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We're more than 10% of the way through the NHL season and Evander Kane is still a free agent, leaving Zach Bogosian as the only player left in the NHL who played for the Atlanta Thrashers. Honorable mention to Thrashers draft pick Ben Chiarot, who went pro after the move to Winnipeg.

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country." ~Fmr. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918. Roosevelt was born OTD in 1858. Image: NPS/Sagamore Hill collection.

People in my area: "We need to elect Rick Jackson as governor of Georgia because he's an outsider and not a career politician." The same people are planning to vote for 84-yr-old state rep Sharon Cooper who has been in office since, I kid you not.... 1997.

If Rick Jackson wins the Georgia governorship it will be interesting to see how he treats state employees and the University System of Georgia, given his wife is a Georgia Tech professor.

True or false: Mayo goes with turkey and mustard goes with ham.

I worked a table at a CFL game signing people up for credit cards so they could get a free T-shirt. I worked one game, got my own free shirt, and that was that.

My state house candidate is cooler than yours. Free advertising from an opposition group.

It's time to start looking at colleges for my 11th grader and paying for his proof of Canadian citizenship like a really good investment. Total cost at Canadian universities, (including room & board), where he'd count as a domestic student, is about $75,000 USD. Not per year- for the whole degree!

I've lived in my Georgia house district for almost 20 years. This is the first time I can recall anyone putting out an attack ad against the Democratic candidate. The seat was always considered too safe to spend money on. Rep. Sharon Cooper must be terrified of Dr. Michelle Schreiner.

I'm good with any show that starts like this. "Below" is on Netflix and stars Josh Hartnett. It also features Charlie Heaton from Stranger Things. We need more shows set in Newfoundland and Labrador. A fun game you can play is trying to pick out the real accents from the fake ones.

At no point does this article or anyone quoted in it say what the fraud is. The universities are accused of hiring too many J-1 holders but they can only hire them if the federal government approves them. That doesn't sound like fraud. That sounds like poor government management.

I will absolutely judge anyone who watches this.

Don't threaten us with a good time.

I just got gas in suburban Atlanta. An elderly lady was at the pump next to me and when the pump stopped she looked at the price, let out a "Holy shit", shook her head, got in her car with a veteran license plate on it, and drove away.

I've lived in the same house for 19.5 years. I've had two state representatives in that span, and the biggest political issue in the area is education. Neither one of my reps over those 19.5 years has ever been a parent. I'm looking forward to that changing when we flip GA HD45. #gapol

@jeffmarek.bsky.social @thesheethockey.bsky.social After listening to the Adam Copeland interview (outstanding stuff) I'm debating buying this T-shirt.

On this day in 1795, Alexander Keith was born. He was the mayor of Halifax from 1843 to 1844 and 1852 to 1853. He founded Alexander Keith's Brewery and served with the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia from 1843 to his death in 1873. 📸 LAC

The company that operated the plane is based out of Hamilton Ontario.

Higher ed folks- is there an easy way to look up a researcher's career grant awards and federal funding amounts?

The only thing I miss about Twitter is hockey Twitter. Hockey Bluesky is struggling.

it's awful and I hate it. There was nothing wrong with the peach sticker.

At some point I need to watch an NHL game at COSM. But not the Rangers vs Red Winga. www.cosm.com/atlanta/even...

Shades of Brian Mulroney.

When a $2.9 million house goes up for sale on PEI you try to figure out who owns it (property records on PEI are very opaque). Based on the hockey memorabilia in photo 41 I have a pretty good guess.

Wife: "Can you drop this off at a post office for me? It needs tracking." Me: "Sure. What is it?" Wife: "Kidney stones I removed from a dog yesterday."

I'm spending a day in Boone, NC next week. Where should we eat? 2 adults, 2 teens.

My kid decided he was going to take the SAT with zero prep. No practices, no review, nothing, aside from.the PSAT in school last year. He wanted to get a baseline and he'll take it again. I'm just along for the ride.

Commander in Sleep.

This little guy is a trooper. He had an inner ear polyp that decimated his ear and was heading to his brain. UGA surgeons couldn't find any prior cases of it in a cat his age. He's an original. Maybe he'll be in a journal article.

I've been hoping for a third group to come out of the woodwork. According to this story Anson Carter has a new group and is looking for a new location. My dream location would within a mile of 285 between Cobb Parkway and 85. By the Battery (Pennant Park?) or Perimeter Mall would be ideal.

It's a very weird thing to see all of the back to school Facebook posts from my Canadian friends when my kids are 7 more school days shy of their fall break.

Baseball shirt or politics?

@jenmercieca.bsky.social My 16 yr old has to write something for a Lit class explaining what rhetoric is so I dig out my college textbooks from the 1990s. Now he can't decide if rhetoric does/should involve truth or not. I'm resisting the urge to explain the Sophists to him.

Being a relatively new transplant to the South from Canada, I did not consult a college football schedule before we set our wedding date for 20 years ago today. Our reception as at Park Tavern in Midtown. 3 miles away Georgia Tech hosted Notre Dame. Apparently it took some guests hours to get home.

Another story about the prospect of the NHL returning to Atlanta with no mention of who the owner(s) would be. And it's very odd that after the Alpharetta vote there was no statement from a hopeful owner about how important the vote was. I want a team here. This isn't giving me confidence.

I'm at a HS volleyball game and they're having a vertical jump contest between matches. Back in the day Thrashers prospect Chad Denny showed up at prospect camp with something like a 48 inch vertical. He was an athletic freak. Now he's a teacher at a traditional Mi'kmaw school in New Brunswick.

If you live in Georgia today is as good a day as any to make sure you're still registered to vote: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

Does anyone have lunch recommendations for Athens (Georgia)? It's been 20 years since my wife lived here and she was a broke grad student back then.

I have 3 hours to kill in Athens while UGA scans my cat. Any suggestions?

Alpharetta approved the plan to redevelop Northpoint Mall and build an NHL arena. It doesn't guarantee a team but a failed vote would have been a huge obstacle. No comment so far from anyone looking to bring a team to the area, which seems odd.

Did anyone try the CFA chicken and waffles breakfast or lunch sandwich today? Thoughts?