Take on the Ronald McDonald show

You have to appreciate any gym which makes their entire place look like the inside of a McDonalds, either as a mind trick to make you believe you actually want to be there or as motivation for a post workout snack. I know there are more important things today including the official move into the oligarch class and seeing our norms defiled but let's focus on something positive like thinking of a BigMac when doing a leg-press.

Take o. The TikTok ban and unban

The cry came in loud and clear....nooooooooooooooo!
It was late Saturday and TikTok had gone dark which although was. Fully expected, still seemed surreal mostly because of the cryptic pro Trump outgoing message sending out the Trump signal to come and rescue it. A few hours later, Trump did and all is well and good for millions of teenagers. I can't tell you how devastating this was for five sophomores I was in a car with, each expressing the feeling as essentially losing an arm. We don't know where this will go, but with Trump seeing TikTok as a useful tool, I'm guessing he's keeping it around as long as it remains something he can manipulate.

Take on sub zero.

As I stare at the weather so to see the attic chill should be brining us some single digit temperatures which with the windchill could drop below 0 makes you sort of happy when it's only 20 degrees. We get on of these artic storms every year or two, so they aren't no shocking but I'm 100% sure we got more snow but a lot let's brutal cold when I was a kid. But yeah, climate change is a hoax

take on the NFL weekend

This weekend is traditionally the best weekend of the NFL schedule but I gotta say the games this year just don't move the needle with the exception of Ravens and Bills. I know that I'm probably going to be dead wrong but the idea of the Texans vs Chiefs, Commies vs Lions and Rams vs Eagles don't do anything for me. Will I watch, of course because it's the NFL but am I going to make sure I'm there for every snap. No chance.

Take on the non ban

Every politician whether conventional or unconventional, democrats or republican, standard or whackadoodle knows that he can't take on big tech. We know that Zuck and Bezos and Musk are groveling to Trump but we also know Trump needs them more than anything else right now. Biden's decision not enforce the TikTok ban is another show of weakness as he's scared of the repercussions.

Take on the hostage negotiations

This will go down as Biden's Iran hostage moment, with the ceasefire starting on the eve of his departure.  I know that Carter had the indignity of seeing their release after Reagan took office but this deal is the same in principle as the one Biden has been proposing for months, yet it will be Trump who takes the credit for it..as long as it's good.  

With that's said, I originally din't understanding why Trump wanted a deadline before Inauguration Day as it seemed like he'd love the chance to run it in Biden's face but the more I think I about it, it's done with some sick strategy because it will allow him to blame Biden if it goes sideways.  If one of the 100s of Palestinian prisoners ends up involved with as much as hurting a fly, you know Trump will be all down Biden's throat about it. 

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Take on Starbucks ending its ‘open-door’ policies for the can

Starting in a few short days you will not be allowed to walk into Starbucks, drop a deuce and walk out. We know this is shocking but I find it rather pleasant as there is no way the Starbucks in NYC can keep up with the people pissing on the walls, shitting in the sinks and puking on the floor. We need a clean place to plop down and do our business and if it costs me a Pike Place Roast, I see that as a good thing

Take on the GOP's typical response to a natural disasters in a blue state.

As is typical with GOP lawmakers, when a Blue state needs help, they're looking for concessions. This is the polar opposite of when democratic lawmakers open up the coffers for tornadoes or hurricanes or whatever in red states and proves again that the GOP are a bunch of miserable hypocrites. Mike Johnson wil use the opportunity to get praise from Hannity and Glen Beck while California burns. Typical of these self righteous scum.

Take on the Steelers.



Be careful what you wish for... the Steelers are a perennial playoff team but because they can't seem to advance past the first round, their fans are calling for his head. As a fan of the Jets, a team which hasn't made the playoffs since in my teenager's lifetime, this seems beyond asinine. Bad football team, let fans help make their decisions which are based on emotion. Good football teams, build programs that are sustainable and stable. Believe me, Steeler Nation, you don't want any of this misery.

