WE WON!!!! WE WON!!!

Yup--4 Super bowl victories for Mr. Brady and the boys.  But since many of you don't give a shit, more about that later in the special sports section.  Now, for some very odd ends.

--Satchel, the dog, requested this bold faced apology.  Seems the salt which melts snow is bad for the paws of dogs--and I made fun of that in my last blog.  So, Satchel, my apologies.  Let me add here that I saw the real  Satchel Paige pitch in Miami while growing up.  He had to be in his forties--I still feel honored to have seen him.
--More dog info which you do not need to know.  Lap dogs accompanied us on each leg of our recent flight to Texas.  It is absolute lunacy to take your dog on a plane; but I grudgingly admit neither of them barked once.  Must have been on serious drugs.
--Speaking of Texas, why do we continue to make a big deal about Miami being a bilingual city when San Antonio has been one longer and is seemingly much more diverse.  Though it does have the following university:  "University of the Word Incarnate".  Yikes, I cannot even begin to know what that means but their official nickname is the Cardinals--get it?
--Let's play our little pretend game--you have played along before so you know the rules. Come on.  Let's pretend you are a cancer patient and in active chemo but at home and more or less doing well.  But you have to steer clear of folks who might have something contagious. Let's also pretend you have a first grader who you pick up every day.  Let's continue and pretend that 5 kids in your child's class belong to that brilliant group who do not believe in vaccines.  No longer pretending--YOU ARE AT RISK AND DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.  Used to be you could blame this kind of idiocy on the poor who either could not afford the vaccine or did not know about it.  But by tracking zip codes, it has become clear that those vaccine disbelievers are in the middle and upper income groups.  This is madness politicized by mad politicians who seem to believe it is a multiple choice test and about government control.  It is called science for fuck's sake.
--Good for Jordan, bomb the hell out of ISIS for killing your pilot.  They are your neighbors and it is important you help fight them.
--Germany manged to create a Committee to review anti semitism (yeah) but neglected to put one Jew on the committee (Uh, hello)
--Our rather boring mayor blew it by approving the Patriots Super Bowl parade--some streets in this city are still not passable.  Yet that made sense?
--I would have bet my millions that our MBTA Director would have been fired.  But she surprised us all by resigning.  Don't blame her.  West of Worcester, no one wants to spend a dime on what is perceived to be Boston's problem.  Plus--what could a Southern African Amercan woman (with purple nail polish) accomplish with all those white Irish pols?
--That Luddite Kansas governor, Sam Brownback, took away all anti discrimination protection from LGBT employees.  It takes a weak man to do that.
--Do you know Jon Stewart has an Alabama jar?  He does. And he puts a quarter in it every time Alabama does something enlightening.  So last week, he put it on the desk and dropped his first quarter in it--ever. Seems they complied with judicial rulings on same sex marriages.

SPORTS TALK
Brady had two interceptions the first one of which might have fallen a normal QB.  But that 4th quarter was a masterpiece.  I don't know if he is the best ever; I don't care about the football inflation issues; and I especially don't care that Pete Carroll is as stupid as a log.  I care about what Brady did in that quarter and what his offensive line did--the same line that everyone hated on all season.  Plus, please tell me what other coach would have an undrafted free agent from a Division Two school (I'm talking Malcolm here) playing a key role in those final seconds.  I hate his arrogance and his I'm smarter than you attitude but Belichik is a fucking great coach and Butler made one hell of a play.
--And the Bruins are in a death spiral.

Sayonara