Amazing.
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 23, 2022
Gov. Greg Abbott's "enhanced" truck inspections turned up zero drugs or migrants, but cost Texas consumers and businesses an estimated $4.2 billion.
Delays resulted in $240 million in spoiled produce alone.https://t.co/SRw2ecNsAM
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The end of Hagerstown’s Municipal Stadium
Hagerstown’s Municipal Stadium was built in 1930 and last used for minor league baseball in 2020. I was there in July 1988 to see the US Olympic Team play the Taiwan team. I recall that it was 102 degrees! It seemed like an old stadium even then.
I posted about it here:
I saw the 1988 USA Olympic baseball team
I attempted to go to a game about 10 years ago. There was a brief rain storm around 5:00 pm but they had to cancel the game. I guess there was no drainage.
Willie Mays played his first pro game there:
Future MVP Bryce Harper played for the Hagerstown Suns in 2011.
Don’t buy a corduroy necktie
I am hardly a fashion expert but I’ll give you a tip: Don’t buy a corduroy necktie. Unlike smooth silk, corduroy is hard to tie and will make a knot as big as your fist.
I had two (blue and brown) in the 1970s to match sport jackets I had. The blue corduroy jacket was the first thing I ever bought with a credit card (at Hutzler’s in downtown Baltimore).
Here I am in 1983 with my mother wearing my brown corduroy jacket from Hamburger’s.
Buffalo police get away with pushing a 75-year-old protestor to the ground
This certainly seems like the wrong decision.
Phony Snickers story
This follows the bizarre fake attacks on Dr, Seuss, Mr. Potato Head and M & Ms. Who makes this crap up?
speaking of Snickers:
Hullabaloo
Hullabaloo, on NBC, competed with ABC’s music show Shindig! Hullabaloo even had a dance book.
Hullabaloo!: The 10 Biggest Celebrities and Acts Who Appeared On The Show
More on Peeps
National 8-track Day was 4/11
History of the stop sign
More by the Mississippi Sheiks
The Mississippi Sheiks were one of the great blues groups. They recorded in the 1930s. I’m listening to their music right now and decided I had to post more of it. I have posted about covers of their song such as “Sitting on Top of the World” and “World Gone Wrong”
Two good CDs:
Stop and Listen (Yazoo) from 1992
Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down: The Best of the Mississippi Sheiks (Sony Legacy) from 2004
Here are a few more songs:
Sad! 