"Only 5 Players in Football [Soccer] History Have Done This!"
May 31, 2025
Can you guess? Go ahead, guess.
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May 2025
Two bits from comedian Rita Rudner
May 31, 2025
"If That's What You Wanted"
May 30, 2025
Fine northern soul with Frankie Beverly and the Butlers.
And more than five decades later here's a newer version.
"The Story of the Band and the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
May 30, 2025
The story of how a Canadian kid came to write the song about the end of the Confederacy.
"Wade In The Water"
May 30, 2025
Also by Ramsey Lewis, "The 'In' Crowd".
"Extraterrestrial tongues"
May 29, 2025
Interesting: in my youth I read science fiction stories that always waltzed around how we'd ever communicate with aliens.
"Why This 1970s Fighter Jet Is Still Winning Modern Wars"
May 29, 2025
That would be the A-10 Warthog.
(Why is it the "A-10"? See "What Do Those Letters and Numbers on Military Aircraft Mean?".)
"Are Washington D.C. Restaurants 'Lindy'?"
May 29, 2025
I had not known about the Lindy Effect before.
"This Joke Explains Modern Politics Better Than the News"
May 29, 2025
Made me laugh.
"Sweetener in dozens of processed foods found to have same effect as Ozempic"
May 28, 2025
Even though I don't use the sweetener in question--not yet, anyway--I sure hope this finding is confirmed. It would drive the "all artificial sweeteners are bad, very bad" crowd a little crazy.