Super Straight Friday Flag

A good day at the gym yesterday with 20 minutes on the treadmill at 4, rope pulley, Stairmaster and rowing machine. We are stiff and sore this morning [Phrasing! Ed]. Oh you're talking to me again? [I guess you are not personally responsible for that American hussie.-Ed] As has been noted elsewhere, America has finally struck a blow against it's oldest enemy, the British Monarch. Aww Ed, don't walk away in a huff...besides, you know how I dig you getting all pouty. Someone's a naughty girl... 

Our latest bit of Soviet collusion: Joe Biden has been president for 50 days and has yet to hold a press conference, will not address a joint session of congress and every time he holds an event, staff shoes him away before the press can ask him a question. In his last event Biden forgot the name of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the cabinet department he runs, ‘I want to thank the… uhmmm… the former General, I keep calling him General.. my, uhh…. The guy who runs that outfit over there. I want to make sure we thank the Secretary for all he’s done.’ Very often if first lady Doctor Jill Biden is not sitting next to the president during his appearances, Vice President Kamala Harris will lurk in the background; most appropriately. Click on over to Lefortovo Prison.

The Times of Israel reports: "Israel has targeted at least 12 ships bound for Syria, most of them transporting Iranian oil, with mines and other weapons, according to a Thursday report. The attacks started in late 2019 and targeted both Iranian vessels, and other ships with Iranian cargo, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing “US and regional officials.” Dang. It's almost as if the Jews, sorry, the Israelis, have read Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea. Man, we really got to get to work on the third novel.

Today William Stroock comes out as Super Straight. I'm only sexually attracted to cis-gendered biological women. #SSLGBTQ+. Below please find the Super Straight flag:

Our new favorite troll is telling our father about  the travel vloggers Kara & Nate. Our dad was a producer at NBC News from the mid-60s through the mid-2000's during which time he covered the fall of Saigon, Phnom Penh, etc. Well, Kara and Nate just had themselves a great time in Southeast Asia. Hanoi is one of Nate's favorite cities and Phnom Penh, while maintaining its French charm, is too touristy. Those sweet kids.  

The Chattanooga scene went just fine. We can't believe we didn't think till yesterday to put George M. Steinbrenner on the president's Select Committee on Reconstruction. Remember, before he bought the Yankees, The Boss was a ship builder. There's some character for you. 

The Confederate Contingent suggested having legendary 'Bama head coach Bear Bryant do something. For foreign reader(s), college football is absolutely huge down south, huger than futball is in Europe. Lemme put it this way. Many schools in the South stopped fighting de-segregation when the integrated northern schools started beating them. One can imagine how these conversations went, 'Listen Jim, separate but equal may be our way of life but you know what's also our way of life? College football. Now I don't think Jeff Davis or Bobby Lee would want us losing to Penn State or, heaven forbid, Notre Dame. Losing to Yankees....'

Something like that might not be a bad idea. Maybe not Bryant, since we have George Wallace running Alabama, but what if a big time college coach is running a state? Or, what if Don Shula (legendary coach of the NFL's Miami Dolphins), who's already on the above commission, is running Florida. Hmmm....who was coaching Ole Miss* in 1975?

*College of New York Giants QB Eli Manning (and his daddy) who was 2-0 against Tom Brady in the Super Bowl.  Payton, his less successful older brother, 2-2 in the big game, went to Tennessee.