After the tragic shooting at Pulse, the Orlando gay club, he said “the best thing to do is to sit on the sidelines and let [LGBTQ rights advocates and Muslims] kill themselves.” Happy Pride month everybody.
It is difficult to save when everything is so expensive today. My childcare cost was at $2,600 a month, thankfully I only pay $1,300 a month now as my daughter is in UTK. SDGE rates for electricity are some of the highest in the country, same for water from San Diego County Water Authority. Throw in the cost of living/inflation increasing faster than wages and it is easy to put off saving money.
my take is that we transitioned to a service economy and borrow-spend-repeat cycle such that people dont work at the same place their whole lives, move around a lot more, and the cheap credit allows you to have stuff so you push off savings till later (or never).
i am sure there a lot of other layers and factors in the there as well such global competition, etc etc. making the path to retirement more murky than in the past.
I picked this cartoon above because it riffs on an inside joke I have with my wife regarding food companies that have a mascot promotion that matches their key product so that they are actively promoting cannibalism.
My friend and I have long had this with any bbq joint that uses a devious cannibalistic pig wearing sunglasses in their logo (which is probably the majority of bbq joints)
My sister had got to female guinea pigs when she was a kid, maybe 10 or so. Well, it turned out they weren't both female and one of them had babies. To everybody's horror, my sister didn't find out that she had babies until she found their dead, half-eaten bodies in the cage. Apparently, infanticide is not uncommon amongst rodents, especially first-time guinea pig mothers.
The Durham farmers market has this lady who does nothing but heirloom grits and corn meal. There are a ton of different corn varieties -some actually being being intensely corn flavored and perfect for grits.i am making heirloom cornbread with a corn that turns pink when acid is present - so it'll have a little lemon juice swirled in at the last step.
Wisconsin's GOP-controlled legislature is on the verge of removing vaccine requirements for chicken pox and meningitis for school kids. What could possibly go wrong?
Trump says Trump has not been informed that he is under investigation for the secret document issue and an indictment is not close. Or he's just lying again.
They just postponed today's scheduled Nats game. AQI at the recording spot closest to me was 224 last hour after being a bit higher earlier this morning. Also closed the National Zoo for the day. They'd earlier said some of the animals would be off exhibit.
The Oakland Athletics secured their third series win of the season Wednesday with a 9-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Hogan Harris made his major league starting debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates and it was a memorable one for the lefty. The A’s picked up where they left off last night and jumped out to a 7-0 lead against the Pirates in Wednesday’s series finale to start the first inning.
The San Francisco Giants 5-4 comeback win over the Colorado Rockies culminated in a dramatic, bold, gorgeous, purple-mountain-majestic bunt from platoon catcher Patrick Bailey.
Bailey, who took over for Blake Sabol behind the plate in the 7th, hadn’t stepped into the batter’s box all evening. After ripping two doubles and a triple in his Coors Field premiere, the rookie catcher dealt the fatal blow not with a blast but a delicate dink: a 1-out safety squeeze called from the bench against Colorado reliever Justin Lawrence.
The Dodgers once again blew a lead, losing in walk-off fashion to the Reds on back-to-back nights, this time an 8-6 loss on Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
The one man who left Tuesday’s poor pitching performance unscathed, Evan Phillips, was the loser on Wednesday, surrendering a walk-off two-run bomb to Will Benson in the bottom of the ninth. The Dodgers have lost fourth straight games for the first time in 2023.
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
a little predictable, but still a perfectly fine way to watch TV for a couple hours. i suppose it is a lesser-known movie w/ well-known Jennifer Lawrence
I agree with all this. I thought the movie was fine, with some good visuals and an interesting moral dilemma and swimming in water when zero G hits being the big bad guys.
AUSTIN, TEXAS – California track & field fielded five athletes on a thrilling first day at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as the Golden Bears battled warm and muggy conditions at Mike A. Myers Stadium. Just as it was last year for Cal, two throwers were the first to earn All-American honors; however, the accolades came earlier in the competition this time around as juniors Jeff Duensing and Ivar Moisander cracked the top-16 to earn their first career All-American honors.
