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Monday Boxing: Immortal Wayne Simmonds Edition

Apologies for the blurry — well, even blurrier than usual — snap. Low-light plus 83x optical zoom equals balky autofocus. The tall guy in the snap had 3 goals on the afternoon, including the gamewinner in the 4-3 championship game, … Continue reading

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First Post: Sunday, January 29, 2017

Form is temporary, class is permanent. Witness the men’s and women’s finals at this year’s big lawn-tennis tournament in Melbourne. Age, injuries, autoimmune diseases could not stop the Williams Sisters, Rogerr Federr, Rafa ‘The Bull’ Nadal. ’grats to the Fed. … Continue reading

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First Post: Saturday, January 28, 2017

Mistah Alex Trebek, lover of nonalternative facts and ice hockey. What else is there? (Though he did have to bail out of the horse bidness, sadly.) On the whole, however, a Quality Canadian, a Quality Individual…

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First Post: Friday, January 27, 2017

Sisters are doin’ it for themselves! Venus & Serena, making American Tennis Great Since 1994, when Don Trump Sr. was in the middle of a most miraculous business transaction: losing money operating a casino. Wonder if the caudillo (thanks for … Continue reading

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First Post: Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Good evening now in most North American Time Zones. Time for some television, because we know it is what people do with their free time. And, you know, one of the biggest television-watchers out there is none other than Don … Continue reading

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Tuesday Sniping: Alternative-Facts Edition

Come on, you knew we would not resist that headline this week. Anyway, here’s a little sunny defiance to be played on a continuous loop for the next four to eight years.

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First Post: Saturday, January 21, 2017

Like another famous and frequently played Symphony No. 9, this never gets old. We will miss this sort of high-culture when funding to the Arts & Humanities in ’murrika goes bye-bye. The costs of commerce-commerce-commerce are high. Mammon is never … Continue reading

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First Post: Friday, January 20, 2017

All right, all right, ya Real ’murrikans! Take it easy! Your boy is in office now, and he is a REAL ’MURRIKAN, not one of these illegitimate Muslims or Kenyans or Hawaiians. No, sir. This is a Real ’murrikan, righ’chere. … Continue reading

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First Post: Thursday, January 19, 2017

Last day of The Oblahblah Administration now, and while he tended to deport (!) himself gracefully and tastefully, there were more than a few failures and contradictions: Guantanamo still open, killer drone strikes all over the place, embarrassingly yawning Mideast … Continue reading

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First Post: Wednesday, January 18, 2017

We don’t watch too much television, and it shows in our general unhipness and overall lack of pop-culture worship. However, we have always enjoyed the physical comedy of one Mistah Kevin James, primarily his Everyman shtick combined with the directness … Continue reading

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