Take on Bitcoin.

I saw a sign today at a pizza shop which suggested customers use Bitcoin to pay for a slice. I'm not sure where crypto will eventually end up but I'm pretty certain it won't be to order a BBQ chicken slice and a Diet Coke.

Take on the FSU-UGA game

We've been hearing for weeks that FSU was screwed out of an opportunity at a national championship. My thought was pretty clear, a 13-0 ACC team would likely be a 9-4 SEC team, so it's pretty unlikely anybody would have an interest in seeing them play in a national championship game. But FSU had a chance to prove all the haters wrong by putting a pounding on the Dawgs…which they did.
Now the team that has the biggest gripe would be the two time defending champs who would have very likely run the table in the playoffs.

Time to expand to 8 teams. Four automatic bids from the new power conferences plus four at large bids. Start the games earlier, get rid of a bunch of the lame Yankee bowls and just give us games we actually want to watch.

Take on the Cybertruck

Not only is the Cybertruck ungodly ugly, its mileage seems to be just a bit off. The promise was for a range of 300+ miles which anybody who has driving a Tesla would have told you was ludicrous but when the actual road tests showed it was bout 178 miles even with perfect road conditions, the fan boys had to have seen it.

I'm still on record as saying the Model Y is the best car I've ever driven but the fact that it gets nowhere near the 330 promised contending range model, is pretty nuts

Take on The NY Times

Nothing is worse than The NY Times openly rooting for Biden to lose. Every other article is about how he is too old, too demented, too toothy, too touchy, too weird, too normal, too fatherly, too much of a horrible parent. But when they start feeding us headlines about how 11 skeptical Biden voters are not feeling his re-election, I have to stop.

The anecdotal crap has to go and they need to go back to investing in real reporting, not this Both Sides bull.

Take on the Trump family photo

The Trump's had a family portrait and conspicuously absent was the mother hen. It's also shocking to think that Tiffany made it in and Don he's kids but no Melania. I'm not sure who is below Barron and why Don's present girlfriend looks so much like Elvira but the thing that is weirdest has got to be a photo crasher hiding behind Ivanka

Take on Kanye West

There really is no less interesting person alive than Kanye. I know people love him for his music which might be fine but the rest of him, his clothing, his marriages, his Taylor Swift stuff is just so absolutely boring. It's so obvious this guy just tries to stir controversy and tries to be more outrageous each time but not only is he not entertaining, he's just lame

Take on rest-stop food

When you are having Christmas dinner at a rest stop on 87, you can't complain that the option are limited. With that said, when I walked in and one of the only options were the rotating dogs which look like they've been grilling since Thanksgiving, you realize this may not have been the best call.
Christmas Day evening has never been better.

Take on colorado trump

The Christmas present that many democrats have been hoping for under their tree came true with the Colorado ruling. The issue is that Trump definitely doesn't deserve to hold office again and his actions on January6th should have instantly disqualified him with voters but nothing he does seem to change their mindset unless it's to deepens their love of him.
I see two issues, one is that it's a pure political one and that nobody thinks keeping the front runner for the job off the ballot is actually a good sense of democracy but more importantly the Supreme Court with their 6-3 split will never see it and he will wind up coming back feeling unjustly vindicated.

The on Hoka’s

I don't know why this continues to be a trend but there really is no uglier sneaker than those Hoka things. It's not the color or the look, it's the fact they look like Ronald McDonald clown shoes. They are so gigantic looking, they make it look like an anvil dropped on your foot

Please god, stop this insanity

Take on Sloppy Ron

Ron DeSantis isn't going anywhere and to anybody who is watching it's obvious he's just another Marco Rubio. His chances of winning are near nil, he's embarrassing himself every time he opens his mouth and now he decided it was a good idea to start shoving deli meat into it while giving a speech. This guy acts and looks like he's a camp counselor with his stupid vest on like he's is the head guy in charge of lake activity. The fact he can't even smile without looking like somebody is tickling his five hole is all you need to know.

Take on Covid take 3

I've heard about unicorns, people who somehow have avoided Covid throughout it all. I seem to the opposite, it's like I get Covid just from somebody looking at me cross. I get that the fact I commute on a crowded bus everyday, working a big city and about often makes me highly susceptible but I gotta say, I get this stupid thing seemingly once per month while the rest of the world is living their best lives

Take on the new Covid sub-variant

For the third time in four years, Covid knocked me down. I can't explain why I seem to get infected more often than most but will say that this subvariant isn't any fun. It's basically like putting humidifier over your head and then shoving cotton balls into your nose. Who knows how long it lasts but the fact we just got boosted makes me hope it's quick but for now it feels like absolute death

