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

- Michael Jordan hired the best sports lawyer in the country to go after NASCAR. Interesting details.

- Russ Roberts: Taking stock of Grok.

- Kevin Kelly: Embracing the improbable.

- High Tech Hides What "Old Tech" Reveals.

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

- Jonathan Turley on California pushing a retroactive tax on billionaires even if they moved out of state.

- How NBA legend Michael Jordan is blowing up NACAR's monopoly. Excellent backstory to an important case.

- Wait - is this true or satire?

- Rand Paul's proposal to improve healthcare and lower costs.

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

- Michael Jordan, anti-monopolists, 

- VDH with How to Blow up the Middle East War in Five Steps.

- Bill Belichick reviews last weeks NFL games and looks ahead to week 5.

- The US isn't ready for a modern war.

F@#$ Joe Biden

The "F*ck Joe Biden" chant breaks out at Talladega. 

I credit the TV reporter for fast thinking. You still can't swear on network TV. You see this chant breaking out at many sporting events these days - college football, baseball games and now NASCAR. And the saying is not limited to chants either.

If the chant breaks out at an NBA game that would send the Democrats into full panic mode. 

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

- Is Deflation the real danger facing the economy?

- Interesting article from 4-years ago by Naval Ravikant - American Spring

- I've become a big fan of Richard Grenell

- Dana White - tell us how you really feel about the New York Times

- Matt Taibbi - Democrats have abandoned Civil Liberties.

- NASCAR set to return tomorrow at Darlington

- Heh Heh

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

- NASA's Lucy Mission scheduled to launch in October 2021 to explore the Jupiter Trojan steroids looks fascinating.

- Skydiving instructor who died in tandem jump took his own life police say. What a strange story. I have to wonder since it was a tandem jump if the person the instructor was jumping with was just so obnoxious that dropping to his death seemed like the best choice at the time? I know I'm an awful person for thinking that (but now you're wondering that too!)

- Looks like I won't be buying any headphones from Sennheiser. Not worth the security risk.

- Heh heh - dad photoshops daughter in dangerous situations to freak out relatives. I might be a bad dad because I might have done a couple of those in real life.

- Wow - NASCAR viewership has fallen off a cliff. Thanks Obama!

- Well I guess Peter Dinklage should be the next Fed Chair then

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

- Ignoring the Samantha Power bombshell. I hope it's not being ignored (and I'd really like to see the list of the 260 US citizens she basically spied upon)

- Great story from Dale Jr.

- Nice appreciation of Anthony Bourdain

- I did not know this

- Father O'Callahan, Medal of Honor winner, "the bravest man I have ever seen".

- Heh Heh

- Interesting primer - what President Trump's trade war could man for the WTO and global trade.

Mega Linky Links

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

- Interesting - why your dog can get vaccinated against Lyme Disease but you can't

- Bill Clinton really fixed North Korea's nuclear program didn't he.

- Cool - an interactive journey to the center of the Earth

- Heh heh - the kid's now an Internet star

- Enormous cavern containing a Knights Templar church found under farmers field in England

- Heh heh - babysitter's jobs safe for now

- Interesting look at how many NASCAR teams are hurting for sponsors

- Wow - sped up Bruce Springsteen really does sound like Stevie Nicks

- An oral history of NewsRadio one of the most underrated TV shows in history

- This is pretty badass

- The dog does look like Patrick Stewart

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

- Very cool - America's super gun! USA! USA!

- Never knew this was a scam. Have to go back to donating my old clothes to Goodwill.

- I always wondered about this. How the needle through the arm trick works.

- I went into this article not liking Joey Logano but after reading - I still don't like Joey Logano.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Alex Rodriguez's actions this season seem like the actions of a man laying the foundation for an insanity plea... Heh heh - the Royal baby introduced to the public... Andy Pettitte just passed Sandy Koufax on the all-time strikeout list but it took Pettitte 912 more innings to do it. Meanwhile Pettitte now has 719 fewer K's than Curt Schilling in basically the same number of innings... George HW Bush shaves his head in support of the son of secret service agent. It should be recalled that George and Barbara lost their first daughter Robin to childhood leukemia. History will be kind to this good man... With NASCAR going to NBC from ESPN - will Brad Daugherty now start doing more college basketball games for the Mothership?... From now on I am going to intriduce myself as a "minor celebrity" - Chris Lynch Minor Celebrity. Who is to argue the point? I may even have cards made up... Peter King did a Reddit AMA (ask me anything). I really hope someone asked him how many NFL coaches have a foot fetish. He'd have to answer at least one...

NBC Sports and NASCAR

It was announced that NBC Sports will pay $4.4 billion over 10 years for the rights to ESPN's entire NASCAR package and half of Turner's 6 races. When I read that my first thought was that NBC was trying to make their NBC Sports Network channel (formerly Versus) more appealing once a la carte cable pricing becomes a reality.

