Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Monday, July 29, 2019
AND NOW...IDIOTS
Here's the deal, Joe. Ever hear the one about going to the well once too often? You know, where you keep pushing your "argument" well past its sell-by date?
I've got news for you, Joe. The eight years of the previous administration taught us that the "racist" blast is the left's default argument and pretty much all the left has. We learned that the moment you disagreed with an African-American president about anything, out it came.
Who cleans your sheets, Klansman?
You could set your watches by it. And it's why the charge doesn't scare serious people anymore, Joe. Because if just about everything is "racist," then nothing is "racist."
And we're back to square one.
So kiss off, Joe.
I've got news for you, Joe. The eight years of the previous administration taught us that the "racist" blast is the left's default argument and pretty much all the left has. We learned that the moment you disagreed with an African-American president about anything, out it came.
Who cleans your sheets, Klansman?
You could set your watches by it. And it's why the charge doesn't scare serious people anymore, Joe. Because if just about everything is "racist," then nothing is "racist."
And we're back to square one.
So kiss off, Joe.
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Friday, July 26, 2019
KEEP MANHATTAN, JUST GIVE ME THAT COUNTRYSIDE
Remember actor Eddie Albert, the guy in Green Acres and a great many movies? Come to find out that in his younger days, the guy was kind of a badass because the Battle of Tarawa was pretty rough. Charnel house, meat grinder, Civil War battle, over-the-top in WW1 kind of rough.
EMPEROR NORTON
Nanner McBotox is not a happy camper.
Says the woman who still does the required ten prostrations before a copy of Roe v. Wade, the Dred Scott decision of the '70's, a decision that a majority of Americans hated but which
BECAME THE LAW OF THE LAND ANYWAY,
every single morning.
Says the woman who still does the required ten prostrations before a copy of Roe v. Wade, the Dred Scott decision of the '70's, a decision that a majority of Americans hated but which
BECAME THE LAW OF THE LAND ANYWAY,
every single morning.
CRYING CLIMATE CHANGE
I can remember a time when we only had ten years to begin to fix the climate. And that was fourteen or fifteen years ago. Keep running this sort of crap, Neera, and you'd better hope the climate starts down that slippery slope of yours or people are going to laugh and point at you.
SCHADENFREUDE
Democrats? Some of us tried to warn you. What goes around...
The DOJ has just informed the House Judiciary committee and Nancy Pelosi, using Fast and Furious as a reference, that Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will not be prosecuted for contempt.
“The Department of Justice’s long-standing position is that we will not prosecute an official for contempt of Congress for declining to provide information subject to a presidential assertion of executive privilege,” Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Rosen pointed to Trump’s assertion of executive privilege in his letter to Pelosi on Wednesday. And he highlighted DOJ declining to prosecute officials during previous administrations, such as former Attorney General Eric Holder after the House voted to hold him in contempt in 2012."
None of you can even remotely understand how happy I am right now.
The DOJ has just informed the House Judiciary committee and Nancy Pelosi, using Fast and Furious as a reference, that Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will not be prosecuted for contempt.
“The Department of Justice’s long-standing position is that we will not prosecute an official for contempt of Congress for declining to provide information subject to a presidential assertion of executive privilege,” Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Rosen pointed to Trump’s assertion of executive privilege in his letter to Pelosi on Wednesday. And he highlighted DOJ declining to prosecute officials during previous administrations, such as former Attorney General Eric Holder after the House voted to hold him in contempt in 2012."
None of you can even remotely understand how happy I am right now.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
FAKE NEWS
This is neither an apple nor a banana, Brian Stelter. This is a particularly vile, disgusting, repulsive little anti-Semitic slimebag and he works for your company, or at least he did. Does he still work there? Has CNN fired him yet? When can we look forward to CNN firing his sorry ass?
UPDATE: Stelter reports that CNN "has accepted the resignation" of the gutless bastard which is modern English for "we'll let you quit but if you don't quit, we'll fire you."
UPDATE: Stelter reports that CNN "has accepted the resignation" of the gutless bastard which is modern English for "we'll let you quit but if you don't quit, we'll fire you."
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
JOURNALMALISM 101
This isn't the story here.
A 9-year-old Florida girl was injured after a bull bison charged her and sent her flying into the air at Yellowstone National Park on Monday.
The unidentified girl was with a group of people in the Old Faithful Geyser area of the park in Wyoming, standing within five to 10 feet of the bison before the animal charged, the National Park Service said in a press release Tuesday.
Hailey Dayton, 18, filmed the incident while she was visiting the park on a family road trip.
“My brother and I were looking at the hot springs, and we saw a bunch of people running down the path to the bridge. We saw through the trees some people petting the bison, super close,” she told NBC News on Wednesday.
The story here is how any group of allegedly-sentient adults could POSSIBLY be this stupid.
BEEN FOLLOWING THIS?
I haven't either but apparently it did not go so well.
Been out on Twitter all morning and I haven't seen a single serious Democrat who thought it did.
Been out on Twitter all morning and I haven't seen a single serious Democrat who thought it did.
UNSOLICITED ADVICE
I'm neither liberal nor Democrat and God willing, I never will be either one so the lib/Dems can take this any way they want. But it just doesn't seem a very wise 2020 election strategy to insult the people who grow your food, as the lib-Dems seem determined to do.
Implicit and explicit contempt for them is also pretty stupid. Shut up and vote for us, racists??
Kiss off.
Implicit and explicit contempt for them is also pretty stupid. Shut up and vote for us, racists??
Kiss off.
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE
Savor the irony. Know who just got hit with an unfair labor practices charge? Here's a hint. He's a fat, balding, elderly Vermont Communist who wears glasses.
Saturday, July 20, 2019
AS I SAID BEFORE
You've got exactly four options, Commie.
1. Get 2/3 of the House of Representatives to agree.
2. Get 2/3 of the US Senate to agree.
3. Get 3/4 of the states to agree. Or...
4. SHUT THE EFFING HELL UP.
1. Get 2/3 of the House of Representatives to agree.
2. Get 2/3 of the US Senate to agree.
3. Get 3/4 of the states to agree. Or...
4. SHUT THE EFFING HELL UP.
Friday, July 19, 2019
REMEMBER WHEN MEGGIE MAC WAS A JOKE?
