Recent Random Thoughts

 --  Since we'll be in Alaska sometime this summer, I intend to ask a fast-food joint why coupons and offers from the Lower 48 aren't good in Hawaii and Alaska.  I've always been very curious.

--  Watch out for Congressman Dan Goldman from Connecticut.  He thinks very highly of himself.  He's not as good looking as Gavin Newsome, nor does he run anything, but one can tell that he's ambitious and he's the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.  First the Senate, then the presidency.

--  I'm constantly amazed at politicians who contradict themselves with public statements.  Don't they realize that in this day and age of the internet, virtually everything they've ever said is taped somewhere?

--  Think what you will of Megyn Kelly, but her podcast is one of the best out there.  She has very interesting guests and the discussions are usually quite informative.

--  I really have given up on most sports.  The NBA is a woke league, the NFL bores me, the NHL is fine but underpublicized and MLB is too long unless my Cubs are doing well.  I doubt I could even participate in a fantasy league anymore -- which used to be quite fun -- because I just can't pay attention.  Even the NCAA, with its NIL rules and instant transfer rules, is no longer much fun.

-- I'm very interesting in the upcoming SCOTUS rulings in the affirmative action cases.  It's high time affirmative action went away.  Not because I was ever affected by it; if I was, I was unaware of it.  Rather, it stigmatizes African-Americans unfairly.  And at what point do we say merit over skin color?

--  The View is a joke.  I like Senator Tim Scott, and I applaud his courage in going on there and showing how to debate without getting in the gutter.  But the sanctimonious tone of the show and the absolute hypocrisy of the panelists is disgusting.

--  So CNN will have a new boss.  Soon enough it will rival post-war Italy for changes in leadership.

-- Jonathan Turley is a national treasure.  For a Democrat born in Chicago who attended Northwestern University Law School, he's amazingly fair and balanced.  I highly recommend him to everyone interested in straightforward analysis.

-- I don't watch Fox much.  I admire Shannon Bream, Dana Perino, Bill Hemmer and Bret Baier.  I watch The Five.  But the rest of that lineup is nothing more than a right-wing arm of the Republican Party.  Still, it's got to be better than CNN and MSNBC.

-- Yard work is getting more tedious by the year.

-- I'm quite comfortable being alone.  I always have been.  But what makes me curious is why I'm almost always the one to reach out to my friends to see how they're doing.

-- Why is it called America's Got Talent when almost every act on there is from a foreign country and all the judges are foreign born?  Why not just rename it We Are The World Got Talent?

-- No one -- and I mean no one -- can plan a vacation like my Karen.  She could teach the military a thing or two about logistics.

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