Saturday Soiree
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Headline from nypost.com: “Ready from above: Coast Guard helicopter sniper takes out narco-boat engines, seizes more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine.” Kudos. My main fear is retaliation in the form of terrorism, although it could be argued that America’s drug deaths are a form of terror.
From NYP: “Climate change doom-and-gloomers are finally bowing out — and showing that common sense prevails.” Yay!
With Putin seemingly in good health, the only thing that will end the Ukraine war is the Russian populace getting sick and tired about losing sons. Why does it seem they don’t care? Do they fear protest will incite retaliation?
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Is this a sign of a booming economy? Headline from foxnews.com: “Data centers rapidly transforming small-town America.” It’s all to accommodate AI. Here’s a pic of one of Meta’s sites in Georgia, from Google Images:
Managed three-quarters of a session of the Anti-Inflation Book Shop in today’ cold, despite only a dollop of sunshine. My thanks to my Constant Benefactress, who insisted on paying for her brother’s namesake — Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt, despite having donated a handful of books; and to The Quiet Man, who bought four Christmas CDs; and to the gentleman who purchased DVDs of First Blood (1982), Heat (1995) and Hoodlum (1997)… Blogger/author Sam Friedman related a chapter from the book he’s reading on baseball managers. Terry Francona’s first gig as skipper was for a White Sox farm team — and who happened to be on the squad at the time — none other than NBA legend Michael Jordan. Jerry Reinsdorf owned both the Sox and Bulls. He indulged the basketball great’s attempt to crack MLB. In one particular game the team was ahead 10–0, and His Airness stole third, having no idea doing something like that with a big lead was a breach of baseball etiquette. Francona reamed him out in front of the other players. Jordan took it without a word. He later went to the manager’s office and asked if there were anything else he was doing wrong. Francona let him have it, citing his driving his luxury car rather than riding the bus with the guys and dining alone at fancy restaurants. From then on Jordan rode the bus and roomed and ate with his teammates, picking up the tab minus the players $25 food allowance. One day Jordan asked if he had a legit shot at making the majors, and Francona told him to go back to what he did best. The two became friends. Francona was at the helm of the Red Sox 2004 World Series Chapions who broke the Curse of the Bambino, and again in 2007. He won 2033 games in his 24-year run. He won a pennant with Cleveland in 2016, but lost the series to the Cubs, who broke a 108-year championship drought.
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