OZY Daily Dose

Khalid al Baih was watching the beginning of the Tunisian Revolution from the basement of a museum in Doha, the capital of Qatar. It was December 2010, and the Sudanese cartoonist was supposed to leave his workplace, yet he couldn’t take his eyes off the screen. Inspired by the demonstrations, Al Baih drew the flags of five North African nations on his fingers. The thumb was Libya, the pinky finger Algeria, the index finger Egypt, the ring finger Sudan and the middle finger Tunisia.

Fight sobriquets are funny things. For example, “Cassius” Clay Collard, the moniker of a 26-year-old combat athlete from Utah and self-described “country boy,” immediately brings to mind the greatest of all time, Muhammad Ali. And at the last of Collard’s five most recent boxing wins in the past eight months over undefeated opponents, the audience spoke loud and clear. And they weren’t voicing their approval.

Inside the Pelican, an unassuming little diner in downtown Lake Worth, Florida, there are countless references to the namesake bird in paintings and figurines. The birds gaze out from the walls above the handful of tables and perch behind the long American diner-style counter. That seems quite fitting — expected, even — given the restaurant’s location 1 mile from the beach. What’s unexpected is the food the Pelican is best known and loved for: Indian-style breakfasts.

The desperation was palpable on the debate stage in Charleston, South Carolina, last night. The MSNBC and Democrat-industrial-complex freakout over the prospect of a Sen. Bernie Sanders nomination has finally hit the candidates themselves.

Forced to fight fellow prisoners at Auschwitz for the amusement of Nazi officers, this boxer lived the rest of his life in a spiral of remorse, defeat and abuse. On July 18, 1949, boxer Harry Haft entered the ring against undefeated heavyweight Rocky Marciano. Things weren’t looking good for Haft before the fight even began. He’d lost five of his previous six bouts.

It’s only later, when faced with very real life and death issues, that you notice all of what you should have noticed on the first go-around. In this case, absent the zap of international travels and far-flung locales with even more far-flung locals, I’d probably have caught it all. But I got sloppy. “My mother wants to know if she can have your email.” I was in Austria. A friend from Hungary who I was staying with had suggested I come along and meet his mother.

Do I Need to X My Deceased Ex? EUGENE, SIR:An ex of mine succumbed to cancer late last year. We were together for three years about 11 years ago, but we remained in contact. Not a lot of contact, but a few times a year we emailed each other. My current partner complains about me being sad that my ex has died: “If you loved him so much, why didn’t it work out?” That sort of thing.

NASCAR, the governing body of stock car racing in the U.S., dumped North Wilkesboro Speedway into history’s dustbin in 1996 when it took away the North Carolina track’s two lucrative “Cup” races. But apart from the track, it also left behind bitter fans, its grassroots, as it chased the dollar bonanza offered by bigger markets. More than two decades later, experts are cautioning that Major League Baseball might be poised to make the same mistake.

Because Democrats have an uneasy relationship with money, and it will affect how they take on Trump. In the age of Donald Trump, there’s little point in subtext. The president spent the last week and a half on a post-impeachment revenge tour, booting the members of his administration who had testified against him and urging the Justice Department to go easier on his pal Roger Stone.

Anbara Salam Khalidi, just 20 years old, wasn’t afraid to stand up on a podium and make history. After spending two years abroad in England, the daughter of a prominent Sunni Lebanese family was asked to give a talk at the American University of Beirut in 1927. In England, she’d been most impressed by the relative freedom enjoyed by women. In Lebanon at the time, Muslim women were socially obligated to cover their hair and face by the age of 10.