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Hank Aaron and Eddie Matthews hit 863 homeruns as teammates

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/19/2026 10:12:00 PM

          On this day in 1965,  Eddie Mathews hit # 28 to lead the Braves to a win 4-3 at Pittsburgh. Matthew's home run gave the Matthews-Aaron duo (1954-66) a total of 772 home runs as teammates.   They passed Ruth and Gehrig that day.   Aaron & Matthews ended up with 863 home runs in their 13 years together with the Braves.   Matthews retired in 1968 and Aaron played until 1976.Matthews came up with the Boston Braves but enjoyed his biggest years in Milwaukee.    He led the National League with 47 home runs in 1953, the team's first year in Milwaukee.     Aaron came up in 1954 and hit 755 career home runs.   Aaron &[...]

Happy # 82 Graig Nettles

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/19/2026 10:11:00 PM

          We remember Graig Nettles who was born in San Diego on this day in 1944. Nettles broke with Minnesota in 1967 and was traded to Cleveland where he started to hit a few home runs.   In 1973, he became a Yankee and that's where he had some wonderful years:  250 HR & 834 RBI in 1,539 games.   Nettles was also a superb third baseman winning a couple of Gold Gloves Awards and a key part of the New York teams that played in the 1976, 1977, 1978 & 1981 World Series.    He retired with 390 HR & 1,314 RBI.  P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog[...]

This Is A Fetish

K T Cat
8/18/2026 7:00:00 AM

Dig this.When Jason Arday was named Cambridge's youngest black professor, the BBC made at least 5 documentaries about him and gave him his own radio series.This is a fetish. It's gross. I feel like I've been given a view into a guy's bedroom where he likes to dress up in a French maid costume. It's not just Cambridge, it's all of them plus the newsmedia.

Arday Or Arday Not?

K T Cat
8/17/2026 3:20:04 AM

Apparently, the answer is Arday not.That's some black humor, dark pun intended, after Jason Arday committed suicide following his public unmasking as a complete fraud and fabulist and his dismissal from Cambridge.Well of course he did. Anyone listening to him spin his tall tales for even 10 minutes would have seen that he was a mentally ill compulsive liar. What was it, 30 marathons in 35 days, the last 5 on a broken leg? My goodness, any of his stories would have been enough to convince someone with even an ounce of sense that this guy should be seeing a psychiatrist, not the inside of the Cambridge faculty lounge.And yet, there he was.Arday was a pitiful person worthy of compassion, not censure. Yes, he had a habit of[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Californias New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs 

Leslie Eastman

Sacramento has spent years squeezing refiners out of the state. Now it's squeezing tire manufacturers, all while insisting each new mandate is somehow a gift to drivers and taxpayers.The post Californias New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Trump Urges Senate to Pass Permanent Daylight Saving Time Bill 

Leslie Eastman

A similar act passed in 1973 started out as popular, but its fanbase quickly waned.The post Trump Urges Senate to Pass Permanent Daylight Saving Time Bill first appeared on Legal Insurrection.