Brian Bastock

Brian Bastock

@bbastock.bsky.social

Love sports, music of all types, books, classic cinema, and healthy debate

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Exactly.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

I feel bad for the people of Vietnam, who since 2017 worked hard to develop legitimate, alternative supply chains for the US, trained their low-income workers how to sew, and shored up their infrastructure and ports. The tariffs are a gut punch. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I’m ok with the baseball HOF election, especially Ichiro. He was a unique talent. But CC in his first year of eligibility? I’m not seeing it. Winning starter for a long time but ERA close to 3.80 and just over six inning per start. 1st ballot should be for the truly elite

Might be @radiofreetom.bsky.social best writing. And that’s saying a lot. Remember this from when it was first published

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social

JD Vance’s admirers are mad at me at the other place, but if you missed it, here’s the very first thing I ever wrote about him www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This Reagan biopic with Dennis Quaid is just awful. I’m not a Reagan lover or hater but this is just shallow swooning over a much deeper and complex man. Thanks Amazon for taking three dollars that I could have bought a nice baseball card with

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” – James Baldwin who died on this day in 1987

Trump’s economic shtick is so predictable. Saber rattle to spook everybody (25% tariffs on CN and MX) but leave enough of an unquantifiable out (comply on illegal immigrants and fentanyl) to declare he won without implementing the idiotic threat.

This Elon Musk documentary on Amazon Prime is nauseating. I get people fawning over his technological genius but these people are all saying what a great and altruistic person he is. Way different than Walter Isaacson’s book which seemed pretty balanced

Enrolling for the fourth year in the ACA market and it is as simple and intuitive as anything I’ve ever done. Way easier and less complex than any company enrollment I’ve ever used

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