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My family has been watching Never Have I, and I have to say the first season is quite funny. It has a Friends style humor to it with a group of teens as the main characters. The fact John McEnroe does some of the inner monologue is hilarious (the main character's dad and coincidently the writer's dad loved his antics playing tennis). The (Asian) Indian culture references in the show are also a good way for many people to see and learn about it.

...not much to stop this from happening except finding a team willing to take Beal's salary and Beal being willing to go? That seems like a lot to overcome.

As an adoptive parent of four, I can MTG is wrong. Ironically, it's not from my position as adoptive parent that I know her to be wrong. I know she is wrong because my step dad was my dad in every meaningful way. It was he who read the Lord of the Rings to me, went to my soccer games all over the east coast, and modeled how a husband should behave. It wasn't the seconds to hours in bed that made my dad my dad. It was the decades spent raising me. I knew my biological dad, but my step dad was my dad in every MEANINGFUL way despite whatever MTG may think. I would suggest a long look in the mirror for anyone tempted to buy MTG's theory on what makes a parent. What really makes a parent? What makes a parent they want to be or wish they had? What makes a parent raising the next generation to be all we want them to be or more importantly all they want to be?

Well, life in plastic is fantastic.

We are seriously showing our age with a lot of these picks. We are picking a lot of 70's and 80's songs. My pick: Still haven't found what I'm looking for - it was in Sing 2 recently, and all of us 90's kids grew up with U2 Let It Go - Frozen was huge! What a Wonderful World - This song has been done so many times through the years.

I was horrified to read that NY times article. I admit I didn't know the scale of the issue. 250k undocumented children in the last 2 years. Then to read how many we lose track of/sign off to go to what looks like indentured servitude. I thought we were beyond that phase of our history. Suddenly, my oldest son's fortunate placement in my house looks even more fortunate. For those who do not know, his parents were illegal immigrants from El Salvador. His mom might have been one of those kids 2 decades ago.

I keep thinking about the toll roads in Disney idea. Who does he think will end up paying those tolls? My bet is the idea is not very well received by the FL voters who work at the parks...

Idaho AG may be correct about illegal to refer patients for a procedure out of state. I don't think most medical licenses' prescription powers cross state lines. It is why my sister-in-law in WA can't just write one for her mother in MD. Thus an idaho doc likely can't legally refer a patient for a procedure in another state. It has nothing to do with whether the procedure is an abortion or the removal of impacted wisdom teeth. It would be about the license limitations.

Here are our two dogs dyed for Easter (a tradition in our house) along with a dog we are fostering for animal control named Peep for the season.

I would think there would be some additional pressure on Snyder to sell before the Seahawks are on the market. If they are close to ready to sell, Snyder better hurry up. A large part of the appeal of owning an NFL franchise is how few of them there are to buy. Sure one comes up every few years, but I don't think the Skins' sale price is helped by the prospect of another coming on the market.

As I see filming of him in a truck, I have images of OJ's infamous white bronco drive.

stuck between laughing and crying at the how do you explain these things to a 6 year old. I can only imagine not being able to talk about slavery or sex as you try to tread the very narrow path about manservants and maidservants...It will require one heck of a game of password.

I didn't think he could pardon himself from state crimes.

It did go over the post WWII American reaction to Black service men comingback from the war. It also looked at the GI bill and what it did for education of service members. It turns out many Black service members came back and were prompted to use their GI Bill to study how to do services Black people were typically hired to do. It was not their ticket to the middle class as it was intended. Further more, the red-lining of where they were allowed to purchase houses continued for decades post WWII and that severely limited their prospects for generational wealth accumulation even after desegregation. The wealth gap is such that even if all the rules are even now, they are unlikely to achieve equal results. r35 However, the book goes into more about how we all lose out as a result of our current racially divided society. She goes into things like experiments with groups composed of people of one race versus groups of people composed of multiple races. In those experiments, the multi racial groups showed more original thinking in problem solving, had solutions that appealed to a wider variety of people (think advertising), and were more likely to question input data (think multi-racial juries). They found the people part of the multi-racial groups reported it took more effort to achieve their results. The point is we all lose out when we self isolate. It also went into how we are willing to take a lesser outcome if we can avoid finishing last. The book points out how we have a willingness to take a lesser social position so long as we can say, "it could be worse. We could have it as bad as them." She says this with many studies showing it to be true. She points to this with some of the anti-union ads and their success. The "we may have it bad, but if we unionize we will be joining the group of the 'lazy' Black workers, and they will treat us all that badly." was very successful many many times. It is part of why unions have failed to take root in the South.

