TrueBlueGED

Reminds me of a couple of my favorite articles I read in grad school: "The Science of Muddling Through" and the follow up, "Still Muddling, Not Yet Through". To those curious, yes, those are real.

As someone with a bit of experience with this...earning an advanced degree is absolutely a labor of love and sacrifice. Not just for the individual doing it, but for those close to them. The amount of time needed to pour into it, the sheer number of times you have to say "Sorry, I can't, I have to study"...having an understanding and supportive (emotionally, if not financially) partner is unspeakably helpful. A less than great partner can easily leave aspirations (regards to both the education and relationship) in shambles. I think that's what Smell means by the degree belonging to he and his wife.

What about two of the three?

Schultz has mostly been a mess as a pro, but I remember him getting a ton of hype coming out. Man, I always forget about Wheeler. What a player.

He's in the same class as Schultz, I think.

I'm not so sure about that. I thought the only significance of a 35+ contract is that it's on the cap, not that the actual cash has to get paid out.

I don't know what you ate for breakfast, but between this and your Gose stuff in the beer thread, you should feel great shame.

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If you had me painted in a loincloth, this is probably best for all. To the rest, I think you're making a mistake by conflating personal accomplishment with property ownership.

Even that wasn't that bad, was it? Arizona wasn't going to use that cap space anyway. From their perspective it was all about adding Chychrun.

So in a nutshell, you think in a marriage you're only entitled to claim ownership of what you have directly earned the money to purchase? So let's say you earn 60% of the household income and your eventual wife owns 40%, is it your view that she only owns 40% of the house? How do you divvy that up, exactly? Do you take the family room, she gets the living room, then split the yard? I'm sorry, but I won't be as diplomatic as Smell: you view of marriage and property rights is cavemanish. Ownership through husband being not true ownership is very much an idea of property rights ripped from the 1800s when only white men could vote.

I've talked to some beer vendors and they've told me to just take whatever. Along the lines of "People are going to do it anyway, we can't stop it, so feel free we don't care." Now to contract my previous beer, one I dislike: Victory Berliner Weisse. I generally love Victory's offerings, so I took a flyer on this...but man, way way way too sour for my taste. Every sip I'm making the face that people who don't like beer but pretend they do make when drinking.

On a whim, purchased a Fuller's ESB as part of a Wegmans craft pack (which is arguably the greatest creation in modern grocery shopping history)...and wow, I don't know what my expectations were, but this greatly exceeded them. I don't have the pallet/knowledge to write a Weave-like description, but man, what a beer! I'm sad I only had the one bottle.

A) I just call it "the stadium". In fact, my only problem with the new naming rights deal is that it's apparently going to be a Field now, not a Stadium. Not a fan of that change. B) Sure, but $300 million isn't really in the same ballpark of rich as $3.5 billion. So I have to be thankful to a Sith lord for my football team remaining in Buffalo? :(

But does he flash his abs at every camera that points his direction?

Maybe the stadium is, but the name isn't. Ralph's name never should have been on it anyway, since he was always bitching about the small market. Move games to Toronto for the money? Sure! Take my name off the stadium for money? Hell no! (I say this knowing full well the Toronto deal was worth substantially more than any naming rights deal. It's the optics maaaaan.) I'm not even remotely interested in venturing down that path, as we can't even begin to have the information necessary for such a venture.

To the best of my recollection, Pegula didn't have really big money (not that any of us would sneeze at being worth a few hundred million) until certain natural resources were discovered on land his company owned. I believe the banned poster formerly known as Drane had the timeline all mapped out at some point so you could probably search it, but it was within the last decade that his personal wealth skyrocketed. I think he's even made mention of the fact that when Golisano bought the Sabres, he couldn't have, as he didn't have the resources at that time. Undoubtedly he was a wealthy man when he and Kim started dating and eventually got married, but he wasn't even close to a multibillionaire. So no, he couldn't have just cashed in some assets and purchased the Bills pre-Kim.

Why do you wish this on such an esteemed forum member? ;)

Documentary on Finnish training, including Risto (stuff on him starts around the 3:45 mark).

I just love Usain Bolt. Wish more athletes were like him. Make athletes fun again!

How do we know this stuff is useless when we've never had it before to study? That said, I agree that the last things sports needs are more utterly meaningless stats being spewed on broadcasts.

If you're the one who makes more money, and you ever tried to claim ownership to a higher percentage...how long do you think you'd be allowed to live in said house? :p

Well then, I 100% missed that. By chance was it in the midst of a string of Pi posts? Because that would explain it :lol:

On what issues? The only things I can think of where it's more centrist than in 1936 is some economic stuff. Anywho, I was thinking more the modern Democratic party since after the Dixiecrats started to break off. The metrics are the DW-NOMINATE scores developed by Poole and Rosenthal. In (very) layman's terms, they code every single vote cast by every single member of Congress since the founding, and essentially aggregate it to get overall party scores. To be completely fair to your side, most of the movement in the Democratic Party has resulted from the defection of the Dixiecrats, moreso than true movement left by the party. That said, the party definitely hasn't moved more center on anything outside of some economic issues (principally going from protectionist to free trade). The ACA was liberal, the party has moved left on the environment and social & racial issues, education, immigration, and foreign policy (I know you point to the chickenhawks, as you call them...but helllloooo Vietnam, and Kennedy today would be Republican-ish on foreign policy). And while you could certainly say Bill Clinton was more centrist than Jimmy Carter, I really don't think that withstands scrutiny when applied to the party as a whole.

Are you referring to me? Because if so, your reading comprehension has failed you. I said, and I quote, "Plenty of cities have a good night life."