The Baseball Playoffs

Congratulations to the San Diego Padres for making it in and good luck to them in finally capturing a World Series. A relatively small market team with a small payroll standing toe to toe with the Dodgers is amazing. I watch the game for the game's sake without really pulling too hard for anybody as there is no Major League team to root for in my hometown of Nashville. The only club I really hated and wanted to lose that prevailed anyway was the Blue Jays in their halcyon days because Canada already had hockey and unmerited arrogance, and I could not stand having Canucks I knew declaring that Canadians were "even better than Yanks at America's game". Go Padres go- you may be David but sometimes the little guy still prevails. 

Bear Some Responsibility

Mark Zuckerberg certainly did not shoot Charlie Kirk, but the odious lies on his platforms may have planted the seed in the murderer's head. I have myself witnessed former high school classmates on Facebook calling our current President "Hitler" or a "Nazi". Donald Trump has a Jewish daughter and grandchildren and has done more for Israel than all former Presidents combined. Facebook acquaintances have termed all Republicans "Fascist", an outrageous lie and smear. So if you happened to be a deluded young person in Utah, you might feel compelled to try and stop the modern incarnation of Hitlerism and (wrongly) see that embodied in Charlie Kirk. The platforms that spewed calumny against Trump and his supporters might as well have loaded the gun for a lunatic who likely saw himself as a hero battling (imagined) evil. 

Callahan "Not Fazed"

The Titans football coach is unperturbed that virtually all the fans (save for those in his own household) want him fired. What should bother him (beyond the inevitability of his coming departure) is that he led Tennessee to the worst record in the National Football League last season and is on course to duplicate the dubious feat. Callahan declared he does not "think about those things". Another matter the soon to be ex-coach does not consider seems to be how to win football games, which does not commend him as the leader of a team. 

The Pitiful Titans

Some teams are under-coached. Some are over-coached. The Titans would be better off if they had no coach than they are saddled with Brian Callahan. 

Quote Du Jour

I don't know if love can save the world, but I do know lust makes life more interesting. 

End of Summer

Don't you just hate it when you have to close up the pool for the season? It is almost like a little bit of you dies. My ten year old seems to be happiest in the water. She was in the shallow end more than the rest of us put together. As I recall, I was only in once, perhaps twice (at most). I know it is an expense, but little in life these days is not. 

A Cultural Phenomena

Some folks had never even heard of Charlie Kirk until the unfathomable act of evil that took him but have now watched many hours of his persuasive videos and had a sort revival of faith itself thanks to their new acquaintance. Kirk may touch many millions more after his departure than he did in life.