Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts

Friday, February 28, 2025

Monday, February 28, 1910. Last Bare Knuckle.

The last bare knuckle boxing match in the US took place in Passaic, New Jersey, between boxers Leo Baker and Dave Smith. They fought 32 rounds without gloves, with the match ending in a draw.

Last edition:

Friday, February 25, 1910. Dealing with monopolists.

Friday, February 21, 2025

Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 75th Edition. Dim Wit.

 Finnish journalist Mikko Marttinen after listening to Donald Trump's recent speeches:

Trump, 78, is the most dim-witted president of modern US history, and old age has made him even dumber.


Of interest, from the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office.

Last edition:

Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 74th Edition. Surgery by butchers, MAGA Concubines, the Gualieter of Ohio, Portents, and the blind and deaf.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

On being duped, and staying duped. I saw some Trumpsplainers go berserk on Twitter on the question of betraying Ukraine, with . . .

well at least he isn't having kids get gender bending surgery.

Oh?

Has Trump done anything on that topic?

Well, no.  He hasn't.

He did ban biological men from participating in women's sports, something states were doing anyhow, and which is widely supported.  And his Secretary of Defense banned those who had received such surgeries from joining the service (not from staying in).

And on the social issues, somethings to consider.

Has he done anything to widen prohibitions against abortion?

Nope.  In fact, to the contrary, he's supporting IVF which results in millions of abortions and which is condemned by the Apostolic Faiths, including the one J. D. Vance claims to adhere to.

Has he done anything to protect the traditional definition of marriage?

Nope.  Indeed, his Treasury Secretary is openly homosexual.  I'm not saying he shouldn't be Treasury Secretary, but the populist had a four year fit over Biden's Transpiration Secretary being in the exact same domestic situation.

Exact same.  

I guess its okay now.

Deportation of illegal aliens?

Well, it's at pretty much the same rate it was under Biden.

So, those who supported Trump as they wanted to advance social issues on the right, well, what did you get?

Anything?

Just men out of women's sports, which was being done anyhow.

Piles of cost saving cuts of wasteful things?

Nope, a few cuts of wasteful things combined with cuts we'll soon have to make up, supported by lies (like 150 year olds getting Social Security, not happening).

Indeed, this one is amusing as the most famous "discoveries" of the week is that Musk's minors in charge aren't familiar with COBAL, which is before their time.  They read COBAL entries literally when in fact they're a code, so they thing they think were literally years, weren't.

That's known now, but will they admit it?  Nope.

Oh, and the end of DEI, which wasn't really impacting you much anyhow, was it?

And all in exchange for a government dominated by oligarchs, being hated globally, and losing protections long won.

You were duped. 

But you won't admit it.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or less locally, Part 1.

The word "beer" in Saxon, as it appears in Beowulf.

January 1, 2025

Wyoming wise, brewing seems to be the most distributist business going.

Cygnet Brewing Company opened in downtown Casper last night, joining Skull Tree, Oil City Brewing, Gruner Brothers, Frontier Brewing, Mountain Hops, Stahoos, and Bull Horn as Casper breweries, and larger Wyoming regional brewery Black Tooth.

Rent shaming is breaking out in various parts of the country to attack absurdly high rents.

January 9, 2025

President Joe Biden blocked the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel.

January 10, 2025

BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is leaving the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative under pressure from Republican politicians, which believes that man made climate change is a fib.

Ironically, Republicans trying to justify the demented ravings o. president elect Donald Trump have stated that we need it for the sea lanes once the ice melts.

The Ski Patrol strike at Park City, Utah, ended after the resort agreed to raise their pay by $2 an hour.

January 18, 2025

TikTok will go dark tomorrow.

Good riddance.

January 21, 2025

If the President does choose to proceed with tariffs on Canada, Canada will respond, and everything is on the table.

Prime Minister Trudeau.

Trump's going to wreck the economy after having not even been in office for a month.

January 28, 2025

Welcome to the Trump Economy:

Columbia refused to accept U.S. military flights carrying Columbian deportees.

I don't blame it for refusing military flights.  Would we accept military flights?

So now we're slapping 25%, going to 50%, tariffs on Columbian goods.

27% of US coffee comes from Columbia.

Double digit inflation, here we come.

And runs on coffee?  Yep.  I'm buying some coffee tomorrow, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Oh, on that, the price of coffee went up today.

Coffee346.671.530.44%5.19%85.44%Jan/24

Things we get from Columbia.

January 27, 2025

Columbian amazingly backed down and the tariffs are off.

January 31, 2025

25% tariffs kick on on Canadian and Mexican imports tomorrow.

This is insane.

February 1, 2025

The Insurrectionist signed an executive order imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and 10% on China.

This horrible person isn't legally the President now.  Congress needs to do something.

Cont:


Canada hit back with tariffs.  A trade war is on, and the United States will lose it, and deserve to lose it.

Invoke the 25th Amendment now.  Trump is insane.

This is absolutely reprehensible. Trump belonged in prison to start with. Now we'll all pay the price for his not being.'

Cont:

Oh, and Mexico too.  They're also imposing tariffs.

Thanks MAGA.  Great job there.