BERKELEY – The California football team has officially added 11 players to its roster since the end of spring football with the signings of QB Luke Bottari (Utah/College of San Mateo), WR Taj Davis (Washington), RB King Doerue (Purdue), WR Marquez Dortch (Mississippi State), QB Ben Finley (North Carolina State), RB Isaiah Ifanse (San Jose State/Montana State), OLB Tidiane Jalloh (Independence Community College), P Thomas Lee (Cal Poly), DB Patrick McMorris (San Diego State), DB Marcus Scott II (Missouri) and OL Matthew Wycoff (Texas A&M).
SAN FRANCISCO – California was crowned as the overall winner of the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge for the 2022-23 basketball season, the conference announced on Tuesday morning.
A core pillar of Pac-12 Team Green, the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is held annually during both football and basketball seasons. Each university selects one home football and one home men's or women's basketball game to compete and provide a platform for engaging on best practices in waste diversion. The Golden Bears have won five of the last six basketball challenges, posting a diversion rate of 92% or higher in each of the victories.
NORMAN, Okla. – California men's golfer Sampson Zheng added to his haul of accolades when he was selected to the 2023 NCAA Division I PING All-America Second Team by the Golf Coaches Association of America on Tuesday.
Zheng is one of 31 men's golfers nationwide and one of just four Pac-12 Conference golfers to be named to the first, second or third teams by the GCAA. He's also the 18th Golden Bear in program history and the first since Collin Morikawa in 2019 to earn GCAA All-America honors (Sebastian Crampton and KK Limbhasut also received honorable mentions in '19).
Does anyone have any insight as to where I can order a print of the Robert Stinnett “The Play” photo? I wasn’t sure if the Oakland Tribune owned the rights or his estate, or whoever, and I haven’t found anything after some cursory Googling. I have my own office for the first time ever and I’d love to put a framed one on the wall.
It's a little like Brusdar Graterol of the Dodgers. All arms and no lower body. And Graterol can throw 100+. Only difference is Graterol does miss bats.
[SB] Sooners 2-hit Florida State to take game 1 of the WCWS Championship Series via 5-0 shutout. The third lowest batting average among OU starters is 0.324 for the season.
Pat Robertson dead at 93
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pat-robertson-conservative-evangelist-christian-coalition-founder-dies-rcna61662
Hallelujah
...and pass the ballots!
It’s times like these when I wish hell really did exist.
it does. we all live here ...
It can seem like that at times but I still enjoy living here on earth than the alternative, which is just the long, dark, permanent sleep of nothing.
generally i dont disagree w/ that.
i would like to meet Han Solo in hell. though.
I prefer not to speak ill of the recently dead, so . . .
That's it.
After the tragic shooting at Pulse, the Orlando gay club, he said “the best thing to do is to sit on the sidelines and let [LGBTQ rights advocates and Muslims] kill themselves.” Happy Pride month everybody.
Jokes on him when St Peter says he can't get into heaven.
DBD Street Journal
Unsurprisingly, Americans are not great at saving
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dude-gen-x-is-totally-unprepared-for-retirement-survey-finds-180511077.html
It is difficult to save when everything is so expensive today. My childcare cost was at $2,600 a month, thankfully I only pay $1,300 a month now as my daughter is in UTK. SDGE rates for electricity are some of the highest in the country, same for water from San Diego County Water Authority. Throw in the cost of living/inflation increasing faster than wages and it is easy to put off saving money.
my take is that we transitioned to a service economy and borrow-spend-repeat cycle such that people dont work at the same place their whole lives, move around a lot more, and the cheap credit allows you to have stuff so you push off savings till later (or never).
i am sure there a lot of other layers and factors in the there as well such global competition, etc etc. making the path to retirement more murky than in the past.
I am on vacation today through Monday, so y'all should feel free to post away... not that you aren't free to do so normally.
any good vacation plans? even if it is short?