I do.
Meggie Mac's not a joke anymore.
A few weeks ago, I was part of the photo shoot for The New York Times Magazine’s cover story about ABC’s “The View.” It should have been a moment of triumph — a vindication of the show’s significance as a place at the center of political debate, a ratings boom, a must for the top tier of presidential candidates. I should have been proud. I knew my father would have been proud.
I look back at those pictures now, and I see a woman hiding her shock and sorrow. I am posed for the camera, looking stern and strong, representing my fellow conservative women across the country. But inside, I am dying. Inside, my baby is dying.
I missed a few days of work. It wasn’t many, but given the job I have, it was enough to spark gossip about why I would be away from “The View.” This was not supposed to be public knowledge. I have had my share of public grief and public joy. I wish this grief — the grief of a little life begun and then lost — could remain private.
Meggie Mac's not a joke anymore.
A few weeks ago, I was part of the photo shoot for The New York Times Magazine’s cover story about ABC’s “The View.” It should have been a moment of triumph — a vindication of the show’s significance as a place at the center of political debate, a ratings boom, a must for the top tier of presidential candidates. I should have been proud. I knew my father would have been proud.
I look back at those pictures now, and I see a woman hiding her shock and sorrow. I am posed for the camera, looking stern and strong, representing my fellow conservative women across the country. But inside, I am dying. Inside, my baby is dying.
I missed a few days of work. It wasn’t many, but given the job I have, it was enough to spark gossip about why I would be away from “The View.” This was not supposed to be public knowledge. I have had my share of public grief and public joy. I wish this grief — the grief of a little life begun and then lost — could remain private.
They were conceived, and they lived, fully human and fully ours — and then they died. We deserve the opportunity to speak openly of them, to share what they were and to mourn. More important, they deserve to be spoken of, shared and mourned. These children, shockingly small, shockingly helpless, entirely the work of our love and our humanity, are children.
We who mourn are their mothers.
YEAH, OKAY
Fifty years ago today, Dead Ted's car achieved sentience and jumped into the water entirely on its own, causing the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Nothing about the fat boy being drunk off his ass and basically being allowed to get away scott-free with what, at the very least, should have been a negligent homicide charge by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Thursday, July 18, 2019
DROPPING THE MASK
Remember the time when Murder, Inc. tried to pass itself off as being devoted to all aspects of women's health and not just to that one really minor medical procedure?
Neither does anyone else.
Planned Parenthood’s board has fired the organization’s president, Leana Wen, after less than a year on the job. According to reports, Wen was dismissed because the board deemed her insufficiently dedicated to expanding Planned Parenthood’s political advocacy, particularly on abortion.
The news comes as a shock for a few reasons. For one thing, Wen was appointed just last fall to replace Cecile Richards, who resigned on good terms after leading the institution for twelve years.
But it’s surprising, too, if Wen’s ouster was due to her reluctance to focus more on politics than on public health, as several reports suggest was the case. In June, after all, Planned Parenthood announced a six-figure ad campaign, “Bans Off My Body,” to oppose recent state laws regulating abortion. Judging from Wen’s Twitter account, she was perfectly comfortable promoting what the group frequently calls “reproductive rights.”
UPDATE: I'm starting to see why Murder Inc. made this move.
Neither does anyone else.
Planned Parenthood’s board has fired the organization’s president, Leana Wen, after less than a year on the job. According to reports, Wen was dismissed because the board deemed her insufficiently dedicated to expanding Planned Parenthood’s political advocacy, particularly on abortion.
The news comes as a shock for a few reasons. For one thing, Wen was appointed just last fall to replace Cecile Richards, who resigned on good terms after leading the institution for twelve years.
But it’s surprising, too, if Wen’s ouster was due to her reluctance to focus more on politics than on public health, as several reports suggest was the case. In June, after all, Planned Parenthood announced a six-figure ad campaign, “Bans Off My Body,” to oppose recent state laws regulating abortion. Judging from Wen’s Twitter account, she was perfectly comfortable promoting what the group frequently calls “reproductive rights.”
UPDATE: I'm starting to see why Murder Inc. made this move.
THE OLD STALINISTS RETIREMENT HOME
Since we're rapidly coming up on the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, I guess you'd have to figure that The New York Times would go all Walter Duranty on us.
The Cold War was fought as much on an ideological front as a military one, and the Soviet Union often emphasized the sexism and racism of its capitalist opponents — particularly the segregated United States. And the space race was a prime opportunity to signal the U.S.S.R.’s commitment to equality. After putting the first man in space in 1961, the Soviets went on to send the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit — all years before the Americans would follow suit.
The Cold War was fought as much on an ideological front as a military one, and the Soviet Union often emphasized the sexism and racism of its capitalist opponents — particularly the segregated United States. And the space race was a prime opportunity to signal the U.S.S.R.’s commitment to equality. After putting the first man in space in 1961, the Soviets went on to send the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit — all years before the Americans would follow suit.
CLOSES EYES, SLOWLY SHAKES HEAD
For the love of God, is there a "racist history" of everything in America?
You might not think of tipping as a legacy of slavery, but it has a far more racialized history than most Americans realize. Tipping originated in feudal Europe and was imported back to the United States by American travelers eager to seem sophisticated. The practice spread throughout the country after the Civil War as U.S. employers, largely in the hospitality sector, looked for ways to avoid paying formerly enslaved workers.
Uh huh. Next up, the "racist history" of iced tea, Coca-Cola and hot dogs.
You might not think of tipping as a legacy of slavery, but it has a far more racialized history than most Americans realize. Tipping originated in feudal Europe and was imported back to the United States by American travelers eager to seem sophisticated. The practice spread throughout the country after the Civil War as U.S. employers, largely in the hospitality sector, looked for ways to avoid paying formerly enslaved workers.
Uh huh. Next up, the "racist history" of iced tea, Coca-Cola and hot dogs.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
BOOK JOINTS
I spent twenty full-time years in the library business. I haven't worked in one since the end of 2012 and I think I'm finally starting to understand why.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
Charlie Kirk gives up on Illinois.
