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excellent tweets and video today. plus awesome news comment. worth every subscription penny

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I believe that most women favor abortion in most or all cases even in states where abortion is banned because pregnancy is much more complicated than most men understand. I had an abortion BECAUSE I very much wanted a child but had a non viable pregnancy that would have endangered my future fertility if I’d waited for a miscarriage.

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Totally agree Jo. It is so annoying when anti-choice folks think abortion is only about ending an "oops" pregnancy. Abortion is healthcare and in the big picture it benefits families. This patchwork of state laws makes it more of a burden on those individuals who have fewer resources and that is just not fair or right.

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Sorry Eric, but Korda isn't going to make women's golf a big thing, because nothing can make any golf a big thing anymore.

Golf is a boring waste of time for rich people!

As someone said, it's a good walk spoiled.

It's a massive waste of land & then dumps tons of herbicides & pesticides onto that land, which then gets washed into the rivers by the rains, plus when it doesn't rain, it uses up billions of gallons of water, that would be best used to irrigate actual crops we eat.

And the most absurd thing in golf is on this week, The Masters, a tournament where everyone is supposed to bow & scrape, in worshipful adherence to some sort of golf god named Jones, can't make any unnecessary noise & the broadcasters at CBS are required to use language as if they're at a church funeral service!

Golfers are a truly boring lot, they complain if a camera makes a click while they're putting, hitting a stationary ball, with a big flat surface, yet a batter at a baseball game can hit a ball that's thrown at him at 100MPH, while 50,000 people are screaming at him!

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Plus the appalling sight of the obese Orangeman cheating at golf while his sycophants gurn and applause.

On the other hand, Mr Woods made the game popular, so perhaps it could happen again, inexplicably.

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Woods make the game slightly popular for the required 15 minutes of fame. Then he melted down when his wife discovered he preferred skanks & whores over her, he then crashed his car & wrecked his back, pretty much ending his career & definitely his reputation. Now he's a national joke!

As for the fat orange Cheater-in Chief, Rick Reilly got an entire book out of that! A couple of weeks ago, the golf club he owns awarded him two, count em, two championships. Of course no one else was on the course when he won them. Even his hero Putin actually has opponents in judo & hockey when he "wins". The opponents know full well, the cemeteries are full of those who were stupid enough to beat him at any game.

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Saw an interesting exchange on ESPN about the new golf world number 1, Scottie Scheffler. Quote was: "Scheffler’s a bit of a hard sell. He’s Humble, he’s understated, he’s gracious, he’s grounded and that doesn’t translate well to current television product." Thought that was a telling quote well beyond the game of golf...

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So what they're actually saying his, he's more boring than most of the boring pro golfers.

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I checked synonyms for boring. Knew gracious and humble wouldn’t be there. Thought there was an outside chance that understated or grounded would be. But they weren’t in the list of 80…

Need to buy the GED (Garry English Dictionary) 😉

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Love the "new to me" word:

gurn | ɡərn |

verb [no object] mainly British English

make a grotesque face: (gurning as noun) : gurning is one of the fair's most popular competitions.

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Apr 11·edited Apr 11

Apparently it was your parents who didn't know how to spell. ;)

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What was misspelled?

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Wow, great issue all the way around today Eric. Lots of stuff and capped by the excellent Jenny Lewis, who I've been a fan of since her days in Rilo Kiley (fingers still crossed for a reunion some day). Steven K had good taste in music.

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Thanks, more submissions forthcoming.

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I'm planning to as well, I had the honor of the first one so I didn't want to jump in with another one too soon.

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Yeah I know, but I’ll still put my one recommendation out per week, and even if they don’t get selected but a few people check them out who wouldn’t have discovered them otherwise, then I know I will have done a small part to make the world a better place.

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good stuff, keep 'em coming

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I've been telling the Dad tweets/jokes to my kids. keep em coming

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The "leave it to the states" argument reminds of Trevor Noah's take on it at the Daily Show after the Dobbs decision came down that maybe state is too large of a territory to decide the issue for all its citizens, maybe each county should have their own rule, or better yet, each city or municipality, or even better than that, with such a personal issue, maybe each person should just decide for themselves.

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Thank you for your take on the circumstances surrounding Dexter Reed’s fatal police interaction, particularly point 2. I was involved yesterday in a conversation regarding that aspect and didn’t make the point that succinctly, but I couldn’t agree more. I don’t think “suicide by cop” was Reed’s intention, but either his death or grievous injury was a foregone conclusion once he fired his gun. Such a response to being stopped by police defies all logic yet happens time and again. What makes compliance and living to fight the circumstances of the situation so abhorrent that death or serious injury become preferable outcomes? Why would a man who only had allegedly committed low level offenses think that killing or injuring an officer would make anything better? Even if a young man thinks the odds are against his seeing justice done, he would still have his life.

I saw video of Reed’s mother trying to call for peace during a press conference and my heart goes out to her. No one raises their child to do something so unbelievably foolish. Now she has to live with his decision and without him. That’s more than any parent should have to bear.