Take on Epstein’s black book

One of the great guarded secrets is about to get revealed and many of the richest and most powerful men (and maybe women) should be scared. The Jeffery Epstein black book has long been a thing of intrigue and it sounds like with the unsealing of documents, we may finally find out who is in it. I'm guessing it's a few former presidents, at least a dozen prominent actors, many dozens of congressmen, enough star athletes to win a championship and many, many international politicians

Take on Trump’s weird Hitler obsession

The story that Trump kept Hitler's speeches bedside is something we've heard before and the most you hear him speak, the more it seems true. His latest rants don't just seemed inspired by but they seem almost verbatim when comparing them. I know somebody will point to his Jewish grandkids and his desire might not be antisemitic as much as it's his envy for Hitler's power

Take on the Jets

The Jets haven't made the playoffs since 2010. Since that time two of my kids were born, I bought and sold two houses and I got fat and ugly. It's not just a dysfunctional franchise, it's a delusional one too. Every year they give you hope in the spring to just rip your heart out in the fall. It's not the coach, it's not the GM, it's not bad luck..it's the owner who is a Trump loving buffoon. Time to sell the team.

take on the Staffer fired after filming sex tape in Senate hearing room

The congressional staffer sex tape was all the talk this week as some staffer took it in the five hole from a buddy raw-dog style. The video was a bit more graphic than I'd prefer but the act was in itself probably not something that ranks as a highlight for the building but we all know that had it been a consensual heterosexual act, we would be done with the story already

Take on the Rudy settlement

Rudy losing a $150M settlement was sweet music but there is obviously no way this dude can afford to pay $15M let alone ten times that. I get that it's supposed to be mostly for show but I do think that when settlements this big come out it almost means nothing, like the Alex Jones one which he seems to completely defying

take on Bill Belichick

The patriot way was apparently just put a really good defense around the grader quarterback and win a bunch of super bowls. The problem is that without Tom Brady, Bill Belichick is sort of just another guy. He was a disaster in Cleveland, was 5-11 with Bledsoe and then Mo Lewis gave him the opportunity to ride the Brady train for like two decades and then went Brady left he went back to Cleveland Bill

Maybe Brady was underrated.

Take on the Tesla recall

Tesla is recalling all its cars on the towns in the US for some software update which I'm sure is well vetted and tested. The issue isn't that there is an update. but that we are to believe that this is a shock to Tesla. I'm sure that they knew about t bur buried it for as long as they could get away with it

Take on the university president stories

It seems that every other article in The NY Times recently has to do with university presidents under pressure about antisemitism on their campuses.

I'm not saying it's not a story to cover but if you are claiming to be the paper of record and every article is on the same topic while we have a war in Ukraine, a recession in China, a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Israel still reeling, an upcoming primary, a disregard by half of our country for reproductive rights, blatant worldwide authoritarianism and the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce thing, we need a new perspective. These are private institutions, they can make their own decisions and the pressure should come from the student body, alumni and community but for some reason the Times has decided to make this their go to story.

Take on the Toney penalty

I honestly don't understand how there is any discussion on the Kadarius Toney thing. I mean, he's a mile offsides and his complaint is that the ref didn't warn him?? I hate the NFL for all of their stupid antics but the fact that refs are giving players a heads up before calling a foul is blatantly idiotic.

Take on the Palm scanner

I'm not ready for the future. I know we have been promised flying cars and real VR glasses but when I waked into Whole Foods and saw you can now pay with the scan of your palm, it was a bit much. I can't quite understand the rationale behind giving Whole Foods AKA Amazon even more of our data. In mean between Alexa listening in to everything we say, the Amazon servers carrying all of our data and now this palm scan, we are ready to be taken over by an army of drones

Take on the defense of Alex Jones

When you feel the need to go out on a limb to defend Alex Jones, you've lost all credibility. Nobody has done more harm to the parents of slain children, than Alex Jones who is one of the most vile humans we have ever encountered. But here goes Elon feeling like this is the guy we need to go on a limb to give a platform to. The total collapse of X can't come quick enough

Take on the Crowds at a ‘redneck Christmas parade’

When you spend your Friday night at the Redneck Christmas Parade the fact that you plan to vote for Trump has to be a given. We get that there is an appeal of Trump from poor or uneducated white people but the idea that he stands for the little man is so counter to anything he's ever done.

Take on another white guy

When I saw the news last night about the UNLV shooting I immediately knew this was some deranged white man. It might seem like stereotyping but when basically every single one of these seemingly random mass shootings occurs it's almost always some guy who may as well be living in his mother's basement. They are always white, they are always a man, they are always conspiracy theorists and they are basically all virgins. So here is an idea, how about a background check that looks for those four things and stop issuing them guns.

