Turns out “America 250” was a temperature forecast ...
If you're not following me on Bluesky you're missing out on a marathon of fun paired history facts about the countries in every World Cup matchup, featuring once-in-a-lifetime sentences like "In 1893, 200 Australian sheep shearers boarded a ship to follow a leftist labor journalist around Cape Horn and establish a utopian socialist, teetotal, whites-only New Australia on free land in the Paraguayan jungle." Remedy this immediately. ...
t's great that the cage fight at the White House - an almost fatally embarrassing thing in its own right; try saying the phrase out loud - is happening during the NBA Finals, the Stanely Cup Finals, and the Men's World Cup. Unless he dies at ringside, it might be the 4th sports headline on Monday. Emphasis on "might be."
Sure we're auctioning off whatever tiny shreds of dignity we have left as a nation but isn't it worth it to maybe be the top story on Yahoo! Sports for 20 minutes between World Cup group stage results like "Paraguay vs. Turkey" and "Ascension Island vs. Bir Tawil" ...
Jason Harx says:
After a few more years you'll start selecting that third option. That's the one that goes something like, "'accidentally' fell asleep in front of the TV and missed both events."
JohnR says:
Damn – Jason beat me to it. Actually, what you do depends to a degree on exactly what age you're at – at the right period (old enough to have lost your mind, but young enough to imagine that you can still handle it), you'll pick both temptations and plan on ending up in a cheap hotel.