Take the Shade

Kamala Harris throwing shade at Trump with every last post she has is astonishing. We know it's a bit petty but he's such a completely self centered bag of dog piss, this is all you can expect.

Take on the Canada tariffs .

Tariffs are idiotic and nothing but a tax on the middle class and on American businesses but when Trump decided to get into it with China, you could see the (misguided) rationale. When he treated it against Mexico, it made less sense as it will destroy our own domestic automotive car manufacturers but again you could see that Trump is trying to stick it in the eye of Mexico

but Canada?? I can't understand this for a second, if you had to ask me to give you a tip 100 most likely countries to be seen as an adversary, Canada would literally be number 1000.

Take on the felon in chief

Trump will go into the office as the first convicted felon to serve as president. I'm sure these aren't the only crimes he's committed but they are the only ones he's had to face up to. I'm glad to see that SCOTUS showed a little guts here and a big hat tip to Barrett and Roberts for putting country over party.

Take on the corrupt Supreme Court

The fact that SCOTUS members have no ethics committees to answer to is just dreadful. The grift that Thomas has taken part of and the blatant conflict of interests that both he and Alito regularly display should be seen as criminal m. But this is the country we want apparently with the powerful holding nobody accountable and the middle class suffering all the way to the poor house.

The on Zuck getting rid of fact checking.

Mark Zuckerberg has always been a complete dweeb. Not only does he not have a spine, he looks like a ginger's crotch. When he announces the Meta will no longer fact check, it was obviously his attempt to publicly felate Trump. We know he already donated to the inauguration thing, we know he went down to Mar-a-Lago to gravel and now we know he's willing to sell his soul for nothing. Congrats America, our lying future president is now completely coddled by any form of media.

Take on Justin Trudeau resignation

It sounds like Trump may get his way and add Canada into the fold. In all for the natural resources, improvement in our hockey players and better yet millions of new voters who can help swing elections to the correct side.

Maybe Trump can get Canada to throw in Trudeau to give Melania as a birthday gift.

So let's pursue this idea.

Take on the final Medal of Freedom ceremony of Biden's presidency


Reading the medal of freedom recipients is a list of who's who and also a list of who??? I get the love for Hillary and even for Bono and it's kind of cool Bill Nye the science guy got one but then I see that Ralph Lauren and Anna Wintour got ones too and the entire thing feels cheapened. I'm not really it or thaw silly civilian honors socially at the end of a term and wish we could just got back o actually honoring good people who have dedicated their lives to service not a guy who made khakis cool.

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Take on the treadmill

Nothing is more miserable and makes time feel like it's standing still quite like running in a treadmill. I don't know what it is but it's easily an experience to takes an already difficult task of running and make it instantly worse. But then again, it's 1 degrees considering the windchill, so it's my only option.

Take on the US surgeon general alarm about booze

The beer industry has been getting killed lately, first the wackos decided to boycott BudLite, then I saw a report that teenagers are drinking less than. Ever and now the surgeon general is chiming in.

For years I heard that a glass of wine was good for your health or drinking in moderation wasn't detrimental but now I'm seeing the surgeon general basically wants to put a "you will die if you drink this beer" label on my IPA.

Take on the giant polar vortex dildo

We have another one of those polar vortexes coming our way this weekend and I for one am already sick of it. I saw the shelves staring to empty, the
Schools considering a snow day and the weather channels showing gigantic dildos on their screens. I think it's fine to just say bye bye and get me back to 50 degrees because a wind chill of -10 doesn't sound like any fun.

Take on the Florida PornHub ban

The entire population of Florida woke up this morning to find out they can no longer get to PornHub or any of its dozen or so sister sites. I can't feel too badly because those aholes voted for Trump and this is equivalent for us to have to live under another four years. So I'm asking, how fast can the democrats turn this into a GOP issue that they take advantage of. My guess is they will fumble this golden(shower) opportunity

Take on the Capitol building struck with lightning

The United States Capitol getting hit by lighting right before we moved into 2025 was an inauspicious event for our next few years. We know that the spineless Republicans in congress have given up trying to hold Trump accountable, actually they never have even shown any interest in doing so. But this is what we will be dealing with, all three branches of government under his fat thumb and we are all going to be so screwed.

