“If I’m just the average guy down the block, they’re not pulling me in, of course not,” added Irsay, whose net worth is $4.3 billion, according to Forbes. . . . Per CNN: Indianapolis Colts MORE
Howdy News viewers on this “Black Friday”, the awful marketing ADdled day that comes with the notion that acquiring even more worthless merchandise to stuff in our closets and cabinets and everlasting garbage heaps is MORE
”Thanks to science, we’ve experienced dramatic shifts in the way we understand ourselves, Earth and the universe in the past 12 months. But the hours, weeks and years people commit to the meticulous research that MORE
The jury was deadlocked on both counts against former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, who fired stray bullets in the raid. The Associated Press is reporting that jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on MORE
”You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy,” Teamster Sean O’ Brien to Sen Markwayne Mullin….. From USA Today : “It was a day befitting of a 13% approval rating.” Lawmakers on Capitol Hill engaged MORE
“No provision in the Constitution gives [Congress] the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period.” Justice Alito According to Salon’s reporting today, “The Supreme Court on Monday adopted an ethics code following a slew of bombshell discoveries about lavish MORE
ABC News reports “At least three premature babies have died at the Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip when a missile struck nearby and shut down the medical facility’s backup generator, according to Dr. Ahmed MORE
Some think our long-range forecasts are derived from folklore. According to weather lore, a long, hard winter can be predicted by lots of acorns, tough apple skins, and thick corn husks, while a mild one MORE
The AP reports “Pope Francis on Saturday forcibly removed the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a conservative prelate active on social media, who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the MORE
Democrats on Thursday mocked House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., after The Daily Beast revealed that he loaned his brother $200,000. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., a member of the Oversight committee, trolled Comer by mocking his Wednesday MORE
It’s another Friday in the neighborhood, the Friday after the first Tuesday after another bit of Trumpism gets voted into obscurity. At least, that’s the hope, vote by vote, decision by decision, verdict by verdict, MORE
Check Voting status and locations here: Daniel Cameron, Republican, is running against Democrat Andy Beshear, the present Governor, for Governor of Kentucky . They each have about 47% of the vote according to recent polling. MORE
The beast is born in fire. Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream. It stomps. MORE
Over two nights in late September, Eric Clapton used his music-industry connections and his decades of classic-rock hits to draw thousands of fans to Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles. The LATimes reports: “The occasion MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and welcome to our Friday free chat — the open forum where almost anything goes and everything stays, unless things get personal , that’s mostly what gets any of us in MORE
The Day of the Dead, November 1-2, 2023: “You honor people, you connect with the past.” “Marigold-strewn altars to deceased loved ones, revelers dressed as skeletons, and colorful parades make Día de los Muertos (Day of MORE
Council on Foreign Relations From the Associated Press: Israeli airstrikes have hit apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City for a second day in a row, causing many deaths and injuries, the Hamas-run MORE
Beware: “You can never really know what a clown is thinking.“ When students were asked what they were afraid of, Professor John Tyson’s students routinely cited spiders, snakes and claustrophobic spaces, but a consistent minority MORE
The man suspected in Wednesday’s massacre that killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, has been found dead, sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators Friday night. According to reporting on MSNBC , he died from a self-inflicted gunshot MORE
Defense secretary says strikes in response to attacks on US troops and warns others against triggering ‘broader regional conflict According to the Guardian: US facilities in Iraq and Syria have been hit by a series MORE
We usually say “Happy Friday, News Viewers” to begin today’s free chat, but today it doesn’t feel happy–better words for today might be sad Friday? tragic, baffling, horrifying Friday? SSDD Friday, WTF Friday? The possibilities—wow. MORE
Johnson insists there was nothing in the Constitution barring the government from supporting religious beliefs. “The Founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around,” Johnson said. Mike Johnson, MORE
There are at least two “Students for Justice in Palestine” chapters at Florida universities facing cancellation. From Politico: In a memo to school leaders, the state ordered a “crack down” on campus events led by the MORE
In a statement, Alaska Airlines said the off-duty pilot was travelling in the flight deck jump seat, when he “unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the operation of the engines”.i An off-duty pilot has been charged with MORE
Republican infighting showed no sign of abating over the weekend as Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) issued a blistering letter to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and seven others in the conference who voted to oust former House Speaker Kevin MORE