We’re letting people get famous without proving themselves. The Paul brothers are Exhibit A. How many hard-working fighters who’ve paid their dues would have given their eye teeth to get a shot at Mayweather? A whole lot. But the white guy with no credible experience steps to the front of the line. I’ve never cared for the term “white privilege,” but if this ain’t it, I don’t know what is.
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You don’t just sit back in your lifeboat when the other side is drilling holes in it. Most likely, you’ll try to stop them; at the very least you start bailing water like your life depends on it (because it does). Either way, you don’t compromise. You don’t say, “All right, old chap, why don’t you just punch four holes in the hull instead of eight, and we’ll call it even.”
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What if Mitch McConnell’s was actually right about torpedoing the Jan. 6 commission? What if he was actually doing Democrats a favor?
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You all know them. You may wish you didn’t. Or that they’d go away — I know I sure do. I don’t wish them any ill (most of them, anyway). I just wish they’d retire from public life because they’re more annoying than a piece of popcorn stuck in your teeth and more overexposed than a roll of film (you remember those) that’s been left in the sun all summer. In Alaska.
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If anyone doubts Republicans want a dictatorship, all you have to do is look at their actions. They’re using 10 keys to fascism in the hope, conscious or not, of unlocking a future where they and they alone are in power. It’s not just Trump’s big lie about the stolen election or the Jan. 6 insurrection. Those are just two of at least 10 elements in a strategy to dismantle American democracy and replace it with its antithesis.
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Curry won the scoring title, but Jokić wasn’t even in the top 10 in scoring this year. He was 12th. Two other former MVPs — Russell Westbrook and Giannis Antetokounmpo — both finished ahead of him in two of the “big three” categories: Giannis in scoring and rebounding, Westbrook in rebounding and assists. Yet few people are talking about either of them as potential MVPs.
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