It’s so fun watching a sports league shoot itself in the foot. Well, not fun, honestly. Just, like kind of funny but really both disappointing and embarrassing. No, I’m surprisingly not talking about D.C. United’s ridiculous decision to host a home match in Baltimore because it would seat more D.C. United Lionel Messi fans and sell more tickets. That’s a post for another day. MK Dons-ass team. Actually, this post is about the National Women’s Soccer League, the still-nascent, well, United States professional women’s soccer league. After several attempts to get a U.S. league off the ground,...
Continue reading...November 2025
Hump-Day Song of the Week – “Car Alarm” by Gladie
Let’s bring this feature back. This blog needs more less depressing posts. Here’s the new track from Gladie; the song rocks.
Continue reading...Killing Lincoln
Today is the last day the penny will be in production in the United States. It will probably go out unnoticed for the most part, as durable as the reddish currency has been for centuries. Made now out of just a speck of copper (mostly zinc), it’s apparently more expensive to make than it holds as currency, so some people say it shouldn’t be minted anymore. Not a terribly good reason (currency doesn’t hold value as the value of itself), but pennies are pretty worthless nowadays so there are only a couple of reasons why not to...
Continue reading...On walls
Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the Berlin Wall collapsing under its own weight. It’s a day I somehow remember, despite my young age at the time, mostly because our elementary school class included a German exchange student who took the news with a level of emotion I had never seen a fellow elementary school student display towards current global events. I was too young to understand what the hell was happening, but we watched the news live on television during the school hours. I’m sure our teacher must have had some semblance of understanding what was...
Continue reading...Sandwich guy acquitted and towards a universal definition of what is not crime
The D.C. sandwich guy™ has been found not guilty of whatever crime they decided to charge him with this time. He’d previously beat a grand jury on a felony charge, so the U.S. Attorney for D.C., in her infinite wisdom, decided to charge him with a misdemeanor. For throwing a sandwich at a cop. It’s laughable. Why? Because if somebody threw a sandwich at me, and I called the cops on them to charge with felony assault, or even some misdemeanor, the cops would laugh at me. “Why are you wasting our time?” they would ask. And,...
Continue reading...Pelosi retiring
The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. You may not be surprised if you think the minimum wage was increased recently, but this was back in 2007, when Democrats retook the House in the midst of President George W. Bush’s disastrous second term. The original bill to raise the minimum wage, from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour, was part of HR 2, which you may notice is the second bill the House took up that Congress. It would eventually run through both houses...
Continue reading...Libbing out, or, what happened last night
Election nights sure feel better when the evil people don’t win, don’t they? It’s a big relief, seeing decent people win in a variety of races around the country, instead of an overwhelming deluge of losses to the worst people you have ever heard of. Just focusing on the executive races, we first had Abigail Spanberger winning the governorship of Virginia. Then we had Mikie Sherrill winning the governorship of New Jersey. Then, to cap it off, we had Zohran Mamdani winning the mayorship of New York City. It was nice that Virginia closed polls at 7pm,...
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