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Monthly Archives: October 2021
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“Immigrants have been awarded 38%, or 40 of 104, of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000.”
Ever considered that instead of endangering us, maybe immigrants are improving and extending our lives? Share this factoid the next time a janky politician broadcasts their racist/nationalist fearmongering.
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‘Urban Meyer Viral Video’ Writing Contest
More than you prob want to know about it.
The first two submissions are from the same Slate article:
- “On Saturday a video began circulating on social media in which he (Meyer) is shown sitting on a bar stool in a busy restaurant while a woman, who is obviously not his wife, Shelley, backs her … stuff … right up into his … situation.”
- “. . . at the Columbus steakhouse he (Meyer) owns, which incidentally was the venue where a young woman was just filmed putting her defensive backfield in the direct vicinity of his schematic advantage. . . “
Paris-Roubaix
Paris-Roubaix is a one-day, 259 kilometer, professional bicycle road race starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It has happened every year since 1896 except during the world wars and in 2020 due to the ‘rona. It’s famous for iffy weather, rough terrain, and cobblestones, or “pavé”. It has been called the Hell of the North. The most recent edition, held last Sunday, was particularly hellish.
These images from Sunday’s race are the best collection of sports photographs I’ve ever seen. Read the captions. Take your time.
Whose Laughing Now?
When I was conceived, God went through his check list. When he got to “ears?” I thought he said “beers” and asked for “two large ones”.
Consequently, as a child, after moms took me to the barber, people would say I “looked like a taxi cab going down the street with its doors open.”
Fast forward to the global ‘pan. Look who can hang their mask on their ear when walking between classes. Meanwhile, all the sad sacks who made fun of me sticking theirs in their sorry pockets.
Whose laughing now suckers?!
Want To Change The World?
Of course you do. My new fave essayist, Tish Harrison Warren, has some advice.
“If you survey the advice of the saints from the past two millenniums, a consistent piece of advice emerges: Shut up. Be still.”
If There’s Any Justice In The World
If the Seattle Mariner magic continues this weekend and they close out the season with a sweep of the “Los Angeles” Angels and make the playoffs, all will be forgiven and forgotten by each and every Specific Northwesterner: Jeff Bezos, the endemic, the unprecedented heat and wild fires, the traffic nightmares, the fractured politics, the Seahawk’s defense, the antiquated airport, the creeping wetness and darkness.
92-70. See it. Believe it.
Postscript: 91-71?
Pressing Pause 