Don’t forget to call your mother this weekend.

My wife’s uncle daily-drove a 1998 Legacy Outback in Minnesota up until last year. My dad in law is still daily driving a 2001 Outback with over half a million miles on the clock. The things are damn near bulletproof with regular maintenance. Keep an eye on the suspension, but the engine/trans/etc. will outlast the…

IIRC, the Rand McNally road atlas also had a list of the visitor’s bureaus for every state, so you could write off for the state-specific list of parks, attractions, and historical sites - every state had a print visitor’s guide that they’d mail to you, free of charge. And motel chains would publish a book listing all…

Pre-2000, where would you rank TUSK by Fleetwood Mac?

Not to go all “well, actually” on you, but in a lot of small towns, the City Administrator basically runs the day-to-day city operations.  The council has the final say-so on a lot of shit, but the administrator will do like 80% of the hiring and firing for city jobs, do a lot of the grant writing, prepare the budget,…

The beauty of that power play goal was that Tarasenko was the one who drew the penalty - he was driving to the net the same way he did on Heiskanen, except Polak hooked him enough that the shot didn’t go in.

The Blues have never won a Cup and they entered the league in 1967. They had a run of 25 straight years in the playoffs from 79-80 to 03-04. Your Sharks murdered them in the first round the year they won the President’s Trophy in 99-00.

I mean, the Red Army was a big part of it, too. Fedorov, Larionov, Fedisov - all of those Ov guys in Detroit used to give me nightmares as a Blues fan.

Blues-Sharks in 2000 was pretty bad too, remember that Owen Nolan 70 footer that Turek let in?

The Blues have never won a Cup, and haven’t even made a final since they changed the playoffs again after the ‘67 expansion guaranteed one trash-fire West team a slot. All of their best players went elsewhere to win Cups - Hull, Pronger, Doug Gilmour, Scott Stevens - all left St. Louis to win cups elsewhere. Toronto’s…

Let’s Remember Some Guys: Shelley Duncan, who started a bench-clearing brawl in spring training in like 2008.

He played all of 28 major league games between the end of the 2003 season and the beginning of the 2008 season, but was still good enough in 2008 to win Comeback Player of the Year with the Mets.

Lauren Duca (maybe) got drunk at a work party and did some stupid shit in 2015. It (probably) led to her moving on from HuffPo.  Since then, she’s gone viral and moved up in the world, but “everybody” (the media cliques running around on the east coast) still subtweets about her stupid shit. Jezebel’s tired of the…

The other fun twist on it is have the runner on first steal before the pitcher even makes his pitch. Because now you’ve got a little leaguer who’s going to balk or he’ll throw to the wrong base or the middle infield won’t cover in time - and then the runner on third breaks for home and shit goes REALLY wild.

We loved to try the first-and-third delayed steal in little league, where the runner on first takes off, draws a throw, and then the runner on third breaks for home. You could get a bad enough team flustered enough to make like three throws with the last one going into the outfield if you pulled it off right. The fake …

Crawford liked ejecting guys, but he still made the calls, right? Hernandez not only is quick with the toss, he blows calls like nobody’s business. For a while there, in like 2011, he was on the same crew as Cowboy Joe West and it was just fucking brutal.

You can’t even discharge student loans in bankruptcy any more. Thanks GWB, you fuck.  And Joe Biden voted for that shit, too.

You’re thinking of Newt Gingrich, who noped out on his cancer-having wife.

How’s the Ozuna trade looking these days? I don’t pay attention to the Marlins, so I haven’t kept tabs on Alcantara and Sierra since they were sent over.  Those were the bluechippers from STL.

On top of James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland, who’ve already been mentioned, there were several who were widowed while they were in office. I think Woodrow Wilson’s first wife died and he actually got remarried while in office. And Thomas Jefferson’s wife died before he became president, I believe, and I don’t think…