As a person who makes his living in the political world, a big part of what I try to do is separate my emotions from rational thought in hopes of being able to see the world as clear-eyed as possible. So, it is with much sadness, but after considerable rational analysis, that I have decided to say goodbye to the state of Illinois, the place that from this point on will have the qualifier of being my "childhood home." I have officially made the move to Florida.
Like many other young people who are statistically likely to have their best earning years ahead of them, this decision will help me avoid the high taxes, excessive regulation and the corruption of Illinois politicians and government.
Mike Madigan's morbidly-obese sock puppet slash governor could not be reached for comment.
Monday, July 15, 2019
YUP
Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest this.
When you get called "racist" merely for disagreeing with this or that Obama Administration policy, as many of us did, then "racism" ceases to have any meaning.
When you get called "racist" merely for disagreeing with this or that Obama Administration policy, as many of us did, then "racism" ceases to have any meaning.
Sunday, July 14, 2019
RAVE REVIEW
Mollie Hemingway, one of this nation's most prominent Cardinal fans, and Carrie Severino have a new book out called Justice On Trial, the story of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle. I've got a couple of other books that I've been seriously meaning to get to but I may have to order this and move it up the rotation considering what Mikey Nats has to say about it.
CROSSING THE AISLE
Whose fault is that, Jon? GamGam's or the people who neglected to remind the old woman that Wisconsin is an actual American state and has been for quite some time?
Democrats working out their problems among themselves, circa 2008.
Democrats working out their problems among themselves, circa 2008.
Saturday, July 13, 2019
GOVERNOR?
"Ass-kissing suck-up" is not a good presidential look.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Saturday that if he is elected president, he will ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be his secretary of state.
He said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference that one of his first acts as president would be to get a secretary of state who embraces world unity and "love rather than hate," as he rebuked President Trump's foreign policy.
"My first act will be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of state," he said. "I haven't asked her yet so this could be a surprise to her."
"I actually believe this because what I think what she has said that has inspired us so much is such an antithesis of the president's foreign policies," he added.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Saturday that if he is elected president, he will ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be his secretary of state.
He said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference that one of his first acts as president would be to get a secretary of state who embraces world unity and "love rather than hate," as he rebuked President Trump's foreign policy.
"My first act will be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of state," he said. "I haven't asked her yet so this could be a surprise to her."
"I actually believe this because what I think what she has said that has inspired us so much is such an antithesis of the president's foreign policies," he added.
Friday, July 12, 2019
LEGACIES
While they existed, the St. Louis Rams had an interesting history with both positive and negative elements. The positive? Well, the 1999-2000 season remains one of the most surreal experiences of my life, speaking as someone who grew up with the St. Louis Football Cardinals and who figured out fairly quickly that a Super Bowl appearance, never mind a win, for a St. Louis-based team was not even remotely possible.
There was Kurt Warner. Isaac Bruce. Torry Holt. Marshall Faulk. The Greatest Show On Turf. London Fletcher. Warner standing in and delivering that Super Bowl-winning TD pass to Bruce even though he knew that Jevon Kearse was about to kill him. The Tackle by Mike Jones.
But what about the negative? Well, there was us introducing this whack job into the NFL.
Raiders guard Richie Incognito has been suspended for the first two games of this season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday.
The Raiders signed Incognito, who last played in 2017, to a one-year deal in May. At the time, general manager Mike Mayock acknowledged the possibility of a suspension for Incognito, 36, who has had multiple legal issues since last playing in the NFL.
Incognito pleaded guilty in March to a charge of disorderly conduct in the funeral home incident, according to online court records, while charges of threatening injury and damaging property were dismissed.
ESPN reported Incognito also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of criminal damage and disorderly conduct stemming from a separate incident last August that involved an argument with his grandmother.
If I had a dollar for every Rams touchdown, long run or long pass completion that was called back because of one of Richie's stupid unnecessary roughness penalties, this publication would be called the Western Kansas Conservative Journal because I'd be publishing it from my estate somewhere around Hays, Ness City or Goodland.
Oh and Myrmidon? In case you're wondering, the Belichek stuff is dead here; nobody cares anymore. When your guys played the Rams in the last Super Bowl, everybody in the STL was rooting for you. Better Kraft/Belichek wins ten more in a row than Stan Kroenke wins one.
That's how dead that the NFL has killed this market. Bring on the XFL.
There was Kurt Warner. Isaac Bruce. Torry Holt. Marshall Faulk. The Greatest Show On Turf. London Fletcher. Warner standing in and delivering that Super Bowl-winning TD pass to Bruce even though he knew that Jevon Kearse was about to kill him. The Tackle by Mike Jones.
But what about the negative? Well, there was us introducing this whack job into the NFL.
Raiders guard Richie Incognito has been suspended for the first two games of this season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday.
The Raiders signed Incognito, who last played in 2017, to a one-year deal in May. At the time, general manager Mike Mayock acknowledged the possibility of a suspension for Incognito, 36, who has had multiple legal issues since last playing in the NFL.
Incognito pleaded guilty in March to a charge of disorderly conduct in the funeral home incident, according to online court records, while charges of threatening injury and damaging property were dismissed.
ESPN reported Incognito also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of criminal damage and disorderly conduct stemming from a separate incident last August that involved an argument with his grandmother.
If I had a dollar for every Rams touchdown, long run or long pass completion that was called back because of one of Richie's stupid unnecessary roughness penalties, this publication would be called the Western Kansas Conservative Journal because I'd be publishing it from my estate somewhere around Hays, Ness City or Goodland.
Oh and Myrmidon? In case you're wondering, the Belichek stuff is dead here; nobody cares anymore. When your guys played the Rams in the last Super Bowl, everybody in the STL was rooting for you. Better Kraft/Belichek wins ten more in a row than Stan Kroenke wins one.
That's how dead that the NFL has killed this market. Bring on the XFL.
COUNT THE COST
Vigilantism is never a good thing. But it seems wise, before endangering the lives of someone else's children, to consider any possible negative consequences of one's actions.
A car thief who stole a vehicle with children inside was chased down and beaten to death by the kids' father and other bystanders Thursday night, Philadelphia police said.