Take on Congestion Pricing

Congestion pricing will finally come. This is after Hochul chickened out last time which showed you everything you needed to know about her. I know this is going to hurt some but for a guy who commutes into Manhattan every...single.... day, it's due time. Traffic is insane, there are way too many cars and the city is in constant gridlock. Take a train or a bus or a ferry whatever, there are a million of us who do that every day.

Take on the miserable football team

Just
End
The
Season

I've watched enough football in my life to know that there is no way the Jets should return next year with this same miserable lineup hoping that a change of coaching makes the difference. If you have a conspiracy theorist as a QB who divides both the country and the locker room, there is no chance you can be successful as a football program

So please Woody don't bring back ARodge. We need a new direction, starting with you.

The on the jean's wearing grandmaster

Saw a story about some Grandmaster chess player getting disqualified for wearing jeans. I've head about other ones who were using anal vibrators to get hints on moves but jeans?? I'm not sure what the point is but to take the world's #1 player and force him out of your Super Bowl because he's wearing jeans is idiotic.

Take on TikTok

Trump is pausing the banning of TikTok and I'm upset not for the national security perspective but because I'd very much like it to be taken off the phone of my kids. There can't be a more add tone app than that thing and I find it mesmerizing how mind numbingly stupidity is.

Take on the crash.

When that Azerbaijani flight crashed yesterday, there was no doubt in my mind it was a Russian attack. I wasn't sure why or how but I figure there was some Russian dissident on the flight and Papa Putin wanted him dead. So when the reports started to come out that this was likely not a random crash, I was not at all shocked. I'm guessing that maybe it was a case of mistaken identity but either way, I'm sure the world will just let it be because we are all so scared of what Russia will do next. The most powerful coup reunion the world is so obviously not the most powerful when it some as to military, political, cultural or economic might yet we treat it like one.

Take on the NFL on christmas

Maybe it was because the games were terrible, maybe it's just odd on Netflix but it didn't feel right to have NFL games on today. The NFL is king but there is something odd having these guys play on two days rest just so Goodell can make a few more bucks.
Leave Christmas for the NBA.

The night before

Twas the Night Before Christmas and all through the house, nobody was whining not even the mouse. The kids were in bed after another long day, and dad's on his second hazy I.P.A. A long dark drive back home is always a blast, when kids are screaming about internet lags. Car full of presents, can't see out the back while the headlights behind me pierce through the black. Half the drivers are drunk, I'm in a funk and the entire time I'm hearing my transmission make a weird clunk. How much longer they ask, I just cannot say, they complain it takes too long and I'm done with the day.

But tomorrow they'll be happy, if just for a while, they'll tell me they love me and fake me a smile.. then they'll dart up the stairs to find an iPad to play and I go on cleaning up the mess of the day. The dog will still love me and I'll hide in my bed until a fight breaks open and my face will turn red.

Merry Christmas

Take on the Matt Gaetz ethics report

There is no creepier person alive ran Matt Gaetz and still somehow Trump thought he was the person who should be leading the justice department. When the house ethics report came out, nobody was surprised as we all suspected he paid women for sex including ones who were underaged. What is shocking is that Mrs Gaetz is sticking with him through all of this.

Take on the suspected man who lit the homeless woman on fire

I know that NYC is one of the safest big cities in the world when it comes to a per capita crime number but when situations happen like what occurred today, it doesn't quite matter that the numbers are when some psycho set a homeless woman on fire and stood around on the platform watching her burn. I've been saying for years that we don't have a crime problem, we don't have a homeless problem as much as we have a mental health one and the idea that we aren't treating and institutionalizing mentally ill people is a failure of the state.
I know mental wards aren't for the feint of heart but I'm not sure having a city fearful of getting shoved in front of a train or set ablaze is much better. The fact we closed them all years ago and just sent the people into the streets and subways is what we are dealing with today.

