Davey R.

Lately, people love to say, "Two things can be true at the same time..." Aren't they really just saying, "Yes, but..."?

I am keen for 70Up to arrive in USA. Nick Hitchon is sorely missed (although of course I only knew him through the Up shows). bsky.app/profile/jona...

Free what? Are they bad spellers who ran out of room at the end of the sign?

The Spanish term for what is happening is "shithousery"

The press keeps saying that this was the best US World Cup team ever. Remember 2002? Far from home, they beat a strong Portugal (with Luis Figo among others) and Mexico, and only lost to Germany in the quarterfinals 1-0 (with a missed handball call going against them).

What are the chances? Scotland and Knicks have simultaneous halftimes when I do dishes and post on Blueskey!

This is what passes for sports commentary on American TV every two years when the Olympics roll around.

Just want to say that Snowboard Cross is the coolest racing event in sports.

Two Monty Python sketches in one photo: there’s a dead parrot on the landing!

Is this the first time that siblings have had a novel reviewed in the same issue of the NYTimes Book Review? In today's issue, are reviews of Ann Packer's "Some Bright Nowhere" and her brother George's "The Emergency." They grew up on a very literary cul-de-sac in Stanford, CA. Something in the H20?

Just this, no politics:

It's amazing how important the Beautiful Game is in people's lives. Here, we see freed Israeli hostages Ziv and Gali Berman in Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer shirts almost immediately upon arriving back in Israel:

Saying that a tennis player "won a Grand Slam" because they were US Open champion is like saying a baseball player "won a Triple Crown" because they hit the most RBIs in a season. OK?

Excellent sign scolding tourists at a geyser in Iceland.

“Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll/Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain.” Bornholm, Denmark, August, 2025

This highlight embodies why it's called the Beautiful Game. RIP to a truly beautiful player and great human being, Diogo Jota, taken from us too soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3J0...

The press has to stop reporting it as news every time the First Felon opens his mouth and it should especially not report it when what he says simply reflects his indecisiveness and lack of thought: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Bono gets it exactly right here after receiving an award in London a couple days ago. Listen to the end: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzdI...

Remember how the Republicans always used to say that we can't take steps to stop climate change because it will hurt GDP growth a couple of percentage points? Now, they want us to go along with the Great Leader's nonsense tariffs and take the hit to the economy.

RIP Val Kilmer. This is possibly the best line uttered in cinematic history: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfYt...

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Anyone remember this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA4...

I love the Beautiful Game! In tonight's Concacaf Nations League match between USA and Panama, Cecilio Waterman of Panama scored a really fine goal right in front of the Paramount/CBS commentary team. He ran off the field and kissed Thierry Henry on his bald head and shouted "tu eres mi idolo!"

A review in NYT of two books (one by Hannah Selinger) about the culinary world ends with this: "Unbelievably, Selinger ends her book by dedicating it to the people of Gaza. 'This book is yours too,' she writes. But, quite frankly, I doubt they would want it." Whaat? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/b...

I'm guessing that today's fascist-sounding quote from the Great Leader was fed to him by an aide to distract the public/media from what's actually happening. There is no way that he came up with it himself or that he was aware of the 1970 movie that it got lifted from. Ignore the distractions!

How important is the Beautiful Game in people's lives? Here is returned Israeli hostage Iair Horn at the hospital with his family sporting Hapoel Beer Sheva regalia (and they brought a shirt and scarf for him too!). The helicopter pilot obligingly flew him over the team's stadium on the way.

I had stupidly paid for a six-month subscription to the Washington Post six months ago. It finally ran out today. I might miss a bit of the content but I'm happy not to be funneling money to a paper that bows before the Great Leader.