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Archive of entries posted on April 2017
Wowsers
Even if you’re not a Dodgers fan, this is something to see. The Dodgers hit three consecutive home runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the game followed by a couple of singles and a Phillies error and poof! a 6-5 win. It’s been done five times in baseball history that the …
Used bookstores are often a joy
Today, for example, when I wandered in since it was pouring rain and I didn’t feel like dashing to the car until the weather began to behave better. This particular store has two sections of books — one consists of older or more beat-up books priced at $1 and the other priced at $5 or …
Senator Sanders is mistaken
Bernie Sanders continues to cater to and hunt for the white working class, particularly the male part of it. He apparently concluded that Democrats should do that based on the statistics collected about Trump voters in the last election. Many of those voters were members of that class, no question. But should the Democrats sell …
National Monuments at Risk!
The Vandal-in-Chief is about to authorize his lackey at the Department of the Interior to review “any national monument created since Jan. 1, 1996, that spans at least 100,000 acres ‘to make sure the people have a voice’ in which lands receive the highest level of federal protection.” What that sounds like to me is …
Steeplechase!
60 Minutes had an entertaining story this evening about steeplechasing. Any fan of British novelist Dick Francis would recognize this kind of horse racing, although here we have different names for different styles. Apparently in the US we make a distinction: if the course is made up solely of wooden fences it’s called timber racing; …
Science is fact-checking, which the Know-Nothings don’t like
Merrie Monarch 2017
The World Series, the World Cup, the Stanley Cup, the Super Bowl…call it what you will. The hula equivalent of those events is taking place over the next three nights in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai’i. It’s being livestreamed and you can watch it by clicking the image below. Here’a good primer on …
US Attorneys Missing
Back in March Trump’s Attorney General, evil little troll Jeff Sessions, abruptly dismissed all sitting US Attorneys (prosecutors). That isn’t unusual; all Presidents typically ask the people in those jobs to resign and then replace them with attorneys of their own choice. What’s unusual is that a month later not a single one of those …
So close in Georgia, so close
Jon Ossoff, a true Democratic longshot to win the Georgia district once held by now-HHS Secretary Tom Price and before him by fellow Republicans Newt Gingrich and Johnny Isakson, came within a whisker of winning it outright in a special election today. He won 48.3% of all votes; Karen Handel, the second place finisher, won …