Artful Dodger

The good news for Democrats is that if Trump pulls this out, the blue House will be able to impeach him three or four more times. I wonder how many countries they think Trump collaborated with this time. It will be cathartic for them.

Can you please share what you think the parallels are? I'm in my mid 50's, and people have been talking about this for my entire life, but I struggle to see what the parallels are. There are no hordes of Visigoths at our borders and we don't drink from lead pipes. Also we have a pretty good system of government which ensures a peaceful transfer of power every four or eight years.

The Bills are in a sucky division and probably just need to go 4-5 the rest of the way to win the AFC East.

No justice, no peace. Also, I need a new flat screen TV.

The defense got its mojo back because the team was playing the New York Jets.

The most dangerous position in football is to be the first string quarterback with Fitzpatrick sitting on the bench behind you. You might as well dodge traffic on the interstate or stick your hand in a hive of bees. I give the rookie two weeks at most, he'll have some sort of fluke injury, and Fitzpatrick will be right back in the starting lineup.

Am listening on the radio. So weird not to hear crowd noise in the background.

Marv Levy. I'd ask him about his experiences in WW 2 and ask him to tell his joke about the reason that Germany lost WW 2 is because "Hitler couldn't win on the road."

The Bills look as if they've got two good backs already. Does any team in 2020 need the deepest RB stable in the league?

The most dangerous position in the NFL is the starting QB position when Fitzpatrick is the backup. Tua should thank his lucky stars he'll be sitting on the bench.

Weren't the women working in the parlor in their 40's and 50's? I'm no expert, but there's probably not a lot of demand for middle aged sex slaves.

Yeah. It tells me he doesn't have a large ego. He just wants to win. Marv Levy used to say something like, "It's amazing what you can get done when no one cares who gets the credit." Both Levy and McDermott are really smart coaches, and not coincidentally, neither has a big ego.

One of McDermott's biggest strengths is that he's smart enough to be willing to reach out to people he can learn from. When he first became coach, he went out to dinner with with Kelly, Thomas, Reed, Smith, Tasker, etc. to try to get a sense of where they thought the team had gone off the rails.

She's a good choice for Biden. She's attractive and demure, and her hair smells really nice.

Players are going to get sick. They'll be quarantined and they'll return a few weeks later. And then assuming recovery grants you some sort of short term immunity, the players won't have to worry about getting it again, at least until after the season is over. Finally, COVID-19 isn't that big a deal if you're 24 years old, especially if you're a professional athlete in great shape. So there may be players out for a couple weeks here and there, but hopefully there will be a season.

In addition to the obvious privacy concerns, what I worry about under such a system is that the Federal Reserve would attempt to force people to spend by gradually removing funds from bank accounts via negative interest rates. For at least ten years, the Fed's repressing interest rates has punished savers. In future recessions, under such a system, policy makers would undoubtedly see negative rates as a tool for forcing people to spend to get the economy moving again. What you don't spend, you would lose, via negative interest rates. If they go ahead with this, and because it's a terrible idea I'm sure there's a lot of support for it (because there are few adults running our country right now), I assume people would move to alternative forms of currency, like Bitcoin.

Unfortunately, for a growing number of people today, everything is about politics.

This is an awful choice between someone who fundamentally does not have the temperament to be president and who has failed to carry out his primary campaign promise of clearing out the swamp (Trump) and the aging and increasingly impaired nominee of a party that has gone totally insane. (Biden). Biden seems like a fundamentally decent guy, but I doubt he's strong enough to withstand the crazies on the left of his party who have all the energy and enthusiasm right now. It will be very telling to see who he picks as his running mate. I didn't think it was possible, but this is an even more depressing choice than the one we had four years ago.

I like her as well. Executive experience, foreign policy experience, and her nomination would also make it very difficult for the Democrats and the national media to scream "racism."

I live near Washington DC and my hometown newspaper is the Washington Post. I just checked its website and there's no mention of the deaths. In fact, a search reveals there's been no mention of CHAZ at all in the Post for the last four days. It's as if the editors think if they don't report on it, it doesn't exist or will go away.

I hope neither were African-American or they'll have to set up a separate protest enclave within the protest enclave.

I voted "no" because I don't want to be reminded about political or social problems when I'm watching sports. Sports is supposed to be an escape. On the other hand, if it makes the players happy and they play harder and as a result, the Bills get one or two more wins, I'm all in favor of it.

Fitzpatrick is a really smart guy, and I think the beard is the first part of his post-football strategy. Once he stops playing, he'll cut the beard off and no one will recognize him. He'll be totally anonymous and be able to get through airports without having to talk to fans.