Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

People are complicated. Love is not.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Bark louder, little dog.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

A consequence of cucumbers

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Republicans don’t trust women.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    I am much relieved that Liverpool has finally won a match in the Premier League after two straight defeats and a draw given away in the last minute of injury time.

    Well, you did say football.

  2. 2.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    IT’S HOCKEY SEASON!

    Gophers beat Penn State 8-0 last night but I was actually impressed with the Nittany Lions. They weren’t scared and they didn’t fold when it was 0-0 and they didn’t fold when it was 8-0. They probably could have held the margin down a lot if they’d played in a defensive shell but they were aggressive all game long. It killed them against the #1 ranked team in the country but I think they’ll cause some other teams fits this year and with their recruiting I expect that they’ll keep getting better.

  4. 4.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    Hey! Newcastle didn’t lose! To avoid relegation they’ll probably have to actually win a few games but baby steps.

  5. 5.

    leinie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): It was the Bemidji game that got rescheduled cuz the sticks didn’t arrive with the team, right? Oh, the headaches an equipment manager must endure.

    What did you think of Hilary Knight practicing with the Ducks?

  6. 6.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @leinie: Yeah, Vermont’s equipment didn’t arrive with the team so that game’s been rescheduled for Sunday.

    You follow women’s hockey?

  9. 9.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @leinie: As for Knight practicing with the Ducks, I think it’s a nice PR gimmick but doesn’t mean anything beyond that. I do hope she enjoyed it.

  10. 10.

    Schlemazel

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
    Hopefully leinie does follow, then we would have another folk to talk to here about it.

    #2 Wisconsin beat # 6 Duluth 4-1 & the North Dakota Thugs beat RPI despite taking 11 penalties (that is a huge number for a womens game, at least one not in UND green)

  11. 11.

    leinie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
    Not specifically, but I’m a hockey fan, so the women’s game falls under that umbrella.

    Now’s where I confess to having grown up in Grand Forks, ND, and being a rabid UND fan, inspiring a rant from you on how horrible the they’ll-always-be-the-Sioux-to-me are, and I say the Gophers suck and the conversation can only go downhill from there. ;)

    The Gopher women are an amazing team, and fun to watch, but since I’m not in Minnesota, my opportunities to see ANY women’s games are limited.

  12. 12.

    Schlemazel

    @raven:
    If it makes you feel any better the best player in the country is out this season because of a concussion she suffered at the Olympics. Thats sort of like football!

  14. 14.

    Schlemazel

    @leinie:
    If you want to see the UND team play check their web site, or the web site of their opponent that week. Sometimes they carry video & most carry audio of the games. It really is a high quality game when the best teams play.

  15. 15.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @leinie: The First Rule of Hockey: If it wears green, root against it. That includes the Fighting Whioux.

  16. 16.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @raven: Old news, obviously, but I laughed last week as our local team got clobbered by the Buckeyes. When the OSU student ran onto the the field and got dropped by a (/n asst) coach, my thought was “piker.” A OSU head coach drops opposing players, and punches them too.

    The funniest part may have been that the goofball was also local, and there on a scholarship for golf caddies. I had no idea there was such a thing. This was my effort to save you from the Limeys and Commies.

  17. 17.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Schlemazel: And I’ll give the UND athletic department some credit: they have some of the best coverage of their women’s team on the net. The video quality is good and the announcers at least have some idea what is going on.

  20. 20.

    raven

    @Schlemazel:

    In 1929, famed golfer Chick Evans Jr., asked the WGA to administer the fund he had established some years earlier to send deserving caddies to college. He could think of no finer organization to entrust his legacy and grow his vision.

    In 1930, the WGA awarded its first two scholarships to caddies Harold Fink and Jim McGinnis. They would attend Northwestern University, the same school where Chick Evans had studied.

