Running - How Does It Work?

Daniel Jones of the Football Giants delivered an instant NFL classic - an 80 yard untouched run with the endzone 90 yards away.

But everybody wants to get into the act! In an absolutely wild ending to a Major League game (but common in Little League!) the Dodgers mishandle the ball like a hot potato while the potential game-ending run roars around the bases, stumbles, falls, somersaults, and scores! 

Do let me add - Fall guy Randy Arozarena is a stud athlete with a background in gymnastics and street dance. Oh, yeah, he can play a little baseball too, since his nine playoff home runs are a new record. GO Rays!

PICKY, PICKY: You want to say he didn't somersault, he rolled? Doesn't matter - I'll be telling my grandkids he cartwheeled into a back flip. They can look it up!

 

Comments

[Jane]

Ha! First!

[henry]

TM, did Jones pass the “walk and chew gum” test?

[GUS]

The truth doesn't matter?

[henry]

Gus, not by traditional NYT editing policy.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Willowed;
“There's an anti Trump vote but I can't see much of a pro Biden one.”

Produces the same outcome.

Not necessarily and probably not. Trump has enthusiastic support and there is a huge hate-the-Dems vote on the right. Biden has only half of that enthusiasm cocktail and usually the hate half is the weaker half.

[Melinda]

Tuatara, learn the name, Beasts & Iggy:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-19/ssc-tuatara-is-world-s-fastest-production-car-new-top-speed-record

[MissMarple2]

Willowed:

Rocco,

My maternal grandparents ALWAYS opposed the idea of teacher's unions. Grandmother taught 5th grade and grandpa taught high school government.

They were convinced that teachers could not claim to be professionals if they formed a union, which in their experience would be associated with labor, and would have too much control over curriculum.

Maybe as the older teachers retired, the newer ones, swayed by the increasing leftism of educational schools, became more pro-union and conservative teachers either found places to work that were more receptive to conservatism or never went to work as teachers after all.

[Marlene]

Looks like Trump is going to Bangor after his Manchester rally. The FAA has closed airspace between 1:30 and 6 this afternoon. The man's energy is amazing!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Tuatara, learn the name, Beasts & Iggy:--

Yeah Mel, I almost posted that story yesterday but got distracted.
331mph in a production car on a public highway is fairly quick. :)
Price is a little out of my league.

[Melinda]

Knowing how to spell its name is the closest I will get to that sled.

[GUS]

https://www.jess4assembly.com/

[Threadkiller]

Congratulations to the Rays for having a post game celebration that didn’t result in injuries like the Padres MO.

[Threadkiller]

Happy Birthday BOE!

[henry]

Gus, our luck “Jess” would be the next Governor. Might burn down Madison and end up in the hospital for a week. ;)

[jimmyk]

Also willowed, response to MM's 10:51 willow:

They were convinced that teachers could not claim to be professionals if they formed a union, which in their experience would be associated with labor, and would have too much control over curriculum.

There was a landmark SCOTUS case in 1980 that deemed private university faculty "managerial," and therefore not allowed to unionize, at least for collective bargaining purposes, much to the consternation of leftist professors, especially those in the humanities that end up with market-determined salaries rather than enforced equity with higher-paid disciplines.

[JimNorCal]

All the fliers for local Prog candidates say they support "equity"

Just to confirm,
equality = equal treatment under the law
equity = equal results, regardless of effort

Is that a fair assessment? I don't speak Prog very good.

[GUS]

No way HENRY. He's a Lady.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sadly, not anymore jim.

Equity now equals disparate results in favor of the oppressed and comprised mainly of the fruits of the privileged's labor since the oppressed don't produce very much.

[Tom R]

There is a picture floating around on Twitter of Paul Pelosi with a young Asian girl whose arms are in some kind of bindings. There is no nudity and it appears to be out in the public but the picture does come across as very strange. The tweets say the picture is from Hunter Biden’s laptop. I went back to copy the link and Twitter had deleted the post.

[Jim Eagle]

Have you heard about those Murder Hornets in Washington State? First film of them in habitat.

https://weather.com/science/nature/video/first-murder-hornets-nest-discovered-in-washington-state

[lyle]

Belated happy birthday, Beasts!

In your honor, I opened and decanted a cheap pinot noir and it turned out to be a ‘89 Mouton! Excellent! 😎

[clarice]

FB has removed the AT Widberg article re the tapes.

