You know, all these years later, I remembered that first Jimmy the Greek quote, but either missed or forgot that second one. Just blech.
Hmmm. Civil war was 1860. A century and a half later is 2010. I guess we’re overdue.
I should have included the third part of Synder’s quote instead of snipping, which may help explain part of the fervent anti-DEI agenda that Trump is so set on:
- “They’ve [blacks] got everything. If they take over coaching like everybody wants them to, there’s not going to be anything left for the white people. I mean, all the players are black. I mean, the only thing that the whites control is the coaching jobs.”
Gah. Well, you sent me down a rabbit hole. On top of all that, Frank Deford offering a kind of explanation/apology where in my opinion none is needed.
Frank Deford sympathetically noted that Jimmy often tried to sound more educated than he actually was and that his comments were basically him trying to make a point about a subject on which he knew nothing.
From the article:
Depends on which “cheek” we’re talking about. And where her head is rammed at the time.
Yeah, I flagged that too. Yeesh.
Sounds like every trump speech, interview, soundbite, press conference, rally…
Fun article, but this had me rolling…
…he managed good numbers at Colorado despite playing behind a porous offensive line that may as well have constituted an OSHA violation.
As we say around here, the Sanders guys are all hat and no cattle.
You’re making me defend Trump, which is not great. But singling him out here is a bit dubious. Not using the word “genocide” about the Armenian genocide is a failing that could be levelled against many, many world leaders that I suspect most of us here would otherwise respect.
WaPo story about Hamilton MT, a rural town whose county voted 69% for Trump. It’s also the home of Rocky Mountain Laboratories and the Bitterroot National Forest, both of which have had layoffs and likely will have more. Now they’re begging the NIH and USDA to reverse those layoffs. Good luck with that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/01/hamilton-montana-federal-government-job-cuts/
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a gift link for this. Probably because I canceled my subscription, even though the subscription still has a few months more on it.
Yesterday I saw on the TV a group of miners from Morgantown, WV upset that mine safety and black lung screening where on the chopping block.
Just because Trump is pro-coal doesn’t mean he’s pro coal miner
I mean, he promised to bring coal jobs back in 2016 and then all he did was cut mining safety standards which resulted in a jump in the number of mining deaths. But this time…
Well, if coal miners die then you’ll need to hire new people to do the work so I guess you could call that “more jobs”? Because look - they’re hiring!
Here’s a link to another story about it, based on the WaPo article:
I’m going fly fishing in Montana next month. The guide I use is further to the left than I am and he hates Montanans. I suspect we’ll catch fish and laugh and laugh about stories like this.
I think I see part of the reason why Rocky Mountain Laboratories may be targeted:
Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) is part of the NIH Intramural Research Program and is located in Hamilton, Montana. Operated by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, RML conducts research on maximum containment pathogens such as Ebola as well as research on prions and intracellular pathogens such as Coxiella burnetii and Francisella tularensis .[2][3][4] RML operates one of the few Biosafety level 4 laboratories in the United States, as well as Biosafety level 3 and ABSL3/4 laboratories.[5]
RML is guilty of at least two sins: 1) it’s part of NIAID, which was run by Fauci, whom both Trump and RFK, Jr. despise, and 2) it studies infectious diseases, which RFK, Jr. doesn’t think need researching.
Oh dear, fast fashion is now threatened. (One person who I know will be impacted by this is actually left-leaning; she buys clothes like this so she can look nice at work and not worry about expensive clothes being ruined by exposure to hair dye.)
Also, I thought it was pronounced “TEEE-MOO,” but I just learned on the news that it’s “TIM-oo.”
I’ve been buying Shein and some Temu for years. I too am poor and wanted to look nice for work. ISTM that moving to a local fulfillment model will put an end to the affordability and lose most of it’s appeal.