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If there's anything that offends Houston Rockets fans, it's insufficiently obsequious groveling to totalitarian one-party states
When it comes to crushing dissent, the only thing that works better than tanks is the threat of a 7% global drop in NBA merchadise sales
Breaking: NBA institutes new uniform rules mandating dunce caps and placards confessing guilt in Hanzi
And the Espy Award for Courageous Servility to High Revenue Totalitarian States goes to the National Basketball Association
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David Burge
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Today's #DavesCarIDService begins with an appreciative hat tip to Harry Bergeron for solving yesterday's mystery car
I'm gonna say a circa 1910 Cadillac touring, or a circa 1912 E-M-F touring. Accessory headlight gas tank on the running board.
E-M-F was for Everitt-Metzger-Flanders; Metzger was one of the founders of Cadillac, so there's a lot of resemblance between them. E-M-F was bought by Studebaker and name disappeared a few years later. Everitt went on to make cars under his own name.
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David Burge
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Today's #GloomyDave forecast: Hawkeyes' bold gold alt uniforms provoke the wrath of a vengeful cosmos

Iowa 0
Penn State ♾
It's a shame, because the Hawkeyes were on a two game alt-uniform fashion win streak
I'm not generally against alt uniforms, except when a team pretends that black is part of their color scheme when everybody knows it isn't
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David Burge
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Hate to start out today's #DavesCarIDService with uncertainty, but wild guess is 1925-ish Dodge Brothers sedan, with 33% confidence level. Radiator badges & visor are off though, might be a Paige or some rarer make that's escaping me rn

Diamond badge may be from a car club. I welcome a definitive ID; distinguishing characteristics are 1922-28 7 passenger sedan, steel wheels, can shaped lights, marker lights on cowl, split windshield, angled visor, fender shape
ahhhhh, much easier. Two 1918-ish Ford Model T Touring cars.
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This Day in Labor History: June 9, 1880. The Greenback Party holds its convention in Chicago. Let's look at this form of mostly rural protest to the inequality of the Gilded Age.
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