[henry]

So China doesn’t want it’s extortion stash made public?

[Narciso]

Honestly they have one job, and they can bearly handle them.

[Narciso]

Thats a cool car.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

A proposal many here have made. Perhaps it's catching on;
A Modest Proposal: Make Universities Pay for Student Debt Forgiveness

It raises a good point. In the private sector loans are provided to acquire something of a relatively known quality and value such a car or home or appliance and the value is arrived at chiefly by actual supply and demand. So the lender has a decent idea of risk/reward.
The state has so corrupted that mechanism that a gigantic artificial demand has been created and the providers of the product have been enabled to offer a product that often has an inherent value without any relation to the loan required to obtain it and often a negative value.
We have a system where universities have been paid to produce the equivalent of a rusted car on cinderblocks without an engine and getting paid the same or more for that hulk as for a new Ferrari, while bearing zero liability for providing a liability as a product. And Biden and that bunch think the taxpayers should pay the loan off for this rusted hulk of a person the universities produced.
I have a modest proposal myself in honor of the recently departed Jerry Jeff Walker; universities are given the choice of paying off the loans of these defective freaks they churn out or the red diaper mothers can line up against the wall.

[Davod]

Linked from Instapundit .

Michael Yon - Well worth reading the complete article:

"Oct 23, 2020 at 1:27 PM
Dispatch 30: Thai and US Insurrection, and Insurgency.Unedited morning thoughts:...

Portland, Oregon, is in clear insurgency. A local insurgency, but clear. A local communist revolution. A tumor on the larger body of America.

The communist Sarah Iannarone openly supports ANTIFA and is running for mayor of Portland. ANTIFA in Portland already has assassinated someone in plain view. ANTIFA is a terrorist organization committing hundreds of acts of violence per month.

Sarah Iannarone clearly states her intention to defund the police. Anyone who thinks this will end nicely does not know much about communists. Communists, as they seize the reigns of power and budget, will use those same resources to create their own enforcers. Portland is in a state of revolution. Insurgency. The goal is not simply to elect a new Mayor but to fundamentally transform the city into a communist base.

Many people in Portland realize the danger, and are no longer in Portland. They are in Boise, or at least somewhere else. Others are preparing to jump from Portland like Hong Kongers leaping to Taiwan or Canada. Like Cubans fleeing to Florida, or East Germans making an escape. At least there is no wall and they are free to leave..."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/dispatch-30-thai-43012480

[Jim Eagle]

From a Jewish News agreggator in Germany, Trump's Top Ten accomplishments, so far:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289743

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1320246749265580034.html

Carlos Osweda asks the question that I have been wondering myself:

We keep hearing that Democrats have the lead in early voting. How do we know that they voted for Biden?

[hoyden]

I tried to link the Widberg AT article and FB would't post it. Then I created a tiny URL that went through with the comment "Biden's Laptop Matters".

The MFM are the Wuhan Wet Market of news.

[BeastsEngland]

The Tautara is an attractive vehicle, but the article never mentioned what kind of stereo comes standard.... ;)

~ ~ ~

Thanks for the (early) birthday wishes, as last night was merely the opening salvo for my birthday week festivities. And based on my mental and physical assessment this morning, today’s activities will be cancelled. 😜

[hoyden]

FB deleted my post. Taking flack confirms we're over the target.

[lyle]

Beasts calling a lid for today! 😬

[Buckeye]

Wouldn't a good capitalist prefer to die broke than leave meat for his enemies to consume?

Clearly Mrs. Buckeye’s plan:)

[JimNorCal]

Terrific comment at TheNewNeo shows what we are up against.

"There is a massive, well organized voting fraud operation created by Obama and Eric Holder. It’s been nearly a full-time job for Holder these past few years. The push for 100 percent voting by mail, motor-voter combined with granting drivers licenses to non citizens, no signature verification on mailed in ballots, refusal to purge voter rolls of those who have died or moved away (which means hundreds of thousands of ballots mailed to nonexistent voters) and ballot harvesting schemes which allow the chain of custody for ballots to be violated by party functionaries (also facilitates vote buying) ….. all of these are being pushed by Holder and company from coast-to-coast."

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

You don't. I'll bet that those 46% AA who are favorable toward Trump are predominantly registered as Dems. Florida is famous for crossover voters.

