To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
But from today’s NY Post celebrity snaps, we have:
Snoop Dogg with his granddaughter.
Ha, ha! You’re old, old man. I still have kids in school, and can pretend like I’m young for a couple of years yet.
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‘Dad bods’ are the biggest turn-on for singles in the pandemic sex era:
Embrace the bulge: Scales have once again been tipped in favor of the common man.
Nearly 75% of singles are more turned on by a “dad bod” over any other body type — including a mate with rock-hard washboard abs, according to a sexy new survey of 2,000 people by Dating.com.
Wait a minute, who is the most likely to use a dating site and not go to the latest high-end club to pick up models?
People with normal bodies.
So when they, the dating site, says that “single” especially the ones on their dating sites think a little paunch is sexy, don’t you think the paunchy would be more likely to sign up for their dating site?
Could I be more skeptical and cynical if I tried? I shall try!
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Two longtime workers were killed inside the sprawling Roundy’s Distribution Center and the suspect later died by suicide following a car crash in Milwaukee, authorities said Wednesday.
Law enforcement officials skimped on details, but the deaths sent a shock wave through the small suburban community and reminded people across the region of other incidents of workplace violence, especially the deadly shootings at the Molson Coors brewery just over a year ago.
Two law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Fraron Cornelius, 41, of Wauwatosa. A union official said Cornelius had worked at the facility for around 20 years.
Although, to be honest, my father worked for Roundy’s when its warehouse was in Wauwatosa. It moved out to Oconomowoc after he passed away.
When I was living with him, I worked at a Roundy’s-supplied grocery store, so he would sometimes write messages on the pallets coming to my store. Of course, when he would go on strike or get locked out, I’d cross the picket lines to go to work.
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Oscar Mayer Weinermobile returns to Springfield! Here’s where to find it:
The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile is rolling through the Springfield area over the next few days.
Oscar Meyer has six weinermobiles touring the country year-round. From Thursday to Saturday, the hot dog on wheels makes it first visit to the Springfield area since 2019.
Spoiler alert: The first stop, yesterday, was at the Walmart on Kearney which lies between the Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks and ABC Books.
So we saw it on our excursion yesterday that took us from one to the other.
The boys, who are young men now, were so excited to see it that they were boys again briefly.
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Driver rescued after car is swept into Wilsons Creek
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A man was rescued from the top of his car after it was swept into Wilsons Creek Tuesday night.
It happened along Wilson Road on the southern edge of Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, between Clever, Mo. and Republic, Mo.
I have mentioned that I sometimes walk or run around the block across the street, which is 4.2 miles around and comprises a couple farm roads and a state highway. Well, the block I live on backs up to the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, and so to go completely around my block, you have to go something like 8.5 miles if you skip the cul de sacs, and it not only has a state highway (albeit one with a wide shoulder) and a farm road with lots of wooded curves with low visibility and narrow bridges, but it also has this low water crossing (basically, a ford–a bridge that is under water to some degree most of the time) that can turn your run into a dangerous duathlon quickly.
I’ve never tried that crossing on foot or in a car, and I’m not likely to try it any time soon, either.
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Runner struck by projectile at Battlefield, Mo. park:
The Battlefield Police Department is trying to figure out what hit and injured a runner Thursday at a city park.
Police say a runner was on the track that circles the city park, then struck by some kind of projectile. That person went to the hospital Thursday with minor injuries and has since been released.
Hopefully, we’ll see a follow-up story. This really does nothing but lead to questions. What kind of projectile? Nerf dart? A crossbow bolt? A BB? A pellet from a pellet gun? Did the runner possibly know whomever fired it?
This park is only a couple miles up the road from me; my boys walk to it from time to time. It’s attached to the Battlefield City Hall and Police Department. It is quite likely just as safe as it ever has been, but incomplete stories like this lead to inchoate fear.
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When a twentyager Internet content generator wants to OWN! the Religious Right!
Fetal Cell Lines Were Used to Make the Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccine—Here’s What That Means
Two LSU employees had troubling records. Many ask why they’re not fired.
