talk about them.