Day 78 - and mark this one down if this gets worse and everything goes feral.

• We have probably lost a 20 square-block area, minimum, of Minneapolis.

The protests of the police murder of George Floyd have blossomed into a level of rioting which might make Rodney King's riots look pale in comparison.  I have been watching video and following social media on all this for several hours.

What I have seen is a mirror into our future as a society -- including entire city blocks up in flames and the real looting and full-scale taking of turf, as well as entire store stocks.

THIS is the (I believe third) All-Stop Condition I was talking about in earlier posts.

As far as the long-term planning of being around like-minded, etc., it's now too late to leave where you are in a meaningful fashion.

There has been at least one major satellite protest blocking the freeways in Los Angeles, but nothing of the scale going on right now.

Keep eyes and ears on the actual news very closely through the weekend.  If this goes up nationwide, it's all over but the shouting right now.

• Over in Europe, the European Speedrunners Association is starting a 4-day video-game speedrunning marathon for an emergency coronavirus-relief fund of Save the Children. 
• The Nevada State Athletic Commission has approved the next two UFC events for their Apex building in Las Vegas, no fans.  This and next Saturday. 
• Once again, weather in the Southeast is making a meal out of the compressed NASCAR restart.  They'll try the second Charlotte Monster Cup series race again today. 
• The multimillion-dollar winner-take-all The Basketball Tournament WILL try to go on, with obvious necessary precautions. 
• Latest victim of this is a one-year push-back of the latest Basketball Hall of Fame inductions -- and that's Kobe/Garnett/Duncan. 
• The MLS is trying to compress the timeframe for any return Florida tournament they may attempt. 
• MLB:  Players' proposal apparently wants 100 games this season (and full pro-rated salaries). The latter will all but certainly kill the season, but one question on 100 games:  When would you like the World Series?  Christmas???  You're talking July, August, September, and October for the season at minimum...   
• Today was also the cutting of the first several hundred minor-league baseball players.  If this continues, there's a very real chance Minor League Baseball (all but kaput for this year anyway) may go to PERMANENTLY KAPUT.
• And the first announced Vegas casino reopenings for June 4:  New York, New York; Bellagio; MGM Grand; The Signature  Note:  That's four of the more upscale casinos -- they are not thinking of opening their "core" cheaper ones yet -- Excalibur/Luxor.     
• And NOW we're getting a report the relevant police internal-affairs in Toronto is investigating a Black female shoved off the balcony to her death in that city.  People need to be careful of a whip-saw effect -- shoot first, ask questions later!     
• And here's the big announcement in England:  English Premier League restart June 17th. 
• Boston, however, has thrown in the towel on any live 2020 Boston Marathon this year. 
• And while everything is going up in a number of American cities, this bombshell out of Mexico:  Cruz Azul may be disqualified from Liga MX because it's president and vice-president stand accused of being involved with drug trafficking.