Toby (Tyler) the Cat…..on Global Cat Day…...your co-host for the GNR today!
(In today’s GNR you will notice various moments of asides to and from Toby the Cat (who is very focused on this being Global Cat Day and is insisting on being present today in these asides)……...Well, now, if you would just roll off part of the keyboard this would go better…….Toby! yes, yes I’ll use SpellCheck…...but I don’t always believe it…..)
(Clears throat...) Good morning Good Newsers here at the Round Up! While this IS the 3rd Wednesday of the month and is ostensibly (ostensibly, I say!) hosted by yours truly, WineRev, I find I have been…….displaced! Toby the Cat has made it purr-fectly clear that Global Cat Day, October 16th this year, SHALL BE of, by, for and centered around CATS!
Other 4-pawed and/or feathered and/or shaggy and/or scaly companions of humans, and even humans themselves, will be noted here and there, but the CATS are the big deal…...so says and declares Toby (the Tyler) of the SageHagRN & WineRev House. (Mee-yow!)
With 20 days to go to save democracy and save the world we can all use some Good News to smooth things over and give ourselves a little breathing room. So this daily column appears here at DailyKos, full of stories, links and thoughts of uplift, hope, forward-osity, as well as a barrage of brickbats, throwing knives and manure trebuchets aimed at THOSE who are glooming and dooming our country, our people, our neighbors, our friends, our hopes, our dreams. We WILL dare to hope and vote for and hail those who appeal to the better angels of our nature.
The Gnuville (as in “Good News” fans---Gnus….who live in Gnuville…..) Breakfast Brunch is hereby opened like a can of fresh tuna (right, Toby? You can hear the electric opener on the can from three floors away and arrive faster that beaming in on ‘Star Trek.’) In addition to the freshest of fresh water in the bowl over there by the floor cupboard, there is also hot coffee, hot tea, hot mocha-cocoa and icy mimosas to meet the hydraulic intake needs of those arriving bi-pedal-ly and with opposable thumbs.
Meanwhile, in addition to freshly opened, scooped, forked through, and 7-seconds zapping in the microwave over to the Feline Feeding Station, the rest of you arriving at the Brunch should feel free to munch down cereals hot or cold, fresh baked or newly re-heated bread-like stuff, toasts (hot and cold: sliced stuff that pops up, or flutes chiming together at the Mimosa Bar, but toasting is toasting!) and whatever proteins before noon get your synapses snapping.
Just the opening roar….
Below you will find links and stories of the Good Persuasion, as well as my custom of noting the October 16ths of yesteryear and the Good News Moments that should be trotted out at least once a year for a round of applause. And below all of THAT, you will find YOU…...your comments, recs, likes, links, extensions, digressions, randomly triggered thoughts that need to be written down and posted, and your chuckles on the wry side of life, because all of that and the threads that grow and produce threads of threads….of threads…..well that’s what we like about the Internet and this is a place where that happens ……..and happens well.
Global Cat Day
As you can tell, Toby the Cat has insisted that the theme of this October 16th note that this is Global Cat Day, lifting up the relationship between humans and felines. Now much of the Day is focused around “community cats” (AKA “feral” cats) and the humane process of TNR (“Trap/Neuter/Return”) to keep everyone in some sort of balance. For instance, there is this explanation of the day in a little video from Paris:
(Pssst!…...Now, while Toby is watching that little video with a certain fascination, we have a chance to move to the more usual Good News Round Up Stuff, like…..)
Good News in Society and Politics
>>>>>>» The wretched yet worrisome “Project 2025” has rightly caused concern across large swaths of the political spectrum---a detailed wish list/hit list of what a self-righteous bunch of semi-criminals (less semi-, more trials, please) wants to do to US. Us, as in EVERYBODY. How everybody? Well since the P25 is from a very twisted position on anything and everything sexual, they call for a very broad definition of “pornography”, linked to a wholesale “rollback” of pornographers…...including people who look at it.
But now it looks like they may have gone too far. A political group (!) calling itself HANDS OFF MY PORN is attacking Project 2025 with just that slogan…...as well as practical ideas for political activism.
