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Is there a way to make it a monthly subscription feature? Charge a nominal fee, which you could use for the site or donate to LGBTQ causes ($2/mo = $24/yr) and then don't moderate it and let the folks rip each other to shreds, since they know what they are paying for and could opt out at any time. It could be your choice whether non-payers could view the section (but not reply, of course).

Zack Gallen, who had a long (41 inning?) scoreless streak late last season, started this one with 2 stinkers. His last 4? 27 IP, 11H, 0R, 1BB, 41K

BIG DUMPER tripled tonight. That must've been quite a sight!

Were you wearing a singlet? Did anybody videotape you?

He didn't get that job, but was hired today to coach the Houston Rockets. Abba Seafood AB, formerly Abba AB, with head offices in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a company producing preserved fish products. The main factory is located in Kungshamn. They never won a Novel Prize (or even a Nobel Prize), but they won the 1974 Eurovision song contest (as Olivia Neutron Bomb would go on to do in a subsequent year).

Monday marks exactly two decades since Melissa Joan Hart wrapped her seven-season run as Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and we still have big feelings about how it all went down. Fortunately, Sabrina herself was more than happy to tackle some of those questions in honor of the finale’s 20th anniversary. Read on for our Q&A with Hart, who dishes on the show’s open-ended conclusion, whether Aaron ever stood a chance against Harvey, the unfortunate absence of a certain aunt and much more… https://tvline.com/lists/sabrina-series-finale-ending-explained-reboot-revival-melissa-joan-hart/sabrina-cancelled-7-seasons/

But how do you REALLY feel?

Don't let the door hit you on the way out! The View's Studio Audience Erupts in Applause at Tucker Carlson's Fox News Departure Announcement

Yes, the firing of Lemon was very tart. We should do a telethon for him. We could call it LemonAid.

KILLING EVE's homicidal delight is killing it on Broadway: At the play “Prima Facie,” which opened Sunday night on Broadway, the audience is hit by two wildly different sensations. First, as we become fully absorbed by the harrowing story of Tessa, a brilliant young barrister whose life is horribly upended, there is great pain and sadness in watching her go through a trauma nobody should ever have to experience. Some viewers will be understandably overwhelmed by it all. Then, at curtain call, as we step outside of the drama and back into our seats at the John Golden Theatre, pure exhilaration washes over us — because we have just witnessed the emergence of an extraordinary new stage talent. That would be the sensational Jodie Comer, who won an Emmy Award for playing the Russian assassin Villanelle on TV’s “Killing Eve,” and is every bit as good — nay, even better — live and in-person. “Prima Facie,” which played London’s West End last year, somehow marks Comer’s professional stage debut. In the best of circumstances, when a film or TV star usually first treads the boards, they’re lauded for being surprisingly assured and confident — they hold their own, and you’re relieved you can actually hear them. But Comer goes far beyond our basic expectations and into the upper echelons of greatness. The 30-year-old actress is remarkably alive with both the nuclear energy of newness and the sturdy force of someone who’s been at it for decades. And “Prima Facie,” the one-woman play by Suzie Miller, is an ideal canvas for Comer’s prodigious skills. Her Tessa is a London lawyer who specializes in sexual-assault cases, and is especially adept at poking holes — sympathetically, she believes — in the plaintiffs’ fuzzy recollections. She sees herself as a master of “the game of law” and bats away suggestions that accused men hire her to defend them just because she’s a woman. But when she is raped at her apartment by a colleague who she’s been casually seeing, Tessa finds herself resenting and then opposing the very same system she has played a part in propping up. The plot, which spans more than two years, allows us to meet a multitude of Tessas: the swaggering lawyer at the start, the daughter who fights for her working-class mom’s approval, the fun-loving partier and, finally, the victim who battles against all odds. Most astonishing throughout are Comer’s quick shifts in posture, voice, pace and body language that instantly and impactfully reveal Tessa’s state of mind. The actress shoves heavy tables and chairs around the stage in director Justin Martin’s production, and looks drastically different by the end. I was in awe that I’d been in the room with the same person for an uninterrupted 100 minutes. Comer becomes many other characters, too — Tessa’s mother, her assailant, friends, professors, policemen — but this is not the sort of play in which we’re meant to marvel at an actor convincingly playing 30 different parts like this season’s one-man “A Christmas Carol.” It’s Tessa’s journey that’s gripping, and Comer makes it more so. Miller’s play itself is not always as sterling as the actress inhabiting it. At times, the piece invokes old tropes and cliches of one-person shows and veers into beat poetry territory. And some will find Tessa’s final direct-address monologue to be more of an on-message essay than an in-character speech. But when you reframe it as a lawyer delivering her closing remarks, the words make sense. Miller’s play works well in the end. At my performance, Comer took two quick, gracious bows as the audience kept on clapping. Why milk it? Surely she knows this won’t be her last standing ovation on Broadway. https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/prima-facie-review-brilliant-jodie-comer-is-a-must-see/