Take on the Trump loss

Trump finally lost. It was a few months late but I guess it's better late than never. This one was about the debt ceiling and he wanted to raise it on Biden's watch not his own. This is typical of Trump, he doesn't actually like the governance part of it, he just likes the ridiculousness of it all

Take on president Elon

The smartest thing the democrats have done since the Weird thing this summer is l the recently adopted running joke of Elon rubbing the show while Donnie has to play second fiddle. You wonder why it took them so long to get somewhere with this because it's so obvious that having all these memes with Elon larger than Trump has to irritate him to no ends.

Take on the Jansport backpack

35 years ago, I desperately wanted a Jansport backpack and after begging and pleading I finally got my parents to drop some stupid amount of money on a bag which looked exactly like the bag every other kid had. Fast forward and my own kids are looking for the exact same backpack I had as a kid and it's still twice as expensive as any other bag. You'd think the extra money pays for better quality not just a brand but honestly in 35 years plus of making these things, they still have bit figured out that kids will jam these things full and then before you know it, the zipper will get stuck

My kid's zipper is so stuck, I need jaws of life to have a shot to open up that bag.

Take on the Canadian annex

In season 1, Trump wanted to buy Greenland which was met with more than a little skepticism. We obviously never thought we'd be back here again but here we are and now in season two and 47 is threatening to annex Canada. I'm not quite sure what our northern neighbors think of this but I have to think that all those new Canadian immigrants that come with the territory won't make Trump all that happy. Then again, most of them are white (or Asian) so maybe he won't care that much.

You'd have to think the new state (or hopefully multiple states) would lean left and we can retake congress and the presidency.

Sign me up...if nothing else it can only help our Hockey teams

Take on the TikTok ban

I never cared all that much about alleged Chinese spying embedded within TikTok, always assuming that they are already listening. I also assume Meta and Google and whatever else is listening too, so don't believe we should have any pretense of moral clarity.
Why in happy that there might be a TikTok ban is so that my teenage kids are forced to spend time doing anything else.

Take on the FDIC

I guess if you are loving the return of Polio, you'll love the run on banks. It's like we are back in the 1930's all over again and the party is just about to start.

Today I noticed a new FDIC insured message when I opened by Citi app and first thought it was odd as they were maybe forced to do so, or maybe they were making a statement.

Turns out it's a new FDIC mandate which makes sense as a preemptive move but it does beg the question as to what the hell Trump is thinking with this. At least in the first term he was overtly nuts but now it's like this branded craziness which will destroy us.

The plans to make us back 100 years is coming together nicely.

Take on Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle's split

When news broke that Donnie Jr and Kim Guilfoyle had broken off their engagement, I'm sure tears were shed Those were maybe by the florist or the wedding planner, as I can't imagine anybody else not being paid to run that wedding cares about either of them. Little Donnie is already with some other skank, so I'm sure papa Trump is happy enough to send the last one to Greece

Screw this entire horrible family.

Take on endless daylight savings.

Trump is talking smith eliminating daylight savings but somehow he's got the wrong side of the argument. If we go to full time standard time, we'll never get our long summer evening nights, it will always feel like miserable winter. So please god, don't do this to me.

Take on the UFO drones

The worst thing that ever happened was the Ring community feature where people freak the hell out about a million random things. For the last few years it was random coyote sightings or a missing Amazon box but the last two weeks in NJ, we get a notification every three minutes about a drone sighting. Last night we had something like 15 notifications which made my eyes bleed and made me want to throw my ring doorbell in the river.

Get over yourself and start living life and stop staring at the sky hoping to see Alf.

Take on the giant USB plug hole thing

Every electronic charger you get now is one of those Mini USB-C things yet every airline I've ever flown on is still only offers those gigantic USB plug holes.

I am not sure how the hell these airlines expect me to sit quietly for a six hour flight if I can't even charge my phone anymore. Time to make it into the 21st century, PanAm.

