Bye

[ap215]

NC State broadcaster Gary Hahn suspended indefinitely, officials say

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina State University radio broadcaster Gary Hahn has been suspended indefinitely after making a degrading comment while announcing a bowl game score on Friday, CBS 17 has learned.

Hahn, an employee of broadcast company LEARFIELD Communications and the Play-by-Play announcer for Wolfpack Sports Network, referenced “illegal aliens” in Texas while announcing an out-of-town score during Duke’s Mayo Bowl.

https://www.cbs17.com/sports/nc-state/n ... cials-say/

[ap215]

Wow.

Dax Tejera’s Wife Arrested on Child Endangerment Charges Hours After ABC News Producer Died, NYPD Says

ABC News executive producer Dax Tejera’s wife was arrested on two charges of child endangerment in the hours following his death on Dec. 23, a spokesperson for the NYPD’s public information office told Variety.

Veronica Tejera was booked on two counts of “acting in a manner injurious to a child” after her 37-year-old husband’s fatal heart attack last week, according to a police statement.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dax-te ... 235476583/

[Number6]

After 50 years, Tom Batiuk is ending the long-running Funky Winkerbean comic strip.

MEDINA, Ohio – Don’t miss today’s Funky Winkerbean comic strip. It’s the last in a 50-plus-year run. Medina resident and cartoonist Tom Batiuk started the strip in 1972, three years after graduating from Kent State University, where he studied fine art. He announced in November that Funky Winkerbean would end on Dec. 31, 2022.

The original strip appeared in 78 newspapers. Today, Funky Winkerbean is distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, and appears in 400 newspapers worldwide, including The Plain Dealer. It also appears online at cleveland.com/comics-kingdom.

The final Sunday strip, which ran on Dec. 25, shows more than 50 characters gathering at a church concert. Among them are Batiuk, his wife Cathy, and retired Akron Beacon-Journal editorial cartoonist Chuck Ayers, who has penciled the strip since 1994 and also has collaborated with Batiuk on the spinoff comic strip, “Crankshaft.”
https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment ... cades.html

I first read this strip back in the 80s in the San Diego Union Tribune when I was home on leave and continued whenever I got a newspaper with the strip, which wasn't often, and picked up reading it when I retire. I read the final edition of the strip last week and hadn't realized it was ending until today when I was reading the paper online and couldn't find the strip. After a Google search I learned it had come to an end.

Unlike some cartoon strips where the characters remain the same, the characters in this strip aged and went through many of the same things that happen in real life so while the main characters started in their teens then end the strip in their late 60s. Like his Crankshaft character, another separate strip, puns were a key part of the characters' dialog.

I'll miss the strip but like they say, "All Good Things Must Come to an End."

[Glennfs]

After 50 years, Tom Batiuk is ending the long-running Funky Winkerbean comic strip.


I first read this strip back in the 80s in the San Diego Union Tribune when I was home on leave and continued whenever I got a newspaper with the strip, which wasn't often, and picked up reading it when I retire. I read the final edition of the strip last week and hadn't realized it was ending until today when I was reading the paper online and couldn't find the strip. After a Google search I learned it had come to an end.

Unlike some cartoon strips where the characters remain the same, the characters in this strip aged and went through many of the same things that happen in real life so while the main characters started in their teens then end the strip in their late 60s. Like his Crankshaft character, another separate strip, puns were a key part of the characters' dialog.

I'll miss the strip but like they say, "All Good Things Must Come to an End."

He was huge in NE Ohio

[gounion]

After 50 years, Tom Batiuk is ending the long-running Funky Winkerbean comic strip.


I first read this strip back in the 80s in the San Diego Union Tribune when I was home on leave and continued whenever I got a newspaper with the strip, which wasn't often, and picked up reading it when I retire. I read the final edition of the strip last week and hadn't realized it was ending until today when I was reading the paper online and couldn't find the strip. After a Google search I learned it had come to an end.

Unlike some cartoon strips where the characters remain the same, the characters in this strip aged and went through many of the same things that happen in real life so while the main characters started in their teens then end the strip in their late 60s. Like his Crankshaft character, another separate strip, puns were a key part of the characters' dialog.

