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“Todd Blanche, the newly confirmed attorney general, refused to say on Sunday that he would always act independently of White House control but claimed during an interview that President Trump has ‘never’ demanded he prosecute specific people,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Blanche, displaying a greater ease in fielding a variety of pointed questions […]

“President Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Egypt on Sunday to press them to carry out their commitment to disarm, according to two sources familiar with the meeting,” Axios reports. “This was Kushner’s first meeting with Hamas leaders since the signing of the agreement to end the war in Gaza last October.” ”The […]

Bibemus Quarry, 1900 #cubism #cezanne

Paul Klee, Singer of the Comic Opera (Die Sängerin der komischen Oper), 1925 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

Mama probably never said there’d be days like this. Newest St. Louis Cardinal Joshua Baez hit three homers in his first three plate appearances as a big leaguer yesterday in Chicago. According to Baseball Almanac, there have been 22,800 other MLBers since the National League’s founding in 1876. None had a debut to match Baez’s. 

In the top of the first inning against the Cubs, the Cards’ outfielder hit the first big league pitch he ever saw 449 feet to center, almost leaving Wrigley Field. He faced Cubs’ left-hander Matthew Boyd again in the third, and put a 3-2 pitch into the left field bleachers for his second HR. And he three-peated with a bomb to right in the top of the sixth. He finished the day 3-4, with 5 RBIs, in the Cards' 8-4 win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QJdGWANMdU

“Food and Drug Administration investigators traveled to Taylor Farms’ operation in Mexico for the first time this week to start inspecting the facilities linked to the largest cyclospora outbreak in the U.S.,” The Washington Post reported Saturday.

“Given the scale of the outbreak, food-safety experts and some former top FDA officials said the agency should have gone to Mexico sooner than nearly a month after officials publicly connected the company’s shredded lettuce to an outbreak that has sickened nearly 10,000 people,” The Post also noted. “Though Mexican officials and the company have conducted their own testing on the farm, some food-safety experts worry the conditions that may have contributed to the contamination are gone, complicating investigative efforts.”

You don’t say.

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The Wall Street Journal (gift link): To help alleviate the supply crunch, Apple is looking to Chinese manufacturers. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said in an interview after touring an Apple manufacturing facility in Houston. There have to ...

Global equipment brand LiuGong says its 924FE 30-ton electric excavator isn’t an alternative to diesel. Instead, it’s better in every way – and the company’s North American customers are about to see for themselves.

Ferrari’s first electric car sold for $40 million at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction Saturday night. The pre-sale estimate was $1.1 million.

That’s more than 36 times the estimate, and roughly 62 times what the Luce costs on Ferrari’s own price list. Every dollar goes to charity.

My earliest post here was on February 3, 2002. But I registered smays.com on July 7, 1997. What –if anything– was I doing with that domain in the intervening years? Were those the Blogger years and I pointed the domain … Continue reading →

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