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Forest for the trees... To be fair, it wasn't actually TIME who did the fact-checking. Someone did it and the screenshot got passed around until I came across it. I don't remember where or from whom. TIME presented the transcript as is. I'll re-link. Again. http://time.com/4710456/donald-trump-time-interview-truth-falsehood/?xid=homepage

Also, Mustapha Mond is a boss name. ... Who wouldn't want to live in this Utopia?? Massive orgies, orderly behavior. Strict societal hierarchies? Who am I kidding? I've read it twice. Required reading in high school, and re-read it for pleasure again sometime in college. Impetus being my having read Neil Postman's brilliant, Amusing Ourselves to Death. B-Rice borrowed my dog-eared paperback of BNW from me my third year and never returned it. I suppose it'd be weird to pop up after all these years and demand her to give it back.

Lenina was pneumatic. Bernard needs to get laid. The Savage was just that.

To be fair to Shaq, he claims he was joking. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/shaquille-oneal-isnt-a-flat-earther-after-all-im-joking-you-idiots-183258371.html

Ok, let's not necessarily lump journalism and mass media together. Hannity is media. Limbaugh is media. Olbermann is media. Don Cherry, Stephen A. Smith, Skip Bayless are media. InfoWars and Breitbart are media. These aren't legitimate journalistic institutions. They're all hacks. Malcolm Gladwell is media. Sopan Deb, Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd, Maggie Haberman, Adrian Wojnarowski, Katy Tur, Ramona Shelburne, Ivan Watson are media. The NY Times and Washington Post are media. They are also legitimate journalists and journalistic institutions.

Back in the old BioBoards, I actually de-linked games from my account, so my forum profile looked more manageable.

Right, let's harp on one technicality on a particular, albeit fair, point and miss the forest for the trees. Donald Trump is a liar. The press is needed to do their job in reporting his lies to the public. Look, the media can get things wrong. The investigative hunt for the there there is hard to nail down and culling information still leads to gaps. What separates good journalists from amateurs and hacks are their training and ingrained code of ethics acquired from their schooling, experience, and editorial oversight to produce objective reporting based on facts -- checked against legitimate sources with overlapping concurrence. Good journalist through diligent fact-checking and analysis, produce an objective, fact-based account of the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. Even with all that, can journalists still get things wrong? Absolutely. Still doesn't change the fact that an independent and free press is essential to a healthy democracy to act as a guardian against both government and corporate overreach. Attacking the mainstream media with an offhand, blanket dismissal is counterproductive.

A few things felt off. I'm generally a fan of Shohreh Aghdashloo's acting, but in her scene where she dropped the F Bomb...it was a little flat. Didn't like the two Draper depositions either. The last scene at the freighter, I just rolled my eyes.

Really?? I thought it was one of the worst EPs of the season. Still, the Expanse is one of the better shows on right now. Right on my SF wheelhouse. Gonna catch Chappelle soon. About time Dave's back.

http://time.com/4710615/when-a-president-cant-be-taken-at-his-word/ http://time.com/4710456/donald-trump-time-interview-truth-falsehood/?xid=homepage

Well, he does refer to himself as the Big Aristotle. Celestial bodies rotate around the Earth and all.

Classic.

Chuck's always been a good pitch man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4coUuxsojQ err... maybe not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZaRUpXO-0Q

GD's saying the One Trick Ponies only stay in their particular lane and keep their blinders on. Never venturing off to discuss anything else. Like Oby. Obisidian's very own pet Putin mole.

K. Glad baseball season's over. Back to basketball.

I'm still in denial about Pluto.

Ian Kinsler, ought to choke just a little bit on his own spittle. Gimme more bat flips.

RE: stars then being able to be stars in today's game...I dunno, but I think the enhancements in baseball glove technology over the last 90 years may have a significant effect on batting averages and FIP. Which, I suppose makes Walter Johnson, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson's accomplishments more impressive. Except that hitters during the dead all era never really swing from the heels, either. And most analysts today agree that the most efficient way to score runs is for the Manager to sign for the ol' Three Run Home Run play.

HISTORY OF BASKETBALL Part 2: 1956, When Jump Shot Artists Were Clearly Ruining the Game. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9100293/jimmy_breslin/?smid=tw-nytsports&smtyp=cur

https://www.fig.co/campaigns/deadfire?update=298#updates Still at $4.57 million. Doesn't look like they'll hit $5 million, let alone $4.75 million -- unless there's going to be an aggressive marketing push. Kinda annoying that they aren't posting these Fig updates in the announcement section of the official PoE2 forums.

Dark Rock Industries Limited? (DRIL) Lol.

Have they double because of ACA? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-gop-bill-could-change-health-care-in-8-charts/?ex_cid=538twitter

Hmm. Either I don't write #BaseballFakeNews or I wrote that article, Comrade.

My dream home is an Eichler --belatedly regretting that I could have had an opportunity to make a go of one a few years back. Saw a listing for another Eichler in the same neighborhood a few days back. Price has more than tripled since 2011.

Mourning period ended. Back to pro hoops for me. Hopefully, Stephen Curry can go back to his standard level of being greatest shooter in basketball history.