Hostile City ambassador/Go Birds absolutist. Once put Trump on hold while buying a sandwich at Wawa.
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When I was a University of Delaware undergraduate 30+ years ago (at the time highly rated for its advances in party culture), one professor expected the entire class to read an entire Shakespeare play each week, and answer a fairly involved question with a one page MAX essay.
The idea of the sports world's endless financialization destroying one of the US's native arts is infuriating. Baseball on the radio is the sound of America's summer evenings, and can approach the sublime. If you doubt that, then just read this:
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@DavidPSamson says MLB no longer needs radio: "We don't need baseball on radio anymore." The former Marlins president predicts on Nothing Personal that "radio will go the way of Kodak and Blockbuster." @JohnMamola has more. #MLB
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Some of the best fun I've had in recent years was to get my 10-year-old son to start playing this as "Captain Slicky," the leader of the dreaded "Piano Destroyer."
This is literally the plot to "The Best Years of our Lives," which is one hell of a great movie
I was 10 and doing my fifth grade spelling work at the kitchen table while my dad listened to Mondale and Reagan debate in the other room. And I distinctly remembered Mondale agreeing that taxes would have to go up and thinking well, he's never going to be president.
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Newly-introduced bill being walked onto the NJ Senate floor today without the usual committee hearing. It would extend NJ's ban on police within 100 feet of the polls to federal law enforcement/active duty military.
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This is quite interesting:
Two independent estimates of the evolution of Earth's gravity over the past 220 My produce very similar results.
One method is based on the measured body volume and estimated weight of extinct animals (mostly dinosaurs), while the other method uses a reconstruction of Earth's past diameter from a NOAA map of oceanic lithosphere ages done by Maxlow (2012). The first method uses the circumference of femur and humerus weight-bearing bones of extinct animals to estimate their weight when they were alive. The ratio of that weight to the animals' body mass (assuming an average tissue density of 0.99 tones m-3) gives an estimate of the relative gravity in the past. The second method assumes that Earth has been expanding according to Maxlow's Expansion Tectonics.
These results indicate that during the Mesozoic Era (the era of dinosaurs), from 252 My ago to 66 My ago, Earth's gravity was less than 75% of today's value. This can help explain the enormous sizes of some sauropods.
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Family Guy recently made a Civil War version of "Who's on First" that had me crying laughing. It had no business being that good.
And I want to know to what extent did concern for the NFL's betting partners put a sleepless Jalen Hurts out on a London field
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I'm not exaggerating, Jeffrey Lurie needs to hire an independent investigator to review the entire decision making process that led to Jalen Hurts not only playing that game in London, but then getting onto a transatlantic flight back.
He could have died, heads need to roll.
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Actually we were correct to note Trump’s routinely bizarre, obsequious posture toward Putin. Just because you chose not to see it until now when it’s shoved directly in everyone’s face doesn’t make us hysterical, it makes you transparently wrong all along.
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Me on Aug. 1: "I'm so excited for Eagles football"
Oct 15: *Googles what a superficial blood clot is*
I was a newspaper reporter in South Jersey covering places with the greatest job losses east of the Mississippi.
I saw former high-rolling general contractors survive on pity and yard work. I saw 30-year casino employees walking dogs. And I saw dollar stores go out of business.