Two excellent columns on Kanye West

Rick Wise threw a no-hitter and hit two home runs in the game

Rick Wise was an excellent hitter for a pitcher and had a fine career. I can’t find it but I recall him saying when he was frustrated with the Phillies, something like you had to pitch a shutout and hit a home run to win there. Then he did it.

SABR Biography

More on Republican litter box conspiracy theory

This is bad even by their low standards

Dungy later took it down

More on wealthy donors for 2022 elections

The Supreme Court’s terrible Citizens United decision enabled rich people to give much more money to political causes

Poor wording by the New York Times

The article says:

“Some of the conspiracy theories have already seeped into the Republican mainstream.”

This is crap. The theories didn’t fall out of the sky and land on Republicans. They intentionally spread them.

The great WKRP Turkey Drop – 10/30/78

Turkeys don’t fly. That was news to some on the show WKRP in Cincinnati

Right-wing conspiracy theories about Paul Pelosi haven’t stopped

They’ve all been debunked but the Trump cult won’t apologize or stop. I’ll bet 1/3 of the country believes their disgusting lies.

Stanford mascot suspended for holding “Stanford hates fun” sign

Right-wing poisonous use of “regime”

About 2/3 of Republicans will never accept that Biden won in 2020. This is one way they show it. “Regime” makes it sound like dictators, not elected officials. Just search “Biden Regime” on Twitter to see GOP garbage.

Tweets on climate change – 10/31/22 update