Former Fox host Eric Bolling considering congressional campaignEarlier this week, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans urged its parishioners to avoid the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, calling it “morally compromised” because it was developed and tested using cells derived from aborted fetal tissue, reported NBC News on March 2.
The stance conflicts with that of the Vatican, which said in December that it was “morally acceptable” for Roman Catholics to receive any COVID-19 vaccine, even one based on research that originally used cells derived from aborted fetuses.
If you don’t have a solid grasp of human biology, this is where it gets pretty confusing. To be clear, there are no vaccines that involve stem cells from aborted fetuses.
Please, help confuse things further.
Johnson & Johnson confirmed in a statement released Tuesday that the vaccine formula itself includes no fetal tissue. So what does make their COVID-19 vaccine so much more controversial than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines?
The particular cells that are involved in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are called PerC6 cells. “These are retinal cells that came from a fetus that was aborted in 1985 in the Netherlands, which were treated in the lab to allow them to reproduce in lab settings since that time,” Barker explains.
Okay, so the cells used in the vaccine were the product of aborted fetus cells, not directly aborted fetus cells. So there’s not fresh aborted babies in each dose, much to Planned Parenthood’s chagrin–there go the profits!
But, truly, the unsigned author of this piece has a dizzying intellect, capable of narrowly tailoring definitions to get exactly the explanation he or she wants, regardless of whether it’s completely true or not.
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Endangered tiger dies during artificial insemination procedure at Colorado zoo:
nine-year-old female tiger, Savelii, has died due to complications from an important artificial insemination procedure at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs Thursday. The zoo says it was part of a globally important reproductive effort to prevent extinction of the Amur tiger species.
For several months, the zoo had been working to breed Chewy, the male tiger, and Savelii naturally. Natural breeding for tigers can be precarious as it can often be aggressive and even result in death.
You know, there might be a metaphor for politically driven science in there somewhere.
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Stolen from the front page of the Douglas County Herald:
I am not ready for grandmas in rock shirts yet.
I am not ready to look into the mirror to see how old we are really getting.
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In some baseball cities, after Cardinal Ted Simmons took off his catcher’s mitt, he put on a pair of white gloves.
He became friends with a museum docent near Philadelphia, a curator in Houston. They’d let him wear gloves to examine fine pottery or open an antique desk or cabinet to see it up close. “I wanted to hold that Paul Revere tankard in my hand,” he said.
In exchange, Simmons left tickets at will call so his museum friends could go to the Phillies’ or Astros’ stadium for a game.
A fair trade for a guy who, off the field, scouted art, not hitters.
Back home in St. Louis, he and his wife, Maryanne Ellison Simmons, would discuss and research art they wanted to buy. A married team for 50 years, their passion meant a home filled with beloved furniture and artwork.
Not a framed jersey to be seen.
“Collecting art enabled me and Maryanne to have a life separate from baseball,” Simmons said. Sports memorabilia was kept in the attic.
Now they are sharing their art: The St. Louis Art Museum has acquired 833 works, mostly contemporary prints but including drawings, collages and photographs.
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Although Ted Simmons also played for the St. Louis Cardinals, or so I heard, and lives in St. Louis, c’mon, man, to a boy growing up in the housing projects in Milwaukee in the early 1980s, he was a Brewer and was on the one team (one!) that went to the World Series. And lost to the Cardinals. Oh, how a Milwaukee boy born to a woman from St. Louis suffered. As did the neighbors on either side of the apartment in which we lived, as she would bang on the walls with a plastic baseball bat to let them know the Cardinals had scored a run.
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Many will need to dial all 10 digits before calling soon.
C’mon, man, it just means you’ll have to type an extra couple numbers when setting the contact in your phone, ainna? I mean, who dials any more?
By the way, as my cell phone number is still from the same area, I already have to dial ten for local 417 area calls placed from my cell phone. So the actual amount of change this represents for me is very negligible indeed.
Unlike when they split the St. Louis area into two area codes in 1996 which did have an impact on me. Because suddenly calling a lot of my friends was long distance. Ask your grandparents what “long distance” meant, you damn kids.
