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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Mitt Romney for Losing the 2012 Presidential...
November 6, 2012: President Barack Obama is re-elected, defeating former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Romney had run the most dishonest Presidential campaign of all time -- a record that...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Hillary Clinton for "Losing" the Presidential...
November 8, 2016: I told you to vote for Hillary.Some of you listened.Some of you didn't, and are feeling fooled -- as you damn well should feel. I forgive you.Some of you didn't listen, and still...
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November 2, 1995: Joe Wasn't So Clueless, Was He?
November 2, 1995, 25 years ago: The Yankees name Joe Torre as their new manager‚ replacing Buck Showalter.Torre had been a good catcher in the 1960s, a decent 1st baseman in the early 1970s, and a very...
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Give Colin Kaepernick the Best Birthday Present Ever
November 3, 1987: Colin Rand Kaepernick is born in Milwaukee, and grows up in Turlock, in California's Central Valley. In the 2012 season, he quarterbacked the San Francisco 49ers to the NFC...
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Trump's Jealousy
A man named Harvey Ardman, describing himself as a "lifetime political junkie," wrote this about Donald Trump on Quora on June 3, 2017:When he was a younger man, a real estate guy from Queens, N.Y.,...
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A Tom Petty Election
The waiting is the hardest part.We're into the great wide open.I feel like a refugee.All the good girls are home with broken hearts, and I'm free-fallin'.Stop draggin' my heart around.In so many places...
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A 5th of November That Will Never Be Forgot
As things currently stand:* Trump fans are demanding that the vote-counting stop in Arizona, a State where Biden currently leads. This is not a smart thing to do.It's a redneck version of "the Brooks...
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Here Comes the Sun
Lyrics by George Harrison: Here comes the sun, do, da, do, doHere comes the sun, and I sayIt's all right.Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winterLittle darling, it feels like years since...
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Worth the Wait
It took three and a half days from the time the polls closed, and it seemed like the TV networks and other media outlets were all refusing to be the 1st to call a winner in the Presidential election....
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November 8, 1970: Sixty-Three Yards
November 8, 1970, 50 years ago: The New Orleans Saints are playing the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium, and trail 17-16 with time for one more play. The early Saints were terrible: They had debuted in...
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My Ranking of the States, 2020 Edition
I did this in 2015. I thought it was time for an update.Here's what I'm looking for:* Looks. Is your State nice to look at, on the average?* History. Is it long? Is it good? Being 1 of the 1st 13...
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Tommy Heinsohn, 1934-2020
New York and New Jersey don't like to lose, especially to New England. We lost a great one to New England, and ended up losing a lot of games to him.Now, both sides have lost him.Thomas William...
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Howie Meeker, 1923-2020
We lost a big piece of hockey history this week.Howard William Meeker was born on November 4, 1923 in Kitchener, Ontario, and grew up in nearby New Hamburg. A right wing, he was a star in junior hockey...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Donald Trump for Losing the 2020 Election
Really? Am I really going to do this? Am I really going to try to deflect blame away from the man who never accepts the blame for anything, and infamously said, "No, I don't take responsibility at...
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Paul Hornung, 1935-2020
Can't blame 2020 for this one, but, now, to use a football term, this Year of Hell is just piling on.Paul Vernon Hornung was born on December 23, 1935 in Louisville, Kentucky. As the scouting report...
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November 14, 1970: They Were Marshall
November 14, 1970, 50 years ago: Southern Airways Flight 932, a DC-9, crashes outside Huntington, West Virginia, near the campus of Marshall University. All 75 people on board are killed, including 37...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the Minnesota Twins for Not Re-Signing David Ortiz
November 18, 1975: David Américo Ortiz Arias is born in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. Under the name "David Arias," he was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in 1992. In 1996, he...
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November 21, 1920: Stan the Man
Note: This was adapted from my obituary post for Stan, on January 20, 2013.Ken Griffey Sr. Pretty good ballplayer. Batted .296 lifetime, 2,143 hits, 3 All-Star Games, 2 World Series wins. And yet, he's...
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How to Be a Rutgers Fan at Purdue -- 2020 Edition
The Gateway to the Future ArchRutgers was supposed to travel to West Lafayette, Indiana to play Purdue University in football on October 10, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 shutdowns, that game was postponed...
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Diego Maradona, 1960-2020
Just 26 days ago, needing a milestone tweet for October 30, I wrote a post for the 60th Birthday of Diego Maradona. Shortly thereafter, he had heart trouble and brain surgery, and it looked like he...
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