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Hobby Lobby, which recently forfeited the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest works of literature it purchased for $1.6-million, has now been ordered to give up hundreds of religious artifacts including a Bible stolen by CEO David Green from a room in a suburban Oklahoma City motel. Green, billionaire founder of the ChristianContinue reading “Hobby Lobby gives up the ghost, and more”

The Republican Jan. 6 Commission has concluded, according to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, that “the tourists who disrupted Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential election were angry because their visit to the Capitol didn’t include a promised lunch with (then-Vice President) Mike Pence.”“I’d be angry, too, if I was invited to see my governmentContinue reading “GOP: Capitol “tourists” were right to be angry”

The National Broadcasting Co. and its affiliates and related cable stations have apologized for its choice of “inappropriate comments and images” it provided while showing the United States Olympic team during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Summer Games.“We admit that some of the commentary relating to the current political climate might have been, um,Continue reading “NBC: “Uh, sorry about that””

Barely hours after banning fans from attending the Olympics, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that athletes would be banned from Tokyo venues as well.“The Games will go on,” he said, “but in various forms. Some competition will be, um, altered somewhat to protect the competitors’ health and some will be held at alternate sites.”Continue reading “Olympics like you’ve never seen them – and may never see”

Expressing what he called “majorly disappointment” over the limited turnout and lack of enthusiasm at a rally at an Ohio fairgrounds, Donald Trump said he plans to revert to the language and intensity he used on Jan. 6, when his sycophants stormed the U.S. capitol. Further, he said, “I’ll be calling out all those turncoatsContinue reading “A disappointed Trump promises to be his old volatile self at his next rally”

Delta Air Lines has denied any responsibility for the latest fast-spreading variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus and, despite an absence of any evidence, is trying to blame it on a healthcare firm and various other companies.“Just because the so-called Delta variant first showed up in India, and just because we fly to New Delhi andContinue reading “What’s in a name? More than you might want”

In its latest attempt to slow down already interminably long games, Major League Baseball is instituting a series of anti-pitcher procedures to expand the prohibition of “foreign substances,” strengthening Rule 3.01 that has been in place for 101 years.“In 1947 the average game, including those in extra innings, lasted two hours and eleven minutes,” CommissionerContinue reading “Major League Baseball fires a high hard one at its latest sticky situation”

President Joe Biden says he plans to “go on the offensive, using the NATO Rule 5” when he confronts Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, in their face-to-face meeting in Geneva.“I know all about the Rule 5, known it since I learned all about it when I was playing baseball at Archmere Academy,” the U.S. presidentContinue reading “Biden: “Putin doesn’t know I know what I know and I know he doesn’t.””

Phil Mickelson earned almost universal congratulations for his victory in the PGA Championship – almost because Bernhard Langer laughed when Mickelson was proclaimed the oldest winner of a major golf tournament. “How old is he? Fifty?” Langer said. “He’s a kid, a punk. I was 59 in 2017 when I won the Regions Tradition, whichContinue reading “Who’s the oldest? Depends on who you ask”

Public transportation on streets around New York courthouses in lower Manhattan may experience disruptions in service in the coming months when Donald Trump and members of his family are expected to begin throwing each other under the bus. “That’s the only way some of them are going to avoid going to prison,” New York AttorneyContinue reading “Family is everything – except when it’s not”