[BeastsEngland]

Very nice, lyle - I also need some pudding. :)

[JimNorCal]

An election prayer from Catholic priest Father David Huffman at about 56:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzrrkfc3BNA

[lyle]

https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/24/if-masks-dont-work-why-do-we-keep-wearing-them/

No one should underestimate how strong and widespread the belief in masks is. For many, they are a source of profound security. They are secure from the virus, immorality, and in the promise of societal approval. Their masks even empower them to become puritanical and judgmental. With full-throated conviction, they will blame victims of COVID-19 for not wearing masks and for lacking sufficient faith in the mask. They will insist on quarantining them and their family members for two-weeks no matter what. In most cases, it’s difficult to determine whether this is a health precaution designed to mitigate spread or a punishment for being near the virus in the first place.

Many people who are frustrated with the masking simply want to return to mask-free normality. It isn’t so simple anymore. Asking a person to take off his mask now means asking him to take off all that the masking has come to mean. Removing it means removing one’s safety, one’s sense of belonging, and one’s values.

Yep. Alas.

[JimNorCal]

Ig: "Equity now equals disparate results in favor of the oppressed"

OK, not so far from what I said, then.

[Narciso]

That is aprecursoe

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKCTkLJbtT4&t=6s

[clarice]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElL0tIjWAAASkzs?format=png&name=900x900

[CCGirl]

Thanks for the tomato ideas. Still can’t eat them myself, so am lacking motivation.

Anonamom, I read the article you linked re the young woman who will reluctantly vote for Trump. She makes some interesting points, such as how the left wants to manage people, and that the right is simply “indifferent” (I think that’s the word she used). It seems to me she is still in denial about the right, and the right’s belief in laissez faire rather than indifference. But she seems to be getting there. It’s as though she refuses to see any good on the part of the right. I see that with a lot of people. They agree the left is awful, and they also have a pre-set standard concerning the right. I think it’s naive to think that the concept of self-control and honoring individual rights is “indifference.” I am not sure how to convince people otherwise. If one doesn’t understand the value of our Constitution, how can one understand the public policy of the right?

Hope that made any sense. I sent the walk away video to my oldest. Not sure if she has watched it, but she said she would. My youngest is tough. Best to keep quiet and let her see bit by bit. Until last week she was working double shifts waitressing and studying nursing. She had no time to ponder, and even meet with friends. Last weekend she met with friends as the restaurant is closed. She fell apart and was so sad after it all. I think she was worn out, but also realized what she is missing due to the shut downs. She would never read that article. Being home, where she sees the conflicting opinions of her brother and parents vs. those of the professors on line, I think is the best medicine. (Porch has made that point re the college-aged kids and voting).

Sorry that was so long and poorly written. Tried to keep it short, but there’s a lot going on in the forced-at-home family.

[Narciso]

But they took igor danchenkos story to the bank.

[henry]

Clarice, why bother confirming the important bits (ie the other side of the emails) if repair shop guy is too deplorable for the high noses in the courts? That would take effort, cost cocktail party invites, and mean no cushy work free job after retirement.

I trust the FBI / DOJ decision maker is one of those “policy” civil servants that can be kicked to the curb under Trump’s EO.

[James D.]

Removing it means removing one’s safety, one’s sense of belonging, and one’s values.

Most of all, it removes their power to be judgmental towards and feel superior to their fellow citizens. And it’s clear that way too many of our neighbors aren’t going to give that up without a fight.

[Narciso]

You have it right on point, ccgirl.

In that dirty harry film the gauntlet the corrupt official went to great length to silence the witness.

[Narciso]

In another film magnum force. Harry was confronted not only by police hit squad but the enabling lieutenant.

[Narciso]

Hes lucky they didnt respond to him

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/10/25/abc-upset-rapper-detained-after-gun-brandished-trump

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Happy Beastsday Beast!

[Narciso]

Lol

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1320396629464240128

[jimmyk]

Notable and Quotable: This may be behind the WSJ paywall, so I'll post it in its entirety for JOMers. entertainment:

National Review: Senator, last week at the hearing you mentioned that you thought it was “offensive and outdated” when Amy Barrett used the [term] “sexual preference.” It turns out that Joe Biden said it in May. Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it in 2017. Some of your colleagues on the Judiciary Committee said it maybe in 2010, 2012. Do you stand by that criticism?

Mazie Hirono: Well, of course.

