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Don't even get me started about my love of baseball...or my fear of mascots. Not your father's attorney. (No, really, I am most likely not your father's attorney.)
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The Red Sea yearns for jets

This is just to say I have lost The F/A-18 Super Hornet That was on the USS Harry S. Truman And which You were probably saving For bombing Forgive me It was the second one So sweet And so expensive

Peak Canada

Them: Why are you so terrified of mascots, Melissa? Me:

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

DAMN

Since so many organizations are dancing around it, I wanted to say it directly. Today, we celebrate Jackie Robinson because he broke a decades long color barrier. Thanks to his perseverance, and talent on the field, the door was opened for POC to play in MLB. 👏

The cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, 51 years ago today:

It’s so hard for me to root against Justin Rose, perhaps the most Peripheral Character In A John LeCarré Novel-looking person in all of sports

Hear, hear

Apropos of…ALL THIS

Unbelievably, the iconic Philadelphia anthem and Action News theme song "Move Closer to Your World" has never been officially released commercially. UNTIL TODAY. Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/mov... Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/6CrWtZ...

Ok def not staying at that resort

Nick Castellanos grand slam #RingTheBell

This Is Just To Say I have touched the stove that was painfully hot as it turns out and which you were probably trying to stop me touching for my own good Forgive me I was so bored so stupid and so oppositionally defiant

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

There’s always money in the banana stand.

A foolhardy plan, certain to be more costly than they intend, and ruin their reputation, led by an arrogant man with no real grasp of what he's getting into... Grand Designs is on Channel 4.

Elbows up, Canada.

Fright night