To be sure, once you put quotation marks around “win,” that makes your point much more convincing.

Success breeds success

Amazingly, they all picked the Diamondbacks to win the National League pennant. What were the odds?

I know it’s getting to be a while ago now, but I could swear the US left Afghanistan not on “the best terms” with the people running Afghanistan. Surprising to see all those bases!

Doing TV from my apartment in Shanghai, a year ago.

Heritage is already planning for 2025:

Important! Please read. A snapshot of a divided country, but not in the simplistic way often described: New Survey Breaks Down America’s Complicated Landscape – American Communities Project americancommunities.org/new-survey-bre…

The Lewiston shooter, in one night, murdered a number of people greater than half the number murdered in the entire state of Maine in all of 2022.

So how’s everybody feeling about a government shutdown? Right on schedule?

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Archimedes in the tub…
Paul on the road to Damascus…
Newton bonked by the apple…
You just never know when “that moment” is going to come.

If you were working in the back of the house last night in Houston, when did you take down the plastic sheeting in the locker room, and quietly wheel out the champagne-laden carts and bins of beer? 6th? 7th?

An interesting conversation on tap. Stream it on KQED at 10pm P/1am E

It might have been the blinking neon sign that said “THIRD RAIL” that kept her from stepping on the third rail. I can’t be sure.

Now that Jordan has lost again, the US House of Representatives has once again gone into recess.

Jim Jordan gets even fewer votes for Speaker in this latest round. Final tally: Jeffries 210
Jordan 194
Others 25
Present 0

If on consecutive ballots, you’re getting fewer votes each time, what’s the next move? We’re only in the “Ps” and Jordan is falling way short. What now?

If you thought it was sufficient just to be able to say “Merry Christmas” again. Today from Parler: