Steve Rixen

Watching the opening ceremonies reminded me of our trip to Italy a couple of years ago. It was an amazing privilege and I fell in love with the food, the history, and the people. But this is a story about music (1/22)

Relentless Robbo ❤️

In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.

“Chicks dig the long ball” commercial. Glavine and Maddux train to become HR hitters

Absentmindedly checked LinkedIn between sets at a punk show.

"Hell to Breakfast, the brand-new LP from Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers, is a Sonoran Desert fever dream set to rock and roll, mixing a vintage Peacemakers sound with new and refreshing lyrics on the group’s ninth studio album and first since 2017." bit.ly/40dYjUd

One of most spectacular games I’ve ever watched….

Get excited! MedPAC's March 2026 Report to Congress will be released on Thursday, March 12th at 12:00 PM. The report will be posted on our website here: medpac.gov

One of my favorite @KFF charts: The 5% of the population who are sickest/most costly account for nearly half of the nation's overall health care spending: #Share%20of%20total%20population%20and%20total%20health%20spending,%20by%20age%20group,%202023" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collecti…

For physicians, 'Epic Fury' has an entirely different meaning

@jcrowley413 You can only use paper maps on that section of road…

Who the fuck is this guy????

CBO estimates that the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund's balance is exhausted in 2040. The balance generally increases through 2031, but spending begins to outstrip income in the following year. cbo.gov/publication/62…

@erjones07 I’m only slightly above average height and flying on a CRJ is torture. Try working on a laptop with non-existent seat pitch. Just straight t-Rexing it with your knees in your chest. It is brutal.

Season 9 Episode 16

This is the kind of reporting that makes this race so great

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

I’m going to teach the world what propreantepenultimate means, even if it’s the fifth to last thing I ever do.

@Y0K0S0N @freshertow @JoePompliano Taylor passed on the halftime show. elle.com/culture/celebr…

@freshertow @JoePompliano If we want to just choose random metrics we can do this all day! The average person is more familiar with swift than BB.

Joe hit head on concrete. "Worlds most popular artist". Lmao what are we talking about man.

First time I’m using this without irony.

It is a win, dripping with random luck. To find this song after months of searching was a light in a long, complicated year. Regardless of her particular brand of music, I’ll celebrate this song as a part of my Italian experience and wish she was in the opening ceremony (Fin!)

It is a beautiful, soaring, vocally-driven pop song. I’m not sure it could possibly live up to expectations, but it will be deeply connected to my Italian experience, and few thing in life can beat finding that song you heard once, forever ago. It is pretty excellent. (21/22)

I kept searching. I even asked a cab driver who spoke as much English as I spoke Italian. It was awkward. And hopeless. We returned home to our normal post-vacation lives. But the song stuck with me. I kept hearing it. I was like Elsa in Frozen 2.(12/22)