Erik Loomis

This is the grave of Teresa Wright, as well as the remains of other good people who left their bodies to the Yale University School of Medicine for research purposes in training doctors.

How much prison labor goes into the making of your car? At the very least, until a few days ago if you were driving a Hyundai, the answer was likely some.

So, the NFL is pissed that the NCAA is playing its first ever big 12 team playoff weekend on the Saturday before Christmas, traditionally a time when the NFL plays a couple of Saturday games. So they placed the two biggest games of the weekend on Saturday, both to show the NCAA who has the biggest dick, but also so that a different combination of those four teams can play on Christmas Day. So going up against the playoff is Chiefs-Texans and Ravens-Steelers. Oh, is that all? I believe Scott will have another football open thread post a bit later, but I will at least briefly discuss the Chiefs-Texans game at the end here.

The Senate passed bipartisan legislation early Saturday that would give full Social Security benefits to a group of public sector retirees who currently receive them at a reduced level, sending the bill to President Biden.

No wonder Donald Trump and Eric Adams are becoming buds. They surround themselves with the same kind of class acts:

The big loss in music this week was that of Zakir Hussain, dead at 73. I had a few chances to see the great tabla player here and there but never did. Sigh.

This is the grave of Oscar DePriest, as well as his wife Jessie DePriest.

The Washington Post attempted to count the number of dead Native children on the grounds of the genocidal Indian Schools. The best number it could come up with is 3,100, which is almost certainly low, but these things are likely to be underestimated due to record keeping lags.

This is the grave of John Schofield. Born in 1831 in Gerry, New York, Schofield grew up the son of a Baptist minister and missionary.

This is the grave of George Pettibone. Born in 1862, Pettibone was a miner. He came out of Kansas, but he eventually ended up in Idaho.