BEVERLY HILLS – God bless America, and how’s everybody?
The New York Post ran excerpts from Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill about sexual misconduct by TV industry titans including Matt Lauer. However, Matt Lauer’s career at NBC may not be over. Matt’s expected to be involved in the reboot of To Catch a Predator, just not as host.
Business Insider released a survey of the fifty happiest cities in America from Plano, Texas to Madison, Wisconsin. If everyone’s so happy there, then why is everyone with money moving to Southern California? Here in Hollywood, money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you Ecstasy.
President Trump thrilled a packed arena in Minneapolis Thursday after doing a lot of political groundwork locally. Three days earlier, Trump called Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins after their win over the Giants. The weird part was, he asked Kirk to investigate Joe Biden and his son.
The NBA season begins next week with the league enjoying huge international popularity and scrutiny. At an NBA exhibition game in Philly last week, a player sank a half-court shot just before halftime and shouted, Woo Hoo! He’s been suspended for making fun of the vice president of China.
The NBA apologized to China for a tweet by a Houston Rockets GM backing the Hong Kong protestors Tuesday. There are good people on both sides of the taser batons. The NBA followed up by issuing a belated apology to the Third Reich for Jesse Owens spoiling an otherwise perfect Olympics.
A Hong Kong protestor was arrested by Chinese policemen while wearing a Houston Rockets sweatshirt and threatening to burn the Chinese flag Friday. The NBA has apologized. A true fan would burn the jersey instead so the NBA can collect the royalties when he buys a replacement jersey.
The White House hailed the reported decline in Fentanyl overdoses Monday but the South is still awash in methamphetamines. Last week an Arkansas woman who failed her sobriety test claimed that her brother fed her a meth sandwich. Which is no doubt made with Walter White Bread.
The L.A. Times reported that comedians won’t joke about L.A.’s homeless situation since it deals with mental illness. Is that so, I just heard a radio ad marking World Mental Health Day that ended with the tagline: Remember: You Are Not Alone. I thought that was a bit harsh on the schizophrenics.
The Wall Street Journal cited a poll which revealed that a majority of Americans are now in favor of legalizing all drugs. We can all see what’s next. Last week, a Los Angeles entrepreneur merely floated the idea of opening the first Coca Leaf restaurant and already the lines are around the block.
USA Today cited an EPA report Friday which claims that air pollution may cause men to grow bald. How clever. EPA bureaucrats probably believe Trump might quit the 2020 race if he has to choose between keeping the coal country in business with his current EPA policy and keeping his hair.
Fox News ran video footage of White House Secret Service agents engaged in a mad parking lot scramble just to get Trump into an SUV and off to his Virginia resort to play eighteen holes. He was wearing his white weekend cap inscribed MAGA. It stands for McDonald’s and Golf Again.