World War 3 = Billionaires vs. The Rest of Us across international boundaries. http://downtowndavesworldatlarge.blogspot.com/2024/11/billionaires-versus-rest-of-us.html

http://downtowndavesworldatlarge.blogspot.com/2024/10/frail-white-dotard-stuggles-to-disrobe.html Frial White Dotard Struggling to Disrobe At MAGA MSG Rally Is Not a Metaphor or Anything

https://www.nytimes.com/.../chicago-fire-owner-soccer.../ You might hit a paywall, but apparently Mansueto is telling people he wants to build a stadium with his own money-?!?! If he does that #MadRespect at a time when everyone other billionaire who owns a sports team tries to put the stadium on the taxpayers. Part of me is like, "Guy there's a perfectly solid soccer stadium in Bridgeview, maybe spend the money on some better players?," but hey if wants to build his own for the team it wo Fire fans could be proud for a change

One of my latest offerings, springboarding off the inimitabe Hunter Lazzaro. http://downtowndavesworldatlarge.blogspot.com/2024/10/this-great-article-about-hidden.html

So-called AI (hate the name) is problematic, but I *was* able to create a man with shrimp cocktail for fingers so . . . . at least it has that going for it.

We always think we invented everything. But in Machado de Assis' "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas," which was written in 1881, Brazil's Shakespeare describes a poetic friend of the family improvising poetry at the dinner table, when given a theme, to impress the guests. "He ran through every rhyme of tyrant and usurper." The same character tells tales of going back and forth competitively in a tavern with a famous Portuguese poet. So freestyle is not new.

@AlSweigart The little college I went to in Michigan was using the term first-year back in the mid-90's.