MarkDavid

Retired editor and language instructor 🌎🏀🏌🏼‍♂️⛰️🎶

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

Mississippi U.S. Senate: 2,284 new votes from Jackson and Chickasaw counties

🔵 Colom: +1,148 (50.3%) ✅
🔴 Hyde-Smith: +1,064 (46.6%)

Colom nets 84 votes, expanding his statewide lead to 4,669 votes. VoteHub has called for Colom.

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

Yes this goes high on my list. 10+/10

[GenTXer2 @GenTXer2]

Re-visiting my Top 70 Albums Of The 70s

#40

Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (1977)

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

Song was no. 77, Got to Get You Into My Life by the Beatles. I prefer the cover by Earth, Wind & Fire, though the Beatles’s original is good too. Next up, Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows? by the Rolling Stones at no. 76. Didn’t have time for an album.

[TheMusicMan @MixMaster1313]

Morning music - Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever (1989)
Debut solo album
My 374th album of 2026

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

The hammer will come down when they’re in charge and with the holidays in the intervening time this will all be forgotten. They didn’t want to hand the GOP an early (late?) win.

[Brian Burke - Team KLB Blue CEO @brushmastery2]

It was obviously designed that way so when we run it in January, Dems will be in charge of it.
The other plus -- it will be held against R's who didn't vote to impeach Hegseth.
I don't mind strategy like this, no reason to show your cards, but Dems should come out & explain that after the fact, & maybe we should acknowledge that tactics like this are above our paygrade -- let the pilots fly the plane.

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

Yes. Why give the GOP the win and the appearance that they’ve changed their stripes?

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

This motion has not failed. It has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, where it remains subject to consideration. That is plainly not the same as a vote rejecting the allegations, nor does it amount to an exoneration of the Secretary of Defense.

The present Congress remains constituted until 3 January. Thereafter, the incoming Democratic House will be fully entitled to introduce fresh articles of impeachment should it decide that the evidence warrants them. The referral may have delayed the matter, but it has neither resolved it nor caused it to disappear.

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

Wow, and the same for me (though I had more to work with than you did). Still, I solved it under a minute (I would love it if they added a timer like they have with the bonus game!)

Wordle 1,971 3/6*

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Skill 86/99
Luck 68/99

[Donna Halper @DevorahLeah]

There's nothing like some logic, along with one very lucky guess. That's how I tied the bot, and solved the Wordle in 3. And how did you do? Wordle #1,971 3/6

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[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

It wouldn’t, but I like it and I had it. 4/10

[GenTXer2 @GenTXer2]

This album DID NOT make my Top 70 albums of the 70s list but would it make yours? 🤔

Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Not Fragile (1974)

I know which ones are Bachman and Turner, but which is Overdrive?

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

Supremes
Go-Gos
Martha & the Vandellas
Bangles

[RushmoreLists @RushmoreLists]

Any genre, any era - who makes the Mt Rushmore of the greatest "girl groups", musical acts made up of only females? Our four:

The Supremes
Destiny's Child
TLC
Spice Girls

Who did we leave off?

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

The Big Hurt—Miss Toni Fisher, Hurts So Good—John Cougar, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?—Culture Club, Hurt So Bad—Little Anthony & the Imperials or Linda Ronstadt, You Always Hurt the One You Love—Ink Spots, It Hurts to Be In Love—Gene Pitney, Love Hurts—Everly Bros. or Nazareth

[Old Curmudgeon Music Geek 🎶🎸🤓 @klcheshire]

🎶❤️ #SongThemes ❤️🎶
#MusicChallenge

Songs with Hurt in the Title 🎶

Mine:
🔷 Stop Hurting People – Pete Townshend
🔷 No One Ever Hurt So Bad – Three Dog Night
🔷 Magnificent Hurt – Elvis Costello
🔷 Hurt So Bad – Little Anthony & The Imperials
🔷 Hurt – Tom Petty
🔷 I Hurt You – Pretenders
🔷 Every Little Bit Hurts – The Spencer Davis Group
🔷 Hurting for You – Todd Rundgren
🔷 The Hurt – Cat Stevens
🔷 The Hurting – Tears for Fears

Tomorrow’s word: Ring

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

That or “passed away”. It’s a euphemism meant to soften the reality, which can sound harsh to sensitive ears. I try to avoid using it and just say “died”, though depending on my audience, I might give in to spare their feelings.

