Rubio’s bill says “defendants will be bound by presumptions that pecuniary interest does not include common defenses used to defend exercises of business judgment, including the media image of the company or employee morale.”
It therefore intends to deprive business owners of the discretion to run their business, indeed to do things that are, by any understanding of basic economics, beneficial to the business. Somewhere a First Amendment lawyer is slobbering.
But it is a hell of a thing, nevertheless, told by an idiot or not, and the politics behind it should not be ignored. It is not a Republican or even American thing he is proposing. It’s a Kremlin thing. And there is a desire.
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“Sir, according to your wife’s testimony, when visiting your apartment the children are quote ‘forced to sleep in drawers’ and quote ‘fall aseep to records by Swedish House Mafia.’ Is that correct?”
J.R. Richard has died. I’m sorry to hear it. When he was young, before the stroke, he was absolutely the equal of Nolan Ryan. Maybe surpassed him. When Ryan and Richard pitched on successive days you can’t imagine the despair among professional ballplayers.
As Richard began to show warning signs of the stroke he was accused of malingering and felt he had to power through. He did, and collapsed on the field. This is because he was black. That mustn’t be forgotten.
The team’s treatment of him through his illness and subsequent homelessness is one of the worst abominations in baseball. That he was able to battle back and make peace with the team, become a minister for baseball as well as a man of God, is a testament to who J.R. Richard was.
I would only add the camera angle loses that Ryan doesn't flinch at all. There is no surprise, no words, no appeal. He drops his glove and is ready to go.
He is calm, witty, and he knows his baseball. He’s absolutely himself. You can’t teach that. If they don’t throw money at a young black Phillies fan who’s a natural broadcaster, they’re nuts.
The kid's name is Josh Scott. He is there because he and his father, huge Phillies fans, caught a Freddie Freeman home run in Atlanta and gave the ball to a Braves fan. They live in North Carolina. But the Phillies really ought to work something out.
Not in a novelty way. I'm serious. The kid talks baseball better than anyone in the television booth.