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Gas prices have been steadily rising in Missouri. Here’s why.:
There are multiple factors that go into setting gasoline prices, making it hard to pinpoint a reason for an increase. However, a couple of contributors help explain the recent surge, AAA East Central spokesman Jim Garrity told the Louisville Courier Journal.
Snowstorms in the Gulf Coast shut down refineries, halting 40% of gasoline production last month. Prices of crude oil, which is what gasoline is made from, have also risen $15 since the beginning of the year, he said.
Gee, why are petroleum prices rising?
You know, policies of the new administration that stifle energy development in the United States and that de-stabilize this middle east? Nah, it’s just that petroleum prices are rising. Pay no attention to whatever’s behind the curtain.
I meant to take a picture of the local gas prices to pair with this image from October of last year:
However, I’m an old-school photographer and managed to get a finger over the relevant parts. Gas prices are a dollar higher here in the six months since I took the photo above. Because of a snow storm that lasted two weeks? Um, skeptical.
Perhaps the Neanderthal thinking of states opening up despite Federal SCIENCE!® Bureacracy will paper over how the new policies are going to impact employment. But only for a while. Maybe.
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This story was making the Internet rounds (like this Instapundit post last month: Florida Metal Musician Turns Uncle’s Skeleton Into ‘Skelecaster’ Guitar.
Today, as I was preparing lunch, I came up with just the perfect quip for it:
Players usually lute the bodies.
I had just put on a lute music record at the time.
Too bad I didn’t do that last month, when the quip would have been timely.
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Longtime Milwaukee radio personality Karen Dalessandro is leaving town for a new gig in Phoenix.
Dalessandro, the former country music host who has been on the afternoon drive shift at WKLH-FM (96.5) for more than two years, will be taking over the same gig at another classic rock station, Phoenix’s KSLX-FM starting April 5, AllAccess.com reported Tuesday.
According to OnMilwaukee.com, her last day at WKLH will be March 26.
Dalessandro spent 20 years as a country radio host in Milwaukee at WMIL-FM (106.1). After briefly retiring in 2017 — she was inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2015 — Dalessandro joined WKTI-FM (94.5), which had switched to a country-music format. After WKTI flipped to an all-sports format in 2018, she landed at WKLH as a part-time host, going full-time as the station’s host from 3 to 7 p.m. in 2019.
I guess I am coming up on 27 years since I last left Milwaukee.
The first time, of course, was at age 11; then I returned for the University, but when my prospects were uncertain (I had an English/Philosophy degree and a ton of grocery store experience), so I returned to the St. Louis area to live in my mother’s basement until I found myself (three years later, I landed a technical writing position because I was taking programming classes at night, not just because I had a writing degree).
So I have missed this veteran broadcaster’s entire career. She was inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame, for crying out loud. And even if I would have been there at the very outset of her career, I was not listening to WMIL. I was listening to the AOR stations at the time. QFM and whatnot.
I listened to WKTI when I was in high school on summer trips to my father’s house and early in my college days, but they played pop music then (and ‘hits’ like Calloway’s “I Wanna Be Rich” pretty much hourly. Like, hourly.
Although WKTI did introduce me to the Triplets, so it’s got that going for me.
But apparently WKTI has gone through two complete format changes in the interim.
I still have my Best of Dave and Carole from WKLH cassette which I have not listened to for a long time. I see that show ended five years ago. I should pull that old comedy tape out whilst I still have a motor vehicle that supports it.
Ah, well, everything passes, and in the twenty-first century, radio stations and radio personalities tend to swap around a lot and disappear.
You can bet my boys, who are exposed to a lot of radio for their age, won’t have the same nostalgia for stations and personalities that a couple generations of their forefathers did.
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Disney CEO says there’s no ‘going back’ to old way of movie watching:
Disney Chief Executive Bob Chapek said the pandemic has likely permanently narrowed the window for movies to play only in theaters.
Pre-pandemic, cinemas depended on an exclusive 90-day window to screen films before they were made available to home distribution channels, such as pay TV and streaming services. But now, studios are tinkering with that timeframe, either shortening it or doing away with it altogether.
“The consumer is probably more impatient than they’ve ever been before, particularly since now they’ve had the luxury of an entire year of getting titles at home pretty much when they want them,” Chapek said late Monday at a virtual conference hosted by Morgan Stanley.
