Today's Tids Issue 5,120
Inside strange minds:
As life goes on in the USA, millions in a land over the sea far from you and me only clamor for life beyond the siege. As hard as I try to open each day with thoughts of sun and buds poking through, I can never disregard waking to those who only hope the ubiquitous smoke clears and they see sun in the sky, and that the bombing stops so their hearts can grow with hope again. It’s tough to be funny each morning when so many be people have stopped laughing.
Now with masks practically a thing of the of the past, Americans will yearn to fly away and feel free once more. That is, if they can afford the gas. There’s always something, as Gilda Radnor always said.
I’m hearing that Wall Street mavens are genuinely befuddled. The economy fundamentals look quite good, and even the Powell rate move seems acceptable, but the prospects of potentially catastrophic negative fall-out from the war seem at times to be beyond daunting. Wall street hates to be at the mercy of anything or anybody, especially when they have no control. It’s a puzzlement, as the say in Siam.
In case you forgot, today on 1983 Ronald Reagan called the Soviet U ion the “Evil Empire”. What followed was the tearing down of The Wall and a period of Glasnost, and the new Russia looked like a peaceful bouquet of flowers until Putin peeled away the be veneer.
The Question:
We always see movie stars in all their glory, but many suffer serious career setbacks that never make the front page. But several Bigs took serious pay cuts to get back into good roles. Some will surprise you. Name ten.
The Headlines:
--Stock Markets Open Lower After Higher Futures Fade; Dow Enters Correction Territory And Nasdaq Becomes Bear Market.
--Biden To Announce Ban Of Russia Oil/Gas Imports; Germany And Other EU Countries Not Happy.
--Europeans Say they Are Not Fearful Of Russia Aggression.
--Chicago Teacher’s Union Against Dropping Masks In Classroom.
--Six Teenagers Arrested For Murder After Scuffle Outside Des Moines Iowa High School; Shooters Range In Ages From 14 To 17; Two Innocent Bystanders Shot Remain In Serious Or Critical Conditions.
I suddenly realized yesterday afternoon that I live on Diet Coke/ Diet Pepsi, and Cheetos and other salty snacks, and I’m not dead yet. Maybe the body lives on what it is used to.
Today is “National Proofreading Day” Uh-Oh!
NCAA March Madness is ramping up. The big game around here is the Northeast Conference Championship showdown between our Bryant University and NYC’s Wagner. The winner gets a ticket to the big stage. Bryant has two really good players, one Peter Kiss, the Nations 2nd highest scorer. It will be on ESPN 2 and there hasn't been a ticket in sight for days. This will be just one of the early championships with all of the winners crowned by this coming Sunday. And then the selection and seeding, the pools and bets bigger than a gigantic mortgage. I’m starting to get psyched. This is anybody’s tournament this year. But first, Go Bryant!
A reader wonders why those truckers wasted all of that gas driving around the country to DC to protest when there isnothing to protest.
Protest is a stimulating word but most of them are nothing better than the futility of Don Quixote. Except in the Ukraine.
I hate to throw out favorite old pants and shirts and jackets. Basically, I don’t like the idea of new styles.
I especially hate new styles when the people who buy them shouldn’t.
Do you know what I hate getting sucked into? Its entertainment stories suggested by scurrilous headlines that are almost always false promises.
The kind of stories that do scare me are those like the Daytona slashing, gruesome murder of a married couple riding their bicycles in their own quiet historic neighborhood.
Also really, really scary is reading about the Stock Markets.
The question we have to ask now is how much of an interest rate increase will it take to slow accelerated inflation due to oil.
R.I.P boiled water. You will be mist.
The Answer:
Here I am talking about misfortunes of movies stars when Ukrainians are fighting for their very existence. Anyhow, here goes: #1 is Robert Downey Jr. Followed by Robert Pattison, Andrew Garfield (Made it back this year in Tick, Tick Boom), Matthew McConaughey (Took 20 months off after Rom Com flops), Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Radcliff, Winona Ryder, Kristin Stewart, John Travolta (Took a cut to get into Pulp Fiction which relaunched him), and #10, Natalie Portman. The rest are Elijah Wood, Ben Affleck, Selena Gomez and Shia LaBeouf.
Life is all about balance. I have a dog to provide me with unconditional love, but I also have a cat to remind me that I don’t deserve it.
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