Sunday, November 4, 2018

Bears Loop

CONWAY—I walked the Bears Loop yesterday afternoon in 54:45. The loop is named after a dead dog from Texas, a dead Alabama football coach from Fordyce, Arkansas, who once played high school football with Pete's sophomore biology teacher Dub Martin, and a golfer from Ohio who won quite a few major golf championships.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Who the fuck wrote this headline for the lead story in today's edition of the New York Times: Give me a goddamn break. America is in turmoil?  I mean, sure, I understand, that's all anyone is talking about, the way our whole fucking country is in a state of upheaval, ferment, and mayhem. Sure, I see the riots. I see the marches from coast to coast. I understand the majority of our lives have been irrevocably changed by the current presidential administration. ...Wait a minute. Hold on. I take it back. This is a great headline:

A Nation in Turmoil Prepares to Deliver a Verdict on Trump

Ain't nothing the same anymore*

*President Trump embarrasses me. He shouldn't be our president, but his current role does not excuse hyperbolic headlines from the best paper in world history  

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