Last edition:

Subsidiarity Economics 2024. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. A return to Pre Covid status

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Tuesday, December 31, 1974. Americans get to own gold again.

Depression era restrictions on the private ownership of gold in the US were removed.

The prohibition, as well as government price setting of Gold, had come into effect in 1933.

South African Kugerrands and Canadian gold coins immediately became very popular as a hedge against inflation.

France ended its state monopoly on television.

Catfish Hunter signed with the Yankees, becoming baseball's highest paid player at that point.


Last edition:

Monday, December 16, 1974. Safe Drinking Water.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Thanksgiving. Thursday, November 27, 1924.

It was  Thanksgiving.

The Coolidge's went to church


The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held.  It was billed the Macy's Christmas Parade.

Football games occured, reflecting a custom dating back to pre Reformation England.

Snake dance at C.U. vs. Geo. Wash. game, 11/27/24.

Last edition:

Wednesday, November 26, 1924. Servitude in Mongolia.

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Monday, November 25, 2024

Wednesday, November 25, 1874. Joe Gans


Joe Gans was born in Baltimore Maryland.  He was the greatest lightweight boxer of all time.  

He died of tuberculosis at age 35 on August 10, 1910.  His tombstone reads:

I was born in the city of Baltimore in the year 1874, and it might be well to state at this time that my right name is Joseph Gant, not Gans. However, when I became an object of newspaper publicity, some reporter made a mistake and my name appeared as Joe Gans, and as Joe Gans it remained ever since.

Last edition:

Tuesday, November 24, 1874. Barbed Wire Patented.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Thursday, November 13, 1924. Polish Orthodox Church.

The Polish Orthodox Church was created as an autocephalous Orthodox Church by the signing of the Patriarchal and Synodal Tomos by Patriarch Gregory VII of Constantinople, recognizing the situation that had been created by the Russian Revolution and Poland's independence.

Mussolini introduced a bill to grant women the franchise in Italy.

Last edition

Thursday, November 12, 1914. Wanted horses.

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Women's Rugby

While I'm not really following the Olympics, I am glad to see that Women's Rugby is getting press.

It's awesome.

Included as awesome, is Ilona Maher, US women's rugby player.


5 ft 10 in, 200 lbs, and all muscle, she's quite the contrast to the female characters the press is usually focused on, like Taylor Swift or Billie Eilish.  


Friday, July 26, 2024

Saturday, July 26, 1924. Other around the world flights.

Argentinian pilot Pedro Zanni and mechanic Felipe Beltrame began their rather belated attempt to fly around the world.


Larry Estridge became the last person to win the World Colored Middleweight Championship, defeating title holder Panama Joe Gans in a 10-round bout at Yankee Stadium.  Segregation of titles by race would thereafter rightfully be abandoned.

The KKK held a rally in Issaquah, Washington that drew at least 13,000 people.

The weekly magazines were out.

The Saturday Evening Post with a girl who had a scouting uniform of some type, or perhaps was wearing an oddly colored representation of  Navy white shirt, with red instead of blue.


Country Gentleman had a classic of a draft team.



Friday, May 24, 2024

Monday, May 24, 1909. European Day of Parks.

John Montgomery Ward presenting cup to Roger Bresnahan, May 24, 1924.

Following a by then long-established example, Sweden became the first European Nation to create national parks, establishing Abisko, Ängsö, Garphyttan, Gotska Sandön, Hamra, Pieljekaise, Sarek, Stora Sjöfallet, and Sonfjället. 

May 24 is European Day of Parks.

Coffeyville, Kansas.  May 24, 1909.

Last prior edition:

Tuesday, May 18, 1909. Sulfanilamide,

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Blog Mirror: I still have 2 big questions about the Shohei Ohtani case

 

I still have 2 big questions about the Shohei Ohtani case

Blog Mirror: Friday, April 17, 1964: Shea Stadium Opens & Ford Introduces the Mustang

 

April 17, 1964: Shea Stadium Opens & Ford Introduces the Mustang


Last prior edition:

Thursday, April 17, 1924. Japanese reaction.

Political cartoonists were making fun of it, but the Japanese were both measured and enraged by the passage of the Japanese Exclusion Act.  On this day, Japanese businesses in Japan began cancelling orders from the US in reaction.

Regarding the Chicago Tribune cartoon from above, one of the most remarkable things about it is that the cartoonist included five political parties.  One wouldn't do that today.

Wyoming's Senator F. E. Warrren was already urging reconsideration of the act, and urging meetings to consider its impact.

The All-India Yadav Mahasabha was formed to promote equal treatment of and rights for Yadav people, the poorest people in India's caste system.

Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures were merged by Marcus Loew to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In baseball:

April 17, 1924: Baby Doll Jacobson hits for the cycle, but Browns lose to White Sox

Last prior edition:

Wednesday, April 16, 1924. Flyer forced down.

Monday, April 15, 2024

Tuesday, April 15, 1924. Opening day.

Baseball didn't make the front page on this day in 1924.  The House passing the Japanese Exclusion Act did.

But it was opening day.



The silent one shook the hand of Bucky Harris.

Other athletic endeavors were going on as well.



Last prior edition:

Sunday, April 13, 1924. Greeks decline a king.