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First Post: Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Hoo-boy. Here we go. Scrub over to 1:10 and out. This is a nice guy, right here. It’s the graduation day yet it’s all (always?) about him. Hoo-boy. Here we go. Nice guy, right here. Nice guy. He’s a good … Continue reading

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Tuesday Sniping: Beyond-Human-Reckoning Edition

Which means if you have an obese guy with bad hair weaves standing in a Category 5 hurricane, all those plugs are going bye-bye, no matter how loud he yells on the Twitter? Is that how that works?

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Tuesday Sniping: Immortal Neil de Grasse Tyson Edition

Good speaker. Makes science accessible to all of us, but not as accessible as, say, the apoplexy of the partisans, the prosperity of the preachers. Oh, well. ‘Cosmic perspective’ — check it out! Maybe then we will all accept and … Continue reading

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Monday Boxing: Retraction Edition

Apologies to the Ghost of R. Milhous Nixon for discrediting him as being the last president to fire an FBI chief. We all know it was really W. Jefferson Clinton-Blythe who last did that. Very sorry. History must not mean … Continue reading

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Tuesday Sniping: Mortal Jm. B. Comey Jr. Edition

Last presidential firing of FBI director: Archibald Cox, by Nixon. We know how that turned out, unless history is unimportant. Don Trump Sr. skates for now, and ’murrika always wins. Win-win-win-win-win.

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Tuesday Sniping: Immortal P.K. Subban Edition

http://deadspin.com/we-found-the-one-thing-p-k-subban-doesnt-do-well-1795012912 Deadspin #1 always, and not just because they have Drew Magary on the roster. This is a good piece in its own right, and the last line gives all us misunderstood and manqué mopes reason to go on: ‘Subban … Continue reading

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Monday Boxing: God’s-Work Edition, The Prequel

This Team in Yellow is doing it.

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Monday Boxing: God’s-Work Edition

This team is doing it.

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First Post: Sunday, May 7, 2017

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First Post: Friday, May 5, 2017

A good episode of a fine programme here. Leonard Lopate remains a top role model for the non-smug, the well-read and the well-rounded. He knows a lot but is never a dilettante. He says smart things without being an overbearing … Continue reading

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