Take on the multiplying vases

There are certain things in my house which seem to disappear randomly like socks and iPhone chargers but the opposite seems to happen with vases. I went through a cabinet and found no less than 15 of these things and can honestly say I've never bought a single one. I'm sure they came with flowers but there isn't a bigger wasteful portion in our economy than these stupid things

Take on the lipstick wearing bovine

CNN.com used some weird graphic on top of Jake Tapper's face which got us thinking Hard to tell what they were doing but one thing for sure, he looked more like Paula Poundstone than he did Fred Flintstone

If I didn't know any better, It would seem to me they are trying to out the guy in some attempt to fire him.
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Take on Cameo

When I caught the Cameo message paid for by John Fetterman of George Santos giving some advice to Bob Menendez I had to laugh.   I love good shtick and. Nothing is better than when you put some real effort into it, like this one.   The one thing that king of got me was that Santos got some positive publicity out of it

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Take on the No criminality suspected in death of Brooklyn woman found in Chelsea trash compactor

A young woman was found dead in a trash compactor and somehow the NYPD came out with a statement that they don't suspect foul play.  I have gone out plenty of times in my life and also done some swan dances into trash but just not sure how someone ends up in a trash compactor without somebody helping them into there.  

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Take on FoxNews

FoxNews is going after Biden for….drinking a milkshake with a straw. I can't quite understand their hatred for Biden but when they spend most of the time on something as idiotic as the use of a straw, you wonder if their audience is watching it basically like the rest of use watch SNL.

Take on the Trump immunity ruling

I can't believe a federal judge had to spend time to rule that Trump doesn't have absolute immunity. The entire core basis is our republic has always been that we don't have a king and the Nixon era rulings about presidential power has always been a complete corruption of the constitution. At least this starts to put some limits on that
Anyway, let's hope Trump rots in the hell he's created for himself

Take on the cybertruck

I gotta say that the Cybertruck is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen but the fact it looks like a tuna can isn't the worst thing. Every commercial decision involving Musk means you are giving money to a total madman I can't figure out how he hasn't gone completely bankrupt but the day is coming and it's closer to happening with every crack of that armor

Take on the hungry former president

Liz Cheney asked Kevin McCarthy why he went to Mar-a-Lago after the election to which he responded that he was worried about Trump as he had not been eating. We know a thing or two about Trump but from the looks of him, he's not one to miss too many meals. So I commend Kevin for going to protect our country from a dude who would go nuclear with his hangar

Take on terrible air traffic

With a report of Sunday being the busiest day in US history in terms of airport travel, I'm reminded again that although Thanksgiving is a great holiday the experience around it is just miserable.
It takes 3x as long to get anywhere, you spend six hours avoiding any meaningful conversation and you are forced to eat dried out turkey and flavorless mashed potatoes

Sometime we need to go back to zoom

Take on Elon Musk’s visit with Netanyahu

There are really no more vile humans than Elon Musk and Bibi Netanyahu and the two decided to have a photo-op to try to quell the uproar of Musk's antisemitism makes for one photo I won't be hanging up over my mantle.

We know he's a loathsome piece of hot trash and Musk isn't any better but to have these two try to repair each other's lame images in this way is typically classless and predictably self serving

Take on George Grimace Santos

George Santos is looking more and more like Grimace every single day. He's about the same size, has the same goofy smile and loves eating cheeseburgers. The only issue is that Grimace is a mostly joyful character while Santos is a lying bag of dog piss.
And if gets expelled, it will be a good day for the Republic.

Take on the most dangerous thing in the world

The most dangerous thing for a nearly 48 year old man is a dishwasher and a sneeze. Today I was doing the dishes at about 6:30am when I felt the beginnings of a sneeze sneaking up. I knew I was in trouble but having already grabbed a few plates, the only thing I could do is hold on for dear life. See my back hasn't felt totally right in a few weeks and even the thought of sneezing while bent over makes my sciatica flare up.
Here I am, with four dishes and the sneeze comes. Immediately my back becomes as tight as a snare drum and it wasn't for massive amounts of alcohol tonight, I'd be hiding in my room

At least I didn't break the dishes.

take on consumer spending

When I hear people complain about the economy when speaking about Biden, I'd like them to look at consumer spending. If the economy was so damn bad, why are people lining up at 10pm to buy a 70 inch flat screen and buying video games and makeup and hand bags and whatever the hell comes to their mind. We are a consumer economy, we know that but the idea that our economy is doing so badly while still spending like a drunken sailor is a bit much.

