Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood? Not the Green Bay Packers’ huddle

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”

The attorney general changes his mind

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”

Could be more, could be less. Who knows?

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?”

WFT? More accurately WTF!

Congress, unwilling or unable to deal with legislation on voting, education, health, infrastructure or anything else of consequence, has now called an audible by deciding to investigate the Washington Football Team’s scandals. The criticism being showered upon the National Football League franchise formerly known as the Redskins involves, in part, the e-mails between Bruce Allen,Continue reading “WFT? More accurately WTF!”

Opposing views: skewed = screwed

A sweeping bill signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott requires that Texas schools must teach opposing views on all controversial social, historical or political issues, regardless of how stupid, insane or divorced from reality they might be. His decision followed the Southlake Elementary School brouhaha over the recommendation by Gina Peddy, the school district’sContinue reading “Opposing views: skewed = screwed”

Unrecommended reading

Republican supporters of Donald Trump, fed up with the spate of critical tell-all books by journalists and former aides of the former president, are rushing into print a series of books telling their side of the story. “Fear, Rage, Peril, Fire and Fury, Unfit, Hoax, Disloyal, The Reckoning, A Very Stable Genius, I Alone CanContinue reading “Unrecommended reading”

As Urban Legends Go, This One Sucks

Jacksonville isn’t actually a city. It’s 874 square miles of suburban sprawl and is best known for not being known for anything of consequence – except for another suburban: Urban Meyer. The coach of the Jaguars, just four games into his NFL career, has been sort of lap-danced onto sports-page headlines, resuming a life whoseContinue reading “As Urban Legends Go, This One Sucks”

If you liked the first insurrection, you’ll love the next one

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s not a Donald Trump rally. It’s the “American Manufacturers’ Convention” – or at least that’s what the Republican Party wants you to think of Insurrection II Saturday at the U.S. Capitol. The former president, who masterminded the Jan. 6 riot, has invited to the gathering the makers of guns, American flagsContinue reading “If you liked the first insurrection, you’ll love the next one”

Trump watches the “Fight of the Century” His is coming in the near future

The surreptitiously recorded commentary by ringside announcers Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Jorge Masvidal, Todd Grisham and others at Saturday night’s Evander Holyfield-Vitor Belfort boxing match at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida:Grisham: Donald, I …Trump: Don’t call me that.Grisham: What should …Trump: Mr. President. I still am, you know.Donald Jr.:Continue reading “Trump watches the “Fight of the Century” His is coming in the near future”

The peregrination of Jameis Winston: Just a few things to work on

Sept. 12, 2021 NEW ORLEANS – Quarterback Jameis Winston, in his first start for New Orleans, set a National Football League record by throwing nine interceptions – but the Saints still managed to defeat the Green Bay Packers 26-12 in the teams’ season opener. The New Orleans defense managed to stifle Aaron Rodgers and theContinue reading “The peregrination of Jameis Winston: Just a few things to work on”