[Jane Sandeman @JaneS1962]

Why do people say passed now rather than died?

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

🔵 News - Ossoff, Talarico, and Cooper would have won even if none of their voters showed up on Election Day, winning on early votes alone

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

Same. My streak is now 20, but really 40 with a missed day that I solved in the archives.

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Skill 87/99
Luck 58/99

[Donna Halper @DevorahLeah]

Well, this one required some logic, but I figured it out and solved the Wordle in 4. And how did you do? Wordle #1,970 4/6

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[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

I know he’s revered as a lyricist but none of what I’ve heard from him (Hello In There, Angel From
Montgomery, and others) appeals to me.

[GenTXer2 @GenTXer2]

This album DID NOT make my Top 70 albums of the 70s list but would it make yours? 🤔

John Prine: John Prine (1971)

[BNO News @BNONews]

BREAKING: Democrat Eileen Laubacher wins in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, unseating Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

I read a thread where people suspect that the system for ranking songs now is being gamed. Most of the people commenting (who are close to the music scene) have hardly even heard the song.

[TheMusicMan @MixMaster1313]

Billboard Review - 10/31/26 🎶

Just when you thought it was over… Ella Langley returns to the top spot with “Choosin Texas”

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

This one would be one of the top 5 or so for me. 10+/10

[GenTXer2 @GenTXer2]

Re-visiting my Top 70 Albums Of The 70s

#42

Carole King: Tapestry (1971)

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

I had another slog with an album that’s not available (and for good reason!)…Vikki! by Vikki Carr (the one after “It Must Be Him”). 1966 song was “Summertime” by Billy Stewart, a version I love, at no. 82 for 1966. No. 81 is Wilson Pickett’s Land of 1000 Dances.

[TheMusicMan @MixMaster1313]

Morning music - Aerosmith - Rocks (1976)
4th studio album
My 371st album of 2026

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

CNN is now projecting Dem Rep. Darren Soto has won in FL-9 -- another district the GOP tried to redraw for itself.

Dems are now up to 255 seats. That's just a few seats shy of their biggest majority since the early 1990s.

https://t.co/jRz236OwFS

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

Midnight Cowboy
Almost Famous
Midnight Run
The Italian Job (1969)

[RushmoreLists @RushmoreLists]

Let’s make a Mt Rushmore of movie scenes that take place on or feature a bus! 🚌 Our four:

Speed - Bus can't go below 50

The Dark Knight - Joker's school bus getaway

Harry Potter - The Knight Bus

Forrest Gump - Forrest meets Jenny

What bus scene did we miss?

[MarkDavid @MarkfEditing]

What a Fool Believes—The Doobie Brothers, Watch What Happens—Frank Sinatra, What It Takes—Aerosmith, What Are We Doing in Love?—Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, What Can I Say? and What Do You Want the Girl to Do?—Boz Scaggs, What Now My Love?—Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

[Old Curmudgeon Music Geek 🎶🎸🤓 @klcheshire]

🎶❤️ #SongThemes ❤️🎶
#MusicChallenge

Songs with What in the Title 🎶

Mine:
🔷 Sing This All Together (See What Happens) - The Rolling Stones
🔷 So What - Miles Davis
🔷 Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel - Todd Rundgren
🔷 Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk
🔷 Oh What a Thrill - Rockpile
🔷 What More Can I Do - The Zombies
🔷 What's the Matter with You - Split Enz
🔷 You Get What You Deserve - Big Star
🔷 What Will It Take - The Rembrandts
🔷 What She Does to Me - The Producers

Tomorrow’s word: Hurt