A good win.

Liverpool bounced back after the Everton players tried to injure them all over the weekend. Real got beat by a Ukranian team. Bayern picked up where they left off. And everything else went about as expected in the first round of UCL matches.The start to college football (for me) is just two days away. And the World Series is gonna be a banger. And that’s it for sports.

Legend.

Composer and pianist Franz Liszt was born on this day. He shares it with railroad tycoon Hollis Huntington, actor Curly Howard, HOF first baseman Jimmie Foxx, Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai, actress Joan Fontaine, LSD proponent Timothy Leary, Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, soccer manager Arsene Wenger, acting legend Jeff Goldblum, figure skater Brian Boitano, and baseball great Ichiro Suzuki.

Right, now on to…the links!

Look! There’s a country we can sell influence to!

Yeah, no shit. Because everybody does it (including us) and they always will. Because nations will always try to influence things that will impact their people.

Corona vaccine trials patient dies. Of course, people are freaking out even though the person was receiving a placebo.

Is hurricane season ever gonna end? I mean…it has to at some point, right? Ooh, maybe after Election Day, when “the seas begin to recede and the earth begins to heal itself.” Or some such nonsense.

I know the last debate is happening today, but this should be the top story. I guess we won’t know how it’s going to be covered until the media finds out what names are in it. Then they can determine its newsworthiness.

“Yeah, whatever. It’s still uncorroborated until we independently corroborate it,” says the networks who refuse to try to corroborate it. Or report on it. Or even bring it up.

Coming (again) soon to a(nother) Wisconsin Illinois city near you!

I assume some Wisconsin Illinois town is about to burn. That’s the way this works now, I believe. I’m curious why the officers were “investigating a vehicle”. Perhaps saying why would go a little way into determining why they’re standing in the road trying to stop a car and why that car backed up.(Edited to expose my failure to properly know where the state line is.)

Damn, that’s a lot of zeroes. I’m curious how many people were given the drug against their will and how many doctors were forced to prescribe the drug by having a gun put to their head.  Oh, I guess that would be two more zeroes if the story reported it.

In a radical break from church dogma, Pope Francis endorses gay civil unions. That’s great news (no snark). Now if he would just go ahead and endorse all civil unions between consenting adults and advocate for removing government from the marriage business altogether, it would be even better.  But he won’t because he’s a commie and wants government to control everything (as long as it has the church’s blessing).

Have a listen to this classic. Just pure genius. Enjoy.

Now have a great day, friends!