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The season’s trendiest beach art is part of the numbers racket behind this week’s Invitational results.
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What’s today’s new contest? Terse Verse. We’ll get to it only after laughter. Presenting the results of our previous contest:...
WTF?
Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano and Sheriff Mike Lewis are at odds over the existence of a sensitive document. (Steve Pierce/Spotlight on Maryland)
The story I reprint below was published this morning by The Baltimore Sun. It is i...
Trump Was Cheered at the Game!
The modifier most used in coverage of yesterday's fanhandling of Donald Trump at the NBA finals in New York was “thunderously.” It modified “booed.”
Trump himself chose other modifiers. He said his reception had been “very good.” He said i...
Before You Can Say Boo . . .
You fans at Madison Square Garden tonight are unlikely to be rowdies by nature. You are respectable people, the sort of people who can afford to pay a king’s ransom to attend Game Three of the NBA Finals between your Knicks and the San Anto...
The Preposterous Invasion of Norman-dy
You could say many true things about the artwork above. For example, if you wished to be kind, you could say that it is heartwarming or wholesome. If you did not wish to be kind, you could say it is cloying or twee. Hallmarkian. What you co...
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