    Until World War II, all Evans Scholars continued to attend Northwestern, and it was here that the first Evans Scholars Chapter House was established. Tuition to Northwestern in 1930 was $150 per year, and plenty of Chick’s money was left over. Naturally, he wanted to do more.

    The WGA had to find more caddies. The WGA board established three requirements for selection: scholarship, fellowship and leadership. Using this criteria, they selected a dozen more caddie scholarship winners. The WGA Directors participating in the selection process came to realize the impact of Chick’s dream on the lives of young men with limited access to a college education.

    When Chick’s original investment was exhausted, the WGA Directors perpetuated the caddie scholarship program by leaving money on the board room table after a day of interviews and selections. This “collection plate” process was the sole means of revenue through the early 1940s, when WGA began to solicit funds outside the Association.

  21. 21.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Schlemazel: As raven pointed out, it isn’t the university giving a scholarship to someone who is a caddie for the golf team. It’s for kids who were caddies at clubs as teens.

  22. 22.

    raven

    @Schlemazel: Remember, that was the plot of Caddyshack:

    Danny Noonan works as a caddy at the upscale Bushwood Country Club to raise enough money to go to college. Danny regularly caddies for Ty Webb, an exceptional golfer and the free-spirited playboy son of one of Bushwood’s co-founders. Danny decides to gain favor with Judge Elihu Smails, the country club’s stodgy co-founder and director of the Caddy Scholarship program, by caddying for him.

  23. 23.

    Schlemazel

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
    I have never seen one but maybe I’ll have to do that.
    Sorry linie but there are only 2 teams that can be counted on to goon it up, UND and UMD. I don’t approve of thuggery in the men’s game (its why I refuse to care about the NHL) and it generally is avoided in the womens game which is called a bit closer, usually. Whatever they want to call themselves is less to me than the way they play.

  28. 28.

    leinie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): They did some remodeling of the player areas of the REA and released video tours of it this week. Of course, this was for the men, I didn’t see anything being done for the women.

    One of my bucket list items is to get back to GF (haven’t been there in 15 years, and that wasn’t during hockey season) and make it to a game at that Hockey Palace they built with casino money.

    I’ve got to look at their streaming package again, because they changed it all around with the new NCHC deal for the men, so I’m not sure how it works.

  29. 29.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @raven: It’s clearly a better program than the press has presented, though not nearly as good a punchline. Rewarding academic achievement and all that. I had to research it because I figured it was from some local fool with more money than sense who wanted the “right kind of kids” to get educated. I was pleasantly surprised to learn my mistake.

    @Omnes Omnibus Yah, but it’s a movie. Feeling better?

  30. 30.

    raven

    @Schlemazel: Funny, we came across a 1941 film called “The Vanishing Virginian” last night on the Warner Vault site. The lead character is played by Frank Morgan, better known as the Wizard of Oz. It’s about Lynchburg, VA in the early 1900’s and, since my bride is from that area, we watched it. At one point Frank’s kids lie to him and almost get killed by a bull. He goes right to a tree and gets a switch to whip em.

  33. 33.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @raven: Current Lynchburg trivia: I had occasion to discuss kiddie pr0n cases with the Chief Asst Commonwealth Atty for Lynchburg who handles such cases. He advised that ~ 75-80% of such defendants are – can you guess?

    Liberty U students.

  36. 36.

    Schlemazel

    @raven:
    I read a book that contained the notes of a slaver owner. There is a fairly banal discussion as to if it is better to whip a slave or paddle them. It was all about what was better for the owner getting the most out of his property.

    There are plenty of movies, TV and ads from the past that show or let you know that a husband spanked his wife for some ‘transgression’, she always ‘had it coming’.

    My dad smacked me in the head when he was displeased with me.

    TImes change, people grow.

  38. 38.

    leinie

    Argh, I’m in moderation for mentioning a g am bling establishment as the source of funding for that Hockey Palace at UND.