The violent ordeal began around 9 p.m. when a 25-year-old woman parked her Hyundai sedan outside a pizza shop on 29th and Dauphin streets in North Philadelphia.
A car thief who stole a vehicle with children inside was chased down and beaten to death by the kids' father and other bystanders Thursday night, Philadelphia police said.
The violent ordeal began around 9 p.m. when a 25-year-old woman parked her Hyundai sedan outside a pizza shop on 29th and Dauphin streets in North Philadelphia.
The woman left her three young children inside the running car as she went inside to visit her boyfriend, who was an employee at the restaurant and the father of two of the kids, police said.
Suddenly, a 54-year-old man jumped into her car and sped off with the children, who are between the ages of 7 months and 5 years old, strapped inside, according to investigators.
The woman's boyfriend ran after the thief, police said. The man drove about half a block before getting stuck in traffic at 29th and York streets, officials said.
The kids' father then pulled the thief out of the car and beat him as other bystanders in the area joined the attack, according to investigators.
Medics responded to the scene and found the car thief unconscious with severe injuries to the head and face. He was taken to Temple University Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after 10 p.m.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
COMING ATTRACTIONS
There's a great movie concept here if anyone wants it.
As usual, the researchers were seeking singled-celled organisms, the only life-forms thought to be viable after millennia locked in the permafrost. They placed the frozen material on petri dishes in their room-temperature lab and noticed something strange. Hulking among the puny bacteria and amoebae were long, segmented worms complete with a head at one end and anus at the other – nematodes.
“Of course we were surprised and very excited,” Vishnivetskaya said. Clocking in at a half-millimeter long, the nematodes that wriggled back to life were the most complex creatures Vishnivetskaya — or anyone else – had ever revived after a lengthy deep freeze.
She estimated one nematode to be 41,000 years old – by far the oldest living animal ever discovered. This very worm dwelled in the soil beneath Neanderthals’ feet and had lived to meet modern-day humans in Vishnivetskaya’s high-tech laboratory.
Experts suggested that nematodes are well-equipped to endure millennia locked in permafrost. “These buggers survive just about everything,” said Gaetan Borgonie, a nematode researcher at Extreme Life Isyensya in Gentbrugge, Belgium, who was not involved in Vishnivetskaya’s study. He said nematodes are ubiquitous across Earth’s diverse habitats. Borgonie has found teeming communities of nematodes two miles below Earth’s surface, in South African mine shafts with scant oxygen and scalding heat.
As usual, the researchers were seeking singled-celled organisms, the only life-forms thought to be viable after millennia locked in the permafrost. They placed the frozen material on petri dishes in their room-temperature lab and noticed something strange. Hulking among the puny bacteria and amoebae were long, segmented worms complete with a head at one end and anus at the other – nematodes.
“Of course we were surprised and very excited,” Vishnivetskaya said. Clocking in at a half-millimeter long, the nematodes that wriggled back to life were the most complex creatures Vishnivetskaya — or anyone else – had ever revived after a lengthy deep freeze.
She estimated one nematode to be 41,000 years old – by far the oldest living animal ever discovered. This very worm dwelled in the soil beneath Neanderthals’ feet and had lived to meet modern-day humans in Vishnivetskaya’s high-tech laboratory.
Experts suggested that nematodes are well-equipped to endure millennia locked in permafrost. “These buggers survive just about everything,” said Gaetan Borgonie, a nematode researcher at Extreme Life Isyensya in Gentbrugge, Belgium, who was not involved in Vishnivetskaya’s study. He said nematodes are ubiquitous across Earth’s diverse habitats. Borgonie has found teeming communities of nematodes two miles below Earth’s surface, in South African mine shafts with scant oxygen and scalding heat.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Because East Jerusalem is a truly ancient city whose existence can be traced all the way back to 1948, seven years before the person posting this was born.
THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN THAT SHALL NOT BE REVEALED
Case in point.
Missouri law enforcement was able to “sniff out” the location of a person wanted for a controlled substance over the weekend after the suspect passed gas so loudly that it gave up his or her hiding spot, officials said.
Been there.
UPDATE: If the above link doesn't work, try this one. Thanks, Myrmidon.
Missouri law enforcement was able to “sniff out” the location of a person wanted for a controlled substance over the weekend after the suspect passed gas so loudly that it gave up his or her hiding spot, officials said.
Been there.
UPDATE: If the above link doesn't work, try this one. Thanks, Myrmidon.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
EQUAL PAY FOR LESSER WORK
On one level, this is a horrible idea, the worst kind of political ass-kissing imaginable.
The US women's soccer team has now won four World Cups—four more than the men's team—and a Democratic senator is among those saying the women deserve to be paid at least as much as the men. Sen. Joe Manchin introduced a bill Tuesday that would withhold federal funding from the 2026 men's World Cup, which will be hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico, until the US Soccer Federation agrees to equal pay for both teams, BuzzFeed reports. "The clear unequitable pay between the US men’s and women’s soccer teams is unacceptable and I’m glad the US Women’s Soccer Team latest victory is causing public outcry," Manchin said in a statement. "They are the best in the world and deserve to be paid accordingly."
Joe? You're talking about completely different games. Know how many of these women could make a men's team roster, and I'm not even talking about the USL, never mind MLS?
None.
Whatsoever.
See, that's actual equality, Joe.
On the other hand, I don't see anything wrong with withholding federal funding from the men's World Cup. The federal government has absolutely no business spending public money on the men's World Cup, the women's World Cup or similar events in the first place.
The US women's soccer team has now won four World Cups—four more than the men's team—and a Democratic senator is among those saying the women deserve to be paid at least as much as the men. Sen. Joe Manchin introduced a bill Tuesday that would withhold federal funding from the 2026 men's World Cup, which will be hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico, until the US Soccer Federation agrees to equal pay for both teams, BuzzFeed reports. "The clear unequitable pay between the US men’s and women’s soccer teams is unacceptable and I’m glad the US Women’s Soccer Team latest victory is causing public outcry," Manchin said in a statement. "They are the best in the world and deserve to be paid accordingly."
Joe? You're talking about completely different games. Know how many of these women could make a men's team roster, and I'm not even talking about the USL, never mind MLS?
