{"id":24505,"date":"2021-01-14T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24505"},"modified":"2021-01-14T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:48:26","slug":"thursday-update-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/14\/thursday-update-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Memphis Tigers basketball tonight, as another game, this one at home vs. SMU, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-tigers-basketball\/article\/19279\/thursdays-memphis-smu-game-postponed-due-to-covid\">postponed<\/a> due to COVID-19. The last time the Tigers took the court was a December 29 win over USF. Hopefully, they&#8217;ll be back in action Sunday at Tulsa.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to mention that the Flying Saucer charges $5 for a 16-ounce can of PBR before presenting this historical fact:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">From 1754 BC Mesopotamia, the Code of Hammurabi, rule 108, read, &#8220;if a tavern keeper overcharges for beer, she must be thrown in the water until drowned.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/history?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Drunken History (@DrunkenHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrunkenHistory\/status\/1349360389935427585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies improved their record to 5-6 with a win over Minnesota last night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1120826228336835\">The Starry Road to Freedom<\/a>, a one-man presentation about the life of Frederick Douglass, will be presented online tonight by Elmwood Cemetery. The show starts at 6 PM and tickets are $15.<\/p>\n<p>A Downtown power outage <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/downtown-power-outage-affects-wreg-daybreak\/\">has forced WREG Daybreak off the air<\/a>. Power is on where I am, and looking out the window toward South Main I see plenty of traffic lights and street lights. Perhaps it&#8217;s only the area near Martyrs Park.<\/p>\n<p>One of my very favorite authors, behavioral expert and former FBI agent Joe Navarro, offers a hint of what we can expect in the final 6 days of Trump&#8217;s presidency:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have not seen all of it yet, there is still more to the Entropic Stage of Malignant Narcissism when they fail. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YjKWkEdHU4\">pic.twitter.com\/YjKWkEdHU4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Navarro (@navarrotells) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/navarrotells\/status\/1349360948046401538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure I made this prediction before, but I&#8217;ll say it again: I predict Trump will join James K. Polk (number 11, 1845-1849) on the list of presidents who die the same calendar year they leave office. Once a narcissist completely collapses, they don&#8217;t rally and come back, especially as one as old and feeble as The Donald. I think Trump will check out of this physical world the way Joe Paterno did when it became clear he had criminal liability in the Sandusky investigations.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this post. I&#8217;ll try to give the COVID-19 task force press conference a listen at noon. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Memphis Tigers basketball tonight, as another game, this one at home vs. SMU, has been postponed due to COVID-19. The last time the Tigers took the court was a December 29 win over USF. Hopefully, they&#8217;ll be back in action Sunday at Tulsa. I&#8217;d like to mention that the Flying Saucer charges $5 for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/14\/thursday-update-176\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24506,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions\/24506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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