Friday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Facebook, Meta's parent company, saw its stock drop 26% on Thursday - a gigantic loss of more than $220 BILLION in market cap. This is the largest single-day decline for a company in US history. Surprised company officials didn't blame that pesky Joe Rogan and his damn misinformation instead of their  stupid rebranding and move into a fake digital world where people look like Mark Zuckerberg... With Whoopi Goldberg getting suspended for two weeks because of her comments about the holocaust it has brought the Disney firing of Gina Carano for a Tweet (which was innocent compared to Whoopi's words) back into the limelight. What always bothered me about Carano's firing is we still don't know who did it. Nobody at Disney took responsibility just a vague reported "Lucasfilm executives." Shouldn't investors know who is in the Disney star chamber making these decisions since their actions can effect the stock performance?... The award for the worst movie title has a clear winner... Has to be asked - what sort of "reporter" is Jake Tapper if he didn't realize his boss had a huge ethics conflict of interest and his producer was a pedophile? Either he knew and didn't report it or he was too clueless to notice. Either way maybe it is fitting Tapper is the "face of CNN"... A very underrated movie is 1973's The Three Musketeers. Great cast and excellent dialogue plus comedic hijinks. The screenplay was written by George McDonald Fraser who is probably best known as the author of the Flashman series of books... This year I will continue my tradition of giving up Stigmata for Lent. I have successfully given up Stigmata for almost 4-decades since being Confirmed in the Catholic Church... Wondering if someone has started a Pravda - the Official News site of the Washington Commies yet? The idea is free money... American Greenland would be a good name for an alternative history novel where Trump won his second term... LA Mayor Eric Garcetti says he was holding his breath when he was photographed talking a picture maskless with Magic Johnson at last week's NFC Championship game. Garcetti knows that AIDS isn't an airborne disease - right?... In 1,000 years if archaeologists find Ted Williams still frozen severed head - will they think that's what we worshiped?... Breast Milk Cheese would be a good name for an all female punk Barry Manilow cover band... Former Boston Celtics head coach Bill Fitch has passed away. He was a Hall of Fame coach and a man Larry Bird called "the best coach I ever had"... As always if this column has made you smile or think - don't be afraid to hit the like button. Also please subscribe (it's FREE) and share with your friends. Thanks in advance..