None.
Whatsoever.
See, that's actual equality, Joe.
On the other hand, I don't see anything wrong with withholding federal funding from the men's World Cup. The federal government has absolutely no business spending public money on the men's World Cup, the women's World Cup or similar events in the first place.
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
PSA PSA
If you're a man, particularly a man over the age of 50, you might want to ask your doctor about this. I found out that I had prostate cancer in 2007 when mine suddenly spiked at more than 5. Ideally, it's supposed to be under one.
And prostate biopsies are not anything that anyone wants to get. Trust me.
And prostate biopsies are not anything that anyone wants to get. Trust me.
STU STEVENS?
You were a "strategist" for that life-sized cardboard Mitt Romney cutout that ran for president, lost, and is currently a US Senator from Utah so these three steps shouldn't be too hard.
(1) Write a constitutional amendment abolishing the Electoral College.
(2) Get two thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to agree to it.
(3) Get three-fourths of the states to agree to it as well.
But if all that somehow doesn't work for you then...
(1) Write a constitutional amendment abolishing the Electoral College.
(2) Get two thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to agree to it.
(3) Get three-fourths of the states to agree to it as well.
But if all that somehow doesn't work for you then...
SHUT THE FREAKING HELL UP.
Monday, July 8, 2019
Sunday, July 7, 2019
ACCIDENTAL GENIUS
You can positively change the whole world without intending to.
From a food truck peddling Hawaiian-Korean fusion dishes in Seattle to an underground Japanese speakeasy in D.C. to a Korean barbecue restaurant that focuses on home cooking in New York City, one ingredient is surprisingly constant: Spam.
In recent years, a growing number of Asian American and Pacific Islander chefs are working against anti-Spam stigma to bring the meat to the American fine-dining scene. But how did the pink block of meat, a product of American industrialization, make its way into these Asian cuisines in the first place?
Hormel Foods Corporation [peace and blessings be upon them - Ed], a U.S.-based food conglomerate, produced the first can of Spam — a mix of pork, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite — in 1937 in Minnesota. (Modified potato starch was added in 2001 to minimize the thick layer of gelatin.) But the canned meat really rose to international prominence during World War II.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the American military was deployed to the Pacific, and troops made their way to places like Guam, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. Wherever American troops went, Spam followed, says Robert Ku, a professor of Asian American Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the author of Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA. Though brand-name Spam was not always part of official G.I. rations, it had a number of wartime and post-war uses, and stuck around in places that experienced prolonged American military presence after the war ended.
In the Philippines, people were fleeing from Japanese invasion, and resisting its occupation from 1941 to 1945, when they were first introduced to Spam. On some Pacific Islands, Spam became a necessity for survival for many local residents due to food rationing and restrictions during the war. And for many Japanese Americans, their love for Spam began with one of the most painful memories, Ku writes in his book: The U.S. government sent canned meat to the incarceration camps where people of Japanese descent were forced to relocate and later detained from 1942 to 1945.
I'm not going to lie to you. I'm 63 years old and I don't care how much longer I have to hang around this plane of existence. To be perfectly honest, I'm absolutely flabbergasted that I've made it this long and more than a little annoyed with God that I'm still here.
I LOVE Spam.
Got five cans sitting in my cupboard right now. I've used Spam in soups and stews. It makes a kickass chili and it really improves mac-and-cheese. Or salads. Or just about everything else you can think to throw it into.
Spam is like canned bacon. There is literally nothing that it can't improve.
And what sentient being among us wouldn't enjoy an SLT topped off with Duke's? Amirite?
From a food truck peddling Hawaiian-Korean fusion dishes in Seattle to an underground Japanese speakeasy in D.C. to a Korean barbecue restaurant that focuses on home cooking in New York City, one ingredient is surprisingly constant: Spam.
In recent years, a growing number of Asian American and Pacific Islander chefs are working against anti-Spam stigma to bring the meat to the American fine-dining scene. But how did the pink block of meat, a product of American industrialization, make its way into these Asian cuisines in the first place?
Hormel Foods Corporation [peace and blessings be upon them - Ed], a U.S.-based food conglomerate, produced the first can of Spam — a mix of pork, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite — in 1937 in Minnesota. (Modified potato starch was added in 2001 to minimize the thick layer of gelatin.) But the canned meat really rose to international prominence during World War II.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the American military was deployed to the Pacific, and troops made their way to places like Guam, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. Wherever American troops went, Spam followed, says Robert Ku, a professor of Asian American Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the author of Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian in the USA. Though brand-name Spam was not always part of official G.I. rations, it had a number of wartime and post-war uses, and stuck around in places that experienced prolonged American military presence after the war ended.
In the Philippines, people were fleeing from Japanese invasion, and resisting its occupation from 1941 to 1945, when they were first introduced to Spam. On some Pacific Islands, Spam became a necessity for survival for many local residents due to food rationing and restrictions during the war. And for many Japanese Americans, their love for Spam began with one of the most painful memories, Ku writes in his book: The U.S. government sent canned meat to the incarceration camps where people of Japanese descent were forced to relocate and later detained from 1942 to 1945.
I'm not going to lie to you. I'm 63 years old and I don't care how much longer I have to hang around this plane of existence. To be perfectly honest, I'm absolutely flabbergasted that I've made it this long and more than a little annoyed with God that I'm still here.
I LOVE Spam.
Got five cans sitting in my cupboard right now. I've used Spam in soups and stews. It makes a kickass chili and it really improves mac-and-cheese. Or salads. Or just about everything else you can think to throw it into.
Spam is like canned bacon. There is literally nothing that it can't improve.
And what sentient being among us wouldn't enjoy an SLT topped off with Duke's? Amirite?
Saturday, July 6, 2019
QUICK QUESTION, DAVID FRENCH
Have you ALWAYS been this bonecrushingly stupid?
It’s worth contrasting Trump, who denied Carroll’s claim (as well as his other accusers’), with Clinton because his scandals helped spur the Southern Baptist Convention in 1998 to issue its seminal “Resolution on Moral Character of Public Officials.” That document’s key statement was ominous and unequivocal: “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”
Which had absolutely nothing to do with any public statement Clinton ever made. But do go on.
