Been A While Folks!
I've managed to get my self a higher paying job. The thing about people paying you more is they expect better outputs from you and that takes more time and effort. It's blessing to make more money but the subtraction in time makes some things slip off the radar. Like writing this blog - that's my life right now in the abstract.
More specifically, I'm working on a parody of Sgt Peppers, apropos of nothing. The songs are coming together a bit slowly because un-surprisingly, I'm not used to writing in the Lennon-McCartney vernacular. I think I'll get it finished maybe sometime next year.
In the mean time, I thought I'd pop in here and drop a few comments.
Why Isn't Trump Arrested?
Inquiring minds want to know. This Jan 6 Committee thing is dredging up all kinds of incriminating stuff that should put him up for charges of fraud alongside treason.
Here's something that made me laugh:
Election defense fund was ‘big rip-off’
Trump’s campaign raised at least $250 million from supporters claiming the money was to be used by an “election defense fund” in a battle to prove the election was stolen via voter fraud. But committee member Zoe Lofgren of California said that “big lie was also a big rip-off.”
Instead, the committee provided a video presentation and research that it said showed money was diverted to Trump’s Save America PAC and some money was given to pro-Trump organizations and entities.
“I don’t believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund,” Hanna Allred, a former Trump campaign staffer, said in the video. The Trump campaign’s director of digital advertising and fundraising, Gary Coby, said in video testimony the “Election Defense Fund” was just a marketing tactic.
I mean, why doesn't that on its own get Trump indicted right now? America is weird, man. I guess they have to work through the process first.
A scheme for fake electors. Knowledge of the potential for violence. The lack of caring about that violence.
A White House lawyer concerned about potential obstruction of Congress and defrauding the country charges.
Members of Congress and others inside Trump's inner circle asking for pardons.
And now oblique threats against committee witnesses.
"I think most Americans know that attempting to influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents very serious concerns," Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. said.
The committee is leaving lots of bread crumbs for prosecutors to peck at.
So one hopes this all leads to something that trows Trump in the slammer, but as long as they sort of just meander along, it's not exactly adding to the confidence level.
Them Yankees Are Historically Good
It's been a longtime since I've been motivated to write anything about baseball. This season's kind of been something special so I guess I'll have to say something about it.
Take a look at this.
It's the standings after 80 games. The Yankees are at 58-22. Their run differential is an astounding +162. That's a 116 win pace. If they went .500 for the rest of the way, they'd still finish the season with 99 wins.
The next best team in the American League is Houston, and their run differential is +91. They're a great team, with a 52-27 record. That's nothing to be sneezed at, good for a whopping .658 winning percentage. After 79 games, their average differential per win is 1.75 runs. The Yankees are clocking in at 2.79 runs per win. That is to say if the Yankees played a .500 team, they'd probably win with a 3 run margin on average.
We've not seen something like this since '98. That's almost a quarter of a century ago. Feeling old yet?
So pardon my relapse. This is just too notable not to mention.
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