Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.
Hey, Mom! The Explanation.
Here's the permanent dedicated link to my first Hey, Mom! post and the explanation of the feature it contains.
Jason Connery said his father "had many of his family, who could be in the Bahamas, around him" when he died overnight in Nassau. Much of the Bond film Thunderball had been filmed there.
He said: "We are all working at understanding this huge event as it only happened so recently, even though my dad has been unwell for some time.
"A sad day for all who knew and loved my dad and a sad loss for all people around the world who enjoyed the wonderful gift he had as an actor."
His publicist Nancy Seltzer said: "There will be a private ceremony followed by a memorial yet to be planned once the virus has ended."
He leaves his wife Micheline and sons Jason and Stephane.
Sean Connery dies, iconic “James Bond” actor passes away at 90
Oct 31, 2020
CBS This Morning
Sean Connery, the Oscar-winning Scottish actor best known for portraying special agent James Bond more than half a dozen times, has died, the BBC reports. Connery was 90. Mark Phillips looks back at his life and decades-long career.
Sean Connery is asked about being an international sex symbol
Oct 31, 2020
60 Minutes
In 1999, Steve Kroft asked Sean Connery about being an international sex symbol.
Tribute to Sir Sean Connery (1930 - 2020)
Oct 31, 2020
DutchBondFan
30.2K subscribers
Today the man of all men has left us... May he rest in peace and join up with Roger, Fleming and Cubby while toasting some martini's up there! He will be deeply missed but his legacy will be celebrated forever!
Top 10 Sean Connery Performances
Jan 21, 2014
WatchMojo.com
23M subscribers
When you think of living legends, this man comes to mind with a career spanning over fifty years. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for Sean Connery's top 10 performances. Special thanks to our subscriber "Kayle Lang" and our users "roxy", "Moviemaster219", "billthecat2011" and "Andrew A. Dennison" for submitting the idea for this video on our WatchMojo.com/suggest page!
Sean Connery's Top 4 Bond Moments
May 7, 2017
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Sean Connery's Top 4 Bond Moments
Sir Sean Connery, the actor who defined James Bond, has died aged 90 https://t.co/Z3vsV0CJ96
Sir Sean Connery has died at the age of 90. He was the first actor to play James Bond on the big screen in Dr. No in 1962, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever followed. pic.twitter.com/VaFPHCM5Ou
Every day on set with #SeanConnery was an object lesson in how to act on screen. But all that charisma and power- that was utterly unique to Sean . RIP that great man , that great actor . https://t.co/W8MQrFYlJ0
Sean Connery has died at 90. Born in Edinburgh’s slums, he became famous as the first James Bond and went on to a long, award-winning film career. https://t.co/W1qvUieXdP
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2010.31 - 10:10
NEW (written 1708.27 and 1907.04) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. Dropped "Talk to you tomorrow, Mom" in the sign off on 1907.04. Should have done it sooner as this feature is no longer daily.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2082 - Why Dictators REALLY Want Trump to win... it's not because Joe is "sleepy"
4 DAYS - daily election day countdown
We have to ask ourselves: do we want a president who admires dictators and who "gets along so well" with them, or do we want a president who sees the for what they are, as adversaries, holds them accountable, and DOES NOT admire them.
VOTE.
Vote like your life depends on it because this year, it does.
The MAGA slogan actually works against the wishes of that thing that currently occupies our house, the people's house.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN indeed.
Make America the country that stands up for human rights worldwide.
Make it so America is no longer the laughing stock of the world.
Make America once again the leader in science, reason, sense, and compassion.
Make America less violent.
Make America safer, with fewer deaths, less fear, and more hope.
Hooray, time for your daily Barack Obama Clowns On Trump And Kicks Him In Dick video!
This actually came from the rally Obama did yesterday in Orlando, where he made fun of Trump for being jealous of coronavirus's TV ratings and also made fun of Trump for running away crying into his bunker from Lesley Stahl and his "60 Minutes" interview.
Turns out Obama went at Trump over his fears of Lesley Stahl from a whole DIFFERENT direction during his speech in Orlando. Why didn't we see this part and tell you it yesterday? It was all part of our master plan to give you a new Obama video every day, by being really busy and missing things entirely!