I just finished The Sum of Us. It is good in that is goes over some of our racial history in the U.S. of which I was only minimally aware. For example, I didn't know the history of desegregation where communities paved their pools when facing the prospect of sharing them with Black people. The other method I was aware of where they sold them for $1 to private clubs who continued to segregate. I liked the ability to humanize the facts. The frustrating part of me was the book felt like it was getting repetitive at times hitting me over the head with more examples of the same things. Maybe that is totally unfair for me to say as I never had to experience it all, and the shear volume of the facts/details pointing to how often racism impacts us is part of the deal. I am a privileged white guy so maybe making me feel like it is repetitive to keep giving me incidents is needed. Still there were some shocking incidents of bad behavior that left my mouth open thinking "wow, some people are slime." I can't believe somebody said to her "What do you call two old black men in the front yard? Antique farm equipment." Are people really so ignorant? I guess so. Still, I learns some cool things too. Did you know unions were favored by a majority of white people until the 1960's? When the Union of Auto Workers came out in favor of civil rights marked the end of white support for unions. The unions have never been favored by a majority of white people since then even if the unions often result in them getting higher wages and better benefits. The anti-union campaigns have been bastions of racism, and hearing them was frequently maddening (and I am not even a target). In any event, the book made for an interesting read. Now I am on onto reading Cartel after finishing The Power of the Dog. I will say Don Winslow books are not ones to listen to without ear buds if kids are around. Their is some highly graphic violence...Heck that took me some getting used to in the first book, but the plots are engaging and the characters all well developed, even the "bad guys."

The two questions I asked before that war are the same I had before we went to Afghanistan: "What would constitute a win? What are the measurable objectives of the war?" I never got an answer in either war, so I still can't say if we won or lost them. I will say it still seems pointless to fight without answering those questions, and I hope our elected leaders will learn that before we go to war again.

So let me get this straight: Last week, Trump said something we wanted to happen was going to happen next week. You would think 4 years of Infrastructure week promises would have conditioned us to call BS.

They don't even need 12. They only need 1.

Netflix series of outlast. This is survivor on steroids. 4 groups of 4 people are dropped off in Alaska and the only rule is you must be in a group or you lose. Everyone is given a flare to shoot off when they give up. It is a fun watch to watch the people just tap out after some very stupid mistakes, like drinking water from a stream without boiling or anything. Needless to say, she tapped out.

"OK. I guess I trading an hour of sleep to save day light is a good trade." "Dude. Daylight is free. Why did we have to trade an hour of sleep for it?" "Well darn. I guess that deal will go down as another blunder made out of habit. At least now we know, and knowing is half the battle. We won't make that mistake again, right?" "Aren't we making day light's saving time permanent now?" "Why?" "I don't know. Just chalk it up to a repeated cultural blunder unless you can come up with a theological argument for it because I didn't make that trade."

I am going with 3rd down success rates. I guess the best measure might be QB rating on 3rd downs, but ideally I would want one that takes into consideration runs for first downs or scores. This represents the difference between giving the ball back to the opponent or continuing a drive/scoring.

I can't figure out why anyone would want to touch a screen on the way out of a bathroom given the number of people who don't wash their hands. Now figure most people taking the time to touch it are probably trying to register a complaint about how bad the bathroom is and ask yourself if you want to touch a screen where the last thing somebody touched if they washed their hands was s dirty faucet. The picture is from bwi, but the airport in Jamaica had these too, only it was buttons not a screen.

I tell my kids, the wonderful thing about trying to date is you only have to get it right once. I was a serial monogamist, and it hurt when it didn't work. Dating is like the statement, "Fall down 2 times. Get up 3 times."

The labor market isn't something I would expect to soften given demographics. With an aging workforce, we will be in a spot where we can't find employees to replace all retirements. So without any new businesses, the labor market would tighten. Now we still have a growing economy at the moment. So that will require more employees to fill the new jobs. Thus, it should be no surprise to see reports like this one. We need more workers. Luckily, we have a population to our South sending us workers...when we let them. As Louis Jacobson said, "Demographics is destiny."

Beauty and the Beast with H.E.R on the Disney channel was awesome. There are other big name singers who have some good performances, but H.E.R. is awesome. Her voice makes the entire movie worth watching even if you feel like you have already seen Beauty and the Beast without a need to see yet another version. I would recommend taking the time to watch it.