Home. Kid graduating HS - family coming in from out of town.
ah yes. congrats to kid.
What is this "vacation" process of which you speak.
Cannibalism
I picked this cartoon above because it riffs on an inside joke I have with my wife regarding food companies that have a mascot promotion that matches their key product so that they are actively promoting cannibalism.
Mr. Peanut is a monster
LOL.
I guess Chik-Fil-A's mascot is a nod toward this weird trend.
Isn't he a cow selling chicken?
Yes. Except that "he" and "cow" are contradictory.
EAT MOR CHIKN.
My friend and I have long had this with any bbq joint that uses a devious cannibalistic pig wearing sunglasses in their logo (which is probably the majority of bbq joints)
Wow, that just brought up a movie memory.
"It's hog boiling time!"
"Secret's in the sauce!"
There's your cannibalism, witting or not.
The movie is Fried Green Tomatoes, by the way.
My sister had got to female guinea pigs when she was a kid, maybe 10 or so. Well, it turned out they weren't both female and one of them had babies. To everybody's horror, my sister didn't find out that she had babies until she found their dead, half-eaten bodies in the cage. Apparently, infanticide is not uncommon amongst rodents, especially first-time guinea pig mothers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_in_rodents
Guinea pigs will eat anything, they are the garbage disposals of Peruvian households.
I wonder if there are any vegetarian cannibals....
Little
SHRIMP
and grits, my barometer for determining if a southern-style restaurant is any good
My worry is that I don't know what good grits are. They may taste good to me, but that may be that i've never had good grits before.
Put a block of cheese in your mouth. Then a stick of butter. And then some corn meal. That's what good grits taste like.
there is decadent grits, which was described above. but even some simple grits w/ a little butter and salt/pepper makes for a nice savory breakfast.
The Durham farmers market has this lady who does nothing but heirloom grits and corn meal. There are a ton of different corn varieties -some actually being being intensely corn flavored and perfect for grits.i am making heirloom cornbread with a corn that turns pink when acid is present - so it'll have a little lemon juice swirled in at the last step.
agreed. but plenty of places have a decent take on this.
my local favorite is Bubby's in NYC. they do a great job w/ this and their cherry pie is one of my favorite things in the world to eat.
https://www.bubbys.com/
Boy. How is there not a Netflix doc about him?
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Jack Smith subpeens Steve Bannon
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/steve-bannon-subpoenaed-special-counsel-jan-6-rcna88248
Wisconsin's GOP-controlled legislature is on the verge of removing vaccine requirements for chicken pox and meningitis for school kids. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/wisconsins-gop-led-legislature-to-block-meningitis-vaccine-requirement-for-students-2/
Can’t the governor veto that?
Trump says Trump has not been informed that he is under investigation for the secret document issue and an indictment is not close. Or he's just lying again.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1666525687916777483
Eff Maggie Haberman. She's nothing more than Trump's shadow publicist.
Multiple sources say Trump has been informed that he is under investigation for the secret document issue and an indictment is close
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/politics/trump-justice-department-classified-documents/index.html?
So-called "Freedom Caucus" nutjobs shut down House floor as revenge for Debt Deal. Remember, Kevin McCarthy - you wanted this job.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/07/house-conservatives-choke-floor-action-as-revenge-for-debt-deal-00100785
Let the GOP circular firing squad commence!
They are sooooooooooo dumb.
While Mark Meadows has testified to a J6 Special Counsel Investigation grand jury, his lawyer denies a report that he had flipped for a plea deal
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meadows-attorney-denies-making-trump-probe-immunity-deal-complete-bullshit
PRO
Yankeees/ChiSox game postponed as AQI levels are bad. Somewhere out there, Cal/Wazzu football fans are calling them snowflakes.
