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More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- How the Red Sox turned their season around.

- From the archives: The Comic Bool Script Archive.

- Do NFL fans actually want outdoor stadiums?

-  American warship downs drones with laser weapon.

Snow Advisory - NFL Sick Burn Variety

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Happy Labor Day! When I was a kid Labor Day was the official end of summer and time to go back to school. Now kids have been in school a week already and the significance of Labor Day has been diminished. How ironic that the significance of Labor Day was probably destroyed by a labor union - the Teacher's Union... Speaking of teachers - this time of year you always see stories about teachers who end up spending their own money to buy supplies for their students. How come you never see any stories about salespeople who have to travel for work but can't expense all the drinks they consume? Much of the costs for that alcohol comes straight out of their pockets yet you never see any Go Fund Me pages for people like me. Life is unfair... Two years ago this was the biggest controversy in the country.  Now look where we're at... Some enterprising person at a charity in Buffalo should host the Dildo Throwing World Championships with first prize being two tickets to a Buffalo Bills game. This could expand into a whole Dildo Olympics... I'm an awful person for laughing at this... As an aside - Red Sox fans truly dislike the Yankees but we always respected Mariano Rivera as a player and a person. There's no current Yankees even close to his level now - so the whole team remains unlikeable... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Cool story on remembering where you came from via the Buffalo Bills.

- New study estimates the percentage of those in Texas with naturally occurring antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 is 35.3% and total estimated immunity in Texas is 69.1%. That sounds a lot like herd immunity to me.

- Sherlock Holmes on information overload. (HT Morgan Housel)

- Speaking of Morgan Housel - (History) Hanging By a Thread

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Wow - big news: Japan looks for way out of Tokyo Olympics because of Covid

- Morgan Housel: We Have No Idea What Happens Next

- Canadian PM Trudeau "disappointed" in Biden plan to revoke Keystone XL permit. One day in office and already upsetting the Canadians and costing union jobs in the US.  

- Good on Bills Mafia. And good on Blessings in a Backpack which seems a worthy charity.

- Canadian winners and losers in the Keystone XL decision

- Laughed too much at this

- Interesting Trivia question. Got 4 out of 5 but no way I was getting the 5th.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

It would be interesting to learn how many people during the pandemic became autotonsorialists. That's one who cuts their own hair... "There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart." That's the tagline from the 1967 Lee Marvin movie Point Blank. Can you imagine that tagline being used for a movie today? Well perhaps for a bio-pic of Bill Cosby... Newt Gingrich's Open Marriage would be a good name for a swinger's assisted living facility... Tim Feriss' letter to a friend who wants to get in shape... If Buffalo were to reach the Super Bowl - I wonder which team their fans would prefer to face. Either Green Bay or Tampa Bay would be a difficult opponent but psychically beating Tom Brady would be like an exorcism of the past 20-years (Brady is 32-3 career vs Buffalo) but to once again lose to Tom Brady would be perhaps literally maddening for the entire City of Buffalo. Without saying it I'd guess many Bills fans are silently rooting for Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The Two Rules in Life

- Now here's a real controversy. Leaving out the adult diapers at least isn't as bad as leaving out the American flag in First Man.

- Cool

- Stat of the day.

- Scott Adams on everything the press gets wrong about the Ukraine call.

- Excellent physics joke.

- Victor Davis Hanson on the eroding of American citizenship.

Will There Be a New Mayor of Buffalo Today?

Little known fact but there's a rule in Upstate New York that if a Bills fan is able to hit either Tom Brady or Bill Belichick with a dildo thrown from the stands - the person that throws that dildo automatically becomes the new Mayor of Buffalo.

It's the Niagara Region's answer to Medieval England's sword in the stone.

The more you know! Go Pats!

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Really? I knew that tomatoes are technically fruit but this just seems wrong.

- Interesting - Montaigne and reading

- This is old (but new to me) - why the Buffalo Bills are the best team in the NFL

- Cool libraries from around the world

- Heh Heh

- "Diversity in the tech industry... Imagine that." Seahawks owner Paul Allen gives $100,000 to help Republicans maintain US House

- I was going to make a "first the robots came for the Lionfish and I said nothing" joke but that would have been in poor taste (unlike the invasive Lionfish which are supposedly delicious)

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

This was a classy move - by both teams... "The Bills marketing department this year has gone with the slogan 'One Heart, Beat Louder.' Our projections predict what that slogan literally tries to tell you: they're going to get beat louder this year." Football Outsiders 2018 Almanac... Bill Clinton never disappoints... "But if you don't understand what this is, its when you put your ding-dong sauce out and give them a sample." Marshawn Lynch (no relation) explaining urine testing (also from the Football Outsiders 2018 Almanac)... A thing of true beauty... This is how Buzz Aldrin treats his American flag. Do you think Neil Armstrong would be any less patriotic? Going to take a hard pass on seeing First Man... If they came out with a preview showing Jennifer Garner planting an American flag in the chest of a bad guy the movie Peppermint would absolutely crush at the box office...

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- This is pretty cool!

- "One of the most profound life lessons you could ever learn came from Calvin & Hobbes"

- Heh heh - Bills fans at birth

- Very cool story - good on you Dana White!

