Guys night in.

Hung Cao, the failed Virginia candidate for U.S. Senate who claimed he had been "blown up in combat many times" despite no documentation for it nor medals awarded as is standard procedure.

Kansas City Royals announce Crown Center as new ballpark location, in deal with Hallmark The team reached a deal with Hallmark Cards on a transformative project that will create a new ballpark at Crown Center near downtown Kansas City, Royals owner John Sherman said. The announcement comes a week after the City Council passed a financing package.

The Royals have released renderings of their proposed Crown Center ballpark.

"We’re bringing baseball downtown. We’re bringing a second crown downtown,” team owner John Sherman said to applause at a press conference today. https://loom.ly/0P_3uMU

This dance move has been banned in multiple jurisdictions in Alabama, Arkansas, and Missouri.

WIAA transgender athlete amendment fails to pass The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association voted on a controversial amendment this week that would have restricted girls' sports participation to biological females, but the measure failed to achieve the supermajority

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association voted on a controversial amendment this week that would have restricted girls' sports participation to biological females, but the measure failed to achieve the supermajority needed to pass.

At a quick glance I thought it said Fred Meyer, and I was thinking that's one heck of a thing for a grocery store to post.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Compare to George Washington mandating smallpox inoculation for the troops in 1777: "Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army ... we should have more to dread from it, than from the sword of the enemy."
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Loomning over, coursing through, forming a raison d'être...

Scoreboard showing the Missouri Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks logos. Bright blue sky above.

Missouri in yellow uniforms in the field, South Carolina in black uniforms at bat, south Carolina dugout in the background. Pitch has been delivered and the ball is about halfway to home plate.

Missouri softball hosting number 25 ranked South Carolina. 🥎

If this is true, this represents a serious problem.

One, it means military leaders don’t trust their boss to exercise proper operational security.

Two, it means military leaders are excluding the elected President from relevant information to which he is entitled.

This way madness lies.

I kind of feel bad for the dog in Buckley's profile picture.

Would love to see a Miami of Ohio/North Georgia national championship game!

A photo of two lanterns shining from Old North Church's steeple in Boston.

On this night 251 years ago, two men climbed Old North Church's steeple. They held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Concord by way of the Charles River.

Their famous “one if by land, two if by sea” warning ignited the American Revolution.

I've never gone away from using a cd or dvd player, to me they aren't an inconvenience at all.

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

A US citizen said she was illegally held by ICE. Surveillance video, the DHS and a million dollar lawsuit say otherwise | CNN A US citizen said she was returning to the US from an overseas work trip when she was taken into custody by ICE at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Now she’s named in million-dollar lawsuit by a sheriff who sa...

This is quite a story.

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Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Pete Hegseth Quotes ‘Pulp Fiction’ Fake Bible Verse at Pentagon Prayer Service Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meant to invoke holy scripture in discussing the rescue mission of an American fighter pilot stranded in Iran -- but he actually quoted Quentin Tarantino.

Pete Hegseth Quotes ‘Pulp Fiction’ Fake Bible Verse at Pentagon Prayer Service

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This nominee for a lifetime appeals court judgeship couldn't even answer who won the *popular vote* in 2020

(Biden, by margin of SEVEN MILLION votes)

I have no idea what any of that means. I just want to go inside order my beverage with a real human being. Then go sit at a table and enjoy my beverage while reading my danged book.
Furthermore, get off my lawn!

Missouri first responders’ naloxone distribution efforts face potential budget cuts • Missouri Independent State senators discussed restoring $5 million of an $8 million proposed cut to naloxone distribution by first responders.

Missouri’s first responders say naloxone saves lives. But the program that distributed 1.2 million doses in 2025 is facing a potential $3 million budget cut, even after the Senate moved to restore some of the money. #moleg #mogov

The now displaced roof of Yost Ice Arena

So, the roof may have come off Yost during last night's storms.

After converting 5 minutes ago, dude is Catholicsplaining dogma to the Pope.

Let's go Loyola Marymount!

I need to see him broadcast a baseball game with Jason Benetti first to accurately judge. 🤔😎

A parish priest is a politician. He deals with the ladies' committee, the councilman, the Rotary, the Mayor, the local criminal element, and so on. John Paul II was an excellent politician. Benedict was a church politician, but not a retail one. Francis excelled at backroom politics.

Let’s just acknowledge that this kind of attack is foundationally antisemitic at its core

Ranch didn't go to grad school.

I might argue that somewhat obscure sports topics could be included, like a 800 page book on the 1969 Major League Baseball expansion draft or something.