Recent content by Bender

We know a family in the rust belt that lives comfortably and shouldn't have any economic issues. Except everything Trump says is gospel, COVID was a democratic hoax and democrats are evil. To me that's beyond economic and is also cultural. When everything you hear is lift yourself up from your...

I've had the exact same experience, which really is disappointing.

I mean it can be both. I do agree there is a new gilded age in the States, which I think now may be worse than the Rockefeller era, and wealth inequality needs to be addressed, but toning down the rhetoric really can't hurt, and stoking that fire can only lead to worse outcomes, especially when...

Amazing how one of those God given rights isn't being free of constant fear of being shot and killed.

No gun death is acceptable but this is what political polarization looks like. This is what stoking the worst impulses of human nature looks like. Either the rhetoric gets turned down or this gets worse. And to add to that, there's been 300+ mass shootings in the US this year. Right before he...

Personally I'm still wondering what's going on with Jack Roslovic.

Excellent analysis as always. AP is one of my favourite commentators.

Who are we trading to get Karlsson? Honestly this really doesn't seem plausible or at minimum very likely.

He's also 35 with another year left. Hard pass.

What?

No chance I touch Karlsson.

We are so done as a species.

But the second amendment should take care of that, right? Right?

They will play him if he can stay on his skates.

Good deal if he can stick in the lineup and not fall over every shift.