Paying Attention Embed from Getty Images At one time in the evolution of the automobile, most cars were hand built. After Henry Ford invented the production line, hand built cars became a status symbol and were for the most part, the very best cars, the most expensive, the fastest, the most exclusive. As a result of …
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The Nightshift: 5 November 2016
Press Clippings It’s Saturday, 5 November 2016. The weekend is here. Big football games all across America, big political rallies all across America. By this time next weekend we will know who the next President of the United States will be. Meanwhile, the world goes on. Below, the front pages of the world’s great newspapers …
George Halas quote
“Nobody who ever gave their best regretted it…”
Nightshift Sports: How The Cubs Won Game 7
Paying Attention Embed from Getty Images Wednesday night’s game 7 of the World Series, which pitted the Chicago Cubs against the Cleveland Indians, in a battle of two traditional baseball franchises that have not won a World Series in a very long time (108 years for the Cubs, 68 for the Indians) was a …
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The Nightshift: 4 November 2016
Editor’s Note: Linked out. We have been notified that the links to the newspapers below were not operative and so we are going through and updating each one. This process is ongoing, now and should be completed within the hour. Press Clippings It’s Friday, 4 November 2016. The Chicago Cubs will have their victory parade …
The Nightshift: 3 November 2016
Press Clippings Embed from Getty Images It’s Thursday, 3 November 2016. The Cubs did it one more time–winning an exciting, extra-inning Game 7 of the World Series last night. The game ran late because it was tied at the end of 9 and there was a rain delay. Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs for coming back …
The Nightshift: 2 November 2016
Press Clippings Embed from Getty Images The Cubs did it–winning Game 6 of the World Series last night by 9-3 to force a Game 7 against Cleveland tonight (the game will be played in Cleveland, of course..the series is based on a 2-3-2 home rotation). There have only been 37 Game 7s in World Series …
mark twain on courage
“Courage is resistance to fear, not absence of fear…”
The Nightshift: 1 November 2016
Press Clippings The headlines from the world’s major newspapers for Tuesday, 1 November 2016 are at your fingertips. Game 6 of the World Series, Cubs vs. Cleveland, at Cleveland, is tonight. The American political battle roars on–inconclusive, unsubstantial, ill-informed. There is other news in the world, and you can view it by clinking the links below….. The …
A Vampire Reading List
Paying Attention: It’s October 31st and it’s Halloween. Tonight, the nation’s attention will turn from the real-life bloodsuckers of politics to the fantasy world of vampires. Maybe you are familiar with Anne Rice’s series of novels on the secret life of Vampires, but there’s a whole underworld out there that is worth of closer inspection. …