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Goddess Energy and Black History Month Nina Mae McKinney b. Nannie Mayme McKinney June 2, 1912 or 1913, Gemini, Lancaster, SC d. May 3, 1967, NYC Nina is credited as the 1st Black actress to have a lead role in Hollywood talkie films. Her first role was in the Oscar nominated Hallelujah! (1929). It was the 1st all Black cast, sound musical. She ends up with a 5 year MGM contract for leading roles.

Share David Goggins is a psychopath. He’s a former navy seal and drops more f-bombs than a drunken sailor at a bar full of playboy bunnies. For the first time ever I had to tell my 1 year old daughter to leave the room an hour ago because I had David Goggins videos playing. He’s so brutal and rude that I didn’t want her to hear him. Surface-level people dismiss David Goggins. That’s why they miss all the opportunities in life. Surface-level people screw themselves up the butt.

Note: This newsletter is supported by Donnelly’s Public House, a wonderful canal-side establishment in the village of Fairport. Construction is nearly done. Everything has been framed out. Drywall remains to be hung. The equipment is there, it just needs to be put into place. But there is a finish line in sight. And within the next few weeks, Nine Spot Brewing, 190 Monroe Ave., will open its doors. When it does, patrons will experience beer and food that showcases every single corner of New York state.

Programming note: Welcome to the second-ever Dead Game newsletter. I’m very happy you stopped by and I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please tell your family, friends, and neighbors to subscribe. The newsletter is currently hosted on Substack, the platform controversial for, among other things, being really weird about banning White supremacist and Nazi-adjacent content. As newsletters big and small ditch Substack over its wishy-washy stance on moderating hate speech, Dead Game is evaluating alternatives and considering all the options.

We entered this week with significant concerns as to whether two Georgia clubs in NISA, the Savannah Clovers who have lost investors in the last six months and the vagabond Georgia Lions (an outgrowth of USL L2’s Atlanta area Dutch Lions franchise) would actually kick a ball in league play this season. Both clubs have had serious financial issues and Da… ncG1vNJzZmiala68r7DToZxyaF6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6noKyZXaq9pa3Tnqpmn5Wkv6i1wGaapa2SqHqttcybpg%3D%3D

It all started February of this year, we reported how Sparta parents challenged an inappropriate book in the middle school Called “The Upside of Unrequited,” which contained topics such has orgies and orgasms, explicit discussion of waxing genitalia, how one loses their virginity regarding specific sex acts, underage drinking and mixing alcohol with prescription drugs. The most outrageous part of this story, isn’t the part that 11 year olds were reading about orgies and sex acts in their school library.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! If you’re looking for something to watch as the weather turns colder and we spend more time indoors, allow me to suggest HBO’s No Accident. This documentary, directed by Kristi Jacobson and produced by Michelle Carney and Alexandra Moss, tells the story of Sines v.

Photo by Sam Dan Truong on Unsplash Hello, Welcome to Known Unknowns: a newsletter that is bullish on the bullish market—but there’s no free lunch. Let’s talk about this market It’s crazy. Apparently Nvidia is now worth more than all of Manhattan real estate. And the recent past is even crazier. I made this chart for my Bloomberg column, and, other than the pandemic, in the last 15 years, the S&P just went up and went up steadily.

We’ve been watching a lot of old British films lately at our house, and in the process we’ve learned a lot about works of art that are quite good, without any pretensions to greatness or any need to clear some enormous expense in production. Just as there’s nothing grander than an epic that succeeds, so there’s nothing more embarrassing than an epic that flops. Filet mignon is great, but you can’t live on that alone; you need potatoes and vegetables and fruit, too, and sometimes a good hamburger from the grill is exactly right.