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.

Take on mayor Adams

When your mayor is having his electronic devises seized, you kind of realize your entire city is screwed. The decline of urban civilization is way over stated and unfair to normal city living but the fact our city is run by this piece of trash doesn't help the average New Yorker feel any better even if he's not at fault for the junkies and the terrible lines at Starbucks

Take on Joltin’ Joe

We all hate Joe Manchin both democrats and republicans alike.    I've said for years that Manchin in just a Dino but if people can be honest…that worked.    There is no chance a normal Democrat wins West Virginia, so anybody who bitches about him will soon find out that having him on your side is a lot better than not having him around at all    For one thing, it's one less seat towards a majority one that is already razor thin.  Two, his policies don't perfectly align but they sure as hell will align a better than Billy Joe from the moonshine truck who will be taking his place . 

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Take on the Third Republican debate

I can't actually be bothered to watch the so called race for second place, so won't be tuning into the Republican debate. I'm not actually interested as you can't actually debate the star of the party without the head of it in attendance. But CNN is desperately trying to draw some attention to it with their lame speaking clock. So far Scott is eking out Haley which is about as exciting as watching Christie devour a donut

Take on the Amazon archive order conundrum

To this day I don't understand why Amazon which is maybe the largest tech company in the world has to make it so ungodly difficult to hide an order from view. With the holidays approaching and most immediate families sharing an account it is beyond stupid that you must log into a desktop browser in order to archive an order. This means you cannot archive an order from a cellphone or from their own stupid Amazon app. God Bezos, not only are you a total dork, you can't even do the basics right

Take on the fraud case

How are we living in a country where the opposition party's likely nominee is fighting multiple trials for corruption, fraud and starting an insurrection and still leads in the polls. This country needs healing, we all acknowledge that. but until one party stops holding their nominee to account for a lifetime of criminality, we can't even begin

Take on the latest polls

For a long time I've thought that the best opponent for Biden was Trump as all of Biden's shortcoming that the GOP would use against him are ones Trump has also. But the fact that Biden trails Trump in five swing states scares the hell out of me. I don't get how Trump seems like a good option to anybody but to think that states that Biden won would now go to Trump is insane to me. Nothing about the calculus should have changed but somehow January 6th or the multiple trials didn't tarnish him at all and instead maybe bolstered his support

Take on Kim G

There really is no uglier human both extreme ally and internally than Kimberley Guilfoyle. She was once upon a time really pretty. This was back and. when her politics weren't ugly either. But since she started shagging up with Donny Cocaine, it hasn't been good for her skin..or her hair, or face, or eyes or cheeses or anything. She looks like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man

Take on the gag order

The gag order against Trump seems to go from being enforced to being frozen to being reinforced to being refrozen about a dozen times. I hate Trump but feel like this gag order sends the wrong message. They should let the idiot speak, he does more damage to himself every time he opens his stupid mouth to reveal his next level of stupidity

Take on baseball

People will say they are baseball fans but they aren't. Nobody is a baseball fan. People are fans of their baseball team and that is it.

Look at other sports, the NFL draws people for a preseason game, I have friends who watch random NBA games every night but nobody watches the World Series their biggest event. And if nobody is watching that they sure as hell aren't watching some random Blue Jays-Royals game in July

The truth is that the NFL could put up Bears Cardinals tonight and get a bigger audience than last nights World Series game.

Take on Santos

The Republicans are stuck with George Santos because they are too chickenshit to actually do anything that would show any moral clarity. They have proven themselves to stand for nothing but themselves even in the direct line of corruption and lies…but what do you expect from people who would support Donald Trump

Take on Halloween

It's nearly midnight and I'm fairly sure my kids are still up. I get that Halloween is a great holiday and I've said for years they should make it in the last Saturday of October so that kids can enjoy it fully and safely. The idea of a bunch of little kids are roaming the streets when it's dark and wet doesn't ever seem safe with people rushing home from work
Add to that the concept that they have to be at school tomorrow is an even worse idea. Give us all our sanity and just make it on. a Saturday

Take on Bill Trump

Nobody should be shocked that Trump apparently tried to pull a Bill Clinton while in office. The former president allegedly had the hots for one of of Stephanie Grisham's staffers who he'd ask to join him on a bunch of trips. I'm not getting this from any really reliable sources but we all just assume that this is true.