NR: Do you think Joe Biden should apologize for saying that in May?

Hirono: Well, look, it’s a lesson learned for all of us. But when you’re going on the Supreme Court and you’ve been a judge, as one of my judge friends said, you should know what these words mean.

NR: Should Joe Biden apologize, too, like Amy Coney Barrett did?

Hirono: Joe Biden is not up for the Supreme Court.

NR: He’s up for the presidency. So, he shouldn’t apologize?

Hirono: People will decide.

NR: You don’t want to call on him to apologize?

Hirono: Oh, stop it. The world is in flames.

Essentially, "Because shut up."

[Porchlight]

In your honor, I opened and decanted a cheap pinot noir and it turned out to be a ‘89 Mouton! Excellent! 😎

Hey, I want that magic too! Do you think it would happen for me?

I have a bottle of Iowa wine I bought this summer and a bottle of Trump wine that Mr Porch gave me for my birthday in 2017. Saving them for...well, you know the thing.

[CCGirl]

Clarice, it was fun watching all the lefties crash and burn last week - the cspan moderator, the pompous porno guy, and Leslie Stahl. How many will fall this week? Hubs and I were wondering this am. And we forgot about that 60 minutes mess. Thanks for all those great Sunday am articles.

And the elephant in the room - Hunter Biden, et al. I’m finally getting projects done, as the dread I felt two weeks ago seems to be overcome by optimism.

RSE, whenever I read your posts I think you must be a glutton for punishment. Thanks for reading all that garbage, and keeping us up to date. Whenever I see the words, “community organizer,” I think, “communist organizer.”

[Marlene]

Happy Birthday Beasts!

[Porchlight]

FL early voting update. These are numbers I'm capturing every so often. In person early voting/total D lead including vote by mail.

Rs are chipping away!

2 pm 10/24
IPEV -220678 (R lead)
Total VBM + IPEV 369272 (D lead)

3 pm 10/24
IPEV -222651
Total 368809

9 pm 10/24
IPEV -227337
Total 365388

9 am 10/25
IPEV -230943
Total 366209

12 pm 10/25
IPEV -240032
Total 358459

Again, remember, Dems in polling consistently say they're voting early 2:1 over Rs.

Source updates every 20 minutes, except Sarasota and Miami-Dade which only update every 24 hours: https://joeisdone.github.io/florida/

[Marlene]

Trump in Manchester. Looks a bit chilly up in NH!

[MissMarple2]

My daughter has taken the recycling to the park just north of us. Oh thank God, since I was having to throw Coke cans and plastic water bottles in the regular trash.

Meanwhile, in trying to explain why India and Sudan had different styles of government and attitudes about Israel, I learned my daughter had never heard of Khartoum or Lord Gordon, nor the Israeli/Sudanese peace agreement which was announced on Friday, nor was President Trump to be given any sort of credit because Orange Man Bad, I guess.

Then I was accused of trying to pick an argument, which I pointed out would make no sense since she has already voted. Pfft.

[peter]

Beasts @ 12:17, I believe it is a Panasonic Cassette with bass-boost.

[CCGirl]

Marlene, it’s very chilly on Cape Cod today. First time this fall. Brrr.

[CCGirl]

Marlene, heard this week that the Nat Cem in ME had its official opening, but Trump was not there. He’s busy going other things!

Off to do yard work.

[sbwaters]

Brian Stelter @brianstelter
We had to make multiple changes today to fit in a newsmaker: The exec editor of The AP. Yes, I wanted to book you a month ago, and hope we can still have that conversation. As you know, TV booking is complicated and ever-changing! But there's no conspiracy afoot.

@sbwTweet Reply:
.@brianstelter of @CNN, do you mean the @AP
that I have to edit every day because they consider reporters’ opinions to be news? The @AP
that inserts adjectives & verbs that color the story? The @AP that inserts clauses that do not fairly report all the facts? That @AP? #RealNews

[Marlene]

MM, I'm having a text argument with my daughter, so join the club. I'm very pissed off right now.

[James D.]

Note how Stetler describes the AP editor: a “newsmaker”

On the one hand that’s obviously wrong and a media reporter of all people should know better.

On the other hand, I guess it’s one of those Kinsley gaffes where somebody unintentionally (or maybe unknowingly) tells the truth.

