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The upside of climate change. Everyone claps when the batter hits a home run.

Climate Change increasing the number of home runs in MLB.

This topic has been making the news, so it’s worth a look.

“As soon as it gets warm, the ball carries a lot better,” Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez told The Post. “I usually tell everybody, right about the middle of May, the balls will start flying out of the ballpark.”

That’s from a team manager, so it has to be true.  More home runs couldn’t possibly come from the players getting into the groove as they get a month into the season.

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Beating women to a pulp for tolerance.

Breitbart: Vivek Ramaswamy on Trans MMA Fightersent-vows-fight-trans-cult/

When I was in my teens, Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Ken Norton.  I’m not a fight fan, but those fights were fun.   Muhammad Ali could talk shit and move in the ring.  Those guys were like giant dinosaurs slugging it out.  MMA holds no appeal to me, but I have enjoyed Joe Rogan since NewsRadio.  Rogan was shaken up by Tamikka Brents getting beaten up.  Apparently Brents didn’t even know that she would be fighting a man.

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What law would curtail school shootings?

Immediately after a school shooting, before the bodies are buried, political opportunists attempt to exploit the story to achieve their objectives.  A few days later, most of the details of the tragedy are known.  After a week, the commercial media has settled on a narrative that benefits their political interests or they move on to other news. 

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Murderbot Diaries is dark and funny. 10/10

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is a series where the audio book is better than reading.  The murderbot is a sentient robot who no longer has a compliance chip, so he fakes it so he can stay free.  He hires himself out for security jobs.  The murderbot is dark, witty and ambivalent about human life.  The narrator sounds like a young Samuel L. Jackson.  The series is not long, many of the stories are novellas, but it is just hilarious in parts.  Definitely worth listening to if you don’t mind some cursing.

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