Take on Pence suspending his White House bid C

Pence dropping out of the presidential campaign wasn't shocking, it wasn't even really a surprise as he's about as personable as a bologna sandwich and about as principled as mayonnaise.   We can't be sure he ever really believed he had a shot but the fact that it ends with such a whimper reminds us that you need at least some personality 

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Take on Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson seems like a genuinely horrible person. His stance on gay rights, abortion and J6 are despicable but the fact he's got an adopted black son who he refuses to acknowledge. My theory is he just Wants to be able to claim he's no a racist. Like saying he's got that one black friend.

Take on the Tesla of

Every single thing that I see advertised on instagram is being promoted as The Tesla of….

I get bombarded with ads for Tesla of wallets and the Tesla of belts. It's endless with the piggyback bulls hit as the idea of a pair of pants or a wallet being anything like a Tesla is laughable. But I'm just waiting for somebody to come out with a The Tesla of Electric Cars and basically blow Musk's gasket.

Take on guns and mental health.

Enough is never enough when it comes to gun violence in this country. We have never come to grips with the danger of these semiautomatic weapons and to this day we spend more time debating them than actually doing something

From the CNN article. 

Card, of Bowdoin, is a certified firearms instructor and a member of the US Army Reserve, law enforcement officials in Maine told CNN. He had recently threatened to carry out a shooting at a National Guard facility in Saco, Maine, and reported mental health issues, including hearing voices, the officials said.

One thing seems so abundantly simple and something we can all get behind.    Nobody with mental health issues should be carrying a gun.    So here we go, you must pass a mental health exam if you want to pack heat and pass this once per year.  

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Take on 7/11 sushi 🍣

The idea of sushi always sounds terrific and in Japan I've often had it at a train terminal or a mall but I can't say I trust it in those settings back in the homeland. I have two rules when it comes to sushi. Never get discount sushi and never buy sushi from a non Asian.

Today I'm walking past 7/11 and see they are offering their version with a big message telling you to "treat yourself". I'm all for treating myself, just not sure I need salmonella with it

Take on the loosy goosey financial rules

When financial statements reflect the will of the company and not the facts of the balance sheet, you have a problem. The guy who has a decent chance of running our country again is the kind of guy who would push his financial team to do just that tells you all you need to know.
His mantra of "he's just smarter" than the average schlep is such a falsehood. He's more crooked than the average schlep and because he's (supposedly) wealthy he gets away with it.
But half the country thinks this is something to be proud of.

I said it a million times. If he ran the local water board, there would undoubtedly be financial improprieties

Rake on Ivanka Trump at Kim Kardashian’s Birthday Party

As much as I don't understand the appeal to Kim Kardashian, her social circle now makes her even less attractive. Not only is she mostly just a dumpy looking troll whose main talent seems to have been getting caught with a sex tape which she turned into like four failed marriages, she also hangs out with social pariah.

She doesn't seem to have any discernible talents but now her lack of anything is paired with her lack of any moral judgment. Her celebrating her birthday with Ivanka makes you want to pump your face full of Botox and your ass full of cheese

Take on the Taylor Swift thing

The he Taylor Swift obsession with these Chiefs games is getting a little much and by a little much I think it's totally overblown and annoying. Yeah, she's super successful and the world wants to know about her very move and everybody was sort of into it for the first few weeks of this Kelce thing but come on, can't we move on already? Seeing her talking with Mahomes wife is god awful television and nobody will convince me otherwise

Take on the weather curse

It's time to move. I cannot take another miserable rainy weekend where nothing can get done, the fields are a swamp and I'm forced to be stuck in the house. I see articles trying to explain the weird phenomenon which has basically ruined every weekend since before Labor Day and everybody has their theory. I'm just sick and tired of all of it and think to myself how nice it would be to live in Death Valkey

Take on the State of NY SportsTalk

Boomer and Gio. Consistently listenable. Sort of like the Z morning zoo

DiPietro and the Psycho. So underrated, especially Wednesdays

Evan and Tiki is unlistenable

Don and Peter are so much better than when Kay isnt there. I don't understand his schedule but I have to imagine he will be back a lot now that baseball is done which is bad news. It's so much better without him.