    Anyway, always nice to see the game on ice getting some love, even if it is from UND hating rodent loving people. ;)

  40. 40.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @leinie: Yeah, there is the fact that the UND hockey program got all of its money from a mobbed up Nazi lover trying to use the university’s name to get him out of PR hell.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @raven: If you are on Firefox, sometimes if you hit the back button, you’ll find the thing you wrote in the comment box.

  43. 43.

    leinie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Ah, it is a BEAUTIFUL building!

    The moderated comment actually relates making a trip back to the REA to see a game as being on my bucket list. I haven’t seen a game since my college days at UND, and that is long enough ago I don’t want to admit to the actual number, although Hak being a player at the time might give you a clue…….

    I grew up in ND. There ain’t nothing to do in the winter but freeze your ass off and go to hockey games. I come by my love of the game naturally.

  44. 44.

    raven

    Great life led by Leigh Whipper, Uncle Josh, in the Vanishing Virginian,

    Leigh Whipper was an consummate actor who led an impressive life. Born in South Carolina in 1876, at the end of the Reconstruction Era in which his parents had participated, he was educated in Washington, D.C., attending Howard University, before turning permanently to a life in the theater. At a time when work for black actors was limited, Whipper became a successful actor, appearing in more than twenty plays and a greater number of films. He not only joined Actors Equity in 1913 and other organizations where African-Americans were few in number, but he also helped fellow African-American thespians by founding the Negro Actors Guild in 1937. His first great success was as The Crab Man in “Porgy” on the stage in 1927-1928 and 1929. His work also included radio and television. He appeared in his first movie in 1920, but his most prolific period of movie making was between the years 1939 and 1947 when he made twenty films, though sometimes he received no screen credit. His performance as Crooks in “Of Mice and Men” (1939), which reprised his Broadway role, is remarkably powerful and natural at a time when roles for African-Americans often required them to compromise their dignity by playing caricatures. In 1944, Whipper received a special honor from the Ethiopian government for his portrayal of Emperor Haile Selassie. He retired in 1972 and died three months before his 99th birthday in 1975.

  45. 45.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @leinie: I road trip to all of the Gopher women WCHA away games so I’ve been to the Ralph several times. It’s not bad.

    I’m pretty sure that over the last three seasons I have seen more Gopher women’s hockey games than anyone not actually in the program. This year the trip to Princeton is the only one I’ll miss.

  46. 46.

    raven

    @Omnes Omnibus: Gave it a try but no luck. Anyway the race angle of the film is interesting. Captain is the prosecutor for Lynchburg and has rebellious daughters, one of whom, wants to be a lawyer. The family has servants that seem to be in the same situation as slaves except they are called “friends”.

  47. 47.

    FourTen

    Villa holds through to the break! Pulling out another point during their “rip of the band-aid” tour would be a blessing.

    Also: Fk Chelsea.

  48. 48.

    leinie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I’m actually going to see the men play in a couple of weeks, against CC in Colorado Springs. Colorado is the closest to me, of the teams that they play against, since I’m in Idaho. It will be the first time I’ve seen UND in person since I left MN back in the 90s.

    I’m simply too far away, and too poor, to be able to road trip and see my hockey teams with any kind of regularity. I have to make do with TV, but I’ll tell you right now, hockey is WHY God made HDTV. Thank goodness for streaming packages and the NBC and CBS sports networks.

  51. 51.

    Tommy

    All I can say is go LSU. Not so sure they are better than Auburn but I guess you got to have hope.

  53. 53.

    Tommy

    OK maybe I am getting old and soon I might yell “get off my lawn” but how is Maryland in the Big Ten? That just makes no sense. But Missouri is in the SEC so I guess geography and what conference you are in doesn’t matter much anymore.

  56. 56.

    Tommy

    @raven: I can almost understand Nebraska. Rutgers makes no sense to me. A few people have mentioned here they try to travel to see their team. If I have to fly halfway across the country to see my team play I am not sure that is possible.