The relentless drumbeat of claims against Trump–combined with the clear moral declarations of the past–have caused millions of Americans to look at their evangelical fellow citizens and ask, simply: Why? Why have you abandoned your previous commitment to political character to embrace Donald Trump?
Dave? I don't know if you're aware of this or not but devout Christians have voted for sinners for president since the foundation of the Republic. It's kind of all we have.
Part of the explanation is undeniably basic partisanship and ambition. White evangelicals are largely Republican, and they’re generally going to vote for Republicans. And proximity to power has always had its attractions for religious charlatans of all stripes. But I’d suggest the real reason for the breadth and depth of evangelical support is deeper and–perversely–even more destructive to its religious witness.
That reason is fear.
Drama queen.
Talk to engaged evangelicals, and fear is all too often a dominant theme of their political life. The church is under siege from a hostile culture. Religious institutions are under legal attack from progressives. The left wants nuns to facilitate access to abortifacients and contraceptives, it wants Christian adoption agencies to compromise their conscience or close, and it even casts into doubt the tax exemptions of religious education institutions if they adhere to traditional Christian sexual ethics.
Credit where it's due. You got one right.
These issues are legally important, and there are reasons for evangelicals to be concerned. But there is no reason for evangelicals to abandon long-held principles to behave like any other political-interest group.
Bass-ackwards, Dave. We're not abandoning principles. We're holding on to them. More on that in a minute.
Instead, the evangelical church is called to be a source of light in a darkening world. It is not given the luxury of fear-based decision-making. Indeed, of all the groups in American life who believe they have the least to fear from American politics, Christians should top the list. The faithful should reject fear.
Which we have. But before I explain Why You Got Trump, a little history.
It's no secret that when Ronald Reagan became the Republican candidate for president in 1980, won the presidency and then won it again in 1984, some of the most disappointed people in the world worked for GOP Inc.
Why? Reagan had won outside of proper GOP Inc. channels. He had gone over the empty heads of Professional ConservatismTM and appealed directly to the people. And, worst of all, he brought all those horrible evangelicals over to the Republicans.
Because that meant that from then on, any Republican who wanted to win the nomination had to pretend to care about issues like abortion. Although he won big in '88 (hard not to do when you're running against a clod like Mike Dukakis), a good Episcopalian like HW certainly couldn't do that convincingly. Bob Dole couldn't either.
So we got eight years of Bill Clinton, as morally virtuous a presidential candidate as any political party has ever put forward.
End corrosive, acidic sarcasm.
You see where I'm going with this, Dave?
W barely won in 2000 and once again, he knew all the right words to say and, at least, kind of sounded like he took us seriously. So the evangelicals stayed on board and we got eight years of Bush but nothing much actually happened on their key issues since W knew that the evangelicals weren't going anywhere.
Then GOP Inc. put its foot down. It still courted evangelical votes but it decided that it was no longer going to be ordered around by a bunch of Holy Rollers. So, come 2008, evangelicals were instructed by Professional ConservatismTM to support John McCain.
War hero. Decent guy. Conservative (I guess).
Godawful campaigner.
And we got four years of Obama.
Now it's 2012 and who does GOP Inc. and Professional ConservatismTM expect evangelicals to accept as a viable "conservative" candidate? That life-sized, cardboard cutout of Mitt Romney, a man with no discernible principles of any kind, never mind "conservative" ones.
The man was the governor of Massachusetts, for God's sake, enthusiastically participated in gay pride parades, called himself pro-choice at one point, and came up with an Obamacare prototype. But now, evangelicals were assured that he was a genuine conservative.
We all knew Willard was reading a script, Dave. We're not stupid. Besides, what idiot at GOP Inc. thought that Protestant evangelical Christians would ever happily back a Mormon for very long? So evangelicals sat out 2012, giving the country four more years of Obama.
Now we come to 2016 and what kinds of "conservative" candidates did GOP Inc. put forward? Marco Rubio. Lindsey Graham. John Kasich. JEB! Quite frankly, Dave, Gam-Gam would have wiped the floor with any of the Republican candidates running that year.
But we would have maintained our "Christian principles." So there's that.
Except that there was also Donald J. Trump. A man who sounded like he meant what he said. A man who sounded like he wanted the presidency and would do whatever he needed to do in order to get it. And most importantly, a man who knew how to at least plausibly sound like he took evangelical concerns seriously.
So it shouldn't have been any surprise to you, Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, National Review and other members of Professional ConservatismTM that the conservative unwashed decided almost en masse not to take instruction from any of you anymore.
Your track record sucks royally.
Has he worked out? So far. Neil Gorsuch. Brett Kavanaugh.
Jerusalem.
For generations, everyone, GOP Inc., Democrat and Professional Conservative, claimed to believe that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. So they regularly and quite happily supported and/or voted for numerous congressional resolutions to that effect.
Knowing that nothing was EVER going to happen. "Peace process" and all that garbage.
Safest vote in the world.
Then along comes Trump who basically declares, all right, let's cut the crap and let's get it done. And so it was done, horrifying and/or outraging all the right people. Would President McCain have had the courage to take that step? Would President Romney have done it?
You and I both know the answer to those questions.
Let me bottom-line it for you, Dave. Your brain-dead "theology" notwithstanding, most evangelicals figured something out a long time ago that you don't seem to know yet. Every single US election for whatever office, from George Washington on down to the present, features two seriously flawed candidates.
Christians call them "sinners."
Since that's the case, here's something else you haven't seem to have figured out. "President" is not a sacerdotal term. When Americans elect a president, we're not electing the Presiding Bishop of the United States. We're selecting America's First Civil Servant.
And that's ALL we're doing.
So either give us a reason why you hate Trump that's more substantive than the fact that you think he's icky or spare us the pseudo-Christian pearl-clutching.
It’s worth contrasting Trump, who denied Carroll’s claim (as well as his other accusers’), with Clinton because his scandals helped spur the Southern Baptist Convention in 1998 to issue its seminal “Resolution on Moral Character of Public Officials.” That document’s key statement was ominous and unequivocal: “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”
Which had absolutely nothing to do with any public statement Clinton ever made. But do go on.
