The Sicatoka

The NHL Network guys during the "draft talking heads fill time spaces" talked about how Cale Makar made the smart move and played an extra year of college and how Tyson Jost made a poor decision by not staying in college and developing one more year. I don't know what was more shocking: that NHL Network guys said you can develop in college or that they said staying in college another year is worth it as far as development.

Neither Mister Biden nor Misses Harris are on the trail today, just 17 days out. Misses Harris is quarantining because some of her staff has Covid 19 and she was in close contact.

These Hunter Biden emails were a ruse ... until they were verified by someone on the email thread. It’s not a good look for the Bidens. The fact that most media does not want to dig on the subject is a hard tell.

13 are 80+ 5 are under 80 All with underlying ... Average US life expectancy? 78.5 (and that's with and without underlying) The 13 "80+" folks who died had already beat the average. (I should be so lucky to beat the average.)

A man that size, that age, crying for mommy is embarrassing.

ProPublica (a center-left group) says Cuomo threw gas on a fire. https://www.propublica.org/article/fire-through-dry-grass-andrew-cuomo-saw-covid-19-threat-to-nursing-homes-then-he-risked-adding-to-it

Easy solution: To aim at a leg is a much more difficult shot. To make up for that you have to be able to get off a couple more shots. It would require everyone to have free access to ... automatic weapons*. *I would oppose that.

Worth repeating after last night.

Meet the husband of the NBC "moderator". Note his former employer. Note the ABC moderator's former employers.

The "Brad Marchand as a team mate" conundrum.

Banned in Philly. That's a heck of a high bar to set.

Feel free.

You have to wonder if the recent draft (and UND's defensemen going in it) was a deal-maker.

What REALLY bothers me is the bar chart on the NDDoH site showing the Deaths data I gave: They stop the bar chart Y-axis at 80 deaths and just write the "234" number on the 80+ bar. It completely blows the scale of reality. The 80+ bar should be nearly 4x as tall as the 70-79 but on that mis-scaled mess they're about the same. Grossly deceptive. Look for yourself: https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/north-dakota-coronavirus-cases

Boston Bruins fans close your eyes. Donald Trump is like having Brad Marchand as a team mate: You can't agree with all of the antics, but you love the output.

ND Covid-related deaths (any cause of death; tested positive at time of death): 365 Age 80+: 234 Age: 70-79: 65 Age 60-69: 36 Age 50-59: 17 Age 40-49: 9 Age 30-39: 2 Age 20-29: 1 Age 10-19: 1 Age 0-9: 0 The real contrast? Age 80+: 234 Age 0-79: 131

One person's opinion on Halliday. Weigh it accordingly. https://lastwordonsports.com/hockey/2020/06/13/stephen-halliday-2020-nhl-draft/

... under the Harris Administration with Joe Biden ...

The folks that are most touting the "Science!" line seem to not understand the fundamental of most science, namely math. My suggested reading for them: Innumeracy by Paulos

@Oxbow6 #TwoMore...Quarters? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8836891/Vaccine-expert-warns-facemasks-social-distancing-needed-summer.html

Mr. Biden remembers running against "a Mormon", and says he's running for Senate, but this is here and gone from the news cycle. https://www.the-sun.com/news/1607421/nancy-pelosi-25th-amendment-donald-trump-friday/

Is former Clinton aide George Snuffleupagus hosting?

What’s the NBA?

Every day that goes by makes me believe we should take The Trammps' advice on this Covid Disco Inferno. PS - The Trammps live in concert add a ... ahem ... "word" after mother.