>>>>>» Then there is Liz Cheney, fighting the Good fight from inside her political home. She was righteous during the J6 hearings and has NOT backed down since. The other week she appeared on the same stage with Kamala Harris at a political rally, calling on patriots to vote AGAINST TRUMP. Over the weekend, she went on the venerable “Meet the Press” show and did not spare her language. SHE FLAT OUT CALLED Trump a “fundamentally cruel” person (you don’t hear THAT phrase on national TV very often!) and then went all the way to rim of the crater and called him a “fascist.” He is, and the crew with him is dangerous, so it’s good that this flat out, straight from the shoulder sort of talk is in circulation. No, it won’t sway the members of the cult, but there are others who will pay attention…...infrequent voters (that never make it past a “Likely voter” screen in a poll)…..newly registered voters of various ages….and THAT is important.
>>>>>» Out in Montana, Dem Senator Jon Tester is locked in tight race for re-election. Winning as a Democrat statewide in Montana is a tall order, but Tester has done it twice three times (fixed!) and is close to doing it again. Now, being Montana, do you think there are a good number of voters of the “’Murkan Militia/I hate gummit” types as a percentage of the voter pool? Think many of them are potential Tester voters? Or will they pull the lever for the GQP guy Sheehy?
But now, in a potential moment of Grinning Karma, there is THIS ON THE GROUND report from Montana. Tester might get help getting re-elected from…...the Montana Legislature! The GQP-controlled lege. Seems they passed a raft of “voter fraud prevention” laws, and, as the piece lays out, it could well mean that 50,000+ people of the anti-government persuasion will NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE on November 5th. Seems they won’t have proof of residence….. (and 50,000 votes off of Sheehy’s pile…..in a close race…….)
(What? Oh, yes, Toby, you’re back from the Paris Cat video. What? Oh, yes, that’s a good idea…..yes, yes, and not just because it includes cats…...well, for you it is the only thing, but humans are a bit different. OK, I’ll put it up….)
I have just been insistently reminded (in the manner of “it’s 4:45am and time to feed me, Toby the cat, so get up….”) that back in August the Vance of Vanity has been insulting people who love and care for cats, especially throwing cat litter at “childless cat ladies”. Well here are 2 talented ladies who have written a song about that, and part of it is even in Feline:
When you finish snickering over that well-fingered defense of Cats and the Ladies (and fellows too) who love them, there have been moments in politics & society on October 16ths from years ago that are worth setting before you for a read and a ponder.
1781 Yorktown, VA The American-French siege of Cornwallis’ army was formally begun October 8. Both sides have dug entrenching lines, with the British line featuring small forts called ‘redoubts.’ After consulting with French General Rochambeau (a professionally trained, career soldier who knew about knew sieges), the willing-to-learn Washington draws up plans to take Redoubts 9 & 10 to doom Cornwallis. Rochambeau (never having seen the Americans in a battle) offers to take both redoubts with his professional troops. The Marquis de Lafayette argues passionately for an Allied joint operation. Washington orders Lafayette & Alexander Hamilton pick men for their attack on #9 and for Rochambeau’s troops to take number 10.
He was 24 in 1781….and not takin’ no guff off no-Body, not even his fellow Frenchman Rochambeau…….
This night Rochambeau appeals to Washington, again offering to take both posts with his professionals. After a private, heated conversation between Rochambeau and Lafayette (still sticking up for the Americans…..oh, to have been a French-speaking mouse in the room for THAT exchange!), Washington leaves the plans settled. Both assaults go forward at first light on the 17th. Lafayette and Hamilton’s troops fall on the British garrison with only the bayonet and force surrender in 10 minutes. As soon as it is clear this fight is over, on signal from Lafayette, 2 American messengers carrying identical letters in French take off running to the French commander engaging #10. Lafayette wrote, “We have taken #9 already and are standing ready to assist our allies. Are you in need of reinforcements?” (You can see the nails being buffed on the lapel…...With a swagger like that (and sticking up for Les Americains even among his French compatriots), well, it’s part of why those colonial Americans loved Lafayette.)
