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Category: News
Sep 08 2020
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Never underestimate the power of the Dark Side. The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President by McKay Coppins, The Atlantic February 10, 2020 THE DEATH STAR The campaign is run from the 14th floor of a gleaming, modern office tower in Rosslyn, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. Glass-walled conference rooms look out on the …
Sep 08 2020
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
I’m in the high-fidelity first class travelling set And I think I need a Lear jet I have to say, anytime someone tells me he’s a successful businessman, great dealmaker, and a Billionaire I look at them like Space Aliens that have suddenly removed their Human Suits and say- “He went Bankrupt running a Casino! …
Sep 07 2020
Solidarity Forever
A DocuDharma and The Stars Hollow Gazette tradition. Solidarity Forever When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one For the Union makes us strong Chorus Solidarity forever, solidarity forever Solidarity …
Sep 07 2020
Hat City Wants GoT Money
Ok, the reason they call Danbury ‘Hat City’ is they used to make hats, just like they call Waterbury ‘Brass City’ because they used to cast Brass. Not so much call for it today. So Danbury has ‘struck back’ against evil John Oliver by taking his money and naming the Sewage Treatment Plant after him. …
Sep 06 2020
Might be good news.
There’s at least a delay in the premature shut down of the United States Census (for which the plans are pretty definitionally Unconstitutional since the directions are literally written in the Constitution), but I’m not really sure that given Corona the results can be relied on anyway. Statistically you can compensate but I predict those …
Sep 06 2020
No Sports?
That’s funny. There was College Football (practically suicidal in the best of times), Kentucky Derby, and I just watched a Formula One Race that neither Mercedes, Ferrari, nor Red Bull won (Hamilton picked up a highly questionable time penalty). But today we explore Snooker. L Of course it’s 8 and a half hours, I wouldn’t …
Sep 06 2020
The Breakfast Club (Better Eat Wheaties)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for September 6th President William McKinley shot in Buffalo, N.Y.; Funeral held for Britain’s Princess Diana; Mother Teresa mourned in India; Movie director Akira Kurosawa dies; Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame born. Breakfast Tunes ROGER SPRUNG American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame VIDEO Something to …
Sep 05 2020
The Longest 2 Minutes In Sports
This was no ordinary homecoming. This was a do-or-die attempt to lay the ghost of years of rejection from the horse-rearing elite and the literati who sat in those privileged boxes overlooking the track and those unprivileged craven hordes who grovelled around the centre-field where he had suffered as a boy. The clubhouse as …
Sep 05 2020
Summertime in the U.S.
I’ve heard it’s over but I refuse to accept it. At least until the Autumnal Exquinox. Memorial Day Beaches Heat Wave More Ice Sweet Tea Or as Southerners call it- Tea. Why ruin a nice glass of Lemonade? The 4th Games Another Heat Wave