The relentless drumbeat of claims against Trump–combined with the clear moral declarations of the past–have caused millions of Americans to look at their evangelical fellow citizens and ask, simply: Why? Why have you abandoned your previous commitment to political character to embrace Donald Trump?
Dave? I don't know if you're aware of this or not but devout Christians have voted for sinners for president since the foundation of the Republic. It's kind of all we have.
Part of the explanation is undeniably basic partisanship and ambition. White evangelicals are largely Republican, and they’re generally going to vote for Republicans. And proximity to power has always had its attractions for religious charlatans of all stripes. But I’d suggest the real reason for the breadth and depth of evangelical support is deeper and–perversely–even more destructive to its religious witness.
That reason is fear.
Drama queen.
Talk to engaged evangelicals, and fear is all too often a dominant theme of their political life. The church is under siege from a hostile culture. Religious institutions are under legal attack from progressives. The left wants nuns to facilitate access to abortifacients and contraceptives, it wants Christian adoption agencies to compromise their conscience or close, and it even casts into doubt the tax exemptions of religious education institutions if they adhere to traditional Christian sexual ethics.
Credit where it's due. You got one right.
These issues are legally important, and there are reasons for evangelicals to be concerned. But there is no reason for evangelicals to abandon long-held principles to behave like any other political-interest group.
Bass-ackwards, Dave. We're not abandoning principles. We're holding on to them. More on that in a minute.
Instead, the evangelical church is called to be a source of light in a darkening world. It is not given the luxury of fear-based decision-making. Indeed, of all the groups in American life who believe they have the least to fear from American politics, Christians should top the list. The faithful should reject fear.
Which we have. But before I explain Why You Got Trump, a little history.
It's no secret that when Ronald Reagan became the Republican candidate for president in 1980, won the presidency and then won it again in 1984, some of the most disappointed people in the world worked for GOP Inc.
Why? Reagan had won outside of proper GOP Inc. channels. He had gone over the empty heads of Professional ConservatismTM and appealed directly to the people. And, worst of all, he brought all those horrible evangelicals over to the Republicans.
Because that meant that from then on, any Republican who wanted to win the nomination had to pretend to care about issues like abortion. Although he won big in '88 (hard not to do when you're running against a clod like Mike Dukakis), a good Episcopalian like HW certainly couldn't do that convincingly. Bob Dole couldn't either.
So we got eight years of Bill Clinton, as morally virtuous a presidential candidate as any political party has ever put forward.
End corrosive, acidic sarcasm.
You see where I'm going with this, Dave?
W barely won in 2000 and once again, he knew all the right words to say and, at least, kind of sounded like he took us seriously. So the evangelicals stayed on board and we got eight years of Bush but nothing much actually happened on their key issues since W knew that the evangelicals weren't going anywhere.
Then GOP Inc. put its foot down. It still courted evangelical votes but it decided that it was no longer going to be ordered around by a bunch of Holy Rollers. So, come 2008, evangelicals were instructed by Professional ConservatismTM to support John McCain.
War hero. Decent guy. Conservative (I guess).
Godawful campaigner.
And we got four years of Obama.
Now it's 2012 and who does GOP Inc. and Professional ConservatismTM expect evangelicals to accept as a viable "conservative" candidate? That life-sized, cardboard cutout of Mitt Romney, a man with no discernible principles of any kind, never mind "conservative" ones.
The man was the governor of Massachusetts, for God's sake, enthusiastically participated in gay pride parades, called himself pro-choice at one point, and came up with an Obamacare prototype. But now, evangelicals were assured that he was a genuine conservative.
We all knew Willard was reading a script, Dave. We're not stupid. Besides, what idiot at GOP Inc. thought that Protestant evangelical Christians would ever happily back a Mormon for very long? So evangelicals sat out 2012, giving the country four more years of Obama.
Now we come to 2016 and what kinds of "conservative" candidates did GOP Inc. put forward? Marco Rubio. Lindsey Graham. John Kasich. JEB! Quite frankly, Dave, Gam-Gam would have wiped the floor with any of the Republican candidates running that year.
But we would have maintained our "Christian principles." So there's that.
Except that there was also Donald J. Trump. A man who sounded like he meant what he said. A man who sounded like he wanted the presidency and would do whatever he needed to do in order to get it. And most importantly, a man who knew how to at least plausibly sound like he took evangelical concerns seriously.
So it shouldn't have been any surprise to you, Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, National Review and other members of Professional ConservatismTM that the conservative unwashed decided almost en masse not to take instruction from any of you anymore.
Your track record sucks royally.
Has he worked out? So far. Neil Gorsuch. Brett Kavanaugh.
Jerusalem.
For generations, everyone, GOP Inc., Democrat and Professional Conservative, claimed to believe that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel. So they regularly and quite happily supported and/or voted for numerous congressional resolutions to that effect.
Knowing that nothing was EVER going to happen. "Peace process" and all that garbage.
Safest vote in the world.
Then along comes Trump who basically declares, all right, let's cut the crap and let's get it done. And so it was done, horrifying and/or outraging all the right people. Would President McCain have had the courage to take that step? Would President Romney have done it?
You and I both know the answer to those questions.
Let me bottom-line it for you, Dave. Your brain-dead "theology" notwithstanding, most evangelicals figured something out a long time ago that you don't seem to know yet. Every single US election for whatever office, from George Washington on down to the present, features two seriously flawed candidates.
Christians call them "sinners."
Since that's the case, here's something else you haven't seem to have figured out. "President" is not a sacerdotal term. When Americans elect a president, we're not electing the Presiding Bishop of the United States. We're selecting America's First Civil Servant.
And that's ALL we're doing.
So either give us a reason why you hate Trump that's more substantive than the fact that you think he's icky or spare us the pseudo-Christian pearl-clutching.
FOOT, SHOT IN THE
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz? Are you still running for president? If I were you, I'd bail out now because if you stay in, you might as well go ahead and burn stacks of your own money for what little good staying in the race will do you.
Because you're not going to be getting any of my money anymore. This kind of crap happens far too often. Right now, Howie, I'd rather drink a cheap instant than patronize a Starbucks.
