Will's Good Idea for the Week of 9/15/24

Services Friday night, lunch at Epstein's Kosher Deli in Hartsdale, and a stop off at the cemetery. That's three Judaisms in 24 hours [Judaisms? Also, you're counting a kosher deli as a Judaism?-Ed]. We're feeling downright biblical. Actually, yesterday left us feeling very tired. We can't drive 150 mile round trips the way we used to. 

The great Grey Connolly quotes the New York Times: 'For the second straight U.S. presidential election, it's becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on election night.' They're going to steal another election. Do Trump and the GOP have people in place to Stop the Steal this time?

Connolly wonders why America can't count the votes on election night while his native Australia can. So can Canada, New Zealand, Britain - the whole Commonwealth. For that matter France, Italy, Poland and Hungary can tell us who won their elections the night of the election. Heck, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Missouri can count all the votes on election night, but Detroit, Atlanta, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, Dem strongholds in key states, needed nearly a week. And that's how we know Trump won. 

Hmmm...the Houthis launched a hypersonic missile at Israel last night. To what end? Was the launch part of some grand plan? Or did the Houthis just feel the need to get in on the action? Perhaps we're overthinking. Meanwhile Netanyahu is promising a 'large scale' action in Lebanon and the IDF has assured the government it has all the ammo it needs. Exit question: how does Israel hit back at the Houthis?

College Football roundup: Via the New York Post: 'Texas lost starting quarterback Quinn Ewer who suffered a “strained abdomen” in the second quarter of Saturday’s game against UTSA. But backup Arch Manning and the Longhorns didn’t miss a beat. Manning threw four touchdown passes and ran for a 67-yard score to lead Texas to a 56-7 blowout victory over UTSA at Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas.' For you goddamn foreigners, Arch Manninng's uncles are quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning*, and have four Superbowl rings between them. His grandfather is Archie Manning was a good quarterback on bad teams in the 70s and 80s. Arch Manning is a great name.

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 9/15/22...okay, Friday we came up with two stories for War Night. One is about a family in Australia. Australia doesn't get hit in the Great Nuclear War of 1975. The idea here is that normal Australian family is watching a nuclear war unfold on the telly in a state of normalcy. Our second idea has a young Irish lad seeing his guitar idol play at a pub when the trouble starts. He meets a fare Irish lass... Reader(s) will know who the guitar idol is. This will probably be War Night's concluding story. 

*People who don't think Eli Manning is a Hall of Fame quarterback don't understand football and should find something else to watch. Women's soccer maybe. Badminton. We dunno.