Was there something else to be said more directly than what you just did? Surely you're not upbraiding us for failing to move toward the usual "Disney is too woke"/"Elon is a piece of crap" or their opposites fast enough?

But what was really missing was music. Mr. Resnor added pretty much nothing to this outing. In some ways he made it worse- in one of the few scenes that maybe should make reference to an iconic earlier theme, he instead opted for something that sounded like a riff on a Zelda fairy visit. As if to exacerbate the problem, you find out while watching the credits it has inane lyrics if let play for more than 5 seconds

Ah, so the word since means "starting from and including" does it? That must be why sports announcers are always saying "the second player since X to do Y."

It is? Then why do people talk about the autopen rather than saying directly, "Joe Biden never would have pardoned X, is unaware that X was pardoned, and would not only fail to ratify the pardon given the opportunity, but would actively repudiate it."

The point is, if the power is there, the one wielding it may delegate or ratify. The Constitution says "shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment" not "must personally put pen to paper." Trump has literally almost 4000 positions to fill that require his nomination- do you really think he's even going to say 4000 names aloud let alone personally read and sign the nomination paperwork?

Thanks for the lecture about stuff I know. We were actually on the subject of your typical sweaty hyperbole, namely, how you couldn't resist referring to "almost all" of a group of two.

I'm glad you think you can read, but it's not really reading if you don't comprehend the words. Flip the flash cards over when you practice, I bet there are simple definitions on the other side.

Sorry, my fault for not cutting-and-pasting. "(A)lmost every President that has preceded him since Bush 2." Since Bush 2, meaning after Bush 2, preceded him, meaning before Trump, you have Obama and Biden. So how many is "almost every" one of two?

Yes, unhinged.

Uh, how many presidents do you think "proceeded him before Bush 2" that it makes any sense to say "almost"?

That's pretty unhinged, even for you.

You guys are so entertaining with the autopen thing. Here we are with, on one hand, America's equivalent of the king as Unitary Executive and everything's cool because it should be that way. On the other, of course the holder of that office, with his nearly unlimited power, has to go pluck a turkey, grind up some ochre, and set his own hand to paper, because it's self-evident you would never know the will of such an awesome entity without such a procedure.

I respect your demand for Platonic, ideal baseball.

Human players add zero value to a ball game. If they make every play or hit every ball over the wall they have not made the game better. So all they can do is make a game worse with their mistakes

if this new rule leads to a disparity that makes the game not fun

That horse has absolutely left the barn already. But I, too, trust MLB owners to busy themselves repainting that barn should any need arise.

I think it's unlikely that statutory damages would be available at all- they don't have the requisite registration of anything the PI firm is likely to use to make it a counterfeit mark. Simple infringement, if anything, for which statutory damages are not available.

You're sure it wasn't that they were merely paved then? Why would it have some unusually narrow right of way then? Were they 50 mph limits when unpaved? Are you sure it's not cars that are the newcomer? Do you research the history of every right-of-way on which you travel, so that you're sure you're only calling out cyclists when they're on the route "intended" for you and only you? I assume, of course, you admit to being the asshole here when bikes were likely there first.

I'm very relieved and do apologize. I thought you were trying to claim all roads for your car instead of a vanishingly small minority. I totally understand now- when you've got so few routes where you can drive without having to tolerate others, it's no wonder you can't.

Nice use of the word entitled. I think it betrays your own entitlement- you think roads are just for you, and cite those aluminum tablets dug up in someone's yard and posted alongside the road to prove your god-given right to travel that fast. No cyclist prefers to ride with faster traffic and no dedicated right-of-way, twerp. They're probably trying to get somewhere, just like you are. I understand how hard it would be for you to choose another route- you'd have to flex your ankle a few more times, maybe even move your arms across your body, not to mention spend a whole extra dollar or something on gas- and that clearly is more of a burden than the same distance self-propelled, and of course the extra distance doesn't expose them to any different risks nor make them late. They can't possibly be as busy as you are anyway, rushing from one responsibility to the next so stacked that a reduction from your divine right to travel the posted speed limit is an affront to reason.

Uh, actually, those roads sound unsafe for the *car* traffic already on them. There is nothing about a bike that makes it more dangerous than a stalled or stopped vehicle, a hitchhiker, a deer, a tractor, or anything else. If you're going so fast in low-visibility areas that a bike presents some undue hazard, so would all those other things. YOU are the hazard, based on how YOU are driving on those roads.

That could be true, if there were any conceivable way the dollar could actually become literally worthless. Unless Americans cease to use it entirely (in favor of what exactly?) it'll have a non-zero value. And thus the only question would be whether bonds support a real return.

I think international bond investors are probably pretty good at making inflation and currency exchange predictions, given that's the whole point of the market they're operating in. But cheers for disagreeing.