  58. 58.

    skerry

    @raven: And don’t forget Penn State. I’m still upset over that one.

    Also, Purdue is actually playing football today.

  59. 59.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Tommy:

    Having made these drives a looong time ago, it seems to me that College Park is a lot closer to Columbus than Ann Arbor is to Minneapolis.

    But travel considerations don’t override the fact that the B1G wanted to get its cable channel carried in the entirety of the NYC-to-DC corridor.

  61. 61.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @skerry: Why upset over Penn State? Scandal aside, which no one could have predicted 20 years ago, they’ve been a very good fit in the conference, not just athletically but academically. The administration there has leveraged Big 10 membership to upgrade a lot of its academic programs.

    And admitting them means that Minnesota can claim to be the first team to actually finish 11th in the Big 10.

  64. 64.

    Tommy

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    that the B1G wanted to get its cable channel carried in the entirety of the NYC-to-DC corridor.

    Sometimes I am slow up the uptake. Had not thought of that. But I am sure that is a large part of it now I ponder it. As a former DC resident there are clearly a lot of people there. Affluent people. I can only assume you’d want you station there.

  65. 65.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @skerry: And Penn State is the school that finally stepped up and allowed for there to be a Big 10 hockey conference, which I’d wanted for decades.

    Of course, it came right about the time when I switched over to women’s hockey primarily and there’s only four Big 10 schools with women’s teams, so I don’t actually watch much Big 10 Conference hockey . . .

  68. 68.

    skerry

    @Tommy: My kid is at the OSU-UMD game in College Park today.

    Yeah, it’s all about the money.

    I have a friend who started grad school at Rutgers this fall after retiring from the USAF. Told her it was the hard way to get a Big Ten degree.

  70. 70.

    Tommy

    @skerry: Yeah got rid of cable a few months ago. Can not seem to get the streaming channels. They ask for a code I don’t have anymore.

  73. 73.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    Good lord. Oregon deserved to lose just for those hideous uniforms. Unfortunately, they’ve won plenty of times when I’ve said the same thing.

  77. 77.

    PaulW

    My mom WAR EAGLE is at the Auburn game today GO AUBURN and so with Florida winning KEEP HARRIS AT QB, MUSCHAMP OR IT’S YOUR ASS today’s shaping up to be a good day.

    Gotta finish this damn story.

  80. 80.

    Betty Cracker

    @efgoldman: That game was many things, but boring it was not.

    @PaulW: I don’t know what (Georgia alum) Muschamp was doing putting Driskel back in to run out the clock after Harris led the only successful drive in the whole fucking game! Driskel damn near screwed the pooch in a formation my grandma could manage! I was cursing loudly enough to be heard in Knoxville.

  81. 81.

    Betty Cracker

    Pulling for the ‘Dores and Ole Miss, but will likely be disappointed. Will be cheering on the ‘Cocks in the late game.

  83. 83.

    Corner Stone

    Anybody but me think it’s kind of messed up to see Baylor at #6 and U of TX unranked?

  85. 85.

    Alex

    Interestingly enough, CBS’s high ethics took a vacation when Lara Logan spent a year on a bullshit 60 Minutes Benghazi story that was debunked in slightly more than sixty minutes. Logan is still there, proving that, if Dan Rather had tits and a cute accent — Texas accent doesn’t count– he’d still be on 60 Minutes.

    Can one of you tell me why this quote from TBogg is not prototypically sexist, if not misogynistic. Been trying all afternoon to come up with an answer and have failed.

    He’s so funny though. Thank god he’s a liberal.

  87. 87.

    Mnemosyne

    @Alex:

    It’s that tricky thing, though — TBogg is saying that Logan only kept her job because of sexism, so he’s pointing out the sexism that let her keep her job. Personally, I think it’s more because she’s completely in the tank for the right wing, but the fact that she’s a perky blonde with a cute accent who’s completely in the tank for the right wing sure didn’t hurt.

