“Sit at the front of the plane”

I live in an upper middle class suburb and I’d be surprised if 5 percent of the homeowners mow their own lawns, most of which are old-fashioned grid-layout small.

9 football matches—and it definitely feels like it.

Pass.

The St. Olaf library is named after Ole Rolvaag, who is up there with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Melville on campus.

I can only assume he wrote this as it were a viable strategy because he is used to playing with little kids who don’t know that the name of the game is to buy everything possible, not “save your money.”

This is correct in regard to which properties have the best yield, but is of little value as a guide to “strategy” unless you are playing with people dumb enough not to buy every unowned property they land on. Buying every entity you can is the foundation strategy. You buy houses and hotels as aggressively as…

Felix “lost on a dive” because the other runner was faster.

“Christian said that car often required more than $1,000 per month to maintain.”

I know—I wish I had checked the betting odds. I doubt the bookies and sharp bettors were “stunned.” It’s TV.

Gee, you really know all the volleyball lingo.

No.

“A Cubs spokesperson tells us that the person who played the song did not do so intentionally, but was acting carelessly when he did so.” What the hell does that mean? How do you play a song unintentionally?

She certainly was, because the dive didn’t give her any extra speed (probably slowed her) and she crossed first.

Well, it didn’t hurt her in terms of not finishing first, but it might have delayed her finish line crossing slightly; in another race it might have cost her first.

The Cubs have demonstrated that most MLB teams and many players are fundamentally unsound in comparison. Time after time the Cubs have won games at the end by not really doing anything but let the opponent hand them the game, whether through errors, walks, wild pitches, or absolute failure to execute offensive plays.

I think you are reaching with this. As commonly used, scourge does not have the connotation as some sort of deserved punishment.

I know; the piece also spoke of alkalinity as if it is a thing in itself. It is simply a relative term referring to the base side of the pH scale, like acidity for the acid side. “If the alkalinity and pH are at proper levels” is rather redundant, sort of like, “if the warmth of the air and the temperature are at…

The government mindset is that government always is or should be involved.

It’s just for part of a day! Is a pond chlorinated? How about when a bunch of folks romp in a public fountain? Sometimes people just take risks.