Coral reef with abundant marine life discovered off Galapagos Islands https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/coral-reef-discovered-within-ecuadors-galapagos-marine-reserve/

McDonald’s announced changes to some of its most popular menu items last week, affecting the Big Mac and McDouble, among other things. The fast food giant claims the changes will improve the flavor of its top-performing burgers. The improvements come down to four main changes, according to McDonald’s: better, softer buns, consistently melted cheese, a better sear on the patties, adding white onions to the patties as they are searing to improve the flavor and, simplest of all, more Big Mac sauce. The chain is starting to introduce the burger changes in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, Boise and Tucson. It says many stores in the surrounding area will also participate. US markets are not the first to taste the improved versions of McDonald’s classics. The chain tested the changes in Australia, Canada and Belgium last year. McDonald’s hopes to roll out the burger improvements to all stores by 2024.

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Who Is Jacob Ward? Jacob Ward is a talented actor, director, and producer known for TV projects such as Got Off on the Wrong Foot (2019), Forever & Always (2020), Gutted (2022), and others. Jacob Ward has yet to be featured on Wikipedia. The talented actor was raised by his parents in the United States of America. However, the identity of his parents is unknown to the media. Jacob likes to keep his personal life a secret and avoid media eyes. Jacob Ward's exact birthdate, age, and zodiac sign remain a mystery. The actor is married. He tied the knot to his on June 19, 2021 in Park City, Utah in the presence of their family and friends.

An out man is off to a great start and is the early leader for rookie of the year. JAMES OUTMAN Center Fielder DOB 4/14/1997 (26) BAT/THR Left/Right

She stayed in her lane — by creating her own. The hilarious moment a naughty senior citizen in England rearranged road cones in a botched attempt to bypass traffic was recently captured on video. A video of her game of cones is currently blowing up on Facebook, with viewers joking that she was in a hurry to get to “bingo.” “I couldn’t believe she was actually doing it,” Anthony Foulkes, who filmed and uploaded the incident, told South West News Service. “She had ants in her pants.” Foulkes, who called the unidentified woman “very, very naughty” in his video voiceover, had witnessed the brazen act while waiting for workers to clear an accident near Colchester, Essex, in a stretch already hindered by construction. The uproarious clip shows a row of cars sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic next to a lane that’s bookended by two sets of cones. On the other side of the dividers is a lane with a lot less congestion. All of a sudden, a gray-haired senior departs her car and starts moving the markers about like lawn ornaments in an apparent bid to access the fast lane. In narration, Foulkes can be heard quipping that she is “too posh to wait.” After creating a car-sized gap, she returns to her vehicle and attempts to drive through the newly created opening. Not only that, but the videographer believes that her cone configuration was “all wrong.” “She should have staggered the cones so the gaps were on an angle so she didn’t have to make such a sharp left and then a sharp right,” he explained to SWNS. “She messed it up.” He added that the driver was lucky the “hero” roadworker stopped her or else she might’ve been blindsided by an oncoming truck after entering the fast lane. Viewers were quick to poke fun at the lady’s backfired travel hack. “Stay in your lane ma’am,” joked one quipster, while another wrote, “Oh my goodness. The cheek of some people.” “She’s gotta meet Doris in the pub for a big bingo night,” said a third. Just as she’s about to turn onto the desired stretch of expressway, a road worker intervenes and forces her to reverse her car back into her original lane. The apparently exasperated employee then returns the cones to their original positions. Foulkes was none too impressed with the commuter’s brazen attempt at circumventing congestion. “A lady of her age should know better; if it was a 20-year-old lad, then I’d understand it,” he scoffed. “She couldn’t even lift the cones.” The commuter attempts to cross to the fast lane. Kennedy News and Media Bollocks!

Peter Paige gets bumped up from producer to co-showrunner next season on STATION 19.

Wendy’s is offering free food while Mercury is in retrograde Every now and then the stars align to satisfy all your cravings. Wendy’s is offering free food to help its customers get through Mercury in retrograde between April 21 and May 14. Starting Friday, the fast food chain will have a “Mercury Menu” available on its app with several deals available to astrological adherents who need to get out of their Mercurial misery. “Fans can rest assured that while it may feel like their lives are in the microwave thanks to Mercury … their Wendy’s food never is,” a press release read. Kicking off a rotation of deals, Friday, April 21 — the first day of the Red Planet’s reverse — through Sunday, April 23, the astrological menu offers BOGO $1 premium sandwich, eligible with a purchase. From April 24 to April 30, customers can also score a free crispy chicken sandwich with their purchase. May 1 to May 7 will have free six-piece crispy or spicy chicken nuggets with the purchase of another item. Finally, May 8 to May 14 — the last days of Mercury in retrograde — you can get any size fries with your purchase. When everything else goes wrong during Mercury in retrograde, at least you have free comfort food. Mercury in retrograde marks the time during which the rotation of the planet appears to spin backward, though it does not actually move backward in its orbit.

