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It's about 50 miles away as the crow flies. Could catch glimpses of it while doing parking-lot duty at the school where I used to work.

Mt. Washington, New Hampshire had first snow on the 10th. Historically happened in September. Average snowfall for October is 19 inches -- so far 1.7 inches.

It's a common failing. The GOP are 'the party of fiscal prudence' in the US, even though the only balanced budgets in my lifetime -- I'm 65 -- were five in number, one under LBJ (1969), and under Clinton four times. Both Democrats. Everyone who remembers Eisenhower has to die off before that...

I'm sure we won't stand in the way of him playing for a big club.

Dallas area, Texas.

One man, one car, burning hydrocarbons. The way God intended it. You can always build more lanes.

That's for the car park...

I remember the heady days when people were spitballing the Cabinet list for a Lib/Dem led government. Cornell West won't break 3% of the total popular vote. (Nader didn't break 3% in an election where famously we were told it didn't matter if Gush or Bore won. With something actually riding on...

The best way to think about the duopoly in American politics is that there isn't one, except on election day. In Europe, generally, you fight the election, and then if you win, form the coalition, and govern. In America you form the coalition, fight the election, and then if you win, govern...

Predicated on the first one ever having ended....

Tied for oldest outfield player in the squad. (Gundogan is also 32.) Well done -- it's a narrow window, unless you're a Wunderkind, between not being proven and seasoned enough, and being too old. Pascal threads the needle.

With the proper media exploitation, this can be driven higher still. Independent voters are rarely 'independent' so much as fogbound. People who hate politics, but vote out of a sense of civic duty. People who's personal brand is to be 'above all that'. They believe whatever the last person...

Which one hates the same people I hate?

If there's one thing you can count on at NSC, good times or bad, for twenty years, it's grousing about our set pieces. Something that's obvious to all of us, yet gone unaddressed by -- counting quickly -- nine different managers?

Rather Oscar-Garcia-esque..

Enough do to pose a real problem. And they'll crawl over broken glass to vote for him again. The people who don't want him, some of them feel the same way, but only some. They'll crawl over broken glass to vote against him. But they're not enough. The election is in the hands of people who...

Trump's appeal is simple: "He hates the same people I hate, hand me the ballot." Despite theory to the contrary, most voters go into the voting booth not to choose magistrates, and representatives, nor to choose between competing policy agendas, or to decide between differing ideas of the role...

The double promotion still sticks out in my mind. That wasn't very long after the nadir. Since 1992: -- fair number of 'up like a rocket, down like a stick' clubs. National League to League 1 Wycombe Wanderers: 1992-1994 Doncaster Rovers: 2002-2004 Carlisle: 2004-2006 Exeter: 2007-2009...

A dark planet in the solar system is an age-old theory, going back to the early modern period, when Neptune, and the larger asteroids, were being discovered. The hunt for them, and the final laying-to-rest of the planet Vulcan, is the subject of a great book, one of the best history-of-science...