Here’s something that happened twelve and a half (million?) years before Rags’no-hitter: famous athlete, black, Latin, proud and often on the wrong side of an Anglo yahoo culture, on his own dime, in a small charter plane, flying emergency supplies to earthquake survivors in Managua on New Years Eve, goes down in the Bermuda Triangle:

Roberto Clemente

Maybe it’s true Monday is no Monday, but for sure it’s true that in the Land of the Flea, Starbucks are closing down all over. Their biggest outlet in this town bit the dust mid the first winter of the New Depression, couldn’t keep up the rent. Forecast: plenty of free A/C, known as Goodbye and don’t let the swinging door swat you on your way out.