Cops delivered our pizza — after arresting deliveryman: shocked couple A UK police officer went above and beyond when he brought a couple’s Domino’s pizza to their house — after he had arrested the deliveryman. Toni Robson, 34, and her husband Paul, 41, said they waited an hour and a half for their $57 pizza when they finally decided to call and cancel the order. The couple were just about to make fish sandwiches when their doorbell rang. “To our surprise, it was the police,” Robson told Southwest News Service. “The officer asked my husband, ‘Have you ordered a pizza tonight?’ He replied saying, ‘Erm, yes we have.’ ” “The officer said, ‘Well, we have just arrested the delivery driver on suspicion of drug driving, so thought we would bring you your pizza as I would be really annoyed if it were my pizza just left in the back of his car.’ “ Their cheeseburger and pepperoni passion pizza was “slightly cold,” Robson said, “but still a lot better than the fish finger sandwich we would have been having.” The Post reached out to Domino’s Pizza and the West Yorkshire police department for comment. “The arresting officers delivered the pizza as it was en route to the station,” a spokesperson for the West Yorkshire police department told SWNS. They added that the driver had been released from custody while awaiting the results of a blood test. Not everyone was thrilled with the unexpected delivery. One member of the TaxPayers’ Alliance — a UK group that campaigns for lower taxes — claimed the visit was unnecessary. “This waste of police time will leave a bitter taste in the mouths of taxpayers,” Joe Ventre, the group’s digital campaign manager, said. “The safety of the public and our colleagues is our main priority when our drivers are out delivering pizzas, and all of our delivery drivers complete comprehensive safe driving training when they join our business,” a spokesperson said. “While we’re unable to comment on an open investigation, we are assisting the police with their inquiries on this matter.” Another instance of cheesy justice occurred when a Pennsylvania pizza delivery man managed to thwart a suspected carjacker while he was on his delivery route.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/ryan-reynolds-mint-mobile-windfall-in-jeopardy-as-t-mobile-deal-faces-doj-scrutiny-source/

Move over Shohei Ohtani! Twins utility guy Willie Castro homered in the 7th then pitched the last 1/3 of an inning in today's blowout loss.

A Canadian black bear likely felt a helluva sugar high after guzzling down 69 cans of soda that it pilfered from a woman’s vehicle. Accompanying photos show the sweet-toothed bruin surrounded by crushed cans like the aftermath of a teetotaler’s frat party. “You could hear him, slurping it the whole time,” Sharon Rosel told Jam Press of Cokey the Bear’s pop blitzkrieg, which occurred last Thursday in Vancouver, British Colombia. The Canuck had reportedly been storing 72 cans of pop in her truck that she planned to break out at an upcoming company soiree. Her plans for a soda-filled shindig soon fizzled out after Winnie decided to sate his sugar craving. Rosel was reportedly awoken at 3 a.m. after her dogs started barking, Jam Press reported. She looked out the window to see that the black bear had smashed her car window and was happily chugging down her massive cache of soft drinks. Over the next half hour, the Fizzly bear would mainline a diabetes-inducing 69 cans of cola. Think a PG version of the bear’s epic blow binge from the 2022 horror-comedy “Cocaine Bear.” “He started with the Orange Crush and eventually the last thing he got was the diet pop,” lamented Rosel, adding that the pop pillager had a unique way of accessing the containers. Instead of opening them with his paws like one would suspect, the furry carjacker reportedly used his teeth like calcified can openers. The Canadian said she tried to “reason with him,” but couldn’t dissuade him from his fructose-filled rampage. “I explained to him how important the car was and that I had to go to work the next morning,” she quipped. “That didn’t seem to affect him whatsoever.” The pop cans weren’t the only things that incurred Winnie’s wrath. According to Rosel, the animal ransacked her car, ripping the leather and breaking a window roller during its impromptu happy hour. “Of course, white leather interior goes really good with Orange Crush,” snarked the theft victim, who hopes insurance will cover some of the damage. Rosel explained that the following night the bear returned for seconds, but left empty-pawed She found the attack particularly surprising as she previously considered herself well-prepped for a bear raid, CBC reported. Due to her remote surroundings, Rosel said she never left food or trash in her car overnight but thought nothing of soft drinks as she didn’t think the critters “could smell pop through a can.” However, that’s no problem for a black bear whose sense of smell is about “seven times greater than a bloodhound’s,” per the National Park Service’s website. Meanwhile, the nonprofit Sunshine Coast Bear Alliance notes on its website that bears are adept at infiltrating vehicles. “[Bears] can be attracted to the slightest aroma in your car, such as a candy wrapper or scented air freshener,” they write. “Please keep your vehicle windows closed and locked and doors locked to avoid damage and a surprise encounter.” In a boozier version of this story in 2021, a black bear in Colorado got trapped in a car that it had broken into during an apparent attempt to nab a case of beer. The frustrated critter ended up destroying the interior, presumably out of frustration as it failed to open the box of brew.

Good taste is overrated. As my friend Charlie the Tuna used to be told frequently, Starkist doesn't want tuna with good taste, Starkist wants tuna that tastes good. I think that says it all.