1829 Boston When you were a traveler back then, where did you spend the night apart from family and friends? Under a bush? A borrowed barn? An inn or tavern’s upper room? Welcome to the new age. As designed by Isaiah Rogers, an early US architect, the Tremont House opens this day as the first modern hotel in America. (Local pronunciation is trem-mont; never tree-mont.) A four-story, granite-faced handsome place, it is noted for several 1sts: bellhops, individually locking guest rooms, a lobby/reception area, free soap for guests. Off of the lobby there was a ‘Women’s Ordinary’ a women’s-only dining room for female guests traveling unaccompanied by a man. Running cold water was availably by taps in every room thanks to a water tank on the roof that was fed by a steam-powered pump in a well. Bathing rooms, featuring tin tubs built by a coffin company, were available in the basement, where stoves would provide hot water to mix with the cold. Many of these features were endlessly copied for decades across America as hotels everywhere bragged they, too, were “in the Tremont style”
(Kept leading the industry too! In 1869 it was the first hotel in the US to feature indoor plumbing in 2 restrooms on each floor.) (The future is bright for the coming of Motel 6…)
THE Tremont Hotel……...Free parking in the livery stable, too (hay and water extra…..)
“Dinner at the White House was tasty…….”
1901 Washington DC President Theodore Roosevelt has a formal meeting with Booker T Washington at the White House in a wide-ranging conversation, including race and civil rights. The meeting starts fairly late in the day and Roosevelt is enjoying himself, so he invites Washington to stay for dinner. He does and the chat continues, as Washington becomes the first black person to dine at the White House. For months afterwards bigots decry Roosevelt for being a “race traitor” and for “besmirching the White House”, etc. etc. Roosevelt does not apologize or back down; in its own way, another step toward a better society (and in its way, a fore-runner of the 60’s “lunch counter sit-ins.” After all, it is a sign of serious social problems when a spontaneous dinner or a burger, fries and a Coke set off demonstrations.)
1916 Brooklyn, NY Not just Brooklyn, but 46 Amboy Street. That 33-year-old woman! Is at it again. Margaret Sanger has been making “good trouble” for women everywhere. She has coined the term “birth control.” She has been jailed for mailing information about it, on grounds of sending ‘obscene material’ through the mail system. (The SAME “Comstock Act” law on the books from 1873 regarding mailing “obscene material” that the GQP is trying to revive in OUR DAY…...grrrr.)
On this day she opens America’s (maybe the world’s?) first birth control clinic. In a few days it was closed, and Sanger was in jail again for ‘creating a public nuisance’ ……but she persisted. Met with other forward thinkers to found Planned Parenthood and set up clinics across the country while defending them in court. She raised public havoc with the AMA to make birth control and sexual health part of medical school curriculums (which happened in the 1930s.)
46 Amboy Street…..and that woman…….Margaret Sanger
A few years before Davis made …..General
1940 Washington DC There were free black men in George Washington’s Continental Army (which made him and other Southern slave owners uncomfortable.) In the early 1860s black men began volunteering for the Union cause, and certain states (e.g. Massachusetts (the 54th) welcomed them into the ranks. After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 eventually 180,000 served in the Union ranks, every one of them a volunteer. Some rose to be non-commissioned officers, and here and there, some were commissioned. It took until now but on this day Benjamin O. Davis becomes the first Black man in US history to rise to the rank of GENERAL in the American Army.
Cats, Women and Democracy
(Alright, yes, you ARE right, Toby. Enough of those people things and reading! Time to see or at least hear about some more cats…..OK, how about this one? Yes, I’ll introduce it…..)
Yes, yes we have all heard since August about “childless cat ladies”, usually delivered with a sneer, from JD Vance and His Minions of Mousebrains (garage band from 1979?). But much to my surprise and wonderment, and with a charming assist from SageHagRN, in ransacking history, cats and democracy, there actually have been links among these three.
Most tellingly, the 1900 and 1910s suffragettes! These determined women (and their broad-thinking male allies) were campaigning hard for the “the vote for women” and its enshrinement in the Constitution as the 19th Amendment (which came in 1920.) In 1916 41-year- old Alice Burke, and 26-year-old Nell Richardson went on a publicity drive across America……literally a drive, and literally across the country (and back!) (180 days, 10,700 miles…..with Alice doing nearly all the driving…..in 1916!)
The Saxon Motor Car Company (Detroit, 1913-1922) loaned them a 4-cylinder “Flier” for the journey, which they re-named the “Golden Flier” due to the (suffragette!) yellow paint job. They set out April 6, 1916 from New York City, with pictures, a ceremonial “christening” of the radiator, many good wishes, and….(according to Toby, THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY) someone pressed through the crowd and gave them a smoky black little CAT. Alice & Nell named him for the car, “Saxon” and then, with cheering from the sidewalks, they were escorted by 30 (count ‘em!) cars in a procession through Manhattan to the Weehawken Ferry (to take them into New Jersey.)
