Best ledes

One of my personal faves ...

The Tech men's basketball team made two points in the first quarter Tuesday night at State. The first was on a free throw by Johnny Smith. The second was the Techies were not going to beat the Statesmen.

 

I wouldn't say the 1966 lead was a "light moment" at all. I imagine - barely 20 years after World War II ended - that the sentiment was gravely serious.

 

Jim Murray in September 1963, when the Cards were cutting into the Dodgers' lead. "Before the season began, I wrote the Dodgers had to players to burn. If they blow this, it'll be too good for 'em."

 

Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness, and God is empty, just like thousands of seats for the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins reunion tour.
Despite all their rage, Smashing Pumpkins' tour isn't selling well

 

A sentence in the story, wrapping up a paragraph: "Leafless, branchless, barkless, they are reduced to their trunks and worn to a smooth silver-gray, as if they had always carried their own tombstones inside them."

That's writing.

 

That's a fabulous article. It was when I first read it, and it remains so.

 

“The million-to-one shot came in. Hell froze over. A month of Sundays hit the calendar. Don Larsen today pitched a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach first game in a World Series.” — Shirley Povich

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/larsen.htm

 

He tried to lure beefcakes with “the meats.”

A Missouri church leader allegedly tried to pay for sex on the gay hookup app Grindr — with an Arby’s card, according to a report.

Using the handle “DILF,” Barry Cole Poyner, 57, allegedly tried to bed hot college-aged guys by offering to pay for gas, clothes and roast beef sandwiches, police told the Kirksville Daily Express.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/missouri-church-leader-tried-to-pay-for-sex-on-grindr-with-arbys-card/

 

Nice waste of police resources. Go after the child molesters instead, not the repressed homosexuals who hide behind the cloth. Policing prostitution is just pointless and stupid IMHO.

Still, a very meaty lede.

 

Not, it's not. Sex trafficking is a huge problem.

Watch this if you get a chance: Sex Trafficking in America

 

Fair enough. I wasn't giving it the consideration it deserves in how it contributes to sex trafficking.