Clare Briggs / Comics

The Sourpuss

by Clare Briggs · March 29, 2021

Tags: Baseball Hipster Killjoy Somebody's Always Taking The Joy Out of Life

Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

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Jaybird says:

March 29, 2021 at 10:23 am

Holy Crap. Noam Chomsky is a vampire.Report
- DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird says:
  
  March 29, 2021 at 2:03 pm
  
  why do you think they call him chompsky…Report
Kolohe says:

March 29, 2021 at 1:06 pm

JB beat me to the Chomsky comment.

Fact checking the sourpuss, 1923 was indeed a relative low for MLB attendance, for some reason, (8.6 million) but then would gain almost a million the next year and remain around 9.5 million for the rest of the decade.

https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/1920-1929-mlb-attendance/

Interestingly, (but maybe not surprising*) attendance peaked in 1930 at over 10.1 million, but then would fall off dramatically the next couple of years, bottoming out in 1933 at just a bit over 6 million.
https://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/1930-1939-mlb-attendance/

*my hypothesis being that if people found themselves suddenly without a job, they would in the short term have took advantage of the free time to go to the ball park, but over the long term, not go at all due to lack of money.Report

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Shooting in Buffalo Leaves 10 Dead, 13 Wounded

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Still a developing story, but what we know so far points to an utterly depraved act of violence at a Buffalo supermarket.

WIVB TV 4, Buffalo:

Ten people were killed and three others suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to local hospitals after a mass shooting at a supermarket on Buffalo’s East Side Saturday afternoon.

The shooter was an 18-year-old white male who was heavily armed with tactical gear and was live-streaming during the mass shooting, officials said. City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the shooter is not from Buffalo and traveled “hours” from outside the area.

“This was pure evil,” Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said. “A straight-up racially motivated hate crime.”

The shooter was identified in court Saturday evening as Payton S. Gendron of Conklin, New York, about 200 miles southeast of Buffalo.

Gendron was arraigned on one count of first-degree murder without bail.

The 18-year-old will be back in court on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. for a felony hearing.

When Gendron exited his vehicle at the supermarket, authorities said, he shot four people in the parking lot. Three of them died and one is in the hospital. The shooter entered the store and opened fire on customers.

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A retired Buffalo Police officer, Aaron Salter, who was working as a security guard, shot Gendron but he was unharmed because he was wearing armor, Gramaglia said. The retired officer was shot and killed.

A law enforcement source told CBS News that the gunman had a racial slur written on his weapon. The attack is being treated as a hate crime.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn will not confirm the existence of the shooter’s manifesto. He said they believe there was a “racial component” to the attack but won’t say more.

This attack is being investigated by the FBI as a hate crime and as violent extremism.