Because you're not going to be getting any of my money anymore. This kind of crap happens far too often. Right now, Howie, I'd rather drink a cheap instant than patronize a Starbucks.
THE SADDEST WORDS EVER WRITTEN
Bourbon warehouse still burning.
The Jim Beam bourbon warehouse that started around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday is still burning in Woodford County, according to authorities.
The Jim Beam bourbon warehouse that started around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday is still burning in Woodford County, according to authorities.
After trying to put out the fire throughout Tuesday night into Wednesday afternoon, the Woodford County Fire Department is going to wait to extinguish the fire for a day or two "because of the environmental consideration," said Drew Chandler, Woodford County Emergency Management director.
"There is less environmental impact to allowing the ethanol to continue to burn," he said. "That’s really all that’s left."
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE
The next time you see any story at all about these people, remember that they were beaten 5-2 by a bunch of 14-year-old boys.
I do think it would be hysterically funny if the Administration announced that the women's team was not going to be invited to the White House but that under-15 boys team was.
I do think it would be hysterically funny if the Administration announced that the women's team was not going to be invited to the White House but that under-15 boys team was.
WOW
SoCal's getting slammed.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Southern California on Friday, the day after the most powerful earthquake struck the region in two decades.
The earthquake could be felt from Las Vegas to the California coast and people as far away as Phoenix reported feeling the rumblings.
The epicenter of the temblor was about 10 miles northeast of Ridgecrest, in the desert, the same area where Thursday's earthquake was recorded. That 6.4 magnitude quake was called the strongest to hit Southern California since 1999, but Friday's quake was more powerful.
DR. SHELDON COOPER, YOU HAVE A CALL ON THE WHITE COURTESY PHONE
What could possibly go wrong?
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.
She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel, past a powerful magnet and into an impenetrable wall. If the setup is just right — and if the universe cooperates — some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall. And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.
Or destroyed existence as we know it but to-may-to, to-mah-to.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
SHOW OF A LIFETIME
If you ever get a chance to see one of these, take it. If you're not already there, get yourself into the zone of totality wherever you have to go. The show doesn't last that long but it is one of the most impressive things you will ever witness.
I lived in the zone of totality during the last one. It started a little after 1:30 in the afternoon on a bright, sunny day. I didn't try to get a picture of the eclipse itself since I didn't have a good enough camera or the photographic chops to get a good shot even if I had one.
But once the show started, it only took a couple of minutes to turn a sunny afternoon into night. Literally. The streetlights all came on and I could actually feel the temperature drop as well. A few minutes later, it was a bright, sunny Missouri afternoon again.
If I ever get a chance to see another one, I'm there.
I lived in the zone of totality during the last one. It started a little after 1:30 in the afternoon on a bright, sunny day. I didn't try to get a picture of the eclipse itself since I didn't have a good enough camera or the photographic chops to get a good shot even if I had one.
But once the show started, it only took a couple of minutes to turn a sunny afternoon into night. Literally. The streetlights all came on and I could actually feel the temperature drop as well. A few minutes later, it was a bright, sunny Missouri afternoon again.
If I ever get a chance to see another one, I'm there.
TEA, HARBOR, DO THE MATH
Some British colonies aren't as...colonial as they used to be.
Any attempts to enforce legislation from Westminster on issues ranging from same-sex marriage to ‘belongership’ and financial services regulation will be strongly resisted, according to leaders of several territories, following talks in Grand Cayman this week.
Despite the disparate concerns of the various territories, leaders from the Falklands to Bermuda were united in their opposition to the UK dictating policy from thousands of miles away.
A UK law seeking to impose public registers of beneficial ownership on Britain’s territories – seen as a threat to the financial services industry – is a key concern for several islands.
“Modern-day colonialism is what is being attempted by those persons is Westminster, and I am certain that all Overseas Territories will resist it vociferously,” Bermuda Premier David Burt said at a press conference following the summit at the Kimpton Seafire Hotel on Wednesday.
Any attempts to enforce legislation from Westminster on issues ranging from same-sex marriage to ‘belongership’ and financial services regulation will be strongly resisted, according to leaders of several territories, following talks in Grand Cayman this week.
Despite the disparate concerns of the various territories, leaders from the Falklands to Bermuda were united in their opposition to the UK dictating policy from thousands of miles away.
A UK law seeking to impose public registers of beneficial ownership on Britain’s territories – seen as a threat to the financial services industry – is a key concern for several islands.
“Modern-day colonialism is what is being attempted by those persons is Westminster, and I am certain that all Overseas Territories will resist it vociferously,” Bermuda Premier David Burt said at a press conference following the summit at the Kimpton Seafire Hotel on Wednesday.
Several other leaders expressed similar concerns, and insisted the pressure from the UK on various issues is helping them to forge closer bonds as they seek to resist what they see as constitutional overreach from the mother country.
Monday, July 1, 2019
NO, NOT AGAIN
Having a Darryl Kile flashback here.
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died Monday at the age of 27, stunning Major League Baseball and leading to the postponement of the team's game against the Texas Rangers. Skaggs was with the team in Texas when he was found unresponsive in his hotel room, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the AP reports. Police said they were investigating, but no foul play was suspected. Skaggs, who would have turned 28 on July 13, started the Angels' game Saturday night against the Athletics. He had been a regular in the Angels' starting rotation since late 2016, when he returned from Tommy John surgery. He struggled with injuries repeatedly over the past three seasons but persevered to become a valuable starter in Los Angeles' injury-plagued rotation. He started 15 games, going 7-7.
If past performance is indicative of future results, the Angels season is basically over.
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died Monday at the age of 27, stunning Major League Baseball and leading to the postponement of the team's game against the Texas Rangers. Skaggs was with the team in Texas when he was found unresponsive in his hotel room, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the AP reports. Police said they were investigating, but no foul play was suspected. Skaggs, who would have turned 28 on July 13, started the Angels' game Saturday night against the Athletics. He had been a regular in the Angels' starting rotation since late 2016, when he returned from Tommy John surgery. He struggled with injuries repeatedly over the past three seasons but persevered to become a valuable starter in Los Angeles' injury-plagued rotation. He started 15 games, going 7-7.
If past performance is indicative of future results, the Angels season is basically over.
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