You can keep your obnoxious video boards and high-volume audio assaults. Just give me a green field, a cold beer, and the sound of a catcher’s mitt popping.
So now “going woke” means ESPN supporting the women’s basketball tournament that ::checks notes:: they are paying $34M a year for.
Congratulations for being a clown.
I just want to make a few things clear:
The Holocaust happened.
Hitler was a demonic figure.
And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides.
Silence is complicity.
We are all here on this planet, as tourists, as it were. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives.
Stereos. They used to have big cabinet sized sets with wood paneling and the two speakers that looked like they were stolen from a dance hall. We got an egg that’s recording our conversations for the police.
This is great news.
The auto industry created the "crime" of jaywalking in the 1920s in order to increase vehicle speed within cities (which helped sell more cars).
https://t.co/Q3soL9JmG7
Half a century in the making, the artist Michael Heizer’s astonishing megasculpture in a remote Nevada valley is finally opening to visitors. "I am not here to tell people what it all means. You can figure it out for yourself," he said. https://t.co/uJpLxWdKIo
RIP Vin Scully, an ancient Irish seanchaí in a broadcast booth, whose gilded voice soundtracked the eternal blue summer, who could distill a century's worth of wisdom into a single at-bat, the last link to Brooklyn, the last link to a collective memory, the greatest of all-time.