Musing
From pinterest.com, posted by MyLife Jan 3rd xo:
Headline from nypost.com: “Off the rails: It’s not controversial to love America — so why are people fired for saying it?” Why indeed?
DIY. From NYP: “Playing with fire: Meet the women performing at-home liposuction on themselves with shady $95 kits to shed weight.” What could possibly go wrong?
Headline from newsmax.com: “Trump Muses on Mortality Amid Iran Death Threats.” It will be a miracle if he survives his presidency, and it would bring great joy to half the country… My disagreements with DT’s policies are rare. I hope he doesn’t okay selling aircraft to Turkey, which has become an Islamic rather than the secular state brought about by Mustafa Attaturk beginning in 1923. I consider Recep Erdogan an enemy of the USA.
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RIP MLB stalwart RHP Phil Regan, 89. Born and raised in small towns in Michigan, he played baseball, basketball and football at Wayland High School, which named its baseball field after him. He stayed one year at my alma mater, Western Michigan U., before signing with Detroit, for whom he pitched both as a starter and reliever from 1960-’65. From ‘66-’68 he was a member of the Dodgers. For the ’66 NL pennant winners he went 14–1, had 21 saves and a 1.62 ERA. He pitched two scoreless innings in the World Series, in which L.A. was swept by the Orioles. Sandy Koufax dubbed him The Vulture. Regan was an All-Star that season. He closed out his 13-year career with stints with the Cubs and White Sox. Overall hewas 96–81, had 92 saves and a 3.84 ERA. He served as a pitching coach eight seasons for four different franchises, including the Mets. He was manager of the O’s during the strike-shortened ’95 season, finishing 71–73, third in the AL East. His first wife, who passed away in 2004, bore him four children. He met his second while coaching and managing in Venezuela, where he worked for 20 seasons. He had 18 grandkids. Awesome, Sir. Facts from Google AI Mode, photo from Google Images:
Timed it almost exactly right today at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop, escaping while it was only drizzling. My thanks to the woman who told me her phone said rain in 30 minutes, which was right on the money; and to the gentleman who donated three DVDs and a CD; and to Romania-born artist Andu, who took home three movies, one a Bruce Lee collection; and to the woman with the vivid blue eyes, who bought eight Pokemon card cases; and to the gentleman who purchased a guide to all things Pokemon; and to the one who was happy to find a pictorial on Russian avant garde artists; and to the woman who selected A Founding Mother, historical fiction by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie; and to the gentleman in the mechanized wheelchair who chose The Rheinmann Exchange by Robert Ludlum.
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