[PDinDetroit]

In regards to the ban on Open Carry of Firearms at or near polling places, the following link goes to a PDF of the filed suit:

https://tinyurl.com/yykhvfnt

All the major Firearms Rights orgs in MI are represented.

[Marlene]

OMG! I just read the Bangor Daily online and Trump is supposedly going to visit an apple orchard about 10 miles down the road from BIA. That road is where we had a condo before moving to the cabin in the woods. The apple orchard owner told reporters he doesn't know about a Trump visit (because he can't say,duh) but the President is welcome to come and pick apples. Ha! That orchard has amazing corn mazes.

[Porchlight]

Does it have a Biden corn maze, Marlene?

[James D.]

Here’s the governor of New York State:

If the local government does not effectively enforce the law, we will withhold funds from the local government… If they don’t, we will withhold funding from the government. I don’t like to do that. Budgets are tough all across the board. I don’t know how else to get them to do the enforcement they need to do. So, hopefully that will motivate them because nothing else I have done has motivated them – not my rapier wit, not my sense of humor, not my guilt, not my blame, not my admonition, and not my pleas. Maybe money works,” Cuomo said.

He later pointed out that yeshivas receive a significant amount of funding.

“I guarantee if a yeshiva gets closed down, and they’re not going to get state funding, you will see compliance,” Cuomo said.

Pardon my language, how the holy fuck is this guy not hanging from a lamppost right now?

Every single word of his is unacceptable from an elected official in a free society.

[Porchlight]

Trump support on the Brooklyn Bridge, posted one hour ago:

https://streamable.com/9x0ox1

[Jim Eagle]

James D,

Now you know why his father never even attempted to run for POTUS. That whole family is dirty and I know Chris' wife's side very well and they have to be embarrassed.

[henry]

McTurtle busy this weekend.

@WSJ

The Senate cleared a key procedural hurdle on Sunday, voting largely along party lines to advance the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, as Republicans race to confirm President Trump’s pick before Election Day

[Marlene]

Porch, I just read their website and the corn maze is "Happy Birthday Maine 2020" because Maine gained freedom from Massachusetts in 1820. We know it as the Missouri Compromise. Most of the birthday festivities were cancelled because of Covid, just a part of the disaster that was the 2020 tourist season.

[jimmyk]

James D, Cuomo declared himself Emperor of NY back in March, and he quite likes it! How dare his subjects disobey his orders and make it less fun for him?!

[Marlene]

Well, duh! I just realized that Dana White of the UFC has a home in Levant, where Trump is supposed to visit the apple orchard. White is a huge Trump supporter and because the trip to Maine was last minute, maybe that is what is planned. So, the flight to BIA from MHT is probably 15 minutes on AF1? :)

[henry]

Chuckle losing his marbles.

@wcjb20

Calling it a “sham,” Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York warned Republicans the only way to remove the “stain” of their action would be to “withdraw the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett until after the election.”

https://twitter.com/wcjb20/status/1320424891578011650?s=21

[Porchlight]

The 50 Cent effect.

Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
· Oct 23
Morning Reader Data Points:

National Daily Black Likely Voter Job Approval For @POTUS - October 19-23, 2020

Mon 10/19 - 25%
Tue 10/20 - 24%
Wed 10/21 - 31%
Thu 10/22 - 37%
Fri 10/23 - 46%

[Captain Hate]

Catcher's Mitt knows how to treat those pesky Jooooos.

[Neo]

Google Searches for ‘Can I Change My Vote’ Spike Following Hunter Biden Sex Tape Release

[Narciso]

You mispelled pharoah

[Manuel Transmission]

CC girl, glad you spotted that one perceptive letter in our local electro-rag. We do have a few common sense folks around here. The closest we can come to accomplishing useful things here is to file lawsuits against the prog/greenie crowd. We’ve dropped many $1k’s in the pot to push back over the years. Still hoping it doesn’t shift to $.30/round as a last resort. :(

[Narciso]

Hell pharoah didnt send the sick back home. So i need another name for him.

[jimmyk]

You mispelled pharoah

Dare I point out that you did too? :)

pharaoh

[Narciso]

Point taken, emperor.

[CCGirl]

MT, these coastal areas have all the nut jobs! No rounds to be found in these parts. Son and hubs have their IDs, but no luck on anything else.

Drove to a friend’s to drop off some green tomatoes. There’s another Trump sign on my scenic highway. So now the ratio of blm/Biden signs to Trump within a mile is 30/3. Baby steps! Now I am going to do yardwork!

