There is only one team among the top three on Nate Silver's list of most loved football teams that isn't also in the top three of the most hated and that is, of course, Green Bay.
Meanwhile, "there are very few corners of America where Patriots fans won't be behind enemy lines."
http://53eig.ht/2fcggjl
9.16.2017
9.15.2017
The Packers are the winningest team in the NFL
Yes, the Green Bay Packers. The Packers have won the NFL channel championship 13 times. The Bears are in second place with nine wins. Yes, the Bears.
The Providence Steam Rollers won only one once, in 1928.
All this and more football trivia at Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/2x7Npmc
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The Providence Steam Rollers won only one once, in 1928.
All this and more football trivia at Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/2x7Npmc
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Creatures of the web
Spotted masquerading as a subhead in an AP story about the anti-virus company, Kaspersky Lab:
A RUSSIAN COMPANY WITH TIES TO RUSSIA
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9.14.2017
But where's the tinfoil?
Chinese vendors are already marketing face masks as iPhone…
The Verge Chinese vendors on online marketplace Taobao never resist a chance to peddle their goods. Just days after Apple announced the iPhone X that replaced the home button's Touch ID for Face ID, Chinese merchants have launched "protective masks" in…
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The pie is always better in the sky
Bernie Sanders' single-payer proposal ignores the hardest thing about single payer.
But the reality is that 16 Democrats did not back a fully workable single-payer plan Wednesday. At best, they backed half of one. While the Sanders bill details how a "Medicare for All" system would work, it tap dances around the all-important question of how to pay for it.
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Tom who?
Tim Kaine gets totally snubbed by Clinton's campaign book - NY Daily News
Kaine is only mentioned eight times in the 500-page tome — fewer times than George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Warren, James Comey and the Soviet Union.
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9.13.2017
OK, this is just plain wrong
Impossible Foods explores meat-free lamb, chicken, pork and fish
The product is served in 40 upscale restaurants, including New York City's trendy Momofuku Ssäm Bar, where chef David Chang uses it to replace pork in his $19 Spicy Sausage & Rice Cakes dish.
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Just stick to the point, please
Carr: Mitt Romney won't fade away quietly
> In its own way, Mitt's refusal to exit gracefully is as pathetic as Hillary Clinton's last-gasp attempt to maintain her own relevance. They have strutted and fretted their hour upon the stage, and it's about damn time both of them were heard no more. Talk about a tale told by an idiot …
http://bit.ly/2y7dRLo
(Via Boston Herald)
> In its own way, Mitt's refusal to exit gracefully is as pathetic as Hillary Clinton's last-gasp attempt to maintain her own relevance. They have strutted and fretted their hour upon the stage, and it's about damn time both of them were heard no more. Talk about a tale told by an idiot …
http://bit.ly/2y7dRLo
(Via Boston Herald)
There’s an angle on everything
From Reuters News:
Harvey storm-water releases were unlawful government takings: lawsuits
Owners of homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey are claiming billions of dollars in damages by federal and state water releases from storm-swollen reservoirs, using a legal tack pursued without success in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.
Several lawsuits filed in federal and state courts in Texas claim properties were taken for public use without compensation.
9.12.2017
You may think it’s too good to be true, but this little card is worth a nickel
The fare boxes in our new busses spit out these little cards in lieu of actual money when a person puts too much actual money into the box to begin with.
Unfortunately, you can't stick them into a coffee machine.
Go ahead and say it: the monkey wins again
PETA drops lawsuit arguing animals have right to own property | Ars Technica
While Naruto didn't win the legal right to own the famous monkey selfies, he can thump his chest in a victory of sorts. Under the terms of the settlement, Slater has agreed to donate to Naruto's habitat one-fourth of any proceeds from the sale of the selfies.
9.11.2017
Football game pre–rained Out?
Status of Illini game at South Florida undetermined due to Hurricane Irma
Chicago Tribune
The status and location of Illinois' game Friday night against South Florida is undetermined due to the aftermath of Hurricane Irma…
9.10.2017
We chortle
The fight to replace the iPhone and other smartphones is on — here's what to watch for in round one (MSFT, GOOG, GOOGL, AAPL, AMZN)
Business Insider UK
Most tech industry experts assume such AR devices will eventually replace the smartphone. After all, why carry a phone if you can view your text messages, edit spreadsheets, and watch Netflix through your glasses or contact lenses?
Um…to make a phone call?
Of course, maybe it's different in the UK.
Oh no! Hillary’s book just came out and already it needs a rewrite!
Facebook Says Fake Accounts Likely Tied To Russia Bought $100,000 In Political Ads
It was Facebook's fault!
We should have known.
So if you've got an all-electric car you're stranded
Irma strengthens as it nears Florida: 'It's going from crappy to worse'
CNN
Hurricane Irma strengthened into a Category 4 storm as it inched closer to Florida, where hundreds of thousands are without power hours before one of the most powerful storms in the Atlantic hits.
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