DL Open Thread Thursday, March 25, 2021
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but ever since The Last Guy left DC the news has lacked the crisis-a-minute pace it maintained for four years.
Say what you want about the voters of Arizona, at least they’re smart enough to be turned off by Kyrsten Sinema’s Joe Manchin impersonation. Her poll numbers back home have nosedived, something that never happens to Chris Coons or Tom Carper in Delaware when they trot out their Centrism Uber Alles anthem.
Major Delaware employer Amazon is fighting tooth and nail to keep out unions, so activists raised the alarm when the company removed the names of tens of thousands of low-level workers from its in-house directory. I’m sure Coons and Carper will stand up against that.
Astra-Zeneca released new numbers on its vaccine after U.S. officials complained that the data it offered two days earlier was out of date. Sure enough, its efficacy rate for preventing infection is 76%, not 79%.
Secretive graffiti artist Banksy produced a work for a hospital in Southampton, England, which the hospital then auctioned off to benefit health care workers. It sold for the equivalent of $23 million dollars, more than quadruple the pre-sale estimate.
Why is education in this country so shitty? Probably has a bit to do with the time and money wasted on sports. There’s apparently a push on in the General Assembly to remove the ban on out-of-season coaching, apparently because the parents of Delaware being the kind of assholes who think their kid is going to get a scholarship — I saw it first-hand coaching 9-year-old Little Leaguers. The geniuses in the General Assembly, led by Sherry Dorsey Walker, whose constituents deserve better, are threatening to go over the DIAA’s heads and against the advice of the high schools sports agency’s medical advisory board.
Major, the Bidens’ rescue German shepherd, is back at the White House after getting some training following his biting incident with a Secret Service agent. I think the whole thing was overblown; my guess is the agent had the stink of The Last Guy on him.
The floor’s yours.
Major is just rooting out all the trumpy loyalists. Hes a VERYGOODBOY
About the coaching thing. When I live in DE, I used to remember playing tennis at Dover Indoor in a group of players that included the Dover High tennis coach. When one of his players came in to sub in our usual Indoor time, he couldn’t play with his player or offer any tips, etc while we were playing.
Here in AZ, they allow for the off-season coaching, and basically, if you are a school district that wants to say go all-in on football, the coach will have practice year-round. The problem with this is that, in these schools, there are no players for the so-called minor sports and students will be playing football year round. WHICH IS NOT GOOD.
The laughable part of this is the legislator who said “All things being said, I think they have best interest in the student-athlete in regard to usage of their bodies, arms, and leg” (speaking of the HS school coaches) Yeah, right. The only requirement for coaching in most states is that you take a quick online course in coaching and pass a fingerprint check. Most HS coaches (myself included) are either doing this part-time (for very little money) or just the teacher who needs or wants an extra $3000 in their check. 🙂
What this has done in AZ (as far as tennis goes anyhow) is that the schools who go all-in for tennis have weekly drills (that the players pay extra for) that are mandatory and that a few HS tennis coaches aren’t coaching HS for the money, but for the extra cash that they get for the weekly drills.
As for Sinema’s impersonation, there is a lot of noise out here, but I’m not sure that it will actually hurt her come re-election as there are still more independent voters here than Dems