- Things that makes me feel old

- I'm going to go with "just blowhard loudmouths"

- WTF? Seriously - WTF!?!?

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Look I think Al Franken is a giant jerk but I hope he doesn't go full Slobodan Praljak at today's press conference... Violence Cake would be a good name for a band... This is nuts. Not sure if this shows how great Tom Brady has been or how pathetic the Bills are... So Jimbo Fisher says he didn't throw out his Christmas tree prior to leaving FSU. He said the guy who set up his tree threw it out because it was broken. What kind of man has another guy set up his family Christmas tree? I now dislike Jimbo Fisher... Heh heh... If you are on the opposite side of a moral argument from Mitt Romney - there's a 99% chance you're on the wrong side... What came first? The Elf on the Shelf phenomenon or the NSA spying on all of your data? Seem related. Maybe the NSA invented the Elf on a Shelf in order to get all new generations used to being watched all the time... Not a Trump fan but I would love it if he submitted Elizabeth Warren's name in to be the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Have to give credit where credit is due - classy move by ESPN having Craig Sager work the sidelines of tonight's NBA Finals game. Surprised that this will be Sager's first NBA Finals...  Should we be sleeping twice a day? And by "we" I mean "you" because I already nap during the day... Goldfinger vs Trump... One of the reasons I stopped going to church (among many) is that I'd find myself sitting there ranking the women by how hot they were. That just seemed inappropriate...   Heh heh... Wages of Sin Minus Taxes would be a good name for a band... Heh heh...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Where are all the "Hillary Lied and People Died" headlines in the MSM?... You have to admit - the resemblance is pretty uncanny... Nobody is even mentioning the officials from yesterday's Pats / Jets game. That's how well the game was officiated - they went without notice... Kevin Garnett pays tribute to Flip Saunders... Bar room etiquette - a reminder it is acceptable to bring a beer into the men's room. It is not acceptable to bring a cheeseburger... Starting to think that Rex Ryan is basically Rich Kotite with better PR and a foot fetish... Pretty funny camel toe prank... Who knew? Ralph Wilson originally wanted to place his AFL franchise in Miami - Buffalo was his second choice... Cool - the neuroscience of bass guitar...

Fantasy Football Thought for the Day

I agree with Rodney Harrison that the Bills most likely will double Rob Gronkowski this Sunday. Rex Ryan took some shots at Mike Tomlin for how the Steelers covered Gronk and Rex will be sure not to make the same mistakes.

Doubling Gronk should free up other Patriot receivers and I'm thinking this strategy in particular should free up Scott Chandler against DB's or a safety in red zone situations. Chandler is making a homecoming to Buffalo and don't think that hasn't escaped Bill Belichick's attention. Don't be surprised to see Chandler catch at least one TD on Sunday.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Long-lost civilization found in Honduran rain forest

- Photographer explains how he got that photo of a weasel "riding" a woodpecker

- Heh Heh

- Tolkien alert! This is both beautiful and delicious.

- Funny because it's true!

- This has a certain kind of logic

- In Boston, home of the Super Bowl Champions, sports talk radio bozos are whining about who the Patriots gave the franchise tag to. Meanwhile in Buffalo.

- Hats off to Jimmy Kimmel for taking it to the anti-vax crowd

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

So Rex Ryan's first two moves are to alter his tattoo and sign Richie Incognito. That must have Bill Belichick shaking in his boots... Good article on the NFL's integrity problem by Tom E. Curran... So I understand that Brian Williams was planning on calling his autobiography "If I Did It" but that title was already taken by OJ Simpson... Gronk with the ceremonial puck spike...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I agree with Ian O'Connor that the Bills basically replaced a 9-7 AFC East coach with a 4-12 AFC East coach. As Bill Parcells would say, "You are what your record says you are"... What me jihad?... True story - I only bet on Ohio State once this year. It was against Virginia Tech... Wow - map of the Internet in the US in 1969... There is a very good chance that Bill Belichick will lead the Patriots to another Super Bowl. Yet when the votes are counted for coach of the year - the award will go to another. Belichick so good that this type of year is just expected... I laughed way too hard at this...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Tonight for Halloween I will be dressing up as a woman with no shadow - it can mean whatever I want it to mean (which actually means that I will not be wearing any costume)... Ford to reintroduce 1965 Mustang... Is it possible that Occupy Wall Street is actually some sort of David Blaine stunt gone horribly wrong?... Who knew - Ralph Wilson originally wanted his AFL team to be based in Miami. Buffalo was his second choice... Jason Giambi had his option picked up by the Rockies. Giambi has made over $131 mil in his career - better living through chemistry indeed!... Very cool video on the scale of the Earth in relation to some of the other heavenly bodies... What will be viewed as a bigger joke in years to come - Obama's Attack Watch web site or the "I am the 99%" meme?... Of Tom O'Brien, Jeff Jagodzinski and Frank Spaziani - who could have guessed that Coach Spaz would potentially be last one with a head coaching job?... Ronald Reagan came up with his 11th Commandment "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" precisely because of treatment Mitt Romney is getting from people like George Will.