DISMISSED BY THE YANKEES, NOVA FINDS HIS COMFORT IN DISMANTLING THEM
"Nova, who like many former Yankees has grown a beard since he left, said he was the same pitcher."
No way. Facial hair transforms every ex-Yank into a better ballplayer. No denying it.
D1
A CAREER TRAJECTORY TO MATCH HIS VAULT
"A pole-vaulting runway extends about 125 feet from the side of the Duplantis family's Acadian-style home, under a gate and into the backyard, where it ends at a foam landing pit, floodlit by a light made for an oil rig."
'It's not safe, I don't think,' said his father, Greg, a lawyer."
After competing in pole vault in Junior High School track, my younger brother and I proceeded to set an old metal bar between niches in a cherry tree and some stakes and we would jump to our heart's content.
Naturally, my favorite part was when the bar got to a height where my brother would be sure to completely wipe out.
I'm so so sorry, Alan!
A1
VOTERS EMBRACE OUTSIDERS IN ELECTION TO LEAD FRANCE / PARTIES UNIFY TO STOP FAR RIGHT: 'THIS IS DEADLY SERIOUS'
"Fifteen years ago, when Ms. Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, shocked his compatriots by breaking through to the second round and again knocking out the Socialist Party, some Socialist voters went to the polls with clothespins on their noses, as they voted for the scandal-plagued candidate of the center-right, Jacques Chirac. Mr. Le Pen was dealt a crushing defeat."
A10
FOR INDIANS, AMERICA UNDER TRUMP IS A LAND OF VANISHED OPPORTUNITIES
"Recent attacks on people of Indian descent in the United States are explosive news in India. A country once viewed as the promised land now seems for many to be dangerously inhospitable."
It would be nice if Chuck Lorre (Big Bang Theory) would give Raj a line or two about this. But don't hold your breath -- it's likely he wouldn't want to risk insulting his many Trump supporters who watch the show.
But I still think he could stick something in. Maybe the phrase "thick-headed fundamentalists" or something. Or maybe he could say it in Sanskrit.
A12
LIFE'S LAST MOMENT: BEARING WITNESS TO AN EXECUTION
"'It didn't hurt him: I would have liked to have stoned him to death or something horrible. He just got a shot like you were going to have some surgery. It was too easy, for all of the pain he caused my family all of these years.'"
There is a fantastic solution for all this.
Life in prison without possibility of parole.
That would be "something horrible" because the killer would have to actually exist and live with his crime for the rest of his "natural" life. And I put "natural" in quotes, because living in a (hopefully) tiny prison cell for LIFE is much more "horrible" for the criminal than the multi-drug ritual which calmly puts these people to sleep.
(The people who enjoy botched executions can go fuck themselves.)
A21
RESILIENCE OF THE RESISTANCE
"The resistance to the travesty of Donald Trump's presidency is holding up just fine, thank you very much."
I am so proud that my daughter and niece went to march in Washington last weekend.
The energy of our kids' generation is phenomenal! We will hold this guy's feet to the fire until his balls burst, right?
This blog is my modest contribution to the effort.
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