The great upset victory of the Iowa women over South Carolina on Friday apparently emptied their tank, and they fell in the final to a strong LSU team this afternoon. Owl Chatter is already looking forward to next year.
Here is the winning coach, LSU’s Kim Mulkey, who dressed in outrageous outfits for the games.
Mulkey was Britney Griner’s coach at Baylor and has some issues with the gay community. Her approach seems to be, keep it to yourself — it’s nobody’s business. But that resulted, in Griner’s case, in her living a lie during her college years and she looks back sadly on them.
Gladys Kessler died on March 16th at the age of 85. She was a federal judge who stuck it to the tobacco industry back in 2006. It was the big case brought by the Justice Department in 1999 that lasted over a decade. She found the tobacco industry violated civil racketeering laws for decades by “repeatedly, and with enormous skill and sophistication” deceiving the public about the health hazards of smoking,
Her 1653-page opinion stated the defendants marketed their “lethal” product with zeal and “with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted.” The decision ended the debate on the vileness of the industry.
Kessler strongly took to task the lawyers for the industry for enabling their sordid and deadly activities. She wrote, “What a sad and disquieting chapter in the history of an honorable and often courageous profession.”
Amen to that, Your Honor. Rest in peace.
The puzzle’s theme today was art-related. Very well constructed, but not very stimulating, IMHO. Here’s one of the works it referred to. Hopper’s Nighthawks.
It was inspired by a diner in Greenwich Village, Hopper’s neighborhood. The specific diner was later demolished, or was only ever a composite in Hopper’s mind. The theater lighting manufacturer Electronic Theatre Controls has a human-sized scale model of the diner in the lobby of their headquarters in Middleton, Wisconsin. Here’s what it looks like on site.
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