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San Diego FC played to a 0-0 draw with St. Louis City in the Major League Soccer expansion club’s inaugural home match. Despite 14 shots and 67.1% possession, San Diego was unable to break through St. Louis goalkeeper Roman Bürki and his defense. St. Louis managed only two shots against CJ dos Santos and San Diego, but got both on goal.

I admit that the contest for stupidest idea of the Trump administration is heated and contentious. But surely this must be strongly in the running: Crypto prices surged Sunday after President Trump said he would move forward on a U.S. crypto strategic reserve that will include bitcoin and ether, as well as three smaller and ...continue reading "Dumbest. Idea. Ever."

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about US Attorney Ed Martin’s apparent personal intimidation campaign against Trump/Musk rivals: Note the direct association of “putting America first” with the act of adhering to a presidential executive order that can only apply to government employees. Sycophantry to authoritarianism […]

Bill McClellan writes: With his greatly reduced pension, Wade Padgett had to look for work again. At least something part-time. Something that might be fun.

The event was in conjunction with the Data Rescue Project, an effort that has identified data at high risk of loss, and tapped volunteers to find, curate and save it.

Here's the plan: Put me back on high-flow oxygen. Slam me with IV steroids. Quadruple the dose and administer every six hours. If that doesn't work, slam me with antibiotics. If that doesn't work, intubate me and do a broncoscopy. There are further options after that, but not good ones. Bottom line: doctors just don't ...continue reading "Health update 2"

For the next few days, my new favorite chart is for C-Reactive protein: Still going up. What a disaster. I'm huffing and puffing a storm.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee—joined her fellow SFRC Democratic colleagues Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in issuing the following statement on the Trump Administration’s reckless termination of nearly all U.S. foreign assistance programs: “It is clear that the Trump Administration’s foreign assistance ‘review’ was not a serious effort or attempt at reform but rather a pretext to dismantle decades of U.S. investment that makes America safer, stronger and more prosperous. There is no indication Secretary Rubio conducted a program-by-program review of the more than 9,000 awards or considered the dire national security implications of these rash actions. Ending programs first and asking questions later only

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