50 years ago, Billboard #6 for the week of Nov. 19, 1972: Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft https://youtu.be/MsW8rXPcnM0

I’m all in favor of class warfare. People without class just need to go away. Get a shave and tuck in your shirt first. Then go away.

Asking if women can pee while using a tampon is so insipid. Better question, “Can men pee while using a tampon?”

Appointing a New Special Counsel Was the Right Call https://www.thebulwark.com/appointing-a-new-special-counsel-was-the-right-call/

The Conservative Case Against the Independent State Legislature Doctrine https://www.thebulwark.com/the-conservative-case-against-the-independent-state-legislature-doctrine/

How Trump Changed the Republican Party: Four reasons why the Republican/conservative revolt against Trump is weak, by JV Last https://open.substack.com/pub/thetriad/p/how-trump-changed-the-republican

Jan. 6 Troll ‘Baked Alaska’ Is Going to Jail in 2023 for Attacking Security Guard https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-troll-baked-alaska-is-going-to-jail-in-2023-for-attacking-security-guard

The proper response to hate is not hatred: It is love. It is the only way out of the problems America is facing.

However, evil usually isn't just a matter of either ignorance or stupidity: It is a matter of the heart.

The source of this befuddlement stems from modern society's worship at the altar of rationalism, as though knowledge, education, and intelligence will right all the wrongs in the world. Certainly these are all good things.

People keep getting befuddled by the fact that sometimes very smart people are involved in very hateful, nutty things.

From Yale Law to Oath Keepers: Stewart Rhodes’s Unlikely Journey https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/us/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-yale-law.html

Penguin Random House’s agreement to buy Simon & Schuster is set to fall through. Simon & Schuster’s parent company decided not to extend it after a judge blocked the purchase. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/books/penguin-random-house-simon-schuster-deal.html

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@butchjones The wrestlers generally only come into normal contact with the other wrestlers in the same stable--on their team. The wrestler in question, Hoshyoryu, is the highest ranked wrestler in his stable and the only one still with a shot at the championship this tournament, so I doubt anyone in his stable said anything or treated him any differently. It would be like someone on the Bucs criticizing Brady after he won a game.

(A henka is when a sumo wrestler just dodges the other wrestler during the initial charge, shoving the charging wrestler into the ground. A legal move, but as an easy way to win against a larger or more skilled opponent, it is considered cowardly.)

SMH. I just don’t think it is right for NHK to interview a sumo wrestler and compliment him on his record when he just won with a henka. It’s bad form for him, and NHK.

@NancyFrench 1000x this.