Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The stories around the Nordstream 2 pipeline explosions continue to get more and more interesting. Now Sweden is blocking a joint investigation into the explosions. Curious...  Hate to say this but here is a certain symmetry or irony in clearly mentally unstable youths defacing a Vincent van Gogh painting in protest. Throwing soup on a painting is an unstable move but not quite to the cutting off your own ear scale of crazy... Strange but true - more people are reading the Ancient Greek and Roman writers today than back when the authors were alive and first wrote their books. This is a function of there being a much larger worldwide audience, more people being literate, and the cheapness of reproducing either book or digital copies… Don't often side with Jerry Jones over Robert Kraft but I have to agree with Jones that Roger Goodell is overpaid and an empty suit could have easily led the NFL to the same level of financial success. Goodell, more often than not in my eyes, is an impediment to success not a cause of it... Did the word "Cankles" originate with Hillary Clinton? Can't recall the word ever being used before her and now when you hear the word cankles - who's the first person you think of?... Milk was a bad choice! So was my preseason bets on Notre Dame (8.5 wins) and Boston College (6.5 wins) to go over their season totals. The Fighting Irish at this point will be lucky just to become bowl eligible... Disembodied Phallus would be a good name for a lesbian cover band or for an online dildo emporium... Not sure how I missed this stupidity but a little over a year ago Uncle Ben's Rice was renamed just "Ben's Rice." I'm sure to the woke mind this makes perfect sense but to the rest of us it just looks stupid... The word "candidate" derives from the Latin word candidatus which means "whitened" (from those seeking public office wearing white togas). If Woke culture wasn't so busy trying to rid the world of classical education they might have known that... Interesting to note that of all the AFC teams the Patriots have the 3rd best point differential behind only the Bills, and the Chiefs. Just saying I'm feeling good about my preseason bets for the Pats to go over 8.5 wins and make the playoffs... 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..