Articles of Distraction

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A qualifying match at the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament was interrupted when an eastern brown snake - one of the deadliest animals in Australia (which is saying a lot) - slithered onto the court.

CNN

Boru

[Silver]

Mathematicians in the UK said in a paper published in July that they had figured out how many tickets you would have to buy to guarantee winning in the country's National Lottery — 27.

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean you're guaranteed to win enough to cover the cost of the tickets, the mathematicians said.

Yahoo

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mathematicians in the UK said in a paper published in July that they had figured out how many tickets you would have to buy to guarantee winning in the country's National Lottery — 27.

Unfortunately, that doesn't mean you're guaranteed to win enough to cover the cost of the tickets, the mathematicians said.

Yahoo

Lotteries are a voluntary tax paid by stupid people.

Boru

[Silver]

Rock band Green Day altered the lyrics of their well-known song American Idiot to criticize Donald Trump during a televised New Year’s Eve performance.

The Guardian

[Silver]

Taylor Swift has notched a new record over the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The “Anti-Hero” singer, 34, has now surpassed Elvis Presley as the soloist with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the release of her latest album 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Billboard announced on Sunday.

Swift has spent 68 weeks atop the Billboard 200, beating Presley, who recorded 67 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 across his 10 albums between 1956 and 2002.

People

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Taylor Swift has notched a new record over the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The “Anti-Hero” singer, 34, has now surpassed Elvis Presley as the soloist with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the release of her latest album 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Billboard announced on Sunday.

Swift has spent 68 weeks atop the Billboard 200, beating Presley, who recorded 67 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 across his 10 albums between 1956 and 2002.

People

Boru

[no one]

That's why her music sounds like shit.

[Silver]

Mickey Mouse enters public domain, and the first thing they want to do is turn him into a horror icon.

IGN

[Ravenshire]

People

Boru

That makes sense. Every time I hear her music, it sounds like that too.

[Belacqua]

Good essay here on how a conservative Catholic writer has contributed to the over-simplified way in which people interpret current events.

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-three-stig...r-tolkien/