Take on the need respiratory illness,

When China announces that there are no unusual or novel pathogens behind a new respiratory illness, you couldn't be faulted for being a bit skeptical. We all lines through the hell that was Covid and don't think we as a society could go through it again mainly as half the country would refuse to comply all together in a way which would make the initial Covid deniers seem pedestrian

So let's hope this time this is just a normal seasonal flu thing but somehow I'm not holding my breath

Take on the explosion

Obviously we all immediately assumed it was one king of terror attack when news broke about an explosion on that bridge connecting Canada to the US. I was ready to cancel our Thanksgiving plans and order Chinese food tomorrow but then as the news kept coming out, it seemed it wasn't -in fact- a terror attack but some dude who got a bit too excited on his way to a KISS concert. So I guess we are stuck eating turkey after all

Take on Speaker Mike Johnson meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

The fact that Mike Johnson has to make a pilgrimage to kiss the ring of Donald Duck tells you all you have to know about the GOP. They don't have an agenda other than courting Trump's supporters and their bigger goal is just to put Trump back in the driver seat. From then outside looking in, it's so corrupt and so anti American but they have somehow convinced them all that their blind loyalty is actually cloaked patriotism.

Take on the very happy public birthday

Two things happened today…Biden and his entire executive team decided to join threads and the entire Democratic operation decided to embrace his age.

In a very coordinated attempt, every last operative used the opportunity to wishhim a happy birthday which I assume is meant to make sure the GOP doesn't claim their are hiding his age.

Take on the ride seat mats

I'm flying out this week and the lady in front of me decided that she should hang her stupid puffy jacket all over the back of the seat. Now I'm in the awkward position of either having do ask her to move that dead rodent off of my scream or basically watch four episodes of Modern Family with a opossum in the top left corner

Take on the successful launch

CNN's headline this morning reporting on the successful launch of Starship which is obviously a big deal if the plans to get to Mars are ever going to be realized. But the follow up post was a bit less optimistic.

I guess losing the spacecraft was as a potential consequence which they thought might happen but losing the payload while touting a successful launch does seem like you are burying the lede.

Take on the antisemitic Elon Musk

Has anybody's career arc been more pronounced that Elon Musk? The world admired him for his vision for space travel and his leadership for electric cars even if he didn't actually invent either. But rhe criticism that he only got rich off of others idea never bother me, if somebody invented a way to turn water into wine today, you'd still need a visionary to bring it to market and then a salesman to sell it, and there is no doubt that Elon can sell. The issue is that he went from media darling to third rail
Grotesque almost overnight and his latest public obsession with antisemitism seems to fit the lifestyle pretty well when you consider he was a white dude growing up in apartheid South Africa.

Take on George Santos

I gotta say if a screenwriter came up with the George Santos storyline it would be thrown out on being completely unbelievable. Between the game jobs at major banks, the holocaust survival, the blatant lies on his biography, he had audacity which we haven't seen.

The way a man come up with the kinds of stories he did and then sell them as facts to a huge audience without anybody noticing any of it until it was all too late is sort of impressive.

Add to that even when the lights were shining brightest, he couldn't resist the urge to continue his quest of peddling self falsehoods and spending campaign funds on various personal items just adds to the mystique.

But I gotta say the suckers who donated to this guy's campaign who now find out he spent it on Botox and OnlyFans has to be sweetest justice ever.

Take on Deshaun Watson’s shoulder surgery

There really is no bigger piece of crap than Deshaun Watson and the fact that this dude's season ends prematurely again is sweet sweet justice. I know we shouldn't ever cheer for injuries but I also don't think there is any good reason he's the highest paid QB with his record…screw him

Take on the near fight in the senate

I used to alway assume the House was a bunch of wannabe misfits while the Senate was reserved for a sort of gentleman's club(not that kind)
When I caught the near fight between a sitting senator and the head of the teamsters Union, I was embarrassed not just for the people involved but by the institution itself. What would our forefathers think of this king of behavior with the hallowed halls of congress.

Then I realized that back in the 1700's these guys would have settled this by rowing across the river and settling it with a duel, so maybe we have made progress

Take on the tip calculator

It's so obvious that websites are so low on good quality content that they constantly reuse the same boring articles about daylight savings or best turkey dishes or how to beat the heat.

But nothing is lamer than this CNBC article about how your $500 Apple Watch can also double as tip calculator. This is insanely stupid and is basically a Seinfeld clip for 2023

Take on Tim Scott

Tim Scott dropped out of the GOP race, as the party seems now more than ever to rally around Trump. I've been only half watching the primary mostly because we all know that Trump will take this thing. Tim Scott never had a shot, neither does Christie and the funny Indian guy news to go away. But this is Trump's race to lose and I don't think he will.

Take on RFK jr.

I assumed RFK jr was going to be a Jill Stein type candidate, claiming to be a liberal but likely on the take from his Russian handler. But the more we hear, the better his polling and he's looking like he could be a true spoiler at this point. Granted he hasn't been vetted yet and nobody has seen him on the national stage but when his numbers of likely voters is like 24% while Biden only gets 35%, it's scary.

And with all of this mess. You know when are going to get stuck with Trump again.