You know, not everyone knows how to play. To begin the dominoes are placed face down and “shuffled.” Players draw one domino. The player drawing the highest double or if no double, the highest domino plays first. Re-shuffle and then begin drawing the first hand. Each player then draws seven dominoes for his hand. The …
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May 21 2019
Profiles In Courage
I mean it both sardonically and sarcastically. The main difference between the two is sardonic is more strictly contemptuous and sarcasm has an admixture of irony. I’ve told you I like The Magicians, right? We have to work together and we have to do it now. This is going to sound weird, but just go …
May 20 2019
Fifth Child Dead
There are people who think I exaggerate when I compare the United States to Nazi Germany. 5th migrant child dies after detention by US border agents by NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press May 20, 2019 A 16-year-old boy from Guatemala who died in U.S. custody Monday had been held for six days — twice as long …
May 20 2019
Junk Science
Bad Evidence by Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith, The Intercept May 5 2019 As an alternative theme for the 2019 AAFS (American Academy of Forensic Sciences) meeting, “complacency kills” might not have been half bad, at least if anyone had wished to inject some urgency into things. The Baltimore event began amid an ongoing crisis …
May 19 2019
Episode 21
So SNL is done for another season and won’t be back until mid-September. I suppose I shouldn’t complain, I travel summers and my output is occasionally sketchy. The problem it poses is what kind of Sunday content do I replace it with? More Muppets! Grace and Frankie 50 Years of Computing NASA Game Show! Sleepover …
May 18 2019
Pin Lady
I hope Jill Wine-Banks is not offended I characterize her thus, it’s just that one of the hooks she uses to distinguish herself from all the other anonymous talking heads is she wears these large, mostly humorous or message oriented pins that are not cheap I’m told by someone who would know. Anyway, along with …
May 16 2019
Inherent Contempt
My feeling is mutual and could easily be extended. Democrats are badly blowing it against Trump. A brutal new TV ad shows how. By Greg Sargent, Washington Post Opinion writer May 16 at 10:12 AM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has succeeded in stifling impeachment talk. The Post reports that the speaker privately told Democrats …
May 16 2019
Birds and Samanthas
When a Senator loves a Page very, very much. A man becomes preeminent, he’s expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms… Enthusiasms… What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. …
May 15 2019
Not Pragmatic
Among my many personal failings is that I rarely resist the opportunity to say ‘I told you so.’ When on the 9th, a little less than a week ago, I drew your attention to the Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders 15% Usury Cap out of a recognition of its fundamental justice and economic sanity. I am gratified but not …
May 15 2019
Cs And Ds Make Degrees
Four Yorkshiremen You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When …
May 14 2019
Kristallnacht
Y’all stop being Fascist and I’ll stop talking about it. Kristallnacht was- a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians. The German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows …
May 14 2019
#49 of 196
Fully in the 75th percentile or to give it a letter grade, a solid ‘C’. Oh, that’s the United States Ranking in Gender Inequality. Desi Lydic: Abroad Sweet Georgia Brown