Alice, Saxon (!) and Nell…...1916
Mind you, the road network in 1916 meant that as soon as they left any town, the roads usually were dirt (or, in bad weather, mud.) There were no gas stations; you’d buy gasoline or kerosene at a hardware store. And what if you had a mechanical problem? Well, as one San Jose newspaper later in their journey noted for readers:
“[The Saxon has] a complete camping outfit with a mass of other equipment. The little car carries a surprisingly large load. Stored away in it are extra parts in almost sufficient number to build a new car, 20 dresses each for the two occupants, ten shirtwaists apiece, two raincoats, two heavy coats, two sweaters and a lot of literature which is being distributed along the route.” They also packed blankets, a typewriter, a “fireless” cooker, a sewing machine and a kodak (1916 slang for “camera”—-don’t you know :-))
They each had 7 set speeches they could deliver as needed. They smuggled “Saxon” in and out of hotels and rooming houses (no hotels were “pet friendly” in 1916)----and little “Saxon” made it all the way back to New York City in their company. Along the Mexican border they acquired a revolver——just in case—— and heard nearby shooting between Mexico’s Pancho Villa and General Pershing’s American army troops chasing him across the deserts of the Southwest.
The Seal Cove Auto Museum has this sample of a Saxon “Golden Flier” in the “Saffron” or even “Jonquil” paint job. (Displayed with the top down; it’s a convertible. No electric starter; someone had to turn the starting crank in front every time.) Burke & Richardson painted the names of major cities along their way on the door and added the dates as they passed.
So……friends and neighbors……the cats and the ladies have been saying “Get the vote!” and “Get OUT the vote!” for at least 108 years.
Women who vote roar like a lioness!
A CHARMING and informative 6 page write up of their full journey campaigning for the Vote is AT THIS PDF LINK.
The two ladies stopped in Yuma, AZ on their drive. The Yuma Public Library has added a children’s book about their journey to their shelves (2020, author Mara Rokliff...DOUBTLESS a book the Project 2025 bastards would like to ban….). The Library produced this 8-minute You Tube about the book and the journey as you can click on HERE:
A couple of excerpted quotes from both the PDF and the YouTube
When interviewers puzzled about the sewing machine and typewriter, (Mrs. Burke) said, “If any anti-suffragist down in Texas makes remarks about suffrage destroying women’s feminine talents, it will be Miss Richardson’s cue to get out the sewing machine and run off an apron while the crowd waits. If, on the other hand, he says women have no brains, she will pull out the typewriter and write him a poem.”
At their stop in Minneapolis (having reached San Diego, driven North to Washington, and now across the northern tier of states) Alice (Burke) gave a speech to a mixed audience of men and women. She bore down on the line: “You men should read editorial pages rather than sport columns to vote intelligently.”-------Just how much has changed in 108 years…..or not?
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Good News in Science and Engineering
>>>>>>>>» Animal life on this planet uses various forms of energy, including low-voltage forms of electricity. (Certain crisp winter days, static electricity comes off as a bit more than “low” voltage.) In medical science certain wounds and conditions are treated in part with micro-pulses of electricity to speed healing. Now comes exciting word that a team of scientists have developed a new form of sutures (surgical sewing!) that use the body’s own electricity to speed healing. I must admit, THE STORY AT THIS LINK leaves me tingling with excitement……
>>>>». Sometimes Hollywood’s science fiction is just that, fiction, with a raft of special effects to decorate a plot line. But once in a while, they get something eerily RIGHT. Sometimes this is very cool (‘Star Trek’---personal communicators (and smartphones….now?); also the “bio-beds” in sick bay that let Dr. McCoy take readings, like, say, body temperature, with just a touch on the bed (anyone had their temp taken with a swipe of the brow?).
Other times, it could be warning. Remember “The Terminator”? Time travel from Earth’s future that involved a global war between humans and their own machines, machines that had super-intelligence (in a narrow sense) that decided humans needed to be erased from the planet.
So…..let’s NOT do that, OK? And it’s not just me saying that. Last week some super smart physicists who won the Nobel Prize for their work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) AT THIS LINK are warning against their OWN CREATION. Forewarned is forearmed…….