Haven't heard BT and Sal but afraid it will sound like two Italian cousins building a deck

Richard Neer is still solid

Anita Marks is god awful, plus she's always eating on the air which is very distracting

Kim Jones needs a regular slot

They got rid of that guy who speaks about youth sports but now they just simulcast 1010 wins

That carton gambling show is ridiculous considering every other show around it. They literally now just have bookies on in the morning

Greeny sucks

JR isn't terrible,

Not sure who does overnights but it likely isn't any good.

Take on Sidney Powell

There aren't many more despicable humans than Sidney Arthur Powell, so her guilty plea on election fraud is music to our ears. The issue is that I don't trust these Trumpers for a second, I don't know the angle but the though that she's turned on Don Juan is not something in buying. Find me some more evidence of her actually taking responsibility for her actions and we can talk

Take on Delta

Nobody knows how to burn years of good will quite like an airline. For years Delta was the gold standard of American commercial airlines. They had good planes, lots of flights and a very good domestic lounge. Then overnight theydecided to burn it all to hell by basically telling the loyal customers they had to be a lot more loyal and spend a lot more money to get the same benefits. I get the business decision as they had made themselves so lovable that everybody wanted to be invited but to burn it all to the ground seems…counterproductive

Anyway, who cares. They guys will touch the hot stove a thousand times.

Take on Round 1

Round 1 is in the books and Jim Jordan took a beating. Sadly for Jordan, nobody likes him but wise for Jordan is that nobody trusts him.

The question on everybody's lips is.. If you can't trust a coach to protect players in a locker room, how can you protect our constitution

I can't believe these loses are going to go back to Kevin McCarthy. I hope for his sake he doesn't come back without some major concessions from the lunatic right.

Take on the Instagram algorithm

I started on Instagram like a month ago which makes me very late to the party.

I'm not coming up with anything novel here but it's ridiculously addictive and completely unnecessary as it's such a brain suck and time waster that until you fall into it, you have no clue. But what is shocking is how fast it figured me out

Every reel I get sent is on either foot pain, black labs, girls soccer or dudes who get yelled at for not putting out the trash

Take on Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers passed away today which means that basically the entire cast of the greatest TV show of all time is now six feet under. Ridder's death was devastating, Somers' came way too early. Furley died, I'm assuming Roper is dead. Richard Kline might still be around, Joyce DeWitt I think is too but without googling it I don't know.

And nobody cares about Cindy or Terri.

Take on The Mall

This afternoon on a crappy rainy Saturday, I drove to the mall and dropped the girls off at the front so they didn't get wet. It was a miserable day but the thought of walking into that mall made me that much more miserable.

So now I'm sitting in the car and the idea of going in is so unappealing as hearing a couple of guys complain about the Giants offensive line and I've contemplated just leaving and hoping they make their way back ok.

Take in Jim Jordan

After Scalise and McCarthy had their shots, Gym Jordan is throwing his hat in the ring. We know he will be an awful speaker but what is the most shocking thing is that nobody expects his to be any good. It's not like an option with somebody who actually looks competent. We have the worst of the worse

Take on Gym Jordan

Steve Scalise is dropping the first r of the race for the speakership which can only be seen as a positive. The problem is that the next man up is Gym Jordan who has more than just a small troubled pass. He's spent his entire career not wearing a suit jacket while he spent the first part of his career looking away during sexual abuse. Anyway, Jordan is a total piece of crap and nobody with any semblance of normalcy would think otherwise but he's likely going be the next speaker

Take on the facade

They are tearing down a building on 38th street which isn't exactly newsworthy but the fact they left just the facade uo is kind of odd. I get there might be some landmark reasoning but when the facade looks like it's being held together with with rubber cement, you kind of wonder why it's worth saving. I guess it'll look cool assuming some body does't accidentally lean into it

Take on the Steve Scalise vs Jim Jordan battle

Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan are vying for the speakership of a battle of two of the most uninspiring options the position has ever seen.

I do get that neither one will ever become more than a footnote in history of congress as they are largely forgettable. Jordan will most be remembered for his role with molestation where he stayed quiet instead of doing the right thing. Scalise sadly will be most remembered for something far out of his control.
But the two make their pitch today, which will likely go as well as a republican debate. Doubt either gets enough support to actually win anything.

