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https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/forget-chicken-sandwiches-which-chain-makes-the-best-fried-chicken/2019/08/28/05b2ae4c-bf8e-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html Forget chicken sandwiches. Which chain makes the best fried chicken?

Doo is probably in the top 5% of MLB players in terms of intelligence. Maybe 1%.

He’s not struggling through 3 innings and gutting out a 4th through sheer stubbornness, either.

Scherzer looks much stronger.

It rained for about 15 minutes downtown, but it's stopped now.

Just finished season 2 of The Man in the High Castle. The premise is very up my alley, but the execution is not great. Most of the story lines are difficult to follow, sometimes I feel like I'm not in on the joke. Why the **** did the Trade Minister end up in a separate timeline? Also, it's unsettling that the only character I like is the ****ing arch Nazi, but I tend to like the competent mother****ers who get **** done and don't have the whinydrama, and he's pretty much it on this show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-excessive-barking-a-chevy-chase-dog-park-divides-the-rich-and-powerful/2019/08/27/0b9fd242-c4e5-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html ‘NO EXCESSIVE BARKING’: A Chevy Chase dog park divides the rich and powerful PB interlude: She called the police about dogs barking at a dog park. PB interlude: Super solid Footloose reference, Pat. I’d swear this was an Onion article if I didn’t actually know one of the quoted sources.

My favorite evil marketing practice was when the defendant pharma companies trained doctors to look out for "psuedoaddiction", where patients exhibited signs of addiction like asking for higher dosages and more frequent descriptions and to not be fooled, these people were not actually suffering from addiction but, GET THIS, they were actually suffering from the undertreatment of pain and the solution was to prescribe more drugs. Classic!

First, arguments that compare dangerous things to cars are usually dumb because they, by necessity, are so generalized. I know that you took the analogy from that CNN piece, I'm not attributing it to you specifically. Second, this case does not say that J&J broke the law when the manufactured a dangerous product. This case says that J&J broke the law by aggressively and misleadingly marketing opioids (including fentanyl) and promoting their over-prescription (making claims that pain was undertreated and that the risk of addiction was low) , which lead to increased rates of addiction, overdose deaths and neonatal abstinence syndrome in Oklahoma. The holding goes on like this for like 10 pages: So no, car companies should not have to pay for accidents that they know are going to happen because they sell cars. They should pay for accidents that occur because they convinced people that cars were totally safe (which they don't do, as far as I know).

I do not understand Philadelphia fandom. https://deadspin.com/phillies-fans-are-currently-feuding-with-the-guy-who-hi-1837623420

MASN declaring bankruptcy is the ideal outcome. It would be forced to liquidate its assets, which include the rights to Nats television. I'm not expert on appellate law, but I'd imagine there are rules in place to prevent frivolous appeals from dragging on forever.

Would feel a lot better with some more offense.

It's finally Scherzday!

Same, except banking.

I don't remember, I was very stupid when I was 26. I remember getting an actual check though. Yea, the gigantic plan to rebuild our country's infrastructure that so many people are talking about, which will put people to work, doing jobs, and we'll get something tangible out of it. I haven't seen any actual plan from anyone yet, other than HOW BIG IT WILL BE. Obam's plan was only $275b in federal contracts.

Right, we've had an extremely long cycle of growth, and that is inevitably going to end soon. All of the various actors can speed it up, slow it down, or make it deeper or smoother, but it's coming. I really want to keep politics out of this, but a move that we've seen in the past was during the W administration when everyone got sent a $600 check, remember that? The W Economic Stimulus Act or whatever (and everyone just used it to pay down their credit cards (or maybe that was just me)). I can definitely see Trump, who does not give a **** about budgets or deficits, doing that in an election year. Just shower everyone in deficit spending.

High aprs?

Yes, it's Trump's base. You should read this thread:

Yep, I'm the one that came in being a jerk. I also love your sliding in that you read more than one. Do you also have many fine leather bound books?

I think generally the reporting from a lot of outlets reflects how bad the last one was, and that people are keyed up about the next one. Do you have anything to add, or are you just here to advertise that you read one financial blog?

🤣 #hijack

LOL, you took issue with something I did not say, now you are trying to salvage your inability to read. Great hijack.

Yes, it does sound stupid. Whether the yield curve inversion is correctly indicating a recession was not my question. I simply stated that it is (again quoting) "generally seen as a sign that a recession is coming." Which is just a fact. Yea, I have a degree in economics and work on the legal side of the housing finance industry. I'm pretty happy to compare resumes.

Are we going to play this game where you take the position that a recession isn't coming at some point?

This I totally disagree with. Almost always, towards the end of a boom cycle, interest rates are not at near-historic lows (which they are now) which fuel home buying.