Take on the confused elevator

I get to my hotel today and I'm floored. I thought I woke up in Michigan today but apparently I'm in Berlin because the elevator is telling they have both a Ground Floor AND a First Floor. I'm not sure what kind of mental gymnastics I need to do to make sense of this but if we ever thought socialism was coming, here is the clearest sign.

Take on the three types of people at an airport

Long gone are the days when people looked dignified travel, somehow we have decided that going to the airport means we are basically giving up on any style. People don't even try anymore a this point, and it's rely the downfall of civilization.


I'm convinced there are only three types of people at an airport.

- the business person, dressed up nicely, clean and basically staying out of the way and just hoping to get their connection to Milwaukee.

- the guy traveling to Florida with the stupid Goofy hat on and a Hawaiian shirt on. Usually has his boarding pass in a punch around his neck and his wife screaming at him wearing a Minnie Mouse shirt and a pair of pants three sizes too small.

- the person who looks completely homeless in dirty sweats, crocs with socks and one of those shirts you get free when signing up for a Discover card.

We need dress code at these places. It's disgusting.

Take on Assad

I was thrilled to see the Assad government overthrown not because I have any idea what the next group will do but because the Syrians deserved to have their say. My problem is that we've seen this before and usually it runs into a complete cluster. We are weeks away from ISIS running the joint.

It's with them or worse yet some new splinter faction which will make ISIS looks like teddy bears in the same way that ISIS made Al Qaeda look like a walk in the park

Take on the end of The Michael Kay show

The Michael Kay show coming to and end feels less tragic than when we lost Mike and the MadDog mostly because while Francesa is a complete self indulging slob, he's must listen radio while Kay is every bit as self absolutes but not nearly as interesting.
I have listened to most shows for the last few years and although it has started to grow on me, the fact these guys aren't in the same studio most of the time, is the reason the chemistry feels manufactured.

Maybe try actually hanging out together next time.

Take on the ultra wealthy

Tax the Rich
Eat the Rich
Whatever
The fact that Elon Musk is basically the republican version what they claim they hate most (a secret deep state running the government by pulling the financial levers) and it's all lead by Elon. I have to think that a guy willing to spend 1/4 billion dollars just to get Trump elected, must mean something.bur right now he's got the best seat in the house when it comes to influencing Trump.

Take on assassinator

Yesterday's brazen assassin Marion of the health care executive just feels off. I'm not talking about the evils of the healthcare system or whatever justification you hear, I'm saying that the fact that we have a shooting a few blocks and a bit more than an hour before I was there, is shocking. This just doesn't happen in the US, Yeah we have school shootings, domestic violence and gang warfare but assassinations are like a thing in Russia. Who the hell do we think we are?

Take on Navarro.

I know it wasn't a shock but really, Peter F'n Navarro?? There isn't anybody who I'd want to run trade less than this guy who basically has a mission to run us all into the ground.

Plus he's a January 6th conspirator

I'd prefer they hire Dave Navarro.

Take on Pete Hegseth.

God, Pete Hegseth is a complete lunatic. I am sure there are worse humans somewhere but I'd be hard pressed to find too many. Not only does his own mom think he's a danger to women's his colleagues called him a drunk and an angry one at that. So please god, let's not give this psycho the keys to a Suzuki Sidekick let alone the keys to the Pentagon.

Take on these notifications on the screen

Every time I see one of these motivations on my phone after the latest iPhone iOS update, i think it's a hair or booger or piece of dirt. I don't know who thought it was necessary for us to be told how many unread messages you have for any app on this Lock Screen but if you want to give me more anxiety, you've accomplished your goal

Take on Hunter

We don't have the House, the Senate, the White House or most state houses. We don't have the Supreme Court or any of the most powerful CEO's pushing our agenda but we always had the moral high ground.

Till Biden decided to pardon Hunter.

If we are going to act like the GOP by stooping to their level, we may as well try to actually do anything to win elections.