Tuesday Reads

 YouTube banning the use of ad blockers by users may not be the best strategy to employ.

For me, to disable the ad blocker is a giant pain in the ass because it affects all sites, not just YouTube.

________________________________

Supposedly a few pages of Andrey Hale's manifesto have surfaced.  She is the person suspected of committing the Nashville School shooting, unusual not only because a woman is suspected of committing the crime, but that it happened at a private school.

________________________________

Obituary:  Cody Dorman, 17, who touched the lives of racing fans all over the world with his bond to his equine namesake, Cody's Wish, winner of back-to-back Breeders' Cup Mile races, died on the way home to Kentucky from Saturday's races.  He had suffered from a medical event and died.

Snip:

Dorman and Cody's Wish made their first connection during a family's visit in October 2018 to Godolphin's Gainsborough Farm, which was arranged by Keeneland with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. During this visit, farm manager Danny Mulvihill wanted Dorman to meet a foal but was concerned the young man's wheelchair might be too scary. He chose an unnamed son of Curlin  and a Godolphin homebred.

"He was a nice, quiet, laid-back foal," Mulvihill recalled with Tom Pedulla for America's Best Racing. "It was very important from my point of view to see if we could get a foal close to Cody, knowing he was in a wheelchair."

After the young colt sniffed around the boy and wheelchair, he laid his head onto Dorman's lap and the tie between them was sealed. Godolphin named the colt Cody's Wish in Dorman's honor.

__________________________

Kentucky governor Andy Beshear has won re-election.

________________________

Abortion rights passed handily in Ohio.  Abortion rights has NEVER lost an election when put to the voters ever since the idiotic Dobbs ruling.   It has never been close, either.   The antiabortion crowd always underestimated the support, the overwhelming support, for abortion rights by the American people, and it has always been this way since the 1960s, when abortion laws first became liberalized.  I fully blame the media for pushing the notion the public is in any way "divided" on this issue.  It isn't.  Antiabortion sentiment is actually on the fringe and become more so as younger people come along who support abortion rights, especially young women.

I think a 15-point margin is conservative.  It should be way more than that.

Earlier in the evening was this report on an exit poll.

______________________________