@George-K said in "Defying the Supreme Court": @Axtremus Marbury v Madison is not the appropriate analogy. I cited Marbury v. Madison not for analogy but as an important consideration for discussing balance of power and difference of roles between the legislative branch and the judicial branch, which core of the Leonhardt article you quoted in the opening post.

@Jolly said in It does not add up: ... but I'm sure it varies from district to district. True, though the lack of systematic gathering/reporting of teacher demand/supply data in most states makes it nigh impossible to get a handle on where the shortages are.

@Renauda said in I doubt it.: Now that Zhirinovsky is dead he has the self appointed task of being top clown in Putin’s circus. "Not my circus, not my monkeys clowns." Putin's circus, Putin's clowns, LOL.

@Jolly said in Inexcusable: Garland needs to be sitting there. "You have one job - to enforce the laws as enacted by Congress. Are you doing that? If so, please let us know how that is happening. If not, why not?" Pretty simple, actually.

Might be paying those outrageous electric bills.

Until they're all dead, anyway.

@kluurs said in Took the Idagio plunge: I too am acquiring less physical media as 1) I have a lot already… I would like to nominate this sentence as the biggest understatement in TNCR history.

@89th said in I disagree: @Horace said in I disagree: like showering and pooping. See? Always knew you were full of shit Horses in the 1800s, the homeless of today, and me, if I lived rurally. We’d all use city streets for what they were designed for. To shit in.

State legislatures used to choose senators but now they effectively choose representatives through gerrymandering. It’s a rather odd switch.

@Klaus said in Worst Pizza in the World: A good pizza needs to be quite thin, in my opinion. Too much stuff on it, especially too much cheese, ruins it. I am agnostic on that. I love a good thin-crust (that's what I usually have) and I see the crust as nothing more than a vehicle to convey the toppings. Lots of cheese, meats, veggies, etc. A "pan" pizza, as depicted in those pictures, is not the same as "thick crust" which I rarely eat. Too much bread, too heavy, and bloat-inducing. The "pan" pizza is really a casserole on top of a bread crust.

Thanks! I'm listening to the first track. Good stuff!

That airplane has been problematic, hasn't it? This is not a design flaw of the F-35A, however, is it? It's a component that's not really part of the design of the new aircraft. It affects a lot of others, as the video explains.

The story is much clearer and much more easily understood by noobies like me here: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34334514/nfl-strips-miami-dolphins-2023-first-round-pick-fines-stephen-ross-15m-tampering-tom-brady-sean-payton And speaking of Brady, Happy Birthday, Tommy! Here's the cake Lenny Fournette gifted him: [image: 1659529884396-6ced5278-5880-4cb4-9e3d-20860aceaaa3-image.png]

I was standing behind the cab on the driver's side. Truck was a long wheelbase Chevrolet, with the eight feet long bed. I flew the length of the bed and my fall was broken by a five gallon oil can, which I crushed. The Superman flying thing was pretty neat, but that landing stuff was a bitch.

Sending your best, eh?

@Jolly said in AL Bait: Is that about the career length of a successful author? Or do we judge it by the number of books published? I'm the wrong guy to ask. I'd say that the vast majority of authors today have day jobs. Not because they suck, but because for a whole lot of reasons, it's almost impossible to make a full-time living by exclusively writing books. That means people come and go to it. Of those few "successes," though, much of the time, that success is attached to something—they're well known in their corner of the world, which is why they even got a book deal in the first place. Almost always, the schmuck who sold 18,000 copies of his novel in between his day job is fifty times the better writer than, say, Liz Cheney's ghostwriter. So what does that tell you about success in publishing? Publishers are paying out less to fewer authors, leaving the unicorns the only ones left to get the marketing help and the earnings. And about that marketing: they're are also picking up a lot of bad habits from the music industry. If you have, say, six-digit legit followers in IG or millions on YT, you can get some kind of book deal reasonably easy. See a problem with that? How you get those followers has absolutely nothing to do with writing, and everything to do with how hard it would be for a publisher to market the work. Anyway, I would honestly say that consistently paying a utility bill with your earnings is a legitimate definition of authorship success in today's world.

Well, caught you with your rhetorical pants down, didn't we? Go read. Reading is fundamental.

Btw I didn’t mean that in a snarky way. I honestly see the logic in both, but understand there are other opinions out there.

@Jolly said in When you're on call.: Miss it, you do... I love not being there.