I'll miss the strip but like they say, "All Good Things Must Come to an End."

Yeah, I remember it from the eighties, which to me were a golden age of the comic strip. Strips such as Funky Winkerbean, The Far Side, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Geech and For Better or Worse made me enjoy the paper every morning before I started work.

[Number6]

Yeah, I remember it from the eighties, which to me were a golden age of the comic strip. Strips such as Funky Winkerbean, The Far Side, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Geech and For Better or Worse made me enjoy the paper every morning before I started work.

I read the comics through the local paper online and for the strips I like that aren't included I go use https://www.oregonlive.com/comics/. There, I read Calvin and Hobbes, Non Sequitur[i/], and Jump Start. Although Calvin and Hobbes ended years ago it's still funny today.

[gounion]

I read the comics through the local paper online and for the strips I like that aren't included I go use https://www.oregonlive.com/comics/. There, I read Calvin and Hobbes, Non Sequitur, and Jump Start. Although Calvin and Hobbes ended years ago it's still funny today.

I have the full boxed sets for Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side and Bloom County.

[Number6]

I have the full boxed sets for Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side and Bloom County.

I have a couple Calvin and Hobbes books too and this is one of my favorites.

[gounion]

I have a couple Calvin and Hobbes books too and this is one of my favorites.

This is one of my favorites. It hits the reality button HARD!!!



I work hard not to wear logos. I'll be damned if I pay a company for the honor of advertising for them. Only thing I've done is buy some Packer gear to wear to the games, but I don't wear them otherwise.

I have a friend from back home who is a Harley nut. He bought tons of Harley stuff. I told him if they could get the Harley logo to stick to a pile of dog poo, he'd pay good money for it.

He never denied that he would do so if he could.

[ZoWie]

Bye Rose Bowl. It was nice knowing you. (More in "sports")

For any LA kid of my generation there's a real loss here. It's not just me:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/ope ... 670394.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/spor ... hotos.html

[Number6]

This is one of my favorites. It hits the reality button HARD!!!



I work hard not to wear logos. I'll be damned if I pay a company for the honor of advertising for them. Only thing I've done is buy some Packer gear to wear to the games, but I don't wear them otherwise.

I have a friend from back home who is a Harley nut. He bought tons of Harley stuff. I told him if they could get the Harley logo to stick to a pile of dog poo, he'd pay good money for it.

He never denied that he would do so if he could.

I'm the same in that I don't believe in spending money to wear/advertise a company's logo which is why most of my clothes aren't well-known brand names. Getting people to wear a company's logs has been a successful psychological campaign playing upon peoples' need to identify with "success" through association with a company they do not work for or have any direct connection to. In other words, they're suckers.

[gounion]

I'm the same in that I don't believe in spending money to wear/advertise a company's logo which is why most of my clothes aren't well-known brand names. Getting people to wear a company's logs has been a successful psychological campaign playing upon peoples' need to identify with "success" through association with a company they do not work for or have any direct connection to. In other words, they're suckers.

Yes, Calvin said it perfectly.

[ap215]

He's done

Dana White slaps wife during physical altercation on New Year’s Eve, UFC president ‘embarrassed’ by actions

Dana White and his wife got into a physical altercation while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico during New Year’s Eve with the whole incident caught on camera.

In a video released by TMZ on Monday, White can be seen talking to his wife Anne, who has her hands over her face before he grabs her wrist and she responds by slapping him in the face. White then reacts by slapping his wife in the face as other people in the group get between them while the argument continues.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2023/1/2/23 ... by-actions

[ap215]

Thank You Debbie best wishes.

US Sen. Debbie Stabenow will not seek reelection in 2024

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Longtime U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, announced Thursday she will not be seeking reelection next year.

Stabenow, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, said will leave the Senate at the end of her term on Jan. 3, 2025.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/se ... n-in-2024/

[ap215]

U.S. Virgin Islands fires attorney general in Epstein cases

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands has fired the attorney general of the U.S. territory who pursued various cases against disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, including a lengthy legal fight that resulted in a $105 million settlement.

