Author Archives: lowittlowdown

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, apparently stepping up his as-yet-unannounced plan to run for president, has proposed wiping registered Democrats off voter rolls in his state and the 27 others whose Electoral College count sent Joe Biden to the White House in 2020. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that requires citizens to vote for one partyContinue reading ““It’s my party; he can cry if he wants to””

The Green Bay Packers have fired coach Matt LaFleur for, as team president and chief executive officer Mark Murphy said, “failing to reach the level of excellence we and all Packers fans have come to expect.” The decision comes just days after the National Football League team finished the 2021 regular season with a 13-4Continue reading “Packers coach LaFleur gone – but not for long”

Following the NFL’s, NBA’s and NHL’s schedule changes in light of recent COVID surges, Major League Baseball has temporarily postponed the first two months of the 2022 season “as a precautionary measure,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said.“I know it might seem a bit premature to make this decision now,” he said, “but based on the potentialContinue reading “MLB strikes out … at the players”

When you think about it, signing Tim Tebow to play tight end was among the least stupid things Urban Meyer did during his 336 days as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.On Jan. 14, when Meyer signed a five-year contract with the Jags worth at least $50-million, team owner Shahid Khan called him “a leader,Continue reading “Urban Meyer: how it’s done and why he’s done”

In a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III will be the Republican party’s nominee to run for president in 2024. “No one has done more this year than my pal Joe to advance the GOP’s agenda,” McCarthy, R-Weasel, told the Republican Committee to AdvanceContinue reading “Say it ain’t so, Joe”

The Major League Baseball Players Association is preparing to establish a new major league with new rules in new cities and other alternate plans for the 2022 season and beyond if the union and club owners can’t agree on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The current contract expires Dec. 1. “The union has gone throughContinue reading “Strike One? Two? Three? More?”

Kevin McCarthy has been hospitalized with dysphagia, tonsillitis, esophagitis and strep throat. The Republican leader in the House of Representatives also is undergoing treatment for stimulus independence. According to Dr. Dana Kornfeld, a Bethesda, Md., otolaryngologist who examined McCarthy at Walter Reed Hospital, “I’ve never seen a throat like this in all my years ofContinue reading “McCarthy’s new title: Loudspeaker”

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been suspended by National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell for the remainder of the season for taking substances banned by the league. Rodgers, who said he had taken homeopathic remedies including Ivermectin, a horse dewormer, when he said he was immunized against COVID, admitted he also had takenContinue reading “Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood? Not the Green Bay Packers’ huddle”

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has decided not to take any action against Steve Bannon or any of Donald Trump’s other henchmen and disciples because, he said, “I don’t want to get sued – or worse – by them.” Garland was expected to pursue the former president’s former overstuffed laundry bag for defying a CongressionalContinue reading “The attorney general changes his mind”

The Joint Congressional Committee on Hoarding, Inheritance and Tax Avoidance reports that no one in or out of government knows anything about what is being proposed in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan and estimates that costs will be either miniscule or massive, depending on who’s at the microphone. Sen. Joe Manchin (D/R/I/R/D-Obfuscation), whoContinue reading “Could be more, could be less. Who knows?”