Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project

Salt, the OG Tylenol

Talarico's "welcome mat" quote functionally identical to Trump's 2016 rhetoric on immigration.

I know that modern republicans have abandoned almost any pretense of theological literacy but cmon man, its not like Matthew 25 is buried in some obscure part of the bible.

GOP staffers go to Sunday School challenge (impossible)

Alabama Governor Spares Life Of 75-Year-Old Who Never Killed Anyone Had the execution gone forward, Burton would have faced a harsher punishment than the man who killed the victim during a botched robbery that Burton participated in.

BREAKING: AL Gov. Kay Ivey (R) commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-yo-old wheelchair user who, by the state's own admission, never killed anyone www.huffpost.com/entry/alabam...

This strikes me as...an idea. Nothing inherently wrong with it, I guess.

Signage for "Excel Church"

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

This. I have 1.5 degrees in English, but I struggled in secondary English because long-form print was all that "counted" at my reading level (audiobooks were in their infancy).

Sugar in your tank is what we used to call LGBT

Noticed a few years back that there were relatively huge EMT contracts (like, oil rig paramedic money) for the border, advertising themselves as humanitarian missions. I wondered what the nexus with immigration enforcement was. Now I guess I know.

Being that I'm trying to make a pretty similar nut as a writer, I might be biting the hand that feeds me a little, but this is an important question I'm not seeing another answer to.

The number of Shakers in the U.S. rises to 3 A new person has joined the last active Shaker community in the U.S, bringing the Christian, communal, and celibate group to a total of three. They once numbered in the thousands.

Fastest-growing religious group in the world.

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"if I mention the obvious counter to my argument it's like I addressed it"

GOP: oh so everyone u disagree with is Hitler

GOP when they think we can't hear: my favorite Himmler track from his set at the Black Forest Amphitheater in 1928

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

It's mostly vibes.

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And yet every time you try to find an example, he ends up being a pretty athletic guy.

Both of those guys have (at worst) and above average sprint speed and a vertical leap at the lower edges of the elite.

In one position group, the NFL prioritizes physical size *for people who are already elite athletes* above increasing that athleticism. They still select an 85th- to 95th-percentile sprint speed and a 90- to 99th-percentile vertical leap among that group.

All professional sports involve some long-term unhealthy behavior (and I'm still willing to concede football is the worst).

That doesn't mean that anyone engaging in them at a high level isn’t *insanely* athletic.

I mean, sustained success in the NFL exists above it, but sure.

And sure, it's all "attributable to his obesity" and not the incredible athleticism he managed despite it.

"It's just common sense" is what people say when they can't find actual evidence.

Case in point.

So you didn't even bother to try to find a guy who met the parameters *either of us* set out?

Speaking of: one of the patron saints of Immaculate Grid

That's before we consider that you're trying to cherry-pick a guy who hasn't played at the elite level in 20 years, and was hardly "wildly successful." The All-Pro player at his position last year is in the 95th percentile for all three measurements.

Maintaining a body type that's long-term harmful is endemic to sports (though you're probably right that football is the worst about it).

That doesn't make "wildly out of shape" an accurate descriptor of a guy that measured above average to elite everywhere he performed a norm-referenced test.

While playing, Aaron Gibson had an above average sprint speed, a well above average vertical leap, and could bench press 225 31 times. The fact that he dropped weight so quickly once he stopped intentionally maintaining that size proves the opposite of "wildly out of shape."

I figured you didn't know ball, but I thought I'd ask.

Not a single person playing at the level regularly covered by ESPN fits that description.

What about football is "quasi-athletic?"

But should it be red?