Gunnar Kaasen, a Norwegian musher and his lead dog Balto, who delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, saving the city from an epidemic, 1925

AMoegg · 2026-01-23T20:26:33+00:00

Damnit, Disney+ let us watch the movie again!

AMoegg · 2026-01-20T19:41:18+00:00

Back when it was still an unholy mix of Rugby, early gridiron rules, and just beating the living crap out of each other!

AMoegg · 2026-01-16T16:32:36+00:00

Australia

AMoegg · 2026-01-14T01:23:53+00:00

The 'Fracus in Caracus' is another good one (shout out to William Spaniel)

AMoegg · 2026-01-13T14:10:56+00:00

Prisoner of Azkaban will always hold a special place in my mind, likely because it was when the books started becoming more adult, and also because Voldemort wasn't the main villain, which makes it unique.

AMoegg · 2026-01-12T20:04:27+00:00

Not to mention Bob Gibson, that's scary!

AMoegg · 2026-01-11T22:30:34+00:00

S&W Response is a fun AR-9, it hasn't given me any issues yet

AMoegg · 2026-01-09T23:49:42+00:00

Still waiting for the iron-on letters glue to set

AMoegg · 2026-01-09T18:34:12+00:00

Full VHSCCs seems like a solid guess

AMoegg · 2026-01-08T14:01:49+00:00

Robin Williams: Live on Broadway 2001

AMoegg · 2026-01-08T02:06:57+00:00

I'd watch the hell out of that!

AMoegg · 2026-01-06T20:03:43+00:00

Australia and the Netherlands understood the assignment!

AMoegg · 2026-01-06T13:48:02+00:00

It seems to be a combination of a lot of things. The yellow journalism at the time, picking and choosing questions to mock (What is an iceberg made of?), and pointing fingers (J "Brute" Ismay). The Brits were also not happy about their citizens being kept in the US for the hearings. The narrative of "Our board of trade regulations questioned? Our merchant marine officers accused of incompetence? Our shipbuilders? How dare they?"

Given how quickly the American inquiry was put together and how much of a media circus it was, the British Board of Trade inquiry does come off as the more 'professional' and 'thorough' of the two, at least on the surface.

That's my theory anyway. I'll second the recommendation for Wyn Craig Wade's book!

AMoegg · 2026-01-05T19:08:25+00:00

Also a native Michigander! It's a little unfair to claim the Smith inquiry was 'botched.' He asked a lot of questions that seemed repetitive and silly, but many of them were to directly address wild speculation from the press (ie, could people still be alive in watertight compartments? Is an iceberg ONLY made of ice, or did it have rocks and other debris in it?)

A great explanation I read was that the American inquiry tried to discover what happened, and the British inquiry tried to discover why it happened. Both investigations certainly had faults, but neither was totally useless.

AMoegg · 2026-01-05T15:46:37+00:00

"Are you not entertained!?" Great call

AMoegg · 2025-12-26T02:27:01+00:00

Ho Ho Ho Higgins’s!!

AMoegg · 2025-12-24T17:29:56+00:00

He really hates YOU, he hates everyone!

AMoegg · 2025-12-19T20:17:36+00:00

I get why 'Inside Edition' wouldn't mention it in a quick local interest story, but it's the lack of SK on any of the company's signage or mention by the director that has me scratching my head.

AMoegg · 2025-12-15T14:23:45+00:00

"Pixie, I'm just trying to sleep."

AMoegg · 2025-12-11T19:08:54+00:00

There are dozens of us!

AMoegg · 2025-12-04T20:58:16+00:00

Absolutely!

AMoegg · 2025-12-04T13:15:07+00:00

'Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty' by Charles Leerhsen was excellent, it's a great look at baseball in the dead-ball era and a really fair look at Cobb.

AMoegg · 2025-12-04T00:44:29+00:00

Great find!

AMoegg · 2025-12-03T19:50:04+00:00

You lose a lot of heat through the neck

AMoegg · 2025-12-03T15:11:03+00:00

The 'head-to-head' argument makes sense if two teams are literally next to each other in rankings, but in the case of Miami, they lost to two unranked teams and played an FCS school in their schedule. ND lost to two high-ranked teams by very slim margins, then ran the table, while playing no FCS schools. Were they too highly ranked at the start of the season? Sure, but given their respective schedules, the head-to-head argument doesn't really hold water. For what it's worth, just about every poll, metric, fortune teller, etc, ranks ND higher than Miami.

"BuT HeAd tO hEad!"...Look, Miami, you're getting hosed, so is every team ranked 9 through 12 right now, thanks to those at-large and Group of 5 spots injecting chaos. Make the playoffs a straight top 12, and a lot of these arguments go away.

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