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-yankee-stadium-canadian-wildfire-smoke-20230607-y4fvv6lzefadpaliapyqwz7x4q-story.html
They just postponed today's scheduled Nats game. AQI at the recording spot closest to me was 224 last hour after being a bit higher earlier this morning. Also closed the National Zoo for the day. They'd earlier said some of the animals would be off exhibit.
hahaha as a Cal fan, that was such a great game, we were there!
Russell Okung fasted for 40 days and lost 100 pounds.
https://twitter.com/RussellOkung/status/1665871426266472454
Per Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report, Phoenix Suns are waiving Chris Paul
https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1666554716380188673
They don't want to pay $31m for a 38-year-old, oft-injured point guard?
Makes sense.
Zion Williamson is learning a valuable lesson here.
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https://deadspin.com/twitter-is-dragging-pelicans-zion-williamson-heres-wh-1850516257
Jokic's 30-20-10 claws a game back on the road as Nuggets beat Heat 109-94
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401544848
Nuggets were comfortably ahead in 3rd Q and avoid any sort of 4th Q meltdown.
my guess is that Denver wins in 5 or 6.
Agreed, they are damn good.
Messi signs with Inter [checks notes]... Miami
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37814083/move-mls-miami-kept-future-my-hands
A’s take series with 9-5 win over Pirates
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/6/7/23752941/athletics-vs-pirates-final-score
The Oakland Athletics secured their third series win of the season Wednesday with a 9-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Hogan Harris made his major league starting debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates and it was a memorable one for the lefty. The A’s picked up where they left off last night and jumped out to a 7-0 lead against the Pirates in Wednesday’s series finale to start the first inning.
Yay!!! 😃
Squeeeeeeeeeeeze
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/6/8/23753473/mlb-final-san-francisco-giants-colorado-rockies-recap-6-7-2023
The San Francisco Giants 5-4 comeback win over the Colorado Rockies culminated in a dramatic, bold, gorgeous, purple-mountain-majestic bunt from platoon catcher Patrick Bailey.
Bailey, who took over for Blake Sabol behind the plate in the 7th, hadn’t stepped into the batter’s box all evening. After ripping two doubles and a triple in his Coors Field premiere, the rookie catcher dealt the fatal blow not with a blast but a delicate dink: a 1-out safety squeeze called from the bench against Colorado reliever Justin Lawrence.
Dodgers blow another lead to Reds, lose fourth game in a row
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/6/7/23753259/noah-syndergard-bad-dodgers-blown-lead-reds
The Dodgers once again blew a lead, losing in walk-off fashion to the Reds on back-to-back nights, this time an 8-6 loss on Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
The one man who left Tuesday’s poor pitching performance unscathed, Evan Phillips, was the loser on Wednesday, surrendering a walk-off two-run bomb to Will Benson in the bottom of the ninth. The Dodgers have lost fourth straight games for the first time in 2023.
DBD AV CLUB
Jimmy Pesto Sr arrested for his involvement in J6 attack. I always thought he looked like Huey Lewis.
https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1666529409262829569
Still watching "Transatlantic" - not bad, but one actress is, uh not so good in something serious like this.
Finished "Someone Somewhere" Great show if you're in the mood for it that night
Started "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (my idea) which I quite liked. Lot to watch.
We found Transatlantic to be flamingly mediocre. Not bad enough to stop watching but not good enough to think much about.
Passengers (2016) ... 13/19.
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
a little predictable, but still a perfectly fine way to watch TV for a couple hours. i suppose it is a lesser-known movie w/ well-known Jennifer Lawrence
I agree with all this. I thought the movie was fine, with some good visuals and an interesting moral dilemma and swimming in water when zero G hits being the big bad guys.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
[T&F] Cal Throwers Earn Two All-American Nods On Day One
https://calbears.com/news/2023/6/7/track-field-cal-throwers-earn-two-all-american-nods-on-day-one.aspx
AUSTIN, TEXAS – California track & field fielded five athletes on a thrilling first day at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as the Golden Bears battled warm and muggy conditions at Mike A. Myers Stadium. Just as it was last year for Cal, two throwers were the first to earn All-American honors; however, the accolades came earlier in the competition this time around as juniors Jeff Duensing and Ivar Moisander cracked the top-16 to earn their first career All-American honors.
