Today's Tids Issue
4,164
For Cutting to the Chase:
There
are days my friends,
When I find new aches in
Head and hips, knees, toes.
But that all happily ends,
When I start munching, Cheetos.
Yesterday
I named The Tids of the day, “The Big Blot”. The more I
thought about that and the main discussion topic of the day, abortion, how appropriate
is the name “the big blot” to describe the Abortion controversy that has so driven
apart America,
I
remember when it was fun reading the weekly newspaper
fishing column. Now, it’s all about government regulations and limitations. Ah,
give me a quiet sea and a sturdy craft and set me free. But, don’t look up. A satellite
may be watching.
A
crime Reporter for the The Capital Gazette said yesterday that
he has spent his life reporting on the most gruesome of murders. He said he
gained a new perspective yesterday in his own office hiding under a desk as shot
rang out around him. Yes, knowledge does change perceptions.
The
Question:
Who was the child riding in the back of car who survived
a crash that took the lives of Jayne Mansfield, Sam Brody and Ronnie Harrison –
and then went on to become a big TV star? Bonus:
Name the five best all-time tennis rivalries
The
Headlines:
--The Capital Gazette Publishes One Day After 5 Are
Murdered In Newsroom; Suspect Jerrod Ramos Known To Have Had Past Clashes With
Paper; Harassed CG Reported Had Moved Out Of State To Avoid Suspect.
--Stock Traders Hoping To Close Out Q2 On An Up
Note.
--Deutsche Bank Fails Fed Stress Test; Goldman And
Morgan Stanley Are Seen Weakest of the Other 34; They Will Not Be Allowed To
Boost Dividends.
--Silicon Valley Hails Trump For Backing Off On
China Tech Investment Limitations.
--Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray
Undergo Tough Questioning Before Congress.
--Kelly Denies Rumors That Have Him Stepping Down;
Replacement Talk Centers Around Hope Hicks And Mick Mulvaney.
--New Evidence Indicates That D.B. Cooper May Have
Been CIA Agent.
My
favorite TV show, “The Americans”, was named by Variety as
the top TV Show for the first half of 2018. Some critics feel that this Fx show’s
final season may have vaunted it up to all-time list status. Other best for the
first half of 2018 are American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Gianni
Versace (Fx), Atlanta (Fx), Barry (HBO), High Maintenance (HBO), Jane The
Virgin (CW), Killing Eve (BBC), Mosaic (HBO), One Day at a Time (Netflix) and Up
Shitt’s Creek (How sophomoric). Some others are Westworld, Queer Eye, The Tale
and Superstore. BTW, I never liked One Day at a Time in its original version,
so I was never enticed to go back.
Believe
it or not, I spend a lot of time editing this Tids mess. Much of
that time is spent changing “form” to “from”. It’s an aging mind-to-finger
thing.
The
immigration discussion boils down on whether you are
angry over deportations or whether you are angry over unlawful entry.
So,
I’m wondering – can you make wine out of withering
grapes, like raisins? I looked it up. Well, it turns out you can and it is
pretty easy. And, it is a mellow drink for a cold day, like a sherry they say.
Drying fruit intensifies flavor. So, take your morning bran flakes and dowse
them with raisin wine. The healthy way to start the day.
At
the deli where I work, I learned the finer aspics of making
jellied salads.
Yesterday
I jokingly said Yellow Cards were probably the reason
that a downtrodden Argentina got into the final 16. I had decided to use “Yellow
Cards” (Of which I know nothing) as my comic foil in reports about the World
Cup. But, a funny thing happened on the way from midfield to the back of the goal,
Japan got in over Senegal because it had fewer -- Yellow Cards. Yes folks.
Yellow cards are the fourth tiebreaker. And now my face is red.
Celebrity
interviews
make me crazy.
While
the whole world is worrying about Nukes, the military is working
on Hypersonic Weapons, which are said to be impossible to defend! There’s
always something.
So,
is that why powerful nations are willing to
denuclearize?
Like
it or not, oil production in the USA is alive and well, and exporting
like crazy – like never before in history. This current economic phenomenon produces
the best kind of jobs, the kind that people outside the US pay for. That’s
called leverage, as, opposed to eating each other’s’ hamburgers.
“There
is nothing that government can give you that it hasn’t taken from
you in the first place.” – Winston Churchill.
I
used to go to comedy clubs a lot, but now I don’t understand the
jokes.
Reading
Between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--Leave No Trace is liked by audiences and critics. It’s
about a father and daughter living “off the grid” who are put into a social services
program where they resist adapting. That is until set off to get back to their
wild homeland.
--I might like Uncle Drew mainly because it was the brainchild
of the star and Boston Celtics player Kylie Irving. It’s about aging city court
hoop legends and their reuniting to recapture the old spirit, and a
championship. It’s fair.
--Sicaro: Day of the Soldado is a sequel to the
original, popular Mexican border flick. The characters in this one have no soul
so it’s tough to root for anyone. But, it is timely, about agents and a hired assassin
with a history fighting cartels trafficking in delivering terrorists across the
border. Sounds like my kind of movie.
The
Answer:
Of course, you knew that Mansfield’s daughter
Mariska Hartigay[RH1]
went onto star in SVU. Bonus: The #10 on the all-time list is Margaret Curt and
Billie Jean King. Next is Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs followed by Andre Agassi/Pete
Sampras, Bill Johnston/Bill Tilden, Steffi Graf/Monica Selas, Rod Laver/Ken
Rosewall, Serena versus sister Venus, Roger Federer/Rafael Nadal and John McEnroe/Bjorn
Borg. The #1 All-Tie tennis Rivalry is considered the battles between Chris
Evert and Martina Navratilova. This Bleacher report sounds reasonable to me.
If
you look hard, really look hard, you will begin to see
that there is nothing terribly difficult about even some of the most dire
issues driving the day. It’s all in the rhetoric.
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