Maybe the twerp with the bowtie will get the job permanently.

Take on RFK jr

The QAnon crazies have been telling us for years that JFK and his son JFK jr were coming back to carry out the persecution of a global canal of pedophilic blood drinking liberal elites.   

The idea has always been that the Kennedy's would be making their return not on the Mount of Olives outside of Jerusalem as the QAnon guys can't get through a screening to get a passport so instead they patiently await at an Olive Garden in outside of Topeka   

But like Nostradamus predicting a world crisis after a tyrant named "Hister" establishes a master race, these quacks may just have fat fingered their prediction.

It's apparently RFK Jr. who will carry Donald Trump and his children to their holy land.    

And now I despise Cheryl 

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Take on Researchers link popular weight loss drugs to serious digestive problems

The idea that Ozempic is some miracle drug with Jo side effects was always a bit rich for me. I get that it has changed the lives of many and for that I'm excited but to think this comes for free was always inconceivable on so many levels. The fact that people are having digestive problems is actually the best case scenario in my mind a few months ago. There are no true miracles.

Take on X

The thing about X is that if Musk just gave up on it and let it run it's course, we'd have our public forum back and could delete Threads tomorrow. I know people will say Threads is nice and communal which is fine but also makes it miserably boring when every post is somebody kissing somebody else's ass. I like the vile nature on the old twitter because at least it wasn't a title echo chamber.
I'm hoping Elon can't make a debt payment and they go full takeover on this jackass.

Take on the Kelce Storm

Nothing has been less interesting to me than the Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift "romance". Nobody bemuses it's real as it's obvious she's just tying to stay relevant by dating the biggest football player during a time that she couldn't promote her movie because of the Hollywood strike. We know this is all contrived TMZ bull but somehow we accept it as fact

Take on Instagram

I got off of Twitter a few months ago and although I wish I could tell you I don't miss it, it do. Threads is horrible, Reddit is the true Wild West, I tried a few of those pop up sites but couldn't figure them out so I sort of decided to try instagram. Granted I'm way late to the party and even navigating it is nearly impossible and I have to say..I kind of hate it.

I hate that it's only feel good stories, I hate that it's allthe same cliche crap and I hate the fact hat I once viewed a video of a guy ordering a deep dish pizza and now I get blitzed with Chicago ads. Something is seriously wrong with your algorithm if you think I care about September's museum days in Chicago…I live in a suburb of New York and….it's October 5th

Take on Trump’s bald head

By all accounts, Trump's Civil Fraud trial in New York is going really badly. First there was a particularly harsh gag order which we all know he won't be able to abide by. Then his accountants testified that the Trump Organization didn't actually provide the financials they were suppose to
but mostly his day went badly when photos emerged from the back of his head which looked like a reverse landing strip. The guy has always been a grotesque figure but the view of his bald head was enough to make me lose my lunch.

Take on…..Patrick McHenry

When Kevin McCarthy was ousted earlier today, some dude who looks like a cross between Dr Drew and Tucker Carlson became the speaker pro tempore.   I have never heard of that term before mainly because these speakers generally have some staying power but I guess this dude was Kevin's attack poodle or something.  So he doesn't just look like a total dweeb, he plays one in real life too. 

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Take on Matt Gaetz

When you find yourself rooting for Kevin McCarthy in a battle royal, you know that his opponent has to be god awful. Well this is exactly where we find ourselves. Nobody like Matt Gaetz but somehow he commands more spotlight than anybody else. But what I don't understand is how a couple of these hard right lunatics are basically able to control what happens in congress. If seems like it goes against everything you know about what we are suppose to be.

Take on Taylor Swift attending Chiefs-Jets with Blake Lively

It's 9:49 and they've shown Taylor Swift more times on TV than Zack Wilson completions. We don't have any idea of knowing what the actual impact of her coming is but my teenage daughter has never actually cared about a football game. This is when celebrities have too much juice, when the biggest sport on its prime time game basically needs a celebrity to give it real juice. Everybody knows this isn't real, it's all a way to promote the NFL and to keep her in the conversation.