Best ledes

[Junkie]

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.

 

[Dog8Cats]

The light moment actually has a precedent in fact. It reminded anyone who has read Dan Jenkins over the years of his "Best Lead Ever Written on a Golf Story." According to Jenkins, Leonard Crawley of the London Daily Telegraph once typed: "Despite the abominable handling of the press luggage at the Zurich airport, the Swiss Open managed to get of to a rather decent start yesterday."

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.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

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."

 

[JM22720]

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

 

[swingline]

The entire top of Kathryn Schulz's earthquake story is ridiculously good, but here's the lede:

When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan—that one was the third of the week—and the participants were, after all, at a seismology conference. Then everyone in the room checked the time.

Yeah, you're gonna keep reading.

The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest

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.

 

[Neutral Corner]

The entire top of Kathryn Schulz's earthquake story is ridiculously good, but here's the lede:

When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan—that one was the third of the week—and the participants were, after all, at a seismology conference. Then everyone in the room checked the time.

Yeah, you're gonna keep reading.

The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest

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

 

[Baron Scicluna]

"The million-to-one shot came in. heck 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

 

[MileHigh]

Woody Plaige, in January 1997 after the Broncos gagged at home in the divisional round against the Jaguars.

What do the Pope, Billy Graham and the 1996 Broncos have in common?

They got 76,000 people at Mile High Stadium to stand up and shout, "Jesus Christ!"

 

[Songbird]

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/

 

[CD Boogie]

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.

 

[SFIND]

Policing prostitution is just pointless and stupid IMHO.

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

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

 

[CD Boogie]

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.