Archive for September 5, 2024

The best of times the worst of times, redux

September 5, 2024

The Indiana Fever are in the playoffs.

And a year ago most Americans would have said “What?”

You don’t have to love Caitlin Clark to love what she’s done for women’s basketball.

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If Angel Reese’s Chicago Sky make the WNBA playoffs too… well, will they outdraw the NFL. Probably not. But maybe some college football games.

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Only silver lining to the SF Giants season at this point for those of us who are political people, we won’t be distracted from the election by the MLB postseason.

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Well, only those who have been verifiably paid by Russia need to be nervous. Guess that means at least a few Republicans will be sleeping soundly tonight.

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Find myself thinking of Jamie Raskin, who said initially on the January 6 committee that Liz Cheney was very supportive after his son died by suicide, and later that they became good friends.

He told Cheney “I can’t wait until you and I get back to disagreeing about everything.”

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The alleged Georgia high school shooter is a 14 year old male… 14??!!!

It’s the guns, stupid.

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I wish we lived in a country where we saw a random city trending and we assumed it was about anything but another mass shooting.

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Today is a horrible reminder that today’s GOP feels that it’s more urgent to keep books out of the hands of children than to keep guns out of the hands of children.

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Fox News Headline “Trump vows to ‘heal our world’ after fatal Georgia school shooting: ‘It’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons,’ Trump said” What headline didn’t say. Then DonOld started another sick and angry rant…

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Liz Cheney just announced she is voting for Kamala Harris. I agree with Liz on almost nothing. But she has more cojones than most GOP men. #ThankYouLiz

Do we know 100% that sensible gun control reforms will work? No. But we already know 100% that “thoughts and prayers” don’t work.