[FB] 11 Join Cal Football Program
https://calbears.com/news/2023/6/6/11-join-cal-football-program.aspx
BERKELEY – The California football team has officially added 11 players to its roster since the end of spring football with the signings of QB Luke Bottari (Utah/College of San Mateo), WR Taj Davis (Washington), RB King Doerue (Purdue), WR Marquez Dortch (Mississippi State), QB Ben Finley (North Carolina State), RB Isaiah Ifanse (San Jose State/Montana State), OLB Tidiane Jalloh (Independence Community College), P Thomas Lee (Cal Poly), DB Patrick McMorris (San Diego State), DB Marcus Scott II (Missouri) and OL Matthew Wycoff (Texas A&M).
[MBB] Cal Wins Pac-12 Basketball Zero Waste Challenge
https://calbears.com/news/2023/6/6/athletics-news-cal-wins-pac-12-basketball-zero-waste-challenge.aspx
SAN FRANCISCO – California was crowned as the overall winner of the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge for the 2022-23 basketball season, the conference announced on Tuesday morning.
A core pillar of Pac-12 Team Green, the Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge is held annually during both football and basketball seasons. Each university selects one home football and one home men's or women's basketball game to compete and provide a platform for engaging on best practices in waste diversion. The Golden Bears have won five of the last six basketball challenges, posting a diversion rate of 92% or higher in each of the victories.
Did Cal win this because all the trash was on the court?
[MGOLF] Sampson Zheng Named All-American
https://calbears.com/news/2023/6/6/mens-golf-sampson-zheng-named-all-american.aspx
NORMAN, Okla. – California men's golfer Sampson Zheng added to his haul of accolades when he was selected to the 2023 NCAA Division I PING All-America Second Team by the Golf Coaches Association of America on Tuesday.
Zheng is one of 31 men's golfers nationwide and one of just four Pac-12 Conference golfers to be named to the first, second or third teams by the GCAA. He's also the 18th Golden Bear in program history and the first since Collin Morikawa in 2019 to earn GCAA All-America honors (Sebastian Crampton and KK Limbhasut also received honorable mentions in '19).
Does anyone have any insight as to where I can order a print of the Robert Stinnett “The Play” photo? I wasn’t sure if the Oakland Tribune owned the rights or his estate, or whoever, and I haven’t found anything after some cursory Googling. I have my own office for the first time ever and I’d love to put a framed one on the wall.
Contact his son on twitter @jimstinnett and ask him. He's a nice bloke.
I am not on Twitter unfortunately. Do you have an email for him?
Hey, you looking for a CAL parka? A big BIG Cal parka? (in great shape) - contact me - fair price.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Cardale Jones wrote a book, presumably about how he "ain't go to college to play school"
https://twitter.com/CJ1two/status/1666197712289554432
Former USC WR Joshua Jackson Jr has been arrested for raping two women, one a UCLA student and one USC student. He had entered the portal in April.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/former-usc-football-player-charged-with-raping-two-women/
[BASE] Xavier's Zane Robbin's windup is so weird. It's all arm but he's got a 1.57 ERA with 50 Ks over 34.1 innings.
https://twitter.com/GsonJW/status/1665101733733847043
It's a little like Brusdar Graterol of the Dodgers. All arms and no lower body. And Graterol can throw 100+. Only difference is Graterol does miss bats.
[SB] Sooners 2-hit Florida State to take game 1 of the WCWS Championship Series via 5-0 shutout. The third lowest batting average among OU starters is 0.324 for the season.
https://www.espn.com/college-softball/boxscore/_/gameId/401552571
Donnie says on Truth Social that he's been indicted and has to appear in federal court on Tuesday at 3PM. Ain't that a shame.
My heart bleeds.
Keenan Allen Wows Audience as The Masked Singer
https://apple.news/AXZAVeHp3TOOIRNvNV8pbVg