Linky Links

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

- Wait - what? World's Number 1 Bridge Player suspended for PED's

- Hockey players are the best (even if they play for the Canadiens)

- Hmmmm

- Looking back at the AIG bailout 10-years later. I wish we learned from this disaster but my guts says just same ole shit just different decade.

- Heard the Mueller report was going to be disappointing but this is ridiculous.

- Heh Heh

- HIV is reportedly cured in second patient.

Linky Links

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

- Illustrated Periodic Table shows how we regularly interact with each element. I still say the Periodic Table is one of science's great achievements.

- Saddened to hear this news about Tiny Archibald.

- If true this is really disappointing on the part of NOAA. Eroding trust in science and government at the same time.

- Who knew?

- Interesting look at how 40-years ago Israel basically changed from being a socialist nation to a capitalist one and how that change has made all the difference.

- One of the most persuasive arguments I ever read FOR taking PED's. Sadly the author Andrew Tilin recently died when he was hit by a car while biking.

- National Geographic's Photo of the Year.

Linky Links

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

- Gary Kasparov on the danger Trumps poses as an unwitting (or witting) agent of Putin.

- I really want to go somewhere where the Milky Way is visible to the naked eye. This is breathtaking.

- John McEnroe with maybe the best first pitch ever thrown

- In depth long read on why maybe the war on PED's should be ended. I'm of two minds on the subject. I think sports PEDs hurt the use of regular people in their search of better, longer lives but I also don't want parents putting kids on PEDs because they want their kids to be the best.

- Golf fight! Golf fight!

- Things that make you say "Hmmmm..." The one joke Trump banned from his Comedy Central Roast.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Watched UFC 200 last night. What a waste of time. Pretty weak card. I tapped out after the first round of the Daniel Cormier fight to go listen to a band instead... Heh heh - I should have posted this yesterday... Just to get this out there and get ahead of the story - I have no idea how those illegal substances got into my system. It might have been those supplements...  Heh heh... The NBA's biggest nightmare has to be a PED that makes you grow taller... So very sad... Word is that Kevin Durant was coming to the Celtics until Curt Schilling got involved... Heh heh... How would history have been different if England came in on the side of the South during the Civil War with the caveat that the Southern States return to being part of Great Britain... How awesome is this!...