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Cake day: June 27th, 2023





  • I should have attributed, sorry.

    Randall Jarrell, published in 1945.

    Bomber ball turret gunners and tail gunners had the shortest life expectancy of any combat occupation in the war, as these were the first targets of incoming fighters. I found one site that said tail gunners’ combat life expectancy was four missions.

    Ball turrets couldn’t reload in flight. The ball was too small for parachutes, and the mechanisms jammed or froze often. Typically they put small, young, single guys in them.













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    Assuming this isn’t just shopped, which it probably is… As a guy that bakes cakes from scratch a couple of times a year, two things:

    1. Props to whomever got that pattern into the cake, that couldn’t have been easy. Imagine: There’s a toroidal swastika in that cake.
    2. That’s one ugly-ass cake for having spent so much time on it.



  • Yes, he has played a significant role in past elections all the way back to Reagan, and you haven’t noticed.

    He’s an intellectual pundit that was on Fox News until 2017. He writes political commentary for the Washington Post; his column currently appears in 415 newspapers.

    He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

    He continues to appear on MSNBC to this day.

    He’s also considered to be a baseball expert who has written extensively on the subject including his own book. Their “baseball fan” comment was intended to be cute, I think.