Before the start of the season, White Sox manager Rick Renteria made it known that he was not a fan of the new extra-inning rule of baseball, the one that starts every extra inning with a runner on second base. He speaks without experiencing it. Now that he has passed …
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In Summertime: How Mungo Jerry Made a Swelling Classic | Music
Ray Dorset, singer, songwriter I still had a day job at a lab when the melody for In the Summertime entered my head. The lyric took 10 minutes to write. When I was young, my family always went to Hayling Island, Hampshire, for vacations; big business with about 20 of …
Read More »It did not bake my Nintendo Switch!
Photo: Victoria Song / Gizmodo Long story short, before this weekend I had never once used the Nintendo Switch Dock to play my video games on TV. When I first got my Switch, it was because my roommates had our four HDMI ports of our common TV with their shit …
Read More »Dow 250 points up midday, Nasdaq under pressure as investors expand rotation in cyclical stocks
Stock market benchmarks were mostly higher on Monday as investors checked signs that a long-awaited rotation on Wall Street could be extended into more growth-sensitive equities, at the expense of their high-growth counterparts. Investors also focused on President Donald Trump’s weekend of signing executive orders aimed at extending some elements …
Read More »Half of Democrats do not think Biden will serve every four years
A majority of voters, including half of Democrats, do not think 77-year-old Democrat Joe Biden will serve as president every four years, putting added pressure on who he intends to elect as vice president, and potential successor, according to a new poll. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll, 59% …
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