Friday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

It will be interesting to see how the Democrats will balance inciting people to violence over the Roe v Wade decision while at the same time peddling the January 6th insurrection narrative. The hardcore Democrats won't see the hypocrisy or how they are being manipulated but hopefully enough in the middle see through the crass words and actions and vote the bums out come November... If you removed live games and SportsCenter it seems these days there's a 50/50 chance that if you turn on ESPN you'll find a program featuring Stephen A. Smith or Michael Greenberg. Who asked for that? My guess is you could easily replace half of that programming with Australian Rules Football and competitive darts and get equal or better ratings... "If you disagree with me that means you want to kill grandma." Those were the words of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo while he was implementing policies that led to the deaths of thousands of grandmas yet he's gone unpunished both for his actions and his coverup of his actions. Never forget and never forgive... When is Consumer Reports going to do an all tazer issue? I want only the best for my money... You learn something new all the time - this week I learned that at the newer gas stations the hoses that connect to the pump disconnect if you pull away with the nozzle still in your gas tank. Talk about feeling like an absolute moron... We've had a War on Poverty, a War on Drugs, and a War on Terror. How come it's not a War on Climate?...  One of the great "what if's" in sports history happened in 1979 when the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls flipped a coin to see who would have the first pick of the 1979 NBA Draft. The Lakers won the coin flip and drafted Magic Johnson. If the Bulls had won the coin flip Magic was going to return to college at Michigan State. Imagine how basketball could have been different of if Chicago called tails instead of heads?... Screaming Meat would be a good name for a punk cover band... Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! (Those words will always be magical to me.)... One of my favorite history nuggets was the fact that Alexander Hamilton's son was also named Alexander Hamilton and that he represented Aaron Burr's wife in the divorce suit against the man who killed his father. Aaron Burr died the day the divorce was made official... 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...