In years past October 16ths have been pretty quiet for science and engineering, but there are a couple items:
1846 Boston This day dentist William Morton gives the first successful demonstration of the use of ether to a group of doctors assembled for the occasion at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dental work clearly could be far less painful…...and clearly this could mean something important for surgery as well. (It did; the Crimean War of 1854 and the US Civil War of the 1860s were the first wars where the wounded could be operated on while under anesthesia. Recovery rates were sharply better….)
1900 New York City Frank Sprague was fascinated by electrical motors. After graduating from Annapolis and serving a stint in the US Navy, in 1882 he was hired to work for Thomas Edison. While he picked up a good deal of theoretical and practical knowledge, he and Edison did not get along and Sprague left 2 years later. He developed practical electrical motors (a subject that bored Edison but fascinated Sprague; part of why the 2 of them parted) to mount in streetcars
Frank Sprague, the man of motors…..
(using Edison’s electrical grid.) He later received a patent for “regenerative braking” that used the energy created from that motion to recharge batteries and motors (all new EVs here in 2024 use this to extend driving range between charges.)
On this day Sprague receives a patent for “multi-control for handling electric trains”, allowing a central station (like Grand Central here in New York) to direct, track and even re-route every car in the system of city streets. Made city transportation feasible in every large city in the world. His work with motors also increased the power and speed of elevators, allowing for more efficient warehouses and taller buildings, even “skyscrapers”, changing the profile and skyline of every city in the world. (And no, I had never heard of this American inventor either before this Corner. The stuff I’m still learning...)
Good News in Arts, Literature, Music…..and FUN
(Yes, yes…..that’s a good idea…..I’ll tell them. OK, Toby…..)
In the last few months I’ve been usually posting one or two First Lady profiles, but today IS Global Cat Day, and certainly deserves something else (although maybe we can still work in the White House…..) Now Toby points out to me that Sir Lawrence of #10 Downing St. in London is an internationally famous cat (known commonly as “Larry the Cat”...you can READ A PROFILE HERE ON LARRY). Toby himself of course is widely known on both floors AND THE BASEMENT of the house here in Minnesota.
Lately a grey tabby who goes by “Willow” has been noted as keeping the Bidens in line at the White House. But Toby is curious…….what other cats ….or, even…..sigh…..dogs….. or even other critters….have been housed in the White House over the years? (But especially the Cats?)
A lot of First Horses and First Dogs for the White House
(Well OK Toby, here you go.)
The White House had hosted (or stabled) a host of critters over the past 200+ years. Many horses of course, given transportation back then, and (sorry, Toby) there have been a long string of dogs, starting with dog breeder George Washington himself (noted for his work with the American Foxhound breed.)
In 1807 President Jefferson had 40 sheep grazing on the First Lawn, (as did Harding in the 1920s) while both Harrisons and Mr. Lincoln also featured a First Goat. Other critters have included several house birds: parrots (Martha Washington, Madison, Jackson, Grant, McKinley), canaries (Tyler, Harding, Coolidge, JFK), and mockingbirds (Jefferson, Cleveland.)
More unusual were elephants (Buchanan, Eisenhower, Carter----all gifts from Asian rulers and all donated to a zoo.) Both Benjamin Harrison and Hoover kept pet possums, and the same pair (40 years apart) also each kept alligators in the White House Conservatory.
Among the exotic, Louisa Adams (First Lady to JQ Adams) raised silkworms, and harvested the silk for her own use. Harding kept a pet squirrel. Both Arthur and JFK featured a First Rabbit.
The Theodore Roosevelt White House (6 children!) was a true menagerie: beyond the ordinary horses and dogs, there were: a Lizard, a Garter Snake, a Macaw, a small black bear (later, when “not as small”, sent to a zoo), a pet Rat, a badger, and---a gift from the Emperor of Ethiopia---- a laughing hyena (also soon donated to a zoo.)
“All God’s critters got a place in the White House…….”
But yes, dear Toby (and Larry and Willow) there have been First Cats.
- Van Buren received 2 tiger cubs as a gift from the Sultan of Oman (Congress quickly directed these be sent to a zoo.)
- Abe Lincoln adored Tabby … and Dixie (“...who is smarter than my whole Cabinet.”)
- Rutherford Hayes accepted an Italian cat named for an Italian general of their war for unification: Piccolomini. The Hayes’ also received Siam and Miss Pussy from that Southeast Asian nation now called Thailand, the first known Siamese cats in the United States.
- Despite the Spanish-American War, McKinley accepted 2 Angora kittens from Spain, Valesimo and Enrique.
