Happy Halloween

Greetings once again to everyone, except for the Chicago Blackhawks. I am pleased to report that the hiccup binge I went on last week has subsided. I have zero idea what I'm going to dress up as for Halloween, d truth be told, the last time I did dress up for it was 2010 and I went to downtown Orlando. Man, that was such a good time. Anyway, if I do decide at the last minute to dress up, given my hair now, I might become a monk:

...oh well, there's always next year.

So anyway, I had another pretty good week picking NFL games, going 11-2 and 7-6 ATS. I believe that's my third consecutive 11-win week, putting me at 76-31 for the season and 56-48-1 against the spread. As for tonight's game, I'm thinking upset in the desert, as Green Bay (+6.5) knocks off Arizona as the lone unbeaten team, giving Miami Dolphins fans the only thing they've had to cheer about this season.

Well, it's that time of the year again. No sis, not the time to stuff our house with things you bought from QVC, but winter storm season. Along with it comes the Weather Channel's stupid policy of giving winter storms a name. Instead of going off what that outlet of the media thinks (more on THAT in a moment), I've decided to use my own names for said storms. Here they are:

Agatha

Buttpaste

Cringe

DeSantis

Edsel

Flim-Flam

Gossamer

Hiccup

Insanity

Jameis (does that one come with a side of crablegs?)

Karen (obvious)

Lauren

Marjorie (see a trend here?)

Nincompoop

O'Really

Panther

QAnon

Robeson

Sham-wow

Trump

Ugly

Vanity

Whammo

XXX
Yankee

ZING!!

Really though, there isn't a need to name them; we went years and years going without and the only reason you did this was because of Sandy in 2012. Like I said, it's stupid.

Speaking of stupid, I have to call out this epidemic of stupidity that has been running rampant in our electronic media for a while now. It's like whichever medium you decide to watch/listen to, there seems to be a slant as to which POV a particular story is on. Take the Gabby Petito case. The side of the media that is aligned to the right (Fox News, Newsmax, NewsNation, etc) waned to delve into conspiracy theories that Brian Laundrie was alive, which brought back from the seemingly irrelevant Dog The Bounty Hunter attempting to extend his fifteen minutes of fame when it turned out he was dead all along. Then you have the greatest mystery inn aviation history, Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Remember when CNN basically had 24/7 coverage on it, and you couldn't go an hour of coverage with seeing Richard Quest's face? And one time, if memory serves me correct, a CNN panel actually speculated on whether or not the flight went into a black hole?

Whatever happened to critical thinking in our society? Whatever happened to thinking period? Nowadays watching the news is like the early 1980's song "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley. Remember pageants like Miss America and Miss Universe? Why don't we start one called "Miss Informaton?" And here's our first contestant, Miss South Dakota!

Ah, that resting witch face already makes her a top contender for the crown.

Seriously though, media. Knock it off. What happened to "just the facts, ma'am (or man)?" What is the latest from Washington, not "President Biden picked his nose today. HE'S UNPRESIDENTIAL!!" Screw your ratings and your ad sales, we want the news. Not dirt slinging and agenda-pushing. If I wanted dirt-slinging, I can just to the Monster truck show in January at Raymond James Stadium. What I'm saying to the media is...

I think I'll wrap up this entry here. I should have more later this week. Until next time...

CT