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Abortion makes me queasy, but as long as women are not free to control their own reproduction, they will never be truly free.

You are correct, I apologize. My post was more directed toward those who hammer on DL for not nailing late first round draft picks as evidence of his lack of competence, which strikes me as a incredibly silly argument, and not a straw man. Your post was more limited in scope, and you were not...

Lol. I've read lots of critics of Lindsey here (I'm one myself at times), and perhaps the most common criticism is blowing draft picks, often with reference to picks in the 20s, which seems to be really pushing the argument, but that's not stopping people. So, yeah, not the straw man you'd...

There's nothing magical about 15%, so while I am in favor of capping rates, I can't say that 15% is the optimal place to cap it. May be more, may be less. I do think that credit cards are based on a predatory business model, not quite as predatory as payday lenders, but not so so different...

Why not then just pay workers whatever the market will bear, even if that's, say, $4 an hour w/ no benefits? This argument implies that there's no connection between rising wages/incomes and economic growth, complete with both supply side and demand side responses. Think about the great...

Dear God, he looks like he's not even trying on defense. How did Denver not exploit this guy more? Were we playing Portland (and being the league's #1 pick n' roll team), we'd be going at this guy almost every single possession.

Kanter is on the verge of being played out of the GS series. In short, NO, we did not give up too soon on him. He's a talented offensive player but an absolute cypher on defense. A team seeking to build a defensive identify (as the Jazz) cannot have a non-athletic, non-mobile, unable to...

Just out of curiosity, who are the GMs that nail every draft pick, including ones in the 20s?

Let me just go on record to say that I like Andy Larsen, a lot. But he's not God, and not all his takes are 100% correct. That said, I think he's spot on about Bradley. Bradley is a marginal backup center and is not ready for major minutes on a team that has pretensions to compete/contend.

If this is true, the Jazz are going to suck hugely.

Dude is a worse shooter than Rubio and doesn't give you the ball distribution in exchange. Don't be seduced by his 2018 playoff run.

People forget just how good Hayward was in his last two years with the Jazz. For those thinking he was overpaid, that kind of production cannot be had in today's NBA market on the cheap. It's about what we'll have to pay for Harris or Kemba if we want to have any chance to sign them...

This is a dumb take. Sorry. It reminds me of the scene in "Moneyball" when the (fat) scout dissed on a player because his wife wasn't good looking enough, ergo, he must lack confidence. (Which begs the question about the character/confidence of the woman who married this fat slob. I...

Let's also not forget that John and Karl continually "choked" in the playoffs, until they didn't. If Twitter and Jazzfanz were around in those days (maybe Jazzfanz was), no doubt many of the same people now who hold them in hagiographic reverence would have, back in the day, been calling on the...

Choosing to focus your complaints against Allen after this game strikes me as a bit strange. He had 9 points on 5 shots and was +2 in 10 minutes. Allen isn't the reason Crowder is like 2-13 from 3 this series, or why Ingles has disappeared, or why Mitchell can't get untracked.

I'm curious as to which of Locke's numbers you think are fake and why.

Another example of how Jazz desperately need another reliable scorer. Once we lose this series (and we will), while Houston exposes our weaknesses (so far, yes), we damned well better not have yet another off-season of "continuity" or "internal growth" or "gee, by golly, we have chemistry."...

I have mixed feelings. I think that it's useful to have an organization such as WikiLeaks to shed light on dark secrets the government or other powerful persons/institutions wants to keep from hidden, such as a domestic spying program or money laundering involving Panama banks, but on the other...

I never cease to be amazed at how heated and personal things can get discussing trivial matters, such as whether the 21st pick in the draft is a bust. As for my two cents, it seems to me that the term “bust” in this case refers to performance relative to some set of expectations. It’s hard for...