The theme of this section was Obama saying that if Trump has to fall down the stairs into the bunker when Lesley Stahl scares him, he FOR SURE is going to roll over for dictators who flatter him. And because Trump has been president for almost four years, we know that's exactly what Trump does with dictators. He fawns all over them. He is jealous of their power. He thinks they are big men, and that they are REAL leaders, because they have total control, and that's what he wants to be. He wants to be a REAL BIG GUY LEADER.
Here's Bamz:
OBAMA: Our current president, he whines that '60 Minutes' is too tough. You think he's going to stand up to dictators? He thinks Lesley Stahl's a bully. Just yesterday, he said that Putin of Russia, Xi of China, and Kim Jong Un of North Korea want him to win. We know! We know because you've been giving them whatever they want for the last four years! Of course they want you to win! That's not a good thing. You shouldn't brag about the fact that some of our greatest adversaries think they'd be better off with you in office. Of course they do. What does that say about you? Think about that. Why are you bragging about that? C'mon. That doesn't make any sense.
You really have to watch the video to see Obama's facial expressions and realize just how hard he is mocking Trump.
As Obama explained, Trump had just the day before bragged about how all the world's tyrants want him elected, because they "don't want to deal with Sleepy Joe." Here is that:
TRUMP: The only thing I can tell you for sure President Xi from China, President Putin from Russia, Kim Jong-un [from] North Korea, and I could name 40 others -- they're sharp as a tack, they don't want to deal with Sleepy Joe.
Oh no, the president of the United States has yet again gotten all the world's tyrants all sticky, with his jizz. He further recounted an imaginary private comment from a "world leader" who told him they really want Trump to win because they don't want to deal with somebody who "sleeps all the time." Suuuuuuure, Donald.
Indeed, most of the world's tyrants would love for Trump to be re-elected, because they get away with whatever they want when Trump is in the room, or when they send him love letters, or massage his stupid ego by telling him that "No, Donald, you did not win election because Vladimir run operation to suppress vote in Rust Belt states. You win election because you are so very smart and have completely normal American penis!" We have no doubt that Putin and Kim would love another four years with America as a laughingstock on the world stage.
Of course, Trump is mean to 'GIIIIIIINA these days, but we are also pretty sure China has some real goods on him, based on recent reporting about his secret bank account and his massive debts to the bank of China and whatnot. Remember there was that one kind of overlooked thing in the Steele Dossier about how the Trump team in 2016 was actually kind of glad for the focus on Russia, because it distracted from reporting on where Trump was really financially compromised by China? Nobody ever really looked into that one. They should look into it.
Anyway, as William Evanina, director of the National Counterterrorism and Security Center, stated in his assessment of election threats, China actually does not want Trump to win, but rather prefers Joe Biden. Of course, that assessment, in weasel words, also said China is not actively meddling in the election to make that happen for Biden like Russia is for Trump. Regardless, if Evanina's assessment is correct, China is probably tired of the dumbstupidest president who ever did live setting fire to America's corn and soybean farmers and declaring himself the victor in a massively destructive trade war.
The point is this post is that Barack Obama is right, Trump is an easily manipulated moron, and we really like Obama's new job, which is dickslapping Trump in the face while laughing and pointing. They should probably go ahead and give him another Nobel Peace Prize, just to piss Trump off.
Obama also twists the knife on foreign policy. He pointed out that on Monday, Trump said that Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un all want him to win. “We know!” Obama said, laughing. “We know because you’ve been giving them whatever they want for the last four years. Of course they want you to win. That’s not a good thing. You shouldn’t brag.”
Today in Orlando, former President Barack Obama took full advantage of his successor's strange perspective.
"Our current president, he whines that '60 Minutes' is too tough. You think he's going to stand up to dictators? He thinks Lesley Stahl's a bully. Just yesterday, he said that Putin of Russia, Xi of China, and Kim Jong Un of North Korea want him to win. We know! We know because you've been giving them whatever they want for the last four years! Of course they want you to win! That's not a good thing. You shouldn't brag about the fact that some of our greatest adversaries think they'd be better off with you in office. Of course they do. What does that say about you? Think about that. Why are you bragging about that? C'mon. That doesn't make any sense."
Well, sure, when you put it that way, it suggests Trump's unfortunate boasts probably weren't a good idea.
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2010.30 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1946 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2081 - DODGERS WIN 2020 PANDEMIC WORLD SERIES
5 DAYS - daily election day countdown
Of course, I wanted either the Detroit Tigers or the Chicago Cubs (who had a better shot) to win the series this year, but it was not to be as they lost to the Miami Marlins in the new three-game opening round format.
