More Linky Links

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

-  The history behind the song The Battle Hymn of the Republic

- You have to have a heart of stone not to be amused by this - Longtime Colts reporter Bob Kravitz laments his time at The Athletic.

- Racehorses in NJ are dying at an alarming rate - what's going on? Racehorses across America are dying at an alarming rate. This is a problem.

- The Fox Sisters and Spiritualism - interesting bit of American history.

Linky Links

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

-  The Sports Section is Dead. "Long live the sports section." Closely resembles my own evolution on the two announcements.

- Dan Carlin has a new Substack account (well new to me). Enjoy!

- Speaking of Substack - here's Matt Taibbi of Racket News on Where Have all the Liberals Gone? Good stuff.

- Used to enjoy Anchor Brewing but understand the move. Anchor was founded in 1886 and would not be surprised if a buyer was found and the brewery moved out of San Fran.

Top NHL Goal Songs

 

The Athletic has their List of the Top 10 NHL Goal Songs (subscription required). The above is the snippet of Zombie Nation that plays after each Boston goal and as  a Bruins fan this has a special place in my heart. The Athletic reluctantly has this listed 6th on their list (as an aside I thought Zombie Nation was the name of the song but its actually KernKraft 400 by Zombie Nation).

Here's what The Athletic had as their Top 5 songs:

1. Seattle Kraken - Lithium by Nirvana

2. Ottawa Senators - Song 2 by Blur

3. Chicago Blackhawks - Chelsea Dagger by the Fratellis (perhaps the funkiest of the choices)

4. New York Rangers - Slapshot byRay Castoldi (Meh)

5. Minnesota Wild - Shout by The Isley Brothers (old school)

Linky Links

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

- FDR's masterful D-Day prayer

- Jordan Peterson - the Value of Beauty

- All four are white and all Democratic Governors oh and they have one other thing in common

- Cryo-electron microscopy has produced images of individual atoms in a protein for the first time. This could be a huge deal for both science and medicine.

- Protest in Hong Kong

- The Athletic lays off 8% of staff and institutes pays cuts across the board.

- The secret to long term wealth

Linky Links

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

- Interesting long read look at The Athletic and how they are now trying to take over sports reporting in the UK (or more correctly the Premiere League because many soccer fans are international based not necessarily confined to the city of the clubs). As an aside I've been a subscriber to The Athletic for quite a while now and enjoy their content.

- "Keep working." Excellent advice.

- One year update from Alex Trebek. How can you not root for this man?

- Why String Theory is such a dream and a nightmare. Got a sneaking suspicion that physicists from the future will scratch their heads wondering why we believed in String Theory. HT Stephen Landry

- Jack Welsh's approach to leadership

- How Tesla sets itself apart

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Congratulations to the Astros for making it to the World Series. And as a Red Sox fan I'd like to remind Yankees fans that Boston won the World Series last year... Glad to see the NBA not doing anything to prevent people from wearing Stand with Hong Kong t-shirts at their games. Let's hope these protests don't peter out... I've made this observations before but I see more Tulsi Gabbard signs when driving in New Hampshire than any other Democrat candidate. I fully expect her to finish in the top 3 in the NH primary... This is a good explanation for the basis for the hate Hillary Clinton seems to feel for Tulsi. A feeling I think is mutual...  The Athletic has become the daily sports fix I used to get from the Boston Globe Sports section decades ago. I didn't mind paying for the Globe all those years ago and I don't mind paying for The Athletic now...  Deep sea explorers have found the wreck of the Japanese carrier Kaga which was sunk during the Battle of Midway. Coincidentally there's a big Hollywood movie on Midway coming out next month. Midway was one of the most important battles in US history. Perhaps the best book on the battle is Shattered Sword which I recommend with the caveat that it is pretty dry and detailed history at times... This is so cool. I hope the people tip this busker to the max when they see him... "Hillary Clinton" a Haiku..

Steve Kerr and China

I had been willing to give Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr the benefit of the doubt. No longer.

The guy said this just 2-years ago, "If you look at the history of the world, the biggest problems come when people don't speak." Now Kerr is a cross between Sargent Schultz's "I see nothing, I see nothing" character and an epitome of what Stalin termed a "useful idiot." 

I think Ethan Strauss of The Athletic (subscription required) may have nailed it with this quote"

"Upton Sinclair said, 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it,' he just as well could have been describing the phenomenon of NBA players and coaches proclaiming total ignorance on China."

They see nothing! They see nothing!