Kale is stupid.

Today's Tids Issue 3,577

Opening Stuff:

The big New York voting extravaganza is finally over and not much out of the ordinary happened after all. Bernie made noise and drew big crowds but in the end the closed balloting (Registered party members only and no cross over) killed him. Bernie is great at getting indies and some Repubs and people who have never registered. Take that away, and the party delivers The Hill (But will America)?. While the winners basked in the spotlight, a new NBC poll revealed that 60% of Americans don’t feel they can vote for any of the leading big three -- Shrill, Thrill and “Hated on the Hill”. (That’s Hillary, Donald and Ted.)

I love old inns with creaky floors, and places for fires to make s’mores.

More and more doctors are writing books so they can afford to pay to run their offices.

I walk the quiet, leafy mountain trails. There is nothing more magical than the silence of being nowhere. Places where noise is falling leaves, rippling streams, wind moving branches; birds and animals calling out to friends and mates. You can feel the country in a country place. The beauty and comfort of nothingness. I walk the mountain trail that winds down to the caressing valley below, where wild flowers smile.

The Question:

We will eventually have to become familiar with new sports we have never played or watched. One of the hot new ones is called MMA. What is that? Bonus. Who are Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold?

The Headlines:

--Dow And S&P Futures Looking Up After NY Vote; Oil Prices May Fall As Kuwait Strike Ends..

--Trump Gets 6o%; Hillary 57% In NY Routs.

--Leading USA Health Insurer United Health To Drop Out Of States With ACA Exchanges.

--RI Treasurer To Use Investment Clout To Extort Company Boards To Add Diversity.

--Utah Legislature Says Porn Is A Health Hazard.

--Intel To Slash 12,000 Jobs As PC, Laptop Sales Falter; Eastern Mountain Sports and Bob’s Stores Parent Company declares Bankruptcy; Another Victim Of On Line and Big Box Succumbs.

--Obama Admin Spending One trillion On Nuke Weapons.

--Weak European Demand Driving Down Coca Cola Sales.

--Swedish “Green Party” Government Official alls 911 Accident. She Corrected Saying Sge Meant It Was Unfortunate for Swedish Muslims, And A Tragedy For America.

Tonight marks the premiere of what could be a great new TV Series on AMC – the adaptation of John LeCarre’s “Night Manager”. It stars Hugh Laurie as a notorious and meanest man in the world arms dealer, and Tom Huddleston as a former British soldier, who after a minor incident while in a dead end job as a clerk in a hotel, is thrust into the world of spies. Acting is great and story lines tense. I’m there.

Kale is really a rather innocuous little veritable with no body and little memorable taste. Yet it has been deemed the food of the moment among the sheep who seem incapable of following their own drum beat. So I’m thinking that on The Voice last Night there were a lot of kale eating twitter induced voters supporting the glitter of the talentless performers symbolic of a cultural deterioration. It was criminal to see Emily Keener eliminated after she was clearly one of the three best on Monday’s singing show. Not only that, but several other of the better performers barely hung on, like Wakefield and Houston as mediocre so-called cute boys got the votes. What really is scary is that Kale eaters will be voting for President.

I look at the great river valleys of the east -- the Hudson, the Delaware, the Connecticut. I marvel at the way the rivers are bounded by towering rugged cliffs, perhaps ground out by the ravages of time. Or by climate changes where the heat of the earth went to ice and returned again. The earth and the oceans are constantly changing. We just can‘t see it at all during our own instance here, but we are part of what will come.

What we can see are more storms and more storms affecting people. This is mainly due to wall-to-wall weather TV and smart phone services, more people with the ability to take videos and more people living in areas where storms have always occurred but had never inflicted the same human damage as now because nobody was there.

I remember when Bob’s Store was just a great old Army and Navy store on Main Street in Middletown Ct. They got in early on the sneaker phenomena and ran with it. But like so many other things in today’s rapid society, it is short lived.

Johnny Manziel’s star studded career was certainly short lived. In fact just today his super agent Drew Rosenhaus dropped him as client. Rosenhaus has been a successful agent for 28 years and has never dropped a client. Manziel is one sad pathetic case. He for sure is in the Ryan Leaf Hall of Fame. What in him or in society drove him to dismiss what had been handed him on a silver platter?

The Answer:

I’m not much interested in it at all, but MMA – Mixed Martial Arts -- is hot worldwide. Bonus: Today marks another sad anniversary of the Columbine massacre of school kids, and Harris and Kiebold were the shooters. I shouldn’t have mentioned their names.

Well, gotta go. I’m in a rush. I going to roam across the USA and find a Republican candidate.

Happy camel day!