Monday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

There's now been more COVID related deaths in the US in 2021 than in 2020. How is that possible when the vaccines were going to take care of everything?...Now that the Rittenhouse trial is over - guessing we can expect to see the same wall-to-wall coverage from the media on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial too - right? If there isn't the same level of coverage - what does that say about the media? And about who controls the media narrative... How ‘bout them first place New England Patriots!?!… Parenting is tough as each new generation of parents basically have to learn from scratch. Even something as natural as breastfeeding can be a mystery to new moms. And each new generation of parents has their own unique hurdles to deal with that were different from when even their own parents had to deal with. One of the biggest challenges for new parents today is the fact that according to the CDC about 1 in 54 children today are identified as being on the autism spectrum. I'm skeptical about the fringes of the spectrum but there's no denying the autism epidemic but we have so few answers as to why this is happening... The Biden Administration has really put the country in a hole. Please God - make them stop digging... The media has been so wrong on so many different stories over the past few years, some of them apparently invented out of whole cloth (usually involving Russians), but I'm more curious about the one huge very real story that somehow just disappeared. Las Vegas had the biggest mass shooting in the country's history but that story somehow disappeared in a blink of an eye. Why was that?... The game Operation was technically a kids game but as kids we never played it as a "game." We just took turns trying to get stuff out without setting off the buzzer. Only later when alcohol was added to the mix did it become a "game"... According to a breaking MSNBC report - Jussie Smollett has just been mugged by Kyle Rittenhouse... HBO has the cast of the Harry Potter films getting together for a 20th anniversary reunion. Director Christopher Columbus is part of the show but not JK Rowling who created the whole Harry Potter universe. Her omission is shameful... Recycling an old Internet insult - Kamala Harris couldn't get charisma if she stood in a charisma field in the charisma mating season, dressed as charisma, and covered in charisma pheromones...  Waning Immunity would be a good name for a band... SpaceX is spending a fraction of what NASA is spending but getting exponentially better results. That's government work and spending in a nutshell... You know one thing New England Patriots fans aren't talking about? How much the defense misses Stephon Gilmore... Was surprised to see that the odds on Donald Trump being the 2024 GOP Presidential nominee is just -$120 (risk $120 to win $100 - basically even money). I though the odds would have been higher like -$240 or something... So how long before we see a Hitler in the Bunker video where the Fuhrer learns about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict... Speaking of the Rittenhouse verdict - I admit I didn't pay much attention to the case (but enough to know it was self-defense against a child rapist, domestic abuser and a convicted felon) but one detail I'd like to know is if those three who Rittenhouse shot were from Kenosha? Honest question... Liquid Inspiration would be a great brand name for a gin or vodka... As always if this column has made you smile or think - don't be afraid to hit the like button. Also please subscribe and share with your friends. Thanks in advance...