NEWS OF A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT

I'm back and have an incredibly exciting offer.  Given the scary and chaotic time we live in, the importance of this screed obviously needs to be read by more widely.And with all humility (or a little), I am offering a reward to the person or persons who sends me the names of the most people I can add as recipients of this blog. The deadline is May 15th and the winner will receive two courtside tickets to the NBA finals between the Celtics and the Warriors---NOT.  The winner will receive something I have yet to identify. Need 75 names to reach an even number. Get busy and use this as a diversion from the red haired leader of the free world and Sean, his boy toy.

Speaking of which:

--The boy toy insists that concentration camps were really "centers" and that Hitler did not use gas on his own people.  I guess he forgot that German Jews were after all his own people.  But you know what--firing will not matter.  someone worse will  just show up.  The Leader has an unending supply.
--Now we return to our favorite trio and play let's imagine.  Let's go visit those good ol boys in Louisiana.  They are still sitting in their rockers sipping that fine bourbon, smoking cigarettes, and lamenting all those people up North causing so much trouble for the Leader.  They agree that they do not use Amtrak; they never listen to public radio; they do not even know where there is a museum (perhaps in that center of pagan behavior New Orleans); white people are dying to work at Arby's for $11/hour; and since they go to the church for lunch, who needs Meals on Wheels.  Good thing to since they are all slated to be cut in the upcoming budget.  And if they need medical care (like say for cirrhosis or lung cancer) they will head to the ER which, as we all know, is free.
--Instead of this blog, don't you wish Jon Stewart was around.  Although I have to say both John Oliver and Samantha Bee are doing excellent jobs.  Not so much for Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC--he spends an hour gloating way too much about our Leader.
--Hah, let;'s send Bill O'Reilly off to whatever place Roger Ailes went.  That would the gutter where he got kicked.  And our Leader loves them both and has expressed distrust for what they allegedly did.  But of course we have heard his thoughts about predatory behavior.
--Our new HHS Secretary wants to make vaccines optional--keep the kids home, folks,lest they catch some screwy disease which had been eradicated but now is back because someone decided their kid did not need a booster shot or something.  And our new EPA Director wants out of the Paris accords because, well, the science is not proven,  And salt water is not coming up into the lawns of people living in South Florida.
--Imagine this Part 2:  You are basking the warmth of a fine day by the pool.  The guy on your left is older than you with an equally untight bod.  However, he is wearing the equivalent of a jock strap--except it is black and way tighter so you can see his "business"  Seriously.  Then wouldn't you now it he decides to change out of it by using a towel around his waist but does not have three hands.  But he does a great job and you figure he will put on some really cool shorts--but apparently the guy has an ending supply of these jock straps and proceeds to put another pair on equally revealing.  EEK!!
--Did Congressman Nunes fuck up or what?
--How long will it take for Comey to investigate the Russian link to our Leader and his team?
--The conscious ratcheting up of tension by our Leader and his team is making me very nervous.  Mistakes happen.

SPORTS TALK
The Cavs are a better team  only because of Lebron but that is a big only and the Celtics still need to get through two other series.  I am not counting my chickens.  ditto for the Bruins who, while playing better, are beset by injuries and have to rely on kids who just finished their BU careers.  So I am watching the Yankees last night and Arnoldis comes in as the closer.  Any normal human would throw his bat down and head to the dugout instead of facing 100 mph fast balls.  and he is not necessarily so accurate.  How the batters hang in, especially lefties, is beyond me.  Got totally wiped out in the NCAA pool.  silly me.

 Happy holidays to all.  Don't forget the contest.
Shalom