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Category: News
Sep 20 2020
Not A Rant
Stars Hollow likes to consider itself rural, but we have 30,000 people living here (97% White). By contrast North Lake is lucky to have 200 over Winter and By The Sea about 4,000. World Headquarters is in New York City (New York City?! Yes, just like Salsa.). I’ve always found the residents friendly and accommodating …
Sep 20 2020
No Sports?
Why aren’t you watching the finish at Le Mans or the final stage of Le Tour? Oh, Throwball. 2019 Lacrosse Championships, Yale v. Virginia Think of it like Hockey only you can use your stick to attack people.
Sep 20 2020
The Breakfast Club (sausage links)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for September 20th Magellan begins globe-trotting voyage; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies; Actress Sophia Loren born; Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes’; Singer Jim Croce dies in plane crash. Breakfast Tune Bad Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce) Banjo Cover Lesson with …
Sep 19 2020
In Memoriam: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020)
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in her home last night. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old. Barely five feet tall and weighing 100 pounds, Justice Ginsburg drew comments for years on her fragile appearance. But she was tough, working out regularly with a trainer, who published a book …
Sep 18 2020
Interacting With Crazy People
It’s kind of a weird thing but people talk to me whether I want them to or not, especially crazy people. Perhaps they think I’m sympathetic and paying attention. They are after all, by definition, mentally ill and in many cases delusional. When I talk with my Therapist about this phenomena she tells me I …
Sep 18 2020
A surprisingly good ruling, maybe.
The significance of this is not that it stops future deliberate degradation of the United States Postal Service to aid in Republican Election Fraud, DeJoy already agreed to that at the Hearings (not that I trust him farther than I can kick his sorry, lying ass). No, the really good thing is it directs the …
Sep 17 2020
Herd Immunity V. Herd Mentality
During his ABC Nwes Town Hall with undecided voters, Donald Trump discussed his Cov-19 policy mistakenly (or maybe not) saying he wanted to create “herd mentality.” Perhaps he did mean to say “herd immunity” or perhaps he just doesn’t know the difference. There is, however, a distinct difference: Herd Mentality describes how people can be …
Sep 17 2020
The LRAD
LRAD stands for Long Range Acoustic Device and while you may think, “Oh, this is the perfect thing to crank up the volume on Wall of Voodoo’s Ring of Fire Album cut and really annoy my neighbors,” and it can in fact be used as a (very) loudspeaker, it is designed by the U.S. Military …