They are both great cities, though with different vibes.

Boston is an older city, lots of historic sites and high culture, lots of students and young people, located on the ocean so it has a maritime tradition, lots of local seafood delicacies, and so on. The city historically drew many Irish, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese immigrants and the cultures of these groups have influenced the city. More recently it has attracted a lot of newcomers from various countries in the Caribbean and Latin America (Jamaica, Colombia, DR, etc.).

Chicago is bigger, more business-oriented, and more economically diverse, but less historical. It's located on Lake Michigan so while it has shoreline it's a different feel than that of Boston. It is very diverse but is famous for its large Polish and German communities and is also known as a center of African-American culture (it's a great place to see jazz or blues music or try soul food). Its Hispanic population is primarily Mexican. Famous for its pizza (which is very heavy) but also has lots of great ethnic food. There are parts of it that are dangerous but as long as you stay out of those neighborhoods (there's no reason for you to visit them as a tourist) you should be fine.

I don't think you can go wrong with either, honestly. They are both fun places to visit as a tourist.

She's not really my type but that's a grown ass woman.

I understand he had a family situation but this one hurts a bit. He would have been a perfect role-player to retain on this team.

When do Jones and Briere announce the CS-centered jersey and logo re-design?

That's a classic brain dead Chuck Todd take, for a couple of reasons:

1. Playing exclusively to your base not only motivates them to turn out to vote for you, it also motivates your opponents to turn out to vote against you even if they have a weak candidate;

2. While there may not be a large number of swing voters, they are hugely important because they (1) decide what are usually narrow margins in decisive states and (2) have double the gravity of marginal partisan voters because every one you convince to support you is not only one vote you get but one vote your opponent loses.

It astonishes me that a man this obtuse held such an important position in the American political media for so long.

If Trump wins in November this scenario is almost certain to occur. Things will get very ugly in this country very fast.

DARK BRANDON: My next official act is to declare the Republican-appointed members of SCOTUS enemies of the state and order them detained in Guantanamo.

Good for him. He's not a Sixer anymore so I don't really care.

As hilarious as it is that Morey continues to be obsessed with the 2016-2018 Rockets reunion tour, Gordon is still a contributing player so there's absolutely nothing to complain about with getting him on a one year minimum deal.

I blocked him a while ago so he's been nowhere to be found for ages for me. I highly recommend it.

I think Drummond is a perfect backup C for this team. He's good enough to play quasi-starter minutes during the season to keep Embiid healthy and he can give us 6-8 minutes a game in the playoffs where we don't get slaughtered in the paint or on the boards while Embiid catches a blow. At $5 million AAV he's much better than Reed at $7 million AAV.

The weirdest thing about the Tibbetts situation was that he wasn't even a good player. He was a fourth line goon. Why take a PR hit for that?

Early 20s.

This is extremely frustrating.

It is, in fact, possible to learn from history. I didn't live through Fascism 1.0, but hearing about it from my grandparents and reading about it in the history books was more than enough to make me realize I didn't want to see version 2.0.

I despair at how stupid human beings are.

I'm glad we have some starting pitchers who are dealing because we'll need them to keep up us afloat with Schwarber, Harper, and Realmuto all out of the lineup.

I miss when Nate Silver just crunched numbers and didn't feel compelled to offer qualitative punditry. He is great at the former and at best mediocre at the latter.

NGL, if we end up with washed Klay Thompson or KCP as our big offseason acquisition I'm going to be pretty underwhelmed.

I'm not sure the actual historical evidence backs up your claims. There are obviously examples of top picks becoming franchise NHL players, but there is also a pretty high bust rate, and there are lots of great players in NHL history who were picked later in the first round or in later rounds as well. It's much harder to look at an 18 year old and project what he's going to be in five years than it is to look at a 22 year old and project what he's going to be next year. Lindstrom is hardly considered a can't miss prospect in the vein of someone like Bedard and I'm not sure the chances he becomes a top line C are really all that much higher than the chances that someone like Catton does.

There will be.

If Biden passes over Harris, the first black, first Indian-American, and first female VP gets screwed over. How does that go over with members of those groups?

If Biden backs Harris, she is seen as forced on the electorate despite her unpopularity.

There isn't a way to solve this problem.

That's fan fiction. Even if it were logistically possible, it would sink under the weight of legal challenges before a vote could be cast.

A sitting president deciding not to seek reelection and opening up a contested primary has never been anything less than disastrous in the past either.

Exactly my point.

Ehhh... I think these kinds of trades work better in the NFL or NBA where you're generally evaluating more mature prospects who are further along the development curve and who will likely contribute right away (and even in those cases they are risky).

In the NHL we're talking about 17 and 18 year old kids who in all but rare cases are still a few years of development away from contributing at the NHL level. Lindstrom may be considered a better prospect than somebody like Catton right now, but he's not a better prospect in the way the top NFL or NBA draft candidates are better prospects than mid first round candidates in those sports, and there is a lot more uncertainty in the projection. Unless you have a surefire generational talent type prospect (McDavid, Bedard, etc.) I'm not sure it's worth giving up multiple bites at the apple to move up for a guy. It's worth remembering that in the last few decades the Flyers have actually had more success getting franchise cornerstone type pieces a bit later in the first round (Giroux, Carter, Richards, Couturier, etc.) than they have when they've picked in the top 5 of the draft (Patrick, van Riemsdyk).

I don't agree. Last I saw Harris' net negative rating was even worse than Biden's, and she performs poorly (both in polling and in her electoral track record as a primary candidate) with many demographics Dems need support from to win this election.

Yes, you would piss off black people by passing her over - but that's precisely the problem with trying to replace Biden with a substitute that nobody voted for. No matter who you choose you're going to piss somebody important off.

I think Kamala Harris would get dusted by Trump. She's not very popular to begin with, and she'd get hit with a sexism/racism double whammy as well.