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That American Conservative article about repealing the 22nd is obviously written by a Trump FanBoy. I'm positive that if Obama wanted to repeal it, he'd come up with an argument why it is un-democratic to do so.

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As I am sure you know, the original amendment was a reaction to the four terms of Franklin Roosevelt, the popular Democratic president. Clearly Republicans did not want to see that again. But the objective arguments about term limits are really no different for any office and EZ has repeatedly argued against them. We might get a chance to see this debate locally if the City Council tries to set term limits for the mayor's office. Mayor Johnson has made several remarks about wanting to be the longest serving mayor, despite that being oddly premature.

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Yes I am aware. I don’t know if you were part of Zorn’s Change of Subject blog, but we discussed this and IIRC we determined that republicans shot the selves in the foot with that one. It was also presented that a repeal of the amendment would only work if we set it to occur two presidential terms in the future.

As for term limits, I’m more of an age limits guy. That said, since it is easier for incumbents to win, maybe we do need to look at either term limits or just letting everyone have one term so they aren’t wasting time getting re elected.

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Well I enjoyed the tweets, but I really enjoyed the Dad tweets. This causes me to drop three of my own:

1. People who have the most birthdays, also live the longest.

2. A recent poll shows that 5 out of 6 people think Russian Roulette is safe.

3. A major study shows that people eat more bananas than monkeys. I personally agree with this, I have not eaten a monkey in quite awhile.

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Regarding the Reed incident: I think that while cops need far better training and departments need to NOT hire individuals prone to violence, Reed appears to have fired first. That mentality has to change regardless of the bad cop issues because that mentality kills others every day.

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It's inevitable that a national abortion ban would be signed by Trump if he wins. That's the message Democrats should amplify daily.

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Eric, I am a results oriented guy. Basketball is a team sport, the overall purpose of a basketball team is to win games.

I agree with you that Caitlin Clark was the best player in the tournament as well as in the South Carolina game. But South Carolina won the game via defense, Iowa went cold at the end of the fourth quarter when they needed points the most. They came up short on rebounds, and with their deep bench, South Carolina could easily out coach Iowa.

I find teams that go undefeated to be iconic and accomplish the primary goal of basketball.

Scoring and passing are important, but so are rebounding, defense and coaching.

I am an old Boston Celtic fan, I remember when Wilt Chamberlain was an unstoppable scoring champion. He scored 100 points in one game! He at times averaged over 50 points per season!

But the Celtics played better defense (thank you Bill Russell) and won all the championships.

Would you prefer a Michigan basketball team having an unstoppable and popular scoring champion with a winning record or an undefeated team that wins the tournament?

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I'm currently reading the new George Gervin book, "Ice". Silky smooth and four NBA scoring titles, but wrestles with himself a few times in the book about ultimately not winning any championships despite very good teams.

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The article by Uri Berliner is exactly why I no longer support or listen to NPR. I love listening to the Mincing Rascals but fear it may become a progressive silo as well. It certainly could use some more moderate viewpoints -- I hope that's the case. The addition of Marj Helperin doesn't help.

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NPR is suffering from the fact that, in the MAGA world, the truth, evidence, and reality are deemed "political." All the right-wingers claiming that they ever liked NPR or any evidence-based outlet are laughable. They have always had it in for any outlet that doesn't make money for fat cats and that tries to be impartial.

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look, i'm a regular listener to NPR in the AM. but no, their approach to 'reporting' the news, while they purport to play it straight, is defeinitely a liberal-progressive approach to newscasting - no less than MSNBC's approach.

you're a liberal-progressive - and that's fine. the P-S is a 'big tent'. but don't mistake agreement with you as gospel - or that an opinion that NPR's approach to news 'reporting' has become a progressive silo is somehow deficient or defective.

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Chacun a son gout and all that. I have just listened to the 7 am NPR news bulletin. The only "political" item (unless you think reporting that Iran is talking about closing the Strait of Hormuz is and Israel has intensified bombing in northern Gaza is political) was the news that Johnson has joined Trump in denouncing non-citizens voting in US elections, followed by statements that it is already illegal and almost never occurs. You know, boring old reality.

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a non-random, out-of-context sample of minimal size. - nice .

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Breaking News:

OJ Simpson has croaked from cancer.

Good fucking riddance to a double murderer!

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Garry, you mean the OJ Simpson in the Football Hall of Fame? Hmmm, seems they are less picky then the Baseball Hall of Fame folks.

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Believe it or not, this is true: The Heisman Committee sent condolences to his family!

Not as bad as the Irish Government sending condolences to Nazi Germany on Hitler's death, but still pretty lacking in basic common sense!

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there are some really bad people in the baseball HOF.

and, w/o defending OJ, he was elected to the NFL HOF in 1985. the voters can't be held accountable for not foreseeing the future - unlike howard cosell in the visual tweet of the year.

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I stole this from a fellow commenter on Wonkette:

I heard that the cancer is writing a book titled "If I did it" and is searching for the real killer of OJ Simpson.

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"...Gabby Giffords..." I think you mean Gabby Douglas. Or Simone Biles.

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Jim Valvano is most known for dying of cancer, so describing him as "late" seems fair.

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