- Wilson had Puffins; Coolidge had Blacky and Tiger (“Tige”) and JFK answered to Tom Kitten.
- Ford followed Hayes with a Siamese named Shan.
- The Carter White House welcomed Amy’s cat, a Siamese, the grandly named Misty Malarky Ying Yang.
- Reagan owned a California ranch where he kept a few Presidential horses (for the first time for a President in decades.) Cleo and Sara were a couple tortoiseshells that kept the horses amused at the ranch.
- The casual Clinton was set off by his formal tuxedo cat, Socks.
- Bush the Lesser and Laura had India…...the last First Feline before the current Biden watcher, Willow.
Oh, and just how do Toby’s house pets (SageHagRN and WineRev) view the current political situation from a cat’s point of view?
Well, this is in front of the Toby House:
Because anything on a surface has to be knocked off to the floor…….
Toby says (being the wise Feline that he is) that the best way of dealing with nasty 2-foots is, if you can’t claw them, then yowl at them…...you know, mock them and make fun of them. Well there is a current pop star out there who goes by “The Kiffness” as a stage name. After the Trump meltdown over Springfield Ohio being invaded by pet eaters…..to the round mockery by millions…..Kiffness was inspired (Inspired, I say!) to put together a little ditty…...that even includes a clip from the debate:
(While Toby the Cat is enjoying yowling at the Orange Menace along with all these humans of Paris, we have time to put a bow on this section…..)
Plenty of fun and music already in this Round Up, so here’s quick look at what tickled the fancy on older October 16ths:
1679 Lounovice, Bohemia (now Czech) Birth of Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer. Very little known about his early life except that his father was a schoolmaster and organist, so likely Jan’s first music teacher. Earned a music degree in Prague playing the string bass. Lived many years in Dresden and was noted as a virtuoso on the instrument. Composing in the period of Cherubini and Handel (acquainted with both) Zelenka broke new ground with surprising harmonies and counterpoints, and his own talent both with the pen and the bow moved composers to write good stuff for basses, rather than simply having them fill out the bottom of a chord. A large body of sacred pieces, including 12 Masses, and numerous hymns and sacred works, while also writing several sonatas, and some charming small works for groups of 5 to 10 instruments.
A Trio Sonata for Oboes and Bassoon
1938 Chicago Those composers can be pretty creative. This night marks the premiere of Aaron Copland’s new work, a ballet. And which Classical period? A Greek legend? An Etruscan tale? The title says it all, a ballet entitled “Billy the Kid.” DOUBLEHEADER DATE AND COMPOSER….. 1942 Doubtless seeing October 16 as a lucky date, here in 1942, Copland is back with ANOTHER ballet that no one in world history had ever considered putting into a ballet. At New York’s Met Opera House, with choreography by Agnes de Mille, Copland’s NEW BALLET opens: “Rodeo.” Ballet fans everywhere still turn their heads, while American audiences are….kinda proud….
Under the baton of Copeland himself….
1968 Mexico City, Mexico At the Summer Olympic Games, during the award ceremony for the men’s 200 meter dash, gold medalist Tommie Smith (19.83, a world record) and bronze medalist John Carlos both drop their eyes during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. Each also holds up a clenched fist in a salute to “Black Power” to protest injustice and racism against African Americans. You know what this could lead to, don’t you? Black baseball team managers……black football players in “skill positions”…….Asian ice skaters…. Black gymnasts……my Lord, even the idea of a Black president…..
1969 New York City. Back in 1962, with both the Giants and the Dodgers having relocated away from New York, the National League re-establishes a new franchise, the New York Mets (Metropolitans) managed by Casey Stengel. Their first season they set a record in futility, managing to lose 120 games (out of 162), but somehow won fans, perhaps by pity alone. Yet 7 years later, beating odds listed at 100-1, “The Miracle Mets” not only win the pennant, but on this day, with a 5-3 win over the Orioles, win the World Series in 5 games.
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OK, friends and neighbors, what’s the Good News for today? What have you found? What can you share? Got a comment? A rec? A question? A chuckle? Put ‘em one and all into the comments below!
A glass of wine...a loaf of bread…..a cat beside me…..ah, life…...
(Yes, Toby, you can sit on SageHagRN’s lap now for a nap…..she promises not to move anymore while watching “Home and Garden Channel”…….sheesh…...)
May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.
Shalom.
