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- Marianne Williamson has laid off her entire presidential campaign staff.
- Papa John has a very reasonable New Year's resolution: to eat 50 pizzas in 30 days.
- A really good New Year's resolution that doesn't involve pizza? Take up a bad habit.
- The Washington Post reports on fascinating Wikipedia personal life entries.
- RIP to Yankees pitcher Don Larsen.
- Domingo German, one of the Yankees’ best starting pitchers for much of 2019, has been suspended for 81 games under baseball’s domestic violence policy.
- U-Haul said it will stop hiring people who use nicotine in the 21 states (but not New York) where companies are allowed to consider tobacco use when making hiring decisions.
- The best gossip item of 2020 so far is this personal piece T.S. Eliot wrote about a woman he exchanged flirty letters with for 26 years while he was married: "I came to see that my love for Emily was the love of a ghost for a ghost, and that the letters I had been writing to her were the letters of an hallucinated man."
- A pet owner is suing dog food company Blue Buffalo because she says her pup is diabetic and has "canine obesity" because of their food.
- Scientists have detected the “fingerprint” of human-induced climate change on daily weather patterns at the global scale.
- If you love music from the '70s, then you won't want to miss out on Fluxblog's 1970s survey, "a collection of 10 extended playlists designed to provide a panoramic view of the music of each year of the decade as possible across all major genres and, as much as possible, around the world."
- More people live in the Bronx and Queens than almost half the rest of the entire country.
- And finally, my New Year's resolution is to do exactly this much working out:
Published Jan 2, 2020
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