Partial agree

The main problems are easy to identify and mitigate with some common sense regulations

Elimination of player props and live betting would solve many (not all, to be fair) of the issues which have developed with the integrity of games and the addictive impact on young folks

Question: do any of the contracts for elite skiers require or contain financial incentives for Olympic appearances?

I know these are elite athletes with super-human competitive drives, but is there a chance that a sponsorship deal impacted Vonn’s decision to try to ski in the Olympics?

let's be honest, america needed the patriots to get their motherfucking heads beat in like this

So much of the what GOP has been willing to do over the past decade depends on the assumption that Democrats will always revert to “norms” and “principles” and will never use levers of power in the same way (see e.g. Merrick Garland)

This observation extends well beyond partisan gerrymandering

Many of structural flaws Trump exposed — such as weaponization of DOJ and ability to withhold funding from states run by opposing party — can only be repaired once GOP recognizes that Democrats are willing to do the same thing to them

Access Über Alles

500!

Thank you for your service.

Contrast with how standard officer-involved shootings are handled is striking

I work on a lot of state OIS in my law practice

Identity of officers and any bodycam footage is often public before I even get a chance to meet with the officers, in fact, I usually just pull the videos from news sites

So sorry if I said something suggesting ignorance, that was not the intent

I did read the article (liked the Trading Places reference)

I would have hoped you would have read the reply as more of a humorous comment on the “throwing snowballs at Santa” culture of Philadelphia than “mansplaining”

The word “terrified” is usually not used to describe the good people of Philadelphia

“Belligerent” and “steadfast” better fit my experience in the City

Meh… just need to have a mind of winter

Until you hear the phrase “exposed flesh warning” you will be fine

Shocking

The answer — as always — is a strong constitution that protects individual rights combined with an independent judiciary that will act as a check on legislative and executive overreach

Problem now — and I am hardly first to make this observation — is that SCOTUS has abandoned role in this system

Also: they have absolute certainty that if Democrats regain power, there will be no significant effort to pursue criminal or civil investigations of their conduct because of dems’ commitment to “norms” and “looking forward”

Bonus: they know that SCOTUS will broadly interpret immunity doctrines, too

I thought watching football was supposed to be fun. I’m not having fun.

That is definitely not what Larry Tribe, Jim Vorenberg, and Charles Fried taught at Harvard

It certainly is an alternative timeline

In Ohio, Governor Kasich gave the State of the State speech in various locations throughout the State, including at Otterbein University

The devastation from this decision appears to have been limited ... no word on if avid SOS fans who had camped out for weeks at statehouse survived