Weekend link dump for October 2

The Jerry Orbach Memorial Art Car is a thing that needs to happen, especially if they promise to bring it to Houston for the next Art Car Parade.

On being a cafeteria Catholic in American politics. Complete with dissenting view to accompany it.

Roger Maris and The Asterisk, 55 years later.

What Scalzi and Orzel say.

RIP, Arnold Palmer, one of golf’s greatest and most popular players.

RIP, Jose Fernandez, All-Star pitcher for the Miami Marlins.

Boy, that Ted Cruz sure is a man of principle, isn’t he?

Five years later, the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has caused no problems, despite what some people said.

“The first time you meet Donald Trump, he’s an older male relative who smells like cigarettes and asks when you are going to lose that weight. You’re 9 years old.”

You have managed to do for Native Americans what no president has done before, President Obama. You promised during that speech in Dallas that when you where in office, you wouldn’t forget about us. Thank you for keeping your promise!”

“What I’m telling you is, you’ve basically been eating butternut squash pie, squash bread, and drinking SQUASH FREAKING SPICE LATTES this entire time.”

If a former Miss Universe can make Donald Trump lose his mind, what would ISIS do to him?

The case against cash is more compelling than you might think.

“The conceit of the Trump campaign is that he’s a smart, business-savvy outsider who can fix things. But he clearly has no idea how to fix things. He doesn’t even seem to have a grasp of what the problems are.”

Yahoo was not very focused on security, with predictable results.

“What Trump mainly does for a living is to steal; he’s not a businessman, he’s a goniff, of a fairly standard type.”

RIP, Shimon Peres, founding father and former Prime Minister of Israel.

RIP, Agnes Nixon, creator and writer of television soap operas who brought discussion of social ills to her shows.

RIP, Suzanne Mitchell, first ever director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. You owe it to yourself to read her last interview, from this May, about her life and times with that organization.

How Major League umpires showed their respect to Vin Scully.

The real difference between Mike Trout and Mookie Betts.

Has Donald Trump paid any income taxes at all in the past 20 years?

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