  88. 88.

    jayboat

    @efgoldman:

    Top (newest) post @TBogg’s [now almost unreadable] page.

    I’m glad you said that. He’s practically mailing it in these days, and no bassett pix in like, forever.

    Still love his flashes of brilliance, tho.

    On the other hand, Sir Charles Pierce seems to be on a roll with butter.
    He’s been slicing and dicing as sharp as I’ve ever seen him.

  90. 90.

    raven

    @efgoldman: It’s homecoming so they have the regular and alum bands. I pay my dough and go over but it’s so close it’s just as easy to come on home and watch.

  91. 91.

    jayboat

    @efgoldman:
    I try to look past re-designs as long as the body copy isn’t in comic sans.

    I’m still a regular reader, maybe the design puts me in a crappy mood, subliminally-speaking. 8-]

    I got spoilt with the doggie pix.

  98. 98.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @Alex: They did need to fire her, but if they didn’t do it because they think of her in sexual terms, then that’s on them.

    Btw, I refuse to use the word “sexy” for women men find sexually appealing. It shifts sex onto her. She may or may not have any interest in sex. It’s the people looking at her who are thinking sexy thought.

    Sorry. I gather I’m supposed to be talking football. Go Cyclones!

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: No good team should have its quarterbacks throw 2 interceptions in the end zone and certainly not on a day that their RB rushes for over 260 yards (so far).

    ETA: Yeah, but I have yet to eat today so well see what happens when I do.

  118. 118.

    Hill Dweller

    I don’t understand why Saban can’t buy an effective pass rush at Alabama. They haven’t had one in a few years. He must have had a bigger budget at LSU.

  125. 125.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: Haha! I’m pissed at the SEC channel. Their stupid crawler said LSU-Auburn kickoff was at 8 PM, and I believed it and missed the first two scores!

  136. 136.

    raven

    @efgoldman: A south carolina cheer leader is hurt.

    eta Man, I hope it’s only a precaution but they have her face covered in bandages or straps while the wheel her off.

  140. 140.

    Betty Cracker

    @JCT: I’m surprised the camera peeps don’t get stampeded more often. My daughter films high school games, and she’s had tons of close calls, but she’s quick enough to dodge the oncoming behemoths, thank dog.

  141. 141.

    raven

    @Betty Cracker: Ever see “The Fortune Cookie”? Matthau is insane!

    “A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he’s still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.”

  147. 147.

    JCT

    @Betty Cracker: I used to do the still photography for some high school sports and it was a great way to learn situational awareness and quick reflexes!

    And no kidding those football players, even in high school are BIG.

    Both my kids participated in “hold your breath” sports – daughter en pointe for years and son a baseball catcher. Probably why I went gray so early.

  148. 148.

    khead

    If Mississippi was West Virginia, every single couch in the state would be on fire right now.

  150. 150.

    Betty Cracker

    @JCT: My kiddo weighs about 100 pounds, so I do worry about her getting crunched by a cornerback. She also plays catcher sometimes on the softball team, so she’s taken a few cleats to the head too. She’s tough, though. At least catchers have a lot of armor on.

  152. 152.

    JCT

    @Betty Cracker: Agree re: armor – apparently the official term (according to my son) is “tools of ignorance” because only a dope would subject themselves to all the abuse!

  154. 154.

    Betty Cracker

    @efgoldman: I’m mostly watching the REAL USC (Gamecocks). It’s a decent game too — 17-14. Can’t make myself care about the PAC 12.

  155. 155.

    Keith P

    @Betty Cracker: Didn’t LSU already bench their last QB? Although it’s not a bad idea. The guy has completed one or two passes, and if you’re gonna beat Auburn, you have to hit their secondary (and of course stop them from scoring while you’re at it).

  156. 156.

    Betty Cracker

    @Keith P: I’m not sure. The dude is overthrowing everyone though.

