@leslietownes Nice! I thought earlier of DELETE, but too many E's
ADORING, ADORE (these seem to have come up often). ROAD RAGE
GRIDIRON (GRID, GRIND, IRON), DINER
ROTTEN, GOTTEN
TENDER, TINDER, HINGE, HANG, HANGER, HANGAR
DAGGER, WAGE, WAGER, TORNADO, GRENADA
GRENADE
ORNATE
ODER, NODE, NOSE, NOSTRIL
NASAL
One of my allergy tablets each day is LORATADINE
^^^^ NAME the BRAND
Another challenge with this title, The search is of a title of a novel. WHO WROTE "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?" and name one other novel in the series.
^^^ @leslie Up to any of the above challenges: Including the Name the Brand?
It's quite interesting, that the news feeds, across networks, is so focused on a young woman, 22 years old, who went on a road trip with her fiance, and seemed never to have returned home, though her fiance returned in her van, which they used for the road trip. Gabby Petito is the missing woman from Florida. The "fiance" has refused to talk with police or law enforcement... But I first heard about this yesterday, and it dominates the news. Moreso than missing children do, at times.
@leslietownes It is, indeed. I mean, it does seem fairly clear (in my thinking) that some sort of foul play occurred, but wow! I really don't know enough yet to really have any conclusions. But you hit the nail on the head of the demographics and media spins.
LA county is steadily averaging around 20-25 covid deaths a day, and has handled the pandemic fairly well relative to a lot of the country. but that is just background noise now.
what's unseemly about that missing woman story is that there doesn't even seem to be any new information coming out. day after day news outlets will run with it, again, just because it gets clicks.
@leslietownes Yes, indeed. And then there's the Lawyer (old blood) who paid someone to kill him by shooting him in the head, so the insurance company wouldn't have reason to think it was suicide. Just beyond comprehension. I bet anything that there will be a movie made about the Lawyer/family.
it's very hollywood, the whole thing where he was stealing from his firm, his family was killed and nobody knows who did it, and he's part of some family that has apparently ruled some county like royalty for generations... it's almost too much to fit in one movie.
he should have saved some trouble and gotten a policy that didn't exclude suicide. it's fairly common for life insurance to treat it like death by any other illness, perhaps after some period (e.g. a year or two, to prevent an actively suicidal person from signing a policy on their way out)
@leslietownes There's also the unresolved case against the son who was killed three months ago, for a death resulting from a boating accident involving the son.
@leslietownes Yes, indeed, he has admitted to opiate abuse, with the man he asked to kill him his supplier. He says it was his coping after the death of his son Paul, and his wife (three months), but the contact with the supplier was many years in the making.
And the son previously under scrutiny for the boating accident, was accused by the family of the victim of that accident, as habitually boating while drunk, because his dad let his sons drink.
the profession has one of the highest rates of substance abuse. in CA we have to be educated on it every three years and we have a free hotline we can call for help. the stat they gave us at the last talk was something like 20% of attorneys have a drinking problem.
those studies tend to define problem drinking somewhat expansively and it is a very hard statistic to measure, but i'm sure whatever the 'real' number is it is shockingly high.
But also, I have a mini bias against the small town/rural south, from law enforcement to lawyers, etc. So I am not ask shocked by this particular story. I mean lawyers and politicians can be crooked any where, but it seems, at times, that in small town/rural south, there's a tendency to sweep things under the rug, with ample help from one's "friends".
And there's no doubt that a very high percentage of the "Me too" legitimate claims occurred when the "offender" had a few too many.
But, your right, that despite Covid, and hospitals needing to ration care in favor of those most likely to survive, it seems people don't want to think about it, and the media is eager to give them a diversion.
@leslietownes Exactly my feelings. Despite the two emerging stories, I also caught yesterday, a Senate hearing where four gymnasts testified, as did the current FBI head. Quite disturbing, the roll that a few FBI agents effectively betrayed the gymnasts who first came forward re. Nasser.
they really need to clean house at the FBI. i'd love to know what their hiring processes are like, that agents could even be capable of that. they don't seem to be getting the best and the brightest.
or if there's some internal thing where you're not supposed to make waves and give high profile investigative targets some extra benefit of the doubt, they should fix that. i didn't watch the hearing but read some coverage. atrocious
@leslietownes Exactly. I suspect that Agents working in the "field", in various states, with a fairly small staff, that previously they were given far more independence, or rogue agents backed each other up; no real accountability. But yes, I think you're spot on. It seems the agent who interviewed the first gymnast to come forward, essentially buried the report he took. I suspect it snowballed to cover up his cover up, lies, and more lies. But indeed, there seemed to be
mutual favors between the Indiana FBI, US GYMNASTICS, Michigan State... etc. I don't think the whole truth was every revealed. I mean this involved even the President and Dean of Michigan State.
higher-ups don't seem to have considered the institutional cost of these stories eventually getting out, and shaking the confidence of the public in all of the competent work that they are doing.
it's weird that we live a world where someone who is a big wheel in an athletic program is regarded by peers as a powerful figure to be protected. i just don't understand it. i don't care how well the program is doing.
ROGERING.
we had AIRHEAD, NITWIT, also just plain TWIT and also DOLT.
@leslietownes Indeed. I mean look at Penn State years ago. (I think that was the program where an assistant coach was booted, along with Joe Paterno, who was like a legend there.
or former speaker of the house dennis hastert (high school wrestling coach, paid hush money to cover up his own molestation) or current congressman jim jeffords (allegedly did nothing about abuse of wrestlers at OSU)
@leslietownes Nice ones! Also, I really enjoy talking with you, for fun in word searches, but also you seem up to speed on current events and "weird" incidents. A lot of people these days seem to bury their heads in the sand, or stick only to one sources. so I find it very refreshing to compare notes with you!
i read a lot. i have a bunch of news alerts set up for my job, and a short attention span, so when i click into some article, i tend to read what's around it too.
