For these medical professionals, it is difficult to hold back tears:

“From a nurse in South Dakota who spoke on CNN today, the brainwashed are literally dying and fighting with the nurse that it’s a hoax and must be something else:”

“I have a night off from the hospital. As I’m on my couch with my dog I can’t help but think of the Covid patients the last few days. The ones that stick out are those who still don’t believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm.

They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that “stuff” because they don’t have COViD because it’s not real. Yes. This really happens. And I can’t stop thinking about it. These people really think this isn’t going to happen to them. And then they stop yelling at you when they get intubated. It’s like a fucking horror movie that never ends. There’s no credits that roll. You just go back and do it all over again.”

To heck with Dustin and Rory. Never mind the classic greats like Jack and Tiger. My vote goes to Paige Spiranac. As far as I know she would have trouble breaking 90, but I don’t care as long as she’s wearing what I consider to be the proper golf attire, meaning I can look down her blouse.

Although, to be fair, Nicklaus also had some pretty nice boobs in his day.

Trump’s national security adviser says it looks as though Biden won

Also up for wagering:

Trump will obviously want to replace the man with a totally unqualified loyalist buffoon. But the betting line is … which kind of unqualified buffoon?

So many possibilities …

  • right-wing nutbag commentator
  • unscrupulous lawyer
  • fertilizer baron who made big campaign contributions
  • dumb-ass Trump relative
  • white nationalist
  • embezzler who needs a pardon from Trump
  • senile former senior military officer
  • Rudy Giuliani

It was the best week of the year for the Jets. They got a bye.

Another win for Steeltown. 4 TDs and no picks for Big Ben, en route to 9-0.

More NFL info here.

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Props to the NFL for keeping everything as normal as possible and as safe as needed (we hope).

On the other hand, College football is a real mess, as you undoubtedly know. This week, postponements affected three of the top five teams while #4 Clemson had a scheduled bye, so there was just not much happening. The Badgers did manage to play their second (!!) game of the year. It’s going to get worse as the COVID numbers multiply.

I will note in passing that North Carolina’s QB passed for 550 yards and 6 TDs. That game looked like it should have been in old days of the Big Twelve, when defense was anathema. The final score was 59-53 in regulation, after Wake Forest blew a 21-point lead.

Here’s the weekly scoreboard.

The Masters? Is it Spring already?

DJ finished 20 under par, a record. He shot two 65s on the way.

More interesting to me:


Tiger Woods was like one of us for one hole – he took a ten on a par three, the infamous number 12, “the scariest part 3 in golf,” the very hole that won Arnold Palmer his first major in 1958 when his double-bogey in the final round was altered to a par based on a ruling from senior tournament officials that overrode the onsite official who had refused Palmer relief on an embedded ball. (Palmer played a provisional, pending a final ruling.)

Tiger’s ten isn’t even close to the worst score ever recorded on that hole in the Masters. In 1980, hot-tempered Tom Weiskopf took a 13 when he dumped five balls into Rae’s Creek. Weiskopf’s bad luck wasn’t finished there. He gamely proceeded to the next hole, where he hit yet another ball into another part of the same creek on his way to an 85 for the day.

The worst score ever recorded on a single hole in a major was Ray Ainsley’s 19 on the 16th at Cherry Hills in the 1938 US Open, which he accomplished on his way to a round of 96.

Did you know: A PGA Tour pro once shot 123-114 after making the cut in a tour event. (Injury. Long story.)

She is one of the film industry’s most amazing success stories. A little more than a decade ago, she was working in some of the worst, most amateurish movies you have ever seen, like Hannah Takes the Stairs and Baghead, and now she is writing and directing award-worthy films starring A-listers, and has three Oscar nominations on her resume. Whoda thunk it? I’m not sure how she pulled that off, but she has always been competent, even in those crappy mumblecore films, so perhaps her success is a tribute to the American dream of advancing through hard work and intelligence. Anyway, that’s the story I like best, so I’m sticking to it.


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