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Haven't been there in a long time, and not semi-regularly since their original iteration. Context? What's been going on over there?

http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/ BioBoards going down? But, but ROMANCE!?!

It ain't fear-mongering when it's the truth. Barack Obama It's fear-mongering when your pants are on fire. Donald Trump

Amare's decline these last few years made me concerned for my own knees. Good for him getting paid and deciding to stick a fork in it.

https://theringer.com/jason-mercier-world-series-of-poker-three-bracelets-309f6886491a#.d48wwkv95 I don't want Vanessa Selbst to be forced to sell her house, but then again...I really wanted Jason Mercier to win this 180-to-1 bet.

Terrific speeches and Hillary testimonials the last few days by FLOTUS, Bernie, Bill, Biden, Kaine, and POTUS. Positivity and inclusiveness vs the doom and fear-mongering seen at the RNC. We'll see if that'll carry over to the nominal non-participants in VA, NC, PN, IA, NV, CO, OH, and FL and get them out to vote in November. I'm already pot-committed on Clinton Island so I have to be optimistic.

W Wait, what? POTUS isn't allowed to endorse or campaign for precious Senate seats when one candidate received a whopping 22% more votes than the other? Is this like them unwritten baseball rules?

Kamala Harris is the better candidate and more likely to win. PS Though her father is Jamaican, Her mother is Indian. Hence the name, Kamala.

Lols @ Chris Sale and UniformGate. https://theringer.com/chris-sale-chicago-white-sox-uniform-meltdown-bda0e9f7106c#.i3pco7j40

Well, the Irish books are currently giving Clinton 2/5 odds to Trump's 2/1 and the betting markets have at Clinton 70% to Trump's 29%. FiveThirtyEight has Clinton favored 60% to 40%. The gap is closing, as it should be.

*cough* http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/85931-us-election-2016/?p=1801005

Yep. That's the point I think. Also, the VP really shouldn't be the primary attack dog because they have to be Presidential. Let Warren and Sanders do that. Clinton feels protected from the left and already gave in to a progressive platform. Minds are mostly already made up as to candidate preference anyway. It's a case now of mobilizing voters in the battleground states. Kaine isn't the sexy pick, but he's a rock solid and likeable guy with very good credentials --Jesuit missionary, Mayor, Lt. Governor, Governor, and US Senator.

It was supposed to be He-Man (as the daughter was supposed to be obsessed with He-Man and She-Ra, so she'd have been wearing a She-Ra tiara, I think) but director Chris Columbus didn't know who He-Man and She-Ra were. Hmm. That we could make more sense. Seemed a little off that a 9(?) year old girl would be obsessed with a secondary -in popularity - Avenger. Still, the movie holds up quite well after all these years.

Adventures in Babysitting. Can't believe Thor was played by the Kingpin --who actually looked like Thor!

I didn't realize this until recently, but Ichiro has surpassed Will Clark and Barry Bonds as my favorite ballplayer. A nice profile. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/17105389/miami-marlins-ichiro-suzuki-approaches-3000th-major-league-hit

My fandom always gets in the way. It's sports.

Testosterone and alcohol. Mutual taunting. Draymond slaps the MSU football player in the face. Cops were across the street and witnessed it. Tough guy football player pressed charges. Draymond even told the cops that he wanted to apologize to the "victim" immediately after the incident. Not like we have a Manziel, Ray Rice, or Ray MacDonald situation here.

The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, California, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Dutch are the friendliest, followed by the fine folks from Kansas City who know what burnt ends are supposed to taste like. Singapore and Japan have the best foods. Indonesia has the worst mosquitos, and Cologne has the tallest cathedral. East Coast turnpikes suck.

Ha!. Timmy published the following journal while at Wake Forest. https://books.google.com/books?id=zY1ivEwlHP4C&lpg=PA111&ots=nl14fdGXmf&dq=Aversive%20Interpersonal%20Behavior%20tim%20duncan&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false

Man, I can't believe Lou Reed played at the same venue thirty years ago where they now have Mass Effect: The Ride.

Study by Harvard Economics Professor just published on police use of force. http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399 The NY Times write up and profile of the study: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 Although the study finds that there is no evidence of increased bias in use of lethal force against blacks, there is significantly more use of non-lethal force towards blacks than whites when taking into account similar situations.

So long, and thanks for all the bank shots, Timmy!

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/black-americans-are-killed-at-12-times-the-rate-of-people-in-other-developed-countries/?ex_cid=538twitterchart Pretty clear there are huge homicide rates within African American communities. Lots of it is "Black on Black" violence, but BLM is more than in the right to demonstrate that "Black Lives Matter" and as a society we need to reflect on our own internalized prejudices and recognize the human element of these crime statistics. In a step towards the right direction, the DoJ has started a program to train their law enforcement agencies and prosecutors on "how to recognize their own implicit bias." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-new-department-wide-implicit-bias-training-personnel I would imagine that the DoJ will then pass on this training to other Federal law enforcement agencies and local departments and DA offices across the country. *edit* corrected DoJ link.

I get it.

This fecesbag was a Congressman. Before the shooting started. Protester and DPD. https://twitter.com/NPRmelissablock/status/751396163966885888 DPD Chief David Brown states that the shooter was a lone gunman and wanted to kill white police officers.