[Rocco]

Trying to catch up but boy did I miss a lot! I wished narc an early HB so I'm covered there but didn't see Dr.J's wonderful news. Congratulations Dr and Mrs.J. Happy Birthday Beasts, it's good to see you posting again. And peter's on the mend, that's great news.

MissM, your grandparents sure had it figured out. But I wonder if some of the less liberal teachers sre just afraid to speak up? Perhaps the time is ripe to ridicule every last one who pays union dues. Dues that fund a movement to de-fund our police. It's insanity and anyone with that frame of mind shouldn't be allowed near children.

jimmyk, can you imagine what kind of salaries those managers would demand if not for the SC?

In Yeshiva, the court affirmed that, because full-time faculty members at Yeshiva University exercised what it described as “absolute” authority in helping to establish guidelines with regard to academic matters such as scheduling classes, selecting teaching methods, setting grading policies, determining teaching loads, establishing pay scales and benefits packages, and deciding who is awarded tenure, promotion, and sabbaticals, they essentially exercised managerial duties. The controlling consideration in the case was that the faculty of Yeshiva University exercised authority that in any other context unquestionably would have been considered managerial. Thus, consistent with general principles of labour law that managers or supervisors and regular employees should not be in the same bargaining unit because they represent significantly different communities of interest, the faculty members were not entitled to the collective-bargaining protections guaranteed by the NLRA.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Labor-Relations-Board-v-Yeshiva-University

[henry]

Mere coincidence. Not worth the FBI missing out on free donuts for.

@robert_spaulding

DC in a nutshell- “We now know that Joe Biden met directly with his son’s Chinese business partner, Jonathan Li, in a Chinese hotel lobby on a fateful trip in 2013–10 days later, Hunter landed an unprecedented $1 billion deal, bankrolled by the CCP.”

https://twitter.com/robert_spalding/status/1320346742785716227?s=21

[Momto2]

So now the ratio of blm/Biden signs to Trump within a mile is 30/3.

My heart goes out to all of you who live in these deep "blue" areas. It's bad enough for me to realize how close I live to Atlanta. But my area is covered in Trump signs. It's not unusual for me to see several trucks with large Trump flags flying on my short drive to school - at 9a.m. - with no parade planned!

[henry]

A real Russian conspiracy...

@strangefactoid

Russian scientists defrosted several prehistoric worms, and two woke up. After thawing, the two worms began to move and eat. One is 32,000 years old and the other 41,700 years old.

https://twitter.com/strangefactoid/status/1319773093062205441?s=21

[lyle]

https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/fullname-famous-composers-racism-sexism.html

Don’t bother clicking, merely behold the utter idiocy.

[Pinandpuller]

Does anybody remember how Trump’s former advisor Kelly Ann Conway’s daughter is 15 and a legitimate journalistic source?

[Jane]

Do teachers get Medicare and social security? Or do they have a different plan? When I told my mother how little I pay for prescriptions, she almost had a cow!

[Porchlight]

lyle, I predicted a couple of months ago that classical music would be the next big woke cultural target.

The Met may never re-open. :(

[Jim Eagle]

Russian scientists defrosted several prehistoric worms, and two woke up. After thawing, the two worms began to move and eat. One is 32,000 years old and the other 41,700 years old.

And now we know how the NeverTrump movement started.

[jimmyk]

Slate is one in the long list of once semi-respectable left-leaning publications that have gone pear-shaped, as narc would say. Jumped the shark. That would include the WaPo and NYT, New Republic, Atlantic, and many more. We'll see if it's a winning strategy for them.

[clarice]

Jane, I think it depends on the benefit plans in their state. Federal employees i.e. do not pay into social security and are limited to federal pensions. Don't know about medicare but I expect it's the same story--they have to sign up for private plans or used to have to do so.

[jimmyk]

And now we know how the NeverTrump movement started.

I was waiting for the jokes to come. I was going to say something like "And now the Democrats want to nominate them for President" (their being 40,000 years old), but I didn't want to get TK riled up about eligibility.

[lyle]

The left ruins everything it touches. Everything.

[lyle]

but I didn't want to get TK riled up about eligibility.

Heh™

[clarice]

Can't post this on FB because others have said it was "abusive".https://gnews.org/452575/

[GUS]

They named the worms, DEMENTIA and LEGS UP.