The removal of Denise George comes just days after she filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase in New York and accused the company of helping Epstein finance the illegal exploitation of women and children in the U.S. Virgin Islands and beyond.

https://www.aol.com/news/us-virgin-isla ... 13371.html

[ap215]

Chris Beard out as head coach of Texas after felony domestic violence charge

Less than a month ago, Texas men’s basketball coach Chris Beard had a dream job at his alma mater, a $35 million contract, a glittering new arena to sell to recruits and a roster capable of contending for the national title.

Now, he has thrown all of that away.

https://sports.yahoo.com/chris-beard-ou ... 02991.html

[ap215]

Cartel lays siege to Mexican city after recapture of the son of 'El Chapo'

Armed men took hostages, burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday after federal forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, one of the world's most wanted cartel leaders and the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

The 33-year-old drug boss was arrested after a predawn gunfight in a town north of the city of Culiacán, a stronghold of the Guzmáns’ Sinaloa cartel. Even as the cartel mounted attacks across the state, the air force was able to fly the younger Guzmán to Mexico City, said Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval González.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/cartel-lays-s ... 07962.html

[ap215]

Suzanne Malveaux, CNN Anchor and Former White House Correspondent, Is Leaving Network After 20 Years

Suzanne Malveaux, CNN's longtime White House correspondent, national reporter and anchor, is leaving the network after 20 years.

CNN CEO Chris Licht announced the news in a meeting Friday morning, according to The Washington Post.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/suz ... 34388.html

[Glennfs]

NC State broadcaster Gary Hahn suspended indefinitely, officials say

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina State University radio broadcaster Gary Hahn has been suspended indefinitely after making a degrading comment while announcing a bowl game score on Friday, CBS 17 has learned.

Hahn, an employee of broadcast company LEARFIELD Communications and the Play-by-Play announcer for Wolfpack Sports Network, referenced “illegal aliens” in Texas while announcing an out-of-town score during Duke’s Mayo Bowl.

https://www.cbs17.com/sports/nc-state/n ... cials-say/

Woke community bags another trophy

[Glennfs]

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/06/11473465 ... -way-drive

Sad death of a young man with a bright future

[ap215]

Report: Lovie Smith fired, becomes Texans' second straight one-and-done coach

When the Houston Texans were looking at head coaches last offseason, there were jokes about their desire to hire Josh McCown, who had never coached above the high-school level. There was a serious candidate in Brian Flores.

Nobody considered Lovie Smith. When he suddenly emerged as the leading candidate, it was strange.

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-lovie-s ... 59862.html

[Motor City]

Detroit Lions knock Packers from playoff berth, 20-16, earn 1st winning season since 2017

The Packers (8-9) would have qualified for the postseason with a win Sunday, after the Seattle Seahawks beat the Los Angeles Rams in overtime to eliminate the Lions from playoff contention.

Rodgers, who won MVP awards each of the past two seasons, failed to win in the final game of the season with a playoff berth on the line for the first time in four tries in his career, and the Packers will enter the offseason with myriad questions about their roster, including whether Rodgers will return for a 19th season and if he does, what to do his understudy, Jordan Love.

[Glennfs]

Detroit Lions knock Packers from playoff berth, 20-16, earn 1st winning season since 2017

Green Bay might have a bounce back season next year but they are on the cusp of a long dry spell.
Green Bay is not a destination city for free agents and their unique ownership is not good for this era of football.
Star players especially wide receivers, defensive backs and QBs are premadonnas who liked to be romanced by ownership.
Green Bay is the friendless and along with Milwaukee my favorite city in the USA.
It just isn't a good fit for this era of NFL football

[gounion]

Green Bay might have a bounce back season next year but they are on the cusp of a long dry spell.
Green Bay is not a destination city for free agents and their unique ownership is not good for this era of football.
Star players especially wide receivers, defensive backs and QBs are premadonnas who liked to be romanced by ownership.
Green Bay is the friendless and along with Milwaukee my favorite city in the USA.
It just isn't a good fit for this era of NFL football

What bullshit.

[bird]

Woke community bags another trophy

Don’t use words that you don’t know the meaning of.