Not that it was a bold prediction, but I had a feeling it was going to be the year for the Dodgers to win it all.
Also, I have a close friend who is a huge Dodgers fan, so I have been sharing news with her all season, but especially in the playoffs.
Also, don't get the wrong idea that I am putting an asterisk by this season. I think it's legitimate.
But I am disturbed by Jacob Turner testing positive for the novel coronavirus, pulled from the game in the eighth inning, and then returning to the field, masked, to celebrate but then removing his mask for photo ops.
CONGRATULATIONS LOS ANGELES!!
And the dual championships, pretty cool. Lakers-Dodgers.
Dodgers, Rays battle it out for 6 games in 2020 World Series | Full World Series Highlights + Recap
Full Final Inning of World Series Game 6 as Dodgers try to win 2020 World Series!
After getting only two hits through the first five innings, the Dodgers' offense got going in the sixth inning when L.A. scored two runs.
That offense came after Rays manager Kevin Cash removed starter Blake Snell from the game. To that point, the top three hitters in the Dodgers' lineup had each struck out twice against Snell.
The decision to take out Snell after 5⅓ innings when he had given up only two hits and struck out nine will be highly scrutinized. Social media was quick to react.
After the first inning when Randy Arozarena homered for Tampa Bay's only run, the Dodgers' bullpen shut down the Rays, and Mookie Betts put the exclamation point on the win with an eighth-inning home run. Here's how social media reveled in the Dodgers' first World Series win since 1988.
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Clayton Kershaw stood in the Los Angeles bullpen in right-center field, watching Austin Barnes glove the final pitch, the one from Julio Urias that gave the Dodgers their first World Series title since 1988.
Kershaw had finally become a champion, just like Sandy Koufax, Fernando Valenzuela and Orel Hershiser before him. The mission took 13 years in the majors, 15 since the Dodgers made him the seventh pick in the 2006 amateur draft.
The left-hander raised both arms and pointed fingers toward the sky, a huge smile across his face. His blue Dodgers sweatshirt still on, the 32-year-old ace ran through the bullpen door and onto the infield to join his jumping teammates.
"I was trying to take it all in, as best I could," Kershaw said. "You never really script what you're going to do or how you're going to feel. It was just a content feeling -- just like, the job is done. We won. We did it. We won our race, and it's over. And we completed our mission. Just a feeling of contentment, joy. And then to get to see the guys and how happy everybody was."
Kershaw cut through the critics at last, just like one of his curveballs through the strike zone.
One of the most accomplished pitchers in baseball history attained the achievement he had sought most when the Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays3-1 in Game 6 on Tuesday night at Globe Life Field.
"When people talk about him, it's World Series champion first, then future Hall of Famer," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Speaking as graciously as he pitched elegantly, Kershaw spread thank yous as wide as his famous 12-to-6 curveball. After posing on the pitcher's mound with his family, he thanked "my wife, my kiddos, my family, my friends and all those people that have seen the discipline.''
"They wanted it just as bad as I did, and they wanted it for me. And that's such a selfless thing to feel," he said. "And so to get those text messages from former teammates or to get those text messages from friends or have friends at the game like I did tonight, just to see how happy they were for us, for me and for our family, it's overwhelming to think that people care that much about you and how they want you to have success and reach your dreams."
Kershaw went 2-0 with a 2.31 ERA over 11⅔ innings in two World Series starts this year, striking out 14 and walking three. He earned his title not far from his hometown of Dallas, with family and friends filling a ticket allotment supplemented with "nosebleed seats.''
His honors are too numerous to list on his likely Hall of Fame plaque: a five-time major league ERA champion, including four in a row from 2011 to 2014; a three-time strikeout champion; a two-time 20-game winner in an era when innings are diminished; a pitching triple crown in 2011.
He's also an eight-time All-Star; National League Cy Young Award winner in 2011, 2013 and 2014; the 2014 NL MVP; and winner of the 2012 Roberto Clemente and 2014 Marvin Miller awards for off-the-field achievements focusing on his community and charitable work.
But he entered this year just 9-11 in postseason play, with poor outings in a pair of World Series Game 5s that resulted in a 2017 no-decision and a 2018 defeat.
