Holidays and Anniversaries, only one of them Jewy

Good Monday, Stroock's Books Continuum and happy Canadian Thanksgiving to our moose eating cousins up north. We're told by a fellow North American that the Canucks do the whole Thanksgiving dinner as we Americans do. Copying us, we see. Not so British in North America now, are we?!

Also, Happy Columbus Day. This blog endorses and celebrates the European conquest of North America. Yes, we've heard the news that Columbus was really a Jew. So the Native American community is against the Jews now too, we guess. 

And don't forget, today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. 1066 was the last time England had a legitimate king. God bless you, Harold Godwinson. We've written rather extensively about the Normans, with articles about Hastings, William the Bastard's conquest of England, the Norman Way of War, and even the First Crusade, which was more or less a Norman expedition. One can find some of those articles in Great Medieval Captains. 

And finally, our man on the ground in Ireland wished us a happy Yom Kipper, or Shona Tova as he said. We remarked that is sounds better in the original Klingon. 'What doesn't?' asked. Huh, 'Shona Tova' broke Google's Klingon translator. But when we submitted 'happy Yom Kippur' the translator replied with, 'Hlq Soh!' Can't you hear that? We added the exclamation point. Exit question, is Gagh kosher?

The Eagles won a crappy game against the terrible Browns. Luckily there are no style points in football. This ain't competitive figure skating. The Giants suck, losing to a bad Bengals team on Sunday night to boot. NBC pointed out that the Giants are 1-9 in their last 10 prime time games. And the Mets of New York were overmatched by the Dodgers of Los Angeles. We enjoyed watching the Dallas Cowboys get thrown to the Detroit Lions 47-9. And on Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones' birthday too. Reminder, Danny White, forgotten between Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman, was a better quarterback than Dak Prescott. White got the Cowboys to three straight NFC championship games.  

A bit of explanation for our quoting of the Big Lebowski the other day, 3000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax. In 1965 Koufax refused to start a World Series game on Yom Kippur. There's been some controversy as to what Koufax actually did that night. The man himself has never said. The Times of Israel did some digging and turned up several eyewitnesses who say Koufax got himself to shul. 

Election update. Polls all show momentum for Trump. Never mind that. For the second weekend in a row now, Saturday Night Live has run skits mocking Harris/Walz. This is a big deal. The skits are a barometer of how the culture views these two putzes, and also helps perpetuate that view. Back in 2000, SNL skits about Al Gore were devastating to his campaign. That's the vibe. Exit question: can Trump Stop the Steal this time? 

With the now named Morning Suns turned in, it's time to get back to work on our other projects. As we do so, we note that we churned out and edited 8,000 words in two weeks, which is quick by our standards. Why? because we had deadlines and were focused. So why not focus now? Why not indeed?

Monday Metal. 17 years on, another VH1 promo we saw every hour while home with the baby. We give you, Metal against autism: