Happy Monday, friends!  Hope you had a nice weekend.  I enjoyed mine immensely. Better than the New York Yankees, that’s for sure.  Yikes.  You can put a fork in the AL East. Although they can take solace in the fact that they’re still 26 games above 500.  But those Red Sox are incredible this season.  So excluding that sweep, what else happened in the sports world?  The Dodgers beat the Astros and avoided getting swept as well. The Indians beat the Angels amid talk of Mike Scoscia leaving at the end of the season (his 19th!) in Anaheim, also the Braves, White Sox (surprise!), Nationals, Phillies, Cardinals, Rockies, MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIINS, Baltim- (ahem) THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WON A GAME, the Padres, Giants, Athletics and Mariners all came out victorious.

I’d trust this Mr McMurphy before the one from Facebook

Man City won the Community Shield. Justin Thomas won the WGC-Bridgestone (at Firestone CC) and THE Ohio State University set up and announced the six person team that will wrap up the investigation into the Zach Smith affair that has been reported on in a somewhat unethical manner by Brett McMurphy to say the least within two weeks.  Seriously, who dramatically edits the context of an article out after questioning a particular and then just lets everybody else run with it as if the later-published piece (on your Facebook page) was the original?  And who in their right mind thinks “arrested” and “investigated” are remotely close enough to not merit a HUGE note saying there was an edit in the article replacing one with the other after you’d questioned someone about the veracity of the original piece?  Certainly not a real reporter. But I digress.

Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born on this date. So were penicillin inventor Alexander Fleming, comedienne Lucille Ball, actor Robert Mitchum, weirdo Andy Warhol, double-bassist Charlie Haden, “the Admiral” David Robinson, predictable (in my opinion) filmmaker M Night Shyamalan, Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, and the late Jon Benet Ramsey.

Let’s debate the merits of this, shall we?

Its also the day Simon Bolivar defeated Spain at Junan, a shitload of countries declared war on each other in Europe (WW1), “Don Juan” made its premiere and with it came the Vitaphone sound on disc system, the Enola Gay made its flight over Hiroshima, Ted Williams returned to the Red Sox from fighting in Korea (and will hit .407 for the shortened season), the Beatles release “Help!” album, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, and George RR Martin released “A Game Of Thrones”.

Pretty decent batch there.  Now on to…the links!

If you live in Chicago, maybe its time to get out. Meanwhile that dips hit David Hogg is protesting at the NRA for more of the policies that make the innocent susceptible to the violence plaguing cities that have such restrictive gun policies like Chicago.  Or are they still blaming Indiana? I can’t keep up.

Donald Trump says meeting his son set up at Trump Tower with Russian woman (who received a spacial visa only a handful of people can sign off on) was to get info on Clinton. Proceeds to explain how opposition research works. Continues to be honey badger and not give a shit.

::SMDH::

I would disagree with the entire premise of this headline. I mean, wasn’t it a hellscape before? Just kidding. I really feel for them with it being in the 90s with relatively high humidity making it feel like its 100!  Oh the horror they are going through. I can see why they’re calling it a hellscape.  Of course, we here in Houston call that “June through August”.  “New York Strong” my ass.

Stay classy, African National Congress. Oh, and if you’re a farmer in that country, I highly recommend you gather up your shit and either GTFO or prepare to make a stand. And I do mean an armed, last stand. Because the end is coming and the government is about to steal everything you have.

Commie LARPers

Another misleading headline out of Berkeley. You know, since its pretty much all one side creating these conflicts.  Protip to anti-fa LARPers: ignore them and you won’t get your asses kicked and then arrested after you throw bottles and rocks at the cops who are probably saving you from being put in a coma by the people you’re attacking for walking down the street. (Same could be said about Portland, but I don’t have the time.)

When they’re not killing each other, Chicago residents find time to become ignorant on where electricity comes from and who is responsible (the federal government) from preventing the building of clean (nuclear) power plants. They’ll not feel the same when their city finally becomes a real-life version of “The Purge” after these morons get their way and they’re completely run on solar and wind and a winter day and night goes completely black on them.

Dude, chill out! On second thought, don’t.  Dude?  Dude?! DUUUDE?!?!?!?!??!

And I’m getting my popcorn, because I simply cannot wait to see how Justin Trudeau deals with this.

Well, there you have it.  I’ll leave this here.

Now go out and have a great day, friends!