Today if someone allowed you to just keep and pay for the channels you want and not be forced into big bundles or tiers - would you keep the NBC Sports Network? My guess is that because of this new deal in the future NASCAR fans will keep that channel (over ESPN even), NHL fans will keep the channel (again even maybe over ESPN who doesn't have any NHL games), bicycle racing fans (Tour de France) and fans of the Dan Patrick Show will also have reason to be paying the monthly fee for the NBC Sports Network. And those are some of the most loyal and fervent fans around.

ESPN meanwhile just added Keith Olbermann while NBC Sports Network countered by adding NASCAR. The choice is getting clearer every day.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

One of the benefits of being at the track during a NASCAR race is the fact that the noise of the cars is so loud that you can pretty much fart whenever you want and nobody will hear it... Rajon Rondo "I will never play for the Miami Heat"... Would it be ironic if the Patriots pre-draft report said that Aaron Hernandez had a "killer instinct". I wonder if given what happened with Hernadez if the phrase "killer instict" will be dropped from the sports nomenclature... It's James Joyce's Ulysses and Melville's Moby Dick for me...  It would not surprise me at all if Hollywood already had a sequel to SharkNado in the works. How about SharkNado II - The Reckoning... 11 people who almost played Doctor Who. I think Bill Nighy would have been fantastic... Barack Obama seems to be predisposed to only enforcing the laws he agrees with. This seems to make his Administration's enforcing pot laws even more vigorously than George Bush did seem very strange. Especially given his supporters views on legalized marijuana and his own past with the drug... If they can do a sequel to the movie Wall Street after decades. Why not a sequel to the movie The Secret of My Success?... As bad as Chris Berman makes your ears bleed during the HR derby it used to be even worse when he was partnered with Joe Morgan... Cool - fireworks and lightning at the same time...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations. This is fantastic. What makes it great is the fact that you could totally picture Jay Cutler bumming around with a butt hanging out of his mouth... On a related note - I would pay to see a re-make of the movie Barfly if it had Jay Cutler playing the Mickey Roarke role... What's the difference between nude and naked?... Stories about Mitt Romney's kindness and generosity have been popping up here and there in the media. How come we never hear from people Barack Obama helped when he was a community organizer? Where are those stories?... Bobby Valentine is just 16-20 in one run games and a miserable 2-8 in extra innings. If he was halfway competent he'd be back next year but he's not so it will be adios to Sideshow Bobby Valentine... If low calorie beer was called "skim beer" instead of "light beer" - I don't think it would be quite so popular... Heh heh - Tony Stewart - sneaky ass-grabber...

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

Gary Sinise - An American Hero. If you support one of his charities great. If not you can indirectly support him by watching CSI New York or writing an email to CBS telling them how much you like Gary Sinise and his show CSI New York

Buck Showalter Signing Autographs For Three Amish Guys

Now that Tony La Russa is gone from Cardinals' camp, Ozzie Smith is back

"My Faith: What I learned from my 46-day beer-only fast" Many guys will read this and seriously think about a beer-only fast. But keep in mind that he was drinking just 5 beers max a day. Now if those 5 beers were 40 ounce then maybe we could talk

Cool - how a fly mimics a spider

WTF? The Badgermin

Jimmy Fallon sings Pearl Jams "Jeremy' (Lin)

Images of literary characters made from police sketch software

The penthouse where NASCAR was founded in 1947 is now a gay bar 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Little known fact but by tradition at the after Royal Wedding reception whoever catches the new princesses garter becomes the ambassador to Sweden... I think most Patriot fans were braced for Bill Belichick to trade the pick that ended up being Ryan Mallett to a team that needed a QB but ended up being very happy when the Pats actually took the QB for their own. That happiness was compounded with the realization that the move basically came down to trading a pretty much washed up Randy Moss for Ryan Mallett (the Pats used the pick they got from the Vikings to pick Mallett)... Wow - this is a pretty cool move - Bose Founder Gives Majority of Company to MIT... If the Reds Mike Leake was a normal guy I could see doing the diversion program which will get his record wiped clean as 1st time offender. However, given the fact that I'm doubting that he'd be this stupid again and that nobody is going to forget he stole that T-shirts - the program probably isn't worth the time... In my opinion Roy Firestone getting Rod Tidwell to cry in Jerry Maguire still greater than Suzy Kolber getting Mark Ingram to cry at the end of the first day of the NFL Draft... The only question I have regarding the Royal Wedding is whether Richard Petty invoked his right of prima nocta.

Pythagoras and NASCAR

Pythagoras was not just an ancient mathematician and philosopher but also the founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. They were very big into number mysticism including such ideas that odd numbers were masculine and even numbers were feminine.

After reading about that my first thought was about NASCAR and how Dale Earnhardt was number 3 (an odd number) and how Jeff Gordon is number 24 (an even number). The Intimidator (odd number) versus the Rainbow Warrior (even number).

Just sayin'. Maybe Pythagoras was on to something?