THE SUNDAY NIGHT DIATRIBE & FINAL 4 THOUGHTS: Tonight, as I set the timer for my 5:00 AM emotional support caffeine & face the ever increasing prospect of the question in this IRL game of Jeopardy to the answer of “Canada & Mexico” being “What borders on stupidity?” as I consider tariffs on tacos & hockey pucks & penguins dealt by the same hand that did in the USFL, inevitably leading to, as eloquently explained by President Reagan, who couldn’t get elected by the red hats today because he’d be too moderate, in his 1980s refusal to tariff us back to Tom Joad’s Grapes of Wrath lifestyle, trade wars & shrinking competition & higher prices & job losses which have multiplied since January 20th & most caused not by an immigrant or any LBGTQIA individual identified by pronouns but two rich white dudes in the name of patriotism (& speaking of white dudes, anybody else read the Bible & think that the only white guys in those 66 books were rich & Roman & they were the bad guys?), I blissfully watch Barney approach two illegal roadside operators of a Mayberry farmers market as the Dow’s Bull approaches the estoque of Wall Street’s Matador & me thinks times have been tougher. Twenty-five years ago, when eggs & toilet paper were affordable enough to be used as intended & also allowed mischievous teenagers to vandalize a neighborhood house & fresh off the wasted worrying of the never realized apocalyptic fallout as Y2K was faced with only cans of Spam & pork ‘n beans in the pantry & survived, a phone hung on a wall & I would answer its ring with no idea who wanted to talk to me or why, I also donned a bracelet forcing me to consider the