Walk-off!

Well, that was an exciting home opener...it looked as if Encarnation was both throwing his shoulder out and missing the timing on ALL the pitches; most impressive.  Equally impressive -- Lindor (Lindor!) sacrificing to set up the double play; I mean, if he did it on his own, that is one thing, but to have a manager call that...oi.  Similarly, watching Yan Gomes bat in the 9th...WTF?  I know Terry has his guys, but Gomes has been execrable for two years now, and if the situation didn't scream for Austin Jackson, I don't know what would have.  Oi.

http://ijr.com/2017/04/841803-stunningly-detailed-2016-election-map-just-released-democrats-scared-scared/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Owned&utm_term=ijamerica&utm_campaign=ods&utm_content=Politics

This is largely true, but of course these people leave and bring their values with them, so...the effect is muted.  Sort of like...in the last Scene they had this thing that, save for immigration, the county would have LOST population over the past ten years.  Well, this could be me, but...why would they leave?  High taxes?  Crime?  Corruption?  And, of course, the good people of scene want more of it...so they can be surprised when more people leave.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-07/justice-gorsuch-ushers-in-a-new-era

This could be me, but this hyper-partisanship is due in some part to the 17th Amendment, which, as my college prof used to say, made Senators super-Congresspeople, instead of -- as imagined originally by the Constitution -- legislators designed to represent the interest of the states.  For one thing, all of the hyper-partisan activity would be concentrated at the local level, and two, you'd have a different type of people in the Senate, and I suspect it would be a bit more...civilized; or, at the very least, it would be easier to cut a guy out of the golden goose every six years...