Lacob really giving me some Wally Hass vibes.
MLB missed out on a golden age of sports in the Bay Area to let a stubborn failson drag the league down with a half-assed effort in an increasingly irrelevant small tourist city.
For those of us mourning Patrick Stewart, I really have to recommend a re-watch of the ST:TNG series finale episode, "All Good Things". Really seemed to bookend the series wonderfully. I actually still have it on a VHS tape somewhere 🤣, but will probably stream.
It's just weird that Stewart has shuffled off at 86 while Shatner is still alive and kicking with us at 95.
RIP. So many wonderful memories from my teens of Trek and just later seeing what a wonderful person he was as we got to know more about him in his socials.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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These long, careening freefall spells of the most embarrassing, god-awful bush-league bricks from the Valkyries are happening so often it’s becoming a part of their identity, which is happening just as more people are paying attention to them.
Clearly AI slop. That's not a real name. And nobody looks like that when they take on a big role with the A's.
I feel Lucasfilm got too cute about minor signature elements like this. I’d generally like to see it back in all new movies and at least kicking off any season of a show.
And it’s functional. It lets you hop into the action knowing what’s happening without clunky exposition.
Getting greedy and driving away customers. Fisher will be right at home.
VEGAS WANTS TO KNOW WHERE EVERYBODY WENT. I HAVE THE RECEIPT FROM MY LAST BUFFET.
Downtown Las Vegas is looking a little lonely. The numbers back it up. Visitation was down 4.3% in August. Passengers through Harry Reid down 9%. Downtown gaming win down 3%. They're cutting room rates and the rooms still aren't filling.
And somewhere in a corporate office on the Strip, a man in a $4,000 suit is asking how this could possibly happen.
Sir. Let me help.
Vegas used to be the deal. Sinatra, Dean and Sammy at the Sands. A 99-cent shrimp cocktail downtown at the Golden Gate. Cheap rooms, cheap buffets, loose slots, free drinks if you sat down at a table. They knew you'd lose money at the tables, so they made everything else feel like a steal. That was the whole business model. And it worked for fifty years.
Then the MBAs showed up. (I'm allowed to say that. I have one.)
Room rates went up. Then they added a resort fee. Fifty bucks a night for a pool you won't use and Wi-Fi that drops every time you open your laptop. Parking that used to be free? Now it's not. Blackjack used to pay 3:2. Now a lot of tables pay 6:5, which is a polite way of saying they shaved your winnings and hoped you wouldn't do the math. And the buffet. The buffet used to be the cheapest meal in America. Now the fancy ones on the Strip run close to $90 a person on a weekend, and the crab legs still taste like the freezer.
Who thought that money train would run forever? You squeezed the golden goose until it filed for divorce.
Vegas casino bosses have pulled off something I didn't think was possible. They made McDonald's leadership look like value heroes. At least the Big Mac doesn't come with a resort fee.
I still end up in Vegas once a year for work. I didn't say I like it.
I hate the room rates. I don't eat on the Strip. Get in an Uber, go to Spring Mountain Road, and eat your way through Chinatown. Some of the best Asian food in the country is sitting in strip malls a mile from the casinos, at a third of the price. The locals know. Now you do too.
And the desert is still a desert. It's hot, it's dry, my hair hates it, and the whole place still looks like a showgirl's jewelry box exploded.
There's exactly one thing on the Strip I'd fight you for.
The Peppermill. Neon, mirrors, velvet booths, plates the size of hubcaps and a drink so big it needs two straws and a designated driver. I go every single year. I order too much, I share it with my coworkers or my customers, and we pass that giant drink around like it's 1978.
That's my Vegas.
You can keep the rest of it.
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I don't care if this was the title of an op-ed, if you're a serious news organization, you do not use this language posting about politics.
SF Gate (aka SF Chronicle) has long been the butt of jokes as a news org. They're clearly not interested in rehabbing that image.
Steve Hilton is convinced he's going to win. Hahahaha. sfgate.com/politics/article/…
ALT Steve Hilton is convinced he's going to win. Hahahaha.
Maybe Zack Snyder will make a movie about it.
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So this isn't some right-wing kook, this is the New Yorker laying out exactly what this is.
I don't have huge assets, but the problem is CA tends to frequently redefine "huge" as something that's just low enough to bite me, all while it loses a lot on waste/fraud/abuse.
If California’s “billionaire tax” passes, it will amount to the first time that a government in the U.S. has successfully taxed the assets, rather than the income, of extremely rich people as a class. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Listening to Hilton on @KQEDForum , particularly the listener comments, I'm reminded of how Dems used to be the people that preferred candidates making nuanced arguments over somebody brainlessly spouting platitudes. Used to be.
At this point should we wordsmith something based on "curse of the Bambino" or come up with a new phrase to describe the world of hurt in store for the Giants and any others who expected to benefit from forcing the A's out of the Bay Area?
Bad SF Giants season hurt bars near Oracle Park. But next year could kill them. sfgate.com/giants/article/or…
ALT Bad SF Giants season hurt bars near Oracle Park. But next year could kill them.
Ideologically captured California media.
'Blowout': Here's who won the Hilton-Becerra debate for California governor
latimes.com/politics/story/2…
Good fucking lord is Becerra a joke. This is just a taste of the BS we’re in for.
I’m mainly thinking Hilton in that he does seem pretty moderate and it’ll be a breeze recalling him if he gets out of line. CA Dem machine will protect Becerra to the death.
Xavier Becerra’s adult daughter joins his campaign as a paid policy staffer sacbee.com/news/politics-gov…
