Take on a rise in Covid

What the F?? I got boosted 15 days ago, wear my mask all the time in public spaces and have generally avoided too many people but for at least the second time, I got Covid. It's not just that I'm going through this misery again, it's that it seems I did what I could to avoid it but now I'm back in quarantine locked from my family and the outside world. Five days of TV, podcasts, crosswords and lots of sleeping.

Actually this doesn't sound half bad

Take on the colonoscopy prep drink

Three hours in to my colonoscopy prep and I gotta say this has come more quickly than that bad enchilada in Mexico and more furiously than after those Rocky Mountain Oysters in China. There has been nothing fun about the last few hours and knowing I got another 12 ahead of me isn't sitting well.

I am deathly afraid of straying more than a few feel from the bathroom

God help my family

Take on the Tax Returns that won’t matter

Trump has been trying to keep his tax returns a secret coming up with excuse after excuse and has fought the house all the way to Supreme Court to keep them from accessing them. But now that all of that is over, the Ways and Means committee will have their first view of what we all know should in a normal situation be a miserable experience for him as it will likely expose him for all the corruption we have all theorized.

But it won't matter, because he'll skate again He always does and I'm convinced we are wasting our time hoping for something to make him disappear from all our consciousness. We can't quit him and he won't ever leave

Take on the Respect for Marriage act

The fact we have to celebrate the Respect for Marriage Act in 2022 shows you how ass backwards we remain. Of course this should have passed and I'm thrilled it had -some- bipartisan support but the fact that it's even an argument for anybody is maddening. There has yet to be a good argument made again that marriage and unlike other divisions between the left and right, this is one where there is no reasonable argument against it

Take on the state drop down menu

My iPhone has made my life infinitely better and the constant updates make using it easier constantly. ApplePay is seamless, the fact those texted codes can be dropped directly in is awesome and the stored address thing saves a ton of time but somehow they cannot ever seem to figure out one thing. When you drop the address in, they can add everything except the state, it's been years of every other part of the experience to get optimized but if I were Tim Cook I'd send every engineer I had right at this problem, it's really inexcusable at this point.

Take on the lA Vegas Invitational

The Las Vegas invitational women's basketball tournament was held this past weekend and when I saw the photos I thought that it had to be a joke. I get that women's hoops isn't the draw men's hoops is but putting these women in a ballroom in the Mirage is an embarrassment for the entire sport. Title IX has made progress but give me a break with this crap, give these women a church gym before making them play in this venue.

Take on the three Amigos

The entire GOP is now celebrities fighting over attention. One day you have Elon calling out Trump (and begging for him to come back to Twitter), next you have Kanye offering Trump the vice presidency and then you have Trump pushing back and calling him out for being a loon. I can't quite keep up but am sure none of these guys should be running a bagel sho let alone our country

Take on the Holocaust denier

A former president, a present candidate and likely challenger to Joe Biden decided to have dinner with a holocaust denier this week because..well he's Trump. I'm assuming we will get a few GOP
Challengers during the primary but they will likely be lightweights like Ronnie and Hershel and Kanye so this will very much play out the same way it did a decade ago with Trump kicking the hell out of all of them and then having them all grovel back to kiss his gigantic white ass

But at this point, it's like he's trying to prove his shoot somebody on 5th avenue anecdote

Take on that pillow guy


The Pillow guy is going after Mitt's niece to lead the RNC and I'm looking forward to the pillow fight. Mostly because if this lunatic takes the helm, the entire GOP of our youth will now be dominated by Trump nuts and I believe it would finally force the rest to come to a sensible middle ground which right now would be incredible for the functioning of our country

Take on Hershel Walker’s address

Herschel Walker's official residents may not exactly be in Georgia, being that he has filed his taxes about 13 hours away in Texas. This was exactly the message that Fetterman hammered Oz with but I wonder why the heck they waited until now to reveal this I get it's good timing for the runoff but how did they not get this info until now

Take on the tax release ruling

The shortens court ruled that the House needs to have access to Trump's tax returns which is a moment we've been waiting for for like a decade. Sadly, like most things they will likely be awful, and half of what they will reveal would have sunk any other politician but in his case it will just be another thing that will be overlooked by his devoted followers

Take on soccer

Every four years we're good hat the USMNT is building and have all this talent in the pipeline and that they are thisclose to turning the corner. I get that soccer will never be really big in this country but it's not for lack of money, participation or interest at the youth level. Kids are playing more soccer than just about any sport, they are spending ungodly amounts on club programs and new things at popping up seemingly daily. It's a year round round sport and it's immensely popular in towns and cities but somehow it just doesn't seem to translate to success on the world stage.

Take on twitter piss

The obsession with Elon seems more ludicrous by the moment. We don't believe that him spending $44B on Twitter was ever a good idea but it's his money and he can do with if what he wants. We also don't believe that twitter should be saved as the public good or serves is suspect

But what is most disturbing thing that he has done is the constant pissing in his own pool

Take on dogs at the airport

I've heard all the stories of weirdos bringing parrots and iguanas and rodents onto planes as support animals but what's actually more odd is how many people are bringing normal pets into the airport. It was not long ago that seeing a dog in the airport meant your bag was getting checked for weed but now the place is like a goddamn dog park. I get onto a plane to get away from the dog not have one pissing on the carpet next to me. WTF

Take on Elon’s playground

I have absolutely no idea if Twitter will just implode in the next few days but it sounds like that is what everybody is predicting after Elon fired everybody and decided to run the entire system on a Linux server powered by a Tesla battery.
Entire departments are gone and maybe he'll get somewhere with this bare bones model as long as people keep coming and dumping content onto it, it sort of self reliant.

Then again when the nazis and klansmen start taking over, we may give up on even trying to wade through the muck.

Take on two sets of books

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Take on Trump’s big announcement

Nobody is excited about another Trump election. Ivanka and Jared have opted out. All of the major GOP political figures are busy kissing Ronnie's ass and I have to think that even the hardcore fans are getting tired of spending $50 each time they get an email asking if they are MegaMAGA. They also had to lock the doors so people couldn't actually leave as he droned on for hours just happy to hear himself talk. It's at this point that I think we can safely say that nobody wants him in to actually seriously run…but that is exactly what we thought when he ran that first time


So who knows, maybe he'll catch lightning in a bottle again

Take on 8 billion

It seemed like only yesterday when we had 7 billion people bur overnight the 8 billionth person joined planet earth and Nick Cannon celebrated by firing up a stoagie. Of course we worry about overpopulated but the truth is that with an aging western population we need population growth so that the 40 something's can retire.
But the better question is how the heck did they figure this kid was born in Akron was exactly 8,000,000,000 It's a little too coincidental that they were born in Ohio and not in India or China.

Take on Liz

There is not a single political position I agree on with Liz Cheney but her position on MAGA aligns perfectly with mine. Her father is a war criminal, she's been an awful congresswoman but still she's stepped up when it counted to make sure her country stays on the right path.

So here's a hat tip to you, Miss Cheney.

Take on the wedding dresses

The Trump lap fire alls showed up at Tiffany's wedding and decided for a group photo. Looking at it, it seems somebody missed the pastel memo with Kim dressing like she's going to a GOP funeral. She doesn't just look off in her dress, she looks off in her face, like she just sat on a Cracker Jack, fatness loudly and is now enjoying the taste of her snack. The rest of them look kind of OK although Lara Trump needs a seamstress because those sleeves are heinous and the rest of the outfit looks like it's see through. Marla Maples looks beautiful, Tiffany does too. Melania looks like she just had a romp with a secret service agent and Ivanka has that "we screwed the country out of billions" smile on.