“OVER THE LINE!”

Leicester and Villa drew in their League Cup semifinal first leg.  So at least that half of the contest is still exciting.  Madrid and PSG moved on to the final of their league’s knockout competition with Barcelona-Athletico on tap today.  Then we can thankfully get back to league play this weekend. And there were only two three NHL games last night, with the winners being Carolina and the New York Rangers Winnipeg, Philly, and Dallas.  The NHL really needs to do something with that scheduling. Playing a dozen games one night and two three the next is no recipe for getting visibility to all of your teams.

Man, the 70’s were a weird time.

League Of Women Voters founder Carrie Chapman Catt was born on this day. She shares it with bluesman Dr Hepcat, former president and bowler Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon, actor Lee Van Cleef, football legend Bart Starr, acting legend Bob Denver, sportscaster Dick Enberg, folk singer Joan Baez, legendary guitarist Jimmy Page, BOC’s Paul King, Orleans’ Lance Hoppen, NASCAR good old boy Mark Martin, shortest-player-in-the-NBA Muggsy Bogues, musician (and average darts player, IMO) Dave Matthews, golf great who persevered Sergio Garcia, and the last young woman in the royal family Kate Middleton.

Eclectic list, to say the least. And nowhere near as star-studded as yesterday’s. Oh well, on to…the links!

“This is the real Gervais”
-Hollywood

Ricky Gervais had already stuck the knife between Hollywood’s ribs. I guess he decided to twist it a bit. I assume there will be breathless condemnations by Salon, Slate and the other lefty mouthpieces.

In the words of a certain MMA fighter, “Who Da Fook Is Dat Guy?” Just kidding. I know who he is, even if he’s a lightweight.  Oh well, maybe he knows the difference between an ancient city and a dog food brand.

Looks like Trump has an open checkbook for that wall of his. At least until another court weighs in and we get split circuits.  I expect that to happen by noon in whatever time zone the Ninth Circuit is in. (And yes, I know its Pacific).

Damn, dude. This is some shit you’d only read about coming from Germany. Gotta respect his perseverance, I suppose.

Just in case you had forgotten Chicago treats its cops as being above the law, I present you with this bullshit. Unfuckingbelievable.

Nice yacht, Leo. Now get out there and tell us how the rest of us are killing the world!

What a great guy! And I’m sure he was there on his own private mega-yacht to let everybody know what a terrible job they’re doing adapting to climate change and how they’re raping Gaia…before he took his chopper to the airport and boarded his private plane to fly halfway around the world for another climate summit.  The dude is a tireless warrior for the cause. A fucking hero!

Hey look, some actual good news! I hope this trend continues.

Facebook does the right thing. At least in my opinion.  I don’t see how a global social media outlet could be expected to police the entire site of political ads made by…anybody.

And here’s this for you to enjoy. I know I will.

Now get out there and kick some ass today!