"I don't care about legacy. I don't care about what happened last year. I don't care about what people think. I don't care at all, man,'' Kershaw said. "We won the World Series. The 2020 Dodgers won the World Series. It's like, who cares about all that other stuff? To be a part of that team, all that other stuff is just pointless.''
He performed in the postseason like never before, going 4-1 with a 2.93 ERA and 37 strikeouts with five walks in 30⅔ innings. For the first time since 2015, he wasn't inserted into a bullpen role when he wasn't starting. That seemed to ease issues with back pain that has flared up repeatedly for five years.
Kershaw spoke passionately about Justin Turner, who was removed from the game after the seventh inning. Major League Baseball informed the Dodgers around the sixth inning that Turner's COVID-19 test earlier in the day had come back positive, depriving Kershaw of a teammate who had been alongside him since 2014.
"I'm sure it's really hard tonight and we all feel for him," Kershaw said. "But I hope that he can take solace in the fact that we're not here without him. He's been our guy for a long time. He's done so many incredible things for this organization. He's been the rock in the postseason for us every single year. And just like tonight might not be the night that we expected as a team or that he expected individually, they'll never be able to take away the World Series championship from any of us."
Kershaw thought ahead to the moment when the jubilation would be as fulfilling as the final out was, would be the way he envisioned it for so long.
"It might not be the same tonight as other teams get to celebrate," Kershaw said. "And that's not fair, obviously, to fans and us and everybody. But we're still the champs. And someday -- someday soon, I hope -- we are going to celebrate and we're going to be there and there is going to be a parade and there's going to be tens of thousands of Dodger fans. I don't know when. I don't know how soon. But whenever that day comes, I know JT is going to be there, and it's going to be a special thing."
World Series 2020: The oddest of World Series ends with the most 2020 moment of the season
ARLINGTON, Texas -- In this oddest of years, this most peculiar of baseball seasons, there was perhaps no more telling snapshot of the United States, circa 2020, than a COVID-19-positive man sitting on the ground, maskless, next to a cancer survivor, maskless as well, with indelible grins spread across their faces. Sports is and always will be a metaphor for society.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series on Tuesday night, and in the moments after, the world learned that Justin Turner, the team's third baseman and pulse of the clubhouse, had contracted the coronavirus. Turner was asked to isolate. He did not abide. He strode onto the field, where his teammates were celebrating their 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 6, and joined. He removed his mask to pose for pictures with his wife, whom he kissed. He planted himself on the ground as the team gathered for a photo to commemorate the Dodgers' first championship in 32 years. To his right sat Dave Roberts, the Dodgers' manager, who 10 years ago was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. To Turner's left, gleaming, sat the World Series trophy.
The bizarre aspect of the scene was undeniable. The Dodgers had spent the past three weeks at a resort in Irving, Texas, about 20 minutes from Globe Life Field, ostensibly bubbled from the world. They were supposed to go from the hotel to the stadium and back and nowhere else. Security personnel roamed the property to ensure nobody ran afoul of protocols, whether players, coaches, front-office staff or the family members who had joined them. Nearly two months had passed without a player testing positive. Baseball, the sport that nearly shut down early in its season due to outbreaks on two teams, was on the verge of crowning a champion with no complications.
Then came the eighth inning, when Roberts removed Turner. It was curious; only once had Turner left a game this postseason before its conclusion, and that was in a blowout. The revelation of why turned a moment that would've been so undeniably joyous into something more complicated -- a referendum on behaviors, choices, responsibility. On America and how its response to the pandemic, more than nine months after it landed on these shores, remains the most divisive question in the most divisive of times.
Justin Turner signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Feb. 6, 2014. For more than two months, he had sought a guaranteed deal after the New York Mets nontendered him -- told him, essentially, he was not worth the money he would make in arbitration. He wound up signing a minor league deal with the Dodgers, made the team out of spring training and batted .340. He won the third-base job outright the next season and has made more than $50 million and an All-Star team since.
In those years, Turner had evolved from castoff to the emotional fulcrum of the megateam the Dodgers had spent years building. When they went down three games to one in the National League Championship Series, Turner was the player who sent the text message to his 27 teammates telling them: "This is the chance to do something special." For all the brilliance of Clayton Kershaw, the future Hall of Fame starter whose playoff foibles long had vexed him, all the steadiness of Kenley Jansen, the closer whose regression had left the ninth inning no longer his, all the talent of World Series MVP Corey Seager and the indomitable Mookie Betts and ace Walker Buehler, Turner, his red beard a follicular metaphor for the fire with which he played, is the Dodgers' conscience. To the Dodgers -- to Los Angeles -- a championship without him would not feel like a championship at all.
