“It’s really hard to think of a human tragedy of this scale outside civil war. This will be a touchstone of disastrous policies for decades to come.”---Kenneth Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard University and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, on Venezuela.
Chris made good pizza last night. Am I the only guy who thinks The Night King looks like David Losi?
Many of the Pirates are professional ballplayers.
McCutchen has a torn ACL.
Will, on aesthetic reasons for impeachment: "What can accurately be called aesthetic considerations are, however, powerfully germane. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 65, impeachable offenses should "relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself." Trump's incessant lying and increasingly contemptible coarseness are as reprehensible as was Richard Nixon's surreptitious criminality. And -- because they are constant, public and hence desensitizing -- they will inflict more long-term damage to America's civic life than Nixon's misdeeds did."
With London's murder rate higher than New York City's, Mayor Sadiq Khan has implemented knife control policies as violent crime surges. Khan deployed over 300 additional London police officers to stop and search anyone they suspect is carrying a knife.
On this day in 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate, was shot three times in a hail of gunfire in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five others were wounded. The senator had just completed a speech celebrating his victory in the California presidential primary.
Supererogatory Complexities
Caster Semenya won an interim ruling in her battle against the IAAF and its testosterone regulations when the Swiss supreme court ordered athletics' governing body to suspend the rules on Monday. The freezing of the rules allows the two-time Olympic champion from South Africa to run in her favorite 800-meter event without taking any hormone suppressing medication, although the temporary ruling can be challenged by the IAAF. The IAAF's testosterone limits apply to female athletes with conditions known as "differences of sex development" (DSD). The IAAF says the athletes affected have levels of testosterone in the male range and gain an athletic advantage from their elevated levels of the muscle-building hormone. To be eligible to compete in certain events, the athletes must lower their testosterone to below a point specified by the IAAF through medication or surgery.
And, on the other hand, Stefka Kostadinova, the world record holder in the high jump--one of the world's longest standing records--and mother of the apparently less distinguished Nikolay:
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Sorry to hear that the Lobster backs are have knife problems. I would never carry a knife, always anticipate a gun fight.
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