    Cats and Cocks tied up at the half. Spurrier just said: “It’s a tie game. Whoever plays best in the 2nd half will win.” Thanks, Captain Obvious!

  158. 158.

    Betty Cracker

    @efgoldman: Kentucky is a basketball school. They’re tied up now, but I think the ‘Cocks will come out and take care of business.

  160. 160.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop: the accident yesterday, today I wake up to a barking Cocker and roll over to look at the phone and feel something warm and wet under my arm. At least the dog let me know she barfed. Damn that Cocker’s barf is the worst stink. BTW, I’m doing OK.

  161. 161.

    Betty Cracker

    @efgoldman: Every conference has a patsy or two. In fact, many conferences are patsy-majority. KY has shown flashes of competitiveness a time or two over the years. They appear to be better this year than last. If they we’re in the ACC, they’d be perennial contenders. So would Vandy.

  163. 163.

    Betty Cracker

    @efgoldman: Are you suggesting there’s supposed to be parity in any conference? I don’t think there is. Teams do seem to play up to their conference level, so a mediocre team in a great conference can utterly destroy a top team in a shitty conference.

  164. 164.

    Viva BrisVegas

    Since this is apparently an ecumenical football thread, I’ll mention that the Australian Rugby League Grand Final is being played in Sydney tonight.

    The Canterbury Bulldogs (boo, hiss) vs South Sydney Rabbitohs (rah rah).

    In case you are wondering what a rabbitoh is, it was a person who sold rabbits for food in particularly poor neighborhoods during the depression of the 1930’s when it was the only meat the unemployed could afford. They would catch the rabbits in fields around the city and wander the poorer streets shouting “rabbit-oh”.

    Opposition supporters would chant the word in an attempt to embarrass the Souths players. Souths supporters would chant the word back when their team won.

    In a somewhat ironic socioeconomic twist the Souths team is now owned by Russel Crowe.

  165. 165.

    burnspbesq

    @Tommy:

    but how is Maryland in the Big Ten?

    For the same reason that Colorado and Utah are in the Pac-12 and Louisville and Notre Dame are in the ACC.

    At one point it looked like San Diego State was going to end up in the Big East, but then all the heathen schools with football teams broke off to form the AAC and the Big East went back to its origins as a glorified CYO league.

  169. 169.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Viva BrisVegas: We exchanged a message or two a while back about a trip. I ended up spending four days outside Port Douglas, and it was great. Water and air temperatures about the same, both moderate, completely warm enough to swim and snorkel without a wetsuit, but still far from stinger season. Would definitely go back if the opportunity arose. Spent a few days in Sydney as well, and thoroughly enjoyed that. A very picturesque city. Walked across the bridge at sunset, but chose not to spend $250 to climb it, as that seemed like a real rip-off. The opera house is absolutely spectacular, and the behind-the-scenes tour is well worth the money.

  172. 172.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Gin & Tonic: Hi G&T,

    Glad you liked Port Douglas. The first time I ever went there was the early 70s, when it was still a smallish fishing village. There has been a lot of development since then. I don’t know if you got to Cape Tribulation and the Daintree River, but they are worth a look if you ever go back. A bit further north is Cooktown, which I always liked because it had a frontier vibe going, but it is now developing into a tourist hub as well.

    I’d also recommend Hinchinbrook Island a bit south of Cairns.

    I lived in Sydney for 40 years. Have you ever noticed how hard it is to recommend a place for tourism if you have lived there a long time? Glad you liked it though.

    Somewhat serendipitously, I just got back from a trip to Hawaii yesterday.

  173. 173.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Viva BrisVegas: The Port Douglas part was actually between two busy periods for us, so our primary objective was to lay on the beach and relax. Went out on a day trip on a boat, but didn’t head any further north. In talking to people there, it seems we lucked into an ideal time – just before school holiday week, well before summer, but nice and warm (not hot.)

    I hear you about recommending things, particularly in cities that have a lot going on.

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