"He's part of the team," Betts said. "We're not excluding him from anything."
So out Turner went, to revel in what he'd done, what they'd done -- how they'd avoided the embarrassment of the likely multiday postponement of Game 7 had they lost.
From the moment spring training started, the Dodgers were the favorites to win the World Series. On Feb. 11, two days before pitchers and catchers were due to report to spring training, they completed a trade for Betts, the star outfielder considered among baseball's best players. The Dodgers had won NL West division titles the previous seven years. They had lost two World Series -- the first, in 2017, in seven games to a Houston Astros team later sanctioned for a scheme in which they stole signs and relayed them in real time to batters, and the other, in 2018, to a Boston Red Sox team that Major League Baseball disciplined this year for its own illicit scheme the league deemed "far more limited in scope and impact" than the Astros'.
All of this gnawed at the Dodgers, Turner included. When commissioner Rob Manfred referred to the Commissioner's Trophy, given to the World Series winner, as "a piece of metal," Turner, already aggrieved that the league had given immunity to Astros players involved in the sign-stealing, hauled off.
"At this point, the only thing devaluing that trophy," Turner said, "is that it says 'Commissioner' on it."
All season long, in some circles of the game, there was a discomfort that baseball was even being played -- that as the death toll from the coronavirus in the United States exceeded 200,000, baseball was Marie-Antoinette, the season its let-them-eat-cake moment. Others applauded Manfred's damn-the-torpedoes approach, arguing that a year without baseball would be destructive to the sport, especially as the NBA and NHL finished their seasons in self-contained bubbles with nary a COVID-19 case.
Baseball, in many ways, was a microcosm of the country, of the balance that remains unstruck, of polarization. The league erred more on the side of those who see the pandemic as something scary. Masking was mandatory, socializing exceedingly discouraged. When two Cleveland Indians pitchers went out after a game in Chicago and were caught, they were demoted to the minor leagues. Even though the virus' effects on strong, healthy, 20- and 30-something men rarely leads to complications, the players weren't the only ones engaging in this real-time experiment. There were coaches, trainers, front-office staff -- people in their 50s and 60s and 70s, with preexisting conditions, far more susceptible.
Whether it was the fear of the endangered season, better adherence to protocols or some combination therein, COVID-19 cases more or less vanished as baseball approached its playoffs. And nobody had been better than the Dodgers. They went 43-17 -- a 116-win pace in a standard season. They outscored their opponents on average by more than two runs per game. Only four teams had ever done that, the last being the 1939 New York Yankees.
The Dodgers were a juggernaut. They had coalesced around Betts, who enjoyed being a Dodger so much he declined to test free agency this winter and signed a 12-year, $365 million contract extension on the eve of the season. They marveled at the resurgence of Seager, their beyond-talented 26-year-old shortstop who played in the field with a grace that belied his size and hunted bad pitches like a he'd summoned them with a duck call. Of the five pitchers in their starting rotation, the one with the lowest ERA was the most talented, Buehler, and stalking into a postseason with him and Kershaw and Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin and Julio Urias felt unfair.
Only the Dodgers for years had assembled this juggernaut -- with money, yes, a payroll funded by their outsize local-TV deal, the years of crowds packing Dodger Stadium, all the inherent advantages. But also with a process that worked. Friedman cut his teeth with the Rays, building them into a winner on a budget. His goal when he joined the Dodgers was far loftier. He wanted to build an unrelenting machine, one that embraced analytics and emphasized scouting, that drafted and developed better than anyone, that would not just open a window to win a championship but break the damn thing off its hinges.
For whatever weaknesses the Dodgers may have had -- their bullpen depth, sort of, or Roberts' decision-making, sometimes -- their talent always seemed to paper it over. Even at 35 years old, with his contract expiring at the end of the season, Turner managed to hit .307, to get on base 40% of the time. He hit a first-inning home run in Game 6 of the NLCS that proved the winning run of a must-win game. He homered in the first inning of Game 3 of the World Series and again in Game 4. Just like the team photo he'd eventually take, Turner was in the middle of everything.
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2010.29 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1945 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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