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Ankle daguerreotypes or it's non-empirical ephemera (stop)

Fair enough. I now see that I misunderstood your original post that read: "Welcome to Leftist-ran Orange County California." I interpreted that as blaming a particular side of the political spectrum for a very distressing social problem. But since you posted a link to America Magazine (I'm Catholic and have a subscription), I now see that you were not intending to belittle those that have the least among us as part of a partisan argument. My apologies. Thanks for your concern. I volunteer with a group out here that works with one of these communities. It's really tragic to see the effects of addiction, mental illness, and economic despair. That is perhaps why I initially responded. Again, sorry I misunderstood your point.

Agreed. It is logically-specious to imply causal relations between broad macro-economic phenomena and a specific voting record in a single election. Unless you mean to imply that the entire homeless population here has been created in the last year and not indicative of larger, longer social trends that go beyond something as arbitrary as a county line. There has long been great income-inequality in California, and coastal cities endure large homeless populations because the weather is so mild year-round (a joke we tell out here: "What's the easiest job in America? Meteorologist in San Diego. Just memorize 'There'll be a high of 74 today and a low of 60 tonight.' Repeat 365 times each year."). Or do you believe that Orange County is more liberal, right now at this moment, than other counties in California that do not have this type of homeless population?

Wrong. From the easily searchable internet thingy called Wikipedia: "It is also known for its political conservatism—a 2005 academic study listed three Orange County cities as among America's 25 most conservative, making it one of two counties in the United States containing more than one such city (Maricopa County, Arizona also had three cities on the list.[10]) Orange County is part of the Tech Coast." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_California

Props on the most awesome humblebrag.

Your heart is in the right place, but your tongue is a misbegotten messenger for it. This team won 9 games. Many of those wins were close and the result of a combination of tenacity, heart, and luck. This team, as currently configured, cannot expect to win 9 every year. Obviously. It was a fortunate confluence of circumstances. Best To enjoy it. To do so regularly, the coaches need to improve recruiting and scheme fundamentals, and players will need to execute better. They know that. They'll work on it. And if they don't improve that, they know what'll eventually happen. But to piss all over them as if it's a truth shower is just flat out embarrassing.

Whelp. That was a whole lot of nothing. Part of it can be attributed to the age difference and that Rigo had to go up two weight classes for the fight. But starting in the third round, Lomachenko just fought at a faster perception of time. Rigo tried to lock up his arms and that low crouch defensive posture thing he does. But Lomo had 8 answers for each of those. Nowhere near the contest that GGG and Alvarez provided.

Fight starting up soon. Should be an interesting study in contrasts. Precision and timing based offense versus a maddeningly patient and deliberate defense.

(Reasonable) Road Trip!!!! This is the first time I could say that in my 20 years out here. Thank you Wren!!!

The DRC should just use this as Vito's byline: " He reports; you deride."

This thread is so meta-denton. It's like Baudrillard and (late) Barthes joined the booster club.

The periodic calls to dox people by revealing who (down)voted posts is a problematic, though well-intentioned, solution to the problem. Perhaps the board could be made to reveal each poster's aggregate up and down vote history. Not who they voted for specifically. But how they did generally. Just each of our general tendencies to reward or revile content/contributions. That might be revealing.

Sure. But whichever bid we accept is indisputable proof that it was the wrong choice, a result of unbounded ignorance, and that anyone else on this board could have chosen a better bowl. #expectmore