"Use All The Crayons!" ... "Hail to the Chief!
• Today’s podcast includes the recollection of the time I cracked up basketball legend Michael Jordan.
• Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I turned 61 on Feb.15. Ten of my favorite BSers popped into the Tin Lizzy to spend the next four hours telling stories and making toasts. My kind of day.
Today’s theme … “Hail to the Chief!”
• If I were in charge of adding automatronic Trump at Disney Hall ofPresidents, I'd have him admiring size of own hands during Lincoln speech.
• Sure, George Washington was an inspirational leader and visionary for revolutionary liberty but I'll bet he can't drive like I can.
• Never in my wildest dreams thought I'd say this, but I’m starting to pray Trump calls George W. Bush for advice on how to run the country.
• Little noticed reg in ObamaCare requires docs mimic Billy Joel when they inform patients they've just had a heart attack-ack-ack-ack.
• Picture of pope & Obama sharing chuckle taken after Francis admitted — surprise! — he's Muslim, too!
• Are minions uni-racial or are there dark-skinned minions behind some wall built by a Trump-like minion?
• Next time you have occasion to heartily sing "God Bless America" which groups will you in your mind parenthetically ask God to exclude? White bigots? Welfare moms? Pro-Trumpers? Immigrants? Former FB friends you can no longer stand for political reasons? 'cause we're all in there.
• Pundits saying Trump entitled to a victory lap; Fitness experts advise he take it on a very short track.
• Prediction: The only time we'll see Joe Biden resort to all caps tweets is when he wishes a grandchild HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
• I may be misjudging the man, but I suspect every time Trump leaves the White House he steals a towel or two.
Randoms …
• I’m aware we live in a time many prepper parents teaching kids how to kill, segregate, and how to look out for #1 for when the world goes to Hell. They fail to realize that if it wasn’t for parents teaching our children to think, share, be kind and work together to solve big problems Hell would already be here.
• Nutritionists ought to have a term for the unnecessary fats we foolishly add to our diets when we kill off the last slice of pizza so we can’t eat it later cause we know it could kill us and the term ought to be “kamikaze calories.”
• It’s a running joke that it'll never happen, but Keith Richards will one day die. My fear is on that day I'll not only struggle to mourn Keith, but will also have to deal with the news that my favorite band will henceforth be known as "Mick Jagger & The Mick Jagger Orchestra."
• Having access to thousands of streaming channels makes me feel like a Sultan with a harem with dozens of nubile women. It's excessive. Many of the offerings are mediocre. Wouldn't I be better off with that one special channel? Okay, four or five might be agreeable, but that’s just the Sultan in me talkin’.
• Today is a day some men and women will remember with great honor and affection. For today, women will deliver children and men will become fathers. Someone today will learn that they’ve beaten cancer. And we may not know it for years but someone somewhere today will achieve — Eureka! — the breakthrough that will unshackle us from our unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels. Me? I’ll fart around the office until about 4 o’clock when I can head down to the bar without risking scandal. Oh, and I’ll Wordle.
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