For the week 8/10-8/14
Biden selects Kamala Harris; the Israel-UAE peace accord; the arrest of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong; Trump World; Wall Street, Eurozone, China's economy; Belarus and much more...
Three Mars Missions and a Revisited Catastrophe
Three nations on the way to Mars. Ammonium nitrate strikes again.
Big Ten and Pac-12 Bow Out
Big Ten and Pac-12 bow out of fall sports; MLB Bits, Mets, Angels and Mike Trout; PGA Tour's big upcoming stretch, Collin Morikawa...
A Star Is Born
Collin Morikawa wins the PGA; college football on the verge of shutdown, MAC cancels season; NFL; MLB is a mess, Cardinals have played just five; NASCAR and Kevin Harvick; Champions League; pandas and more....
For the week 8/3-8/7
Tragedy in Beirut, immense negligence, deep destruction; Trump World and the Election as Covid-19 marches on...as pandemics are wont to do; Wall Street, China, TikTok; Eurozone; Asia's economy; China and Hong Kong, Taiwan; remembering John Hume; Sturgis motorcycle rally; remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
Sports? Amid a Pandemic?
Baseball tries to plow forward...ditto college football, Rutgers...NFL...PGA Championship, Jim Furyk; Humpback Whale attack...
Beirut
Reminiscences of a trip to Beirut...thinking of the people today after the horrific, devastating explosion.
Just Shut the World Down, for crying out loud…I’m tired…
Baseball attempts, perhaps futilely, to stay open; college football issues, remembering Rickey Dixon; NFL; Golf, Justin Thomas, Bones McKay; NBA; Wilford Brimley, Alan Parker, Ben Jipcho and more...
For the week 7/27-7/31
Trump says the election will be rigged...Covid death tolls soar in the U.S. ...Congress and White House at impasse on further relief...Wall Street, the tech titans, Eurozone, Brexit, Spain...China and Hong Kong, Russia, Joe Biden and more...
It’s A Pandemic, Sports Fans….
Sports and the Pandemic...MLB hits a major speed bump with the Marlins; the chances of a college football season, let alone NFL...fatal shark attack, emus out of control, a baboon militia and Eddie Shack....