Also, major media corporations are tired of having to split the ticket price with movie theaters and of selling movies on physical media which users can watch over and over again with no recurring revenue to the major media corporation.
C’mon, man. We know that the consumer isn’t jumping; he’s being pushed.
Full disclosure: I own some Disney stock, so I’m benefitting in some small way from modern day robbery barony. But I’m also going to have to start hitting yard sales this year for backup DVD players to store with my backup VHS players.
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A mile or so up the farm road, a new family has bought one of the larger homes by Highway M. Yesterday, I saw that they had a chicken running around.
Hopefully, they have a coop where they put the chickens up at night. Otherwise, they won’t have chickens for very long.
I hope they see this: Tips to keep your pets safe during coyote mating season
I often hear the coyotes when I am taking the trash out around sunset. Perhaps they don’t range that far north over the creek. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
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Gym-goers urged to wear masks when exercising under new CDC guidelines:
Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new recommendations for gyms after two outbreaks of COVID-19 were linked to group exercise classes.
The new recommendations urge gym-goers to wear a mask even when exercising. Gyms are also asked to provide more ventilation to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Two outbreaks so everyone must conform? C’mon, man. This is America. And I think the powers that wannabe are going to find out how America this country still is.
Note the video segment features my YMCA and interviews a fellow Ozarks Multisport Club member rocking a Drown and Pound shirt. Neither the Y nor the OMC member seems inclined to require or wear masks whilst exercising.
Me, either.
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The Low Spark of High-Speed Rail
Ha! An allusion to Traffic!
Alright, alright, alright, I am not old enough to remember that song contemporaneously–the album of the same title came out the year before I was born–but I do remember that album because of Dennis Cast, the assistant manager of the grocery store where I worked through college (one of many assistant managers–and even though it had a couple different names because it had a couple of different owners, but it was the same store to me). I listened to what they called Album Oriented Rock in those days–slightly older hard rock music–and he tried to broaden my horizons by loaning me a couple of cassettes, including The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. To be honest, the long-riffing lightly psychadelic sound of the middle 1970s didn’t do it for me. But I remember the song and have called it up once or twice since.
At any rate, I feel clever.
Also, I should note that I previously mentioned I remembered an episode of My Two Dads from The New Shows of 1987:
My Two Dads; I remember a single episode, where they give a party and try to engage the teens in conversation, and the daughter imagines them as really old.
In that episode, the B.J. and the Bear dad asks if the tween boys thought Steve Winwood did his best work with Traffic. That’s almost an exact quote, but not enough to put in actual quotation marks. Steve Winwood, at the time, had returned to the charts with his comeback songs like “Back in the High Life Again” and “Valerie”. However, it was not something the kids were listening to on their own–back in those days, I think adult attention figured into the charts.
At any rate, what is the article about? The usual highlighting the inefficiencies of light rail mass transit, I suppose. I already know the outlines of the argument, so plugging in this particular set of costs and overruns, which will prove less than the numbers plugged into the articles on this topic next year, doesn’t add much.
But the title took me back a bit. Not all the way back to 1971. Back to 1992, anyway.
And the time I spent on this post is about 12 minutes. The length of the song itself.
Thank you, that is all.
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Of course, I warned about this in 1991, but now it’s time to strip all traces of Native American nomenclature (including the English word Chiefs) from the culture.
Cherokee Nation asks Jeep to stop using tribe’s name
Because, as a society, we have immatured from the ideal of celebrating shared humanity to “It’s ours, and you can’t have it.” Which will work out so much better, but that’s tomorrow, not today when one can take a Principled, Popular Stand.
You know who’s next in line, don’t you?
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I spotted this image at Ace of Spades HQ:
Wow, the greatest extent on record. All the way back seventeen or eighteen years. Or, as I like to think of it, in my adult lifetime.
I remember snowy years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I realize most Internet content generators or the official variety cannot.
You know, if the Year 2000 Bug had completely erased history, what would be different? Nobody recognizes that history began before it anyway.
(See also Like A Modern Sports Record.)
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