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Legendary DeMatha basketball coach Morgan Wootten passed away. He was my mom's neighbor when she was growing up. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28535444/morgan-wootten-hall-fame-high-school-hoops-coach-dies-88

Global pandemics don’t care about your semantics.

It’s here. https://www.zmescience.com/science/virus-china-washington-pneumonia-21012020/ That mysterious China virus? It’s reached Washington DC

GonaHerpeSyphallis.

If I were in the news business, I’d keep a list of terrifyingly memorable names for diseases. WAY more dramatic and overblown than Coronavirus or ****ing Bird Flu. Bird Flu pfffft. I’d name the scary ones **** like Godzillavirus and Tyrannosaurus Flu.

Yes, that “Coronavirus” is pretty catchy, and therefore it’s newsworthy.

Democrats reject bills to further relax gun laws one day after pro-gun rally https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/democrats-reject-bills-to-expand-firearms-rights-one-day-after-huge-gun-rights-rally/2020/01/21/e2f64732-3c57-11ea-baca-eb7ace0a3455_story.html

A few dozen did it when Reagan was Gov of California. It scarred the **** out of white people. It was probably the last time Republicans supported more gun control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

I'm always impressed when I see a pro-choice rally, and the protesters refrain from performing any abortions. #Restraint.

Not sure how much credit anyone should get for not shooting someone.

Turns out no. Sorry gun nuts. Hope you enjoyed your LARPfest.

Ok, i saw the video. That throw used to be legal, but I think nowadays you aren’t allowed to do lifts above the shoulder and then plant them head first like that. That said, c’mon, if you let your kid wrestle, you should know that sometimes things like this are going to happen. Dad deserves a night in the cooler. PB has spoken. /bangs gavel.

Absolutely, but he'll probably be around where Oshie is ($5.7M). Without Holtby's $6.1M cap hit, that may be doable, but they'll need some young guys to contribute.

The important quote in that article is: I assume that "the expert on the mat" means the ref. The ref should have made the hand signal, but also physically halted the match and stopped the illegal move/hold if it iwas potentially dangerous. On the other hand, if the SGHS wrestler already completed it the illegal move and hurt the other kid, I've seen fights break out over that (usually between the teammates).

https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html The Evil List Which tech companies are really doing the most harm? Here are the 30 most dangerous, ranked by the people who know. 1 is Amazon, 2 is Facebook, 3 is Google. For the record, I disagree with a lot of the reasoning: for example, they knock Amazon for opening an office in NYC without any government handouts, and they knock Apple because "the company’s public stance against commercial surveillance gets them more credit than they’re due." I'm not saying any of these companies don't have serious ethical issues, but if you are going to call a company evil, find a better reason than "they opened a new office" and "a good thing they do gets more credit than it should."

What does "Rooftop voter" mean......oh. 😬

Yep, "strong fighter" is what I think of when I hear the name Jeff Sessions. That and the demeaning nickname his boss saddled him with (Mr. Magoo) without a single peep from Jeff Sessions.

Next year, the Caps have to spread the Holtby money around to Vrana and others. I'm not sure what an Ovechkin extension would look like, but I imagine it won't be an increase in cap hit. This year, there is a lot of hockey to be played between now and the playoffs. I think it should basically be an open competition for the lead goaltender job, but they should retain Holtby. In addition to simply needing 2 quality goaltenders, I think Holts deserves a farewell tour now that it's clear he's not staying (barring something crazy).

I wonder if tomorrows show of force by extremely well-armed out of state fake militias will cause me, a Virginia voter, to rethink my views that additional gun control laws are welcome. 🤷‍♂️

/Mean Girls/ The Trevor Bauer mention is so, so good. The 2020 season is going to be The Astros Hate Tour. God, Ive never had to root for the Yankees. Thats gonna be weird.

I mean, there is a REALLY high probability of violence on Monday. There have already been arrests of people that were planing on going and intentionally inciting violence, the dumb**** in the White House is egging them on, a significant number of people that have announced they'll be going are literally banned from Charlottesville, so they have a history of being involved in violence at similar events, and the main organizers of the rally (the Virginia Citizens Defense League) are already saying they have no control over anything that happens and the blame should go to law enforcement if they [ law enforcement] aren't able to prevent violence: So basically, the VCDL organizes an event that is going to bring several thousand armed gun nuts to Richmond, and now they are claiming, in advance, that they are not responsible for whatever happens. That doesn't sound too good. If Northam didn't declare a SOE and then there is violence, he'd get (rightfully) pilloried.

Ovi ties Lemieux.

I'm sure a fair number of them are going to bring their guns in violation of the law, and then also claim to all be "law abiding gun owners" because the law, to these people, is whatever they want it to be.

No defense needed. I was originally posting it in the DMV News thread, but the mob has spoken.

@PCS Good info. This stuff has generally been going in the Charlottesville thread.