Hail Djoker!

Montreal got out the brooms on Winnipeg. The Islanders have taken the series lead on Boston. Brooklyn demolished Milwaukee, while PHX got the jump on Denver. Across the pond, Djoker got off to the slowest of slow starts before getting his shit together and winning when his opponent retired in the fifth set. The Aaron Rodgers saga is getting weirder by the day. I’m sure this is just a coincidence. Yeah, right.  And that’s sports.

Best OBP ever.

English explorer and pirate William Dampier was born on this day. He shares it with architect you either love or hate Frank Lloyd Wright, aviation pioneer Noel Wien, pitcher Van Lingle Mungo, biologist Francis Crick, Indonesian president Suharto, “slugger” Eddie Gaedel, outfielder Del Ennis, comedians Jerry Stiller and Joan Rivers, shortstop Mark Belanger, Black Flag’s Greg Ginn, actress Julianne Margulies, rapper/producer/presidential candidate Kanye West, the lovely Maria Menounos, and tennis player Kim Clijsters.

Not a bad list. Not great, but not bad.  Anyway, on to…the links!

Credit where credit is due. This is a good thing and should have been in place for some time now.

Body shaming is apparently still cool I guess…sometimes.

USA Today fact-checkers doing some real journalisming. The whole point of a piece like this is to shame the subject of it by even associating him with possibly wearing his pants backwards.  It’s not clever, even if it is probably effective on a large percentage of the mouth-breathers that read their trash paper.

Imagine the outrage if this report came out last year. Hell, they’d have probably impeached Trump over it. Or sent him to The Hague. Instead, it’s page two news.

Yeah, no shit. The only people who didn’t believe report this were…pretty much everybody in the media. Oh, and Twitter and FB would have banned you for saying it. But that was all a coincidence and not meant to influence the election in any way. Nosiree, it was just a coincidence.

I’m glad somebody bought Cuomo’s Covid book. And I hope they make good use of it.  It would be hilarious if his hubris and desire to profit from his ineptitude ended up landing him in a federal prison.

This is the best internet search tool I’ve ever seen. The only flaw is that it doesn’t include an instructional video on tar-and-feathering. Hopefully enough people use it and figure out how to do it on their own.

That ain’t good.

California is about to completely dry out. I’m not sure what they’re gonna do, if I’m being honest. There’s only so much water they can steal from other states, and they haven’t got desalinization plants that can scale up to a level necessary to water crops.  They’re fucked. And that means serious spikes in food prices are coming.

Some sad local news. I sure hope this gets remedied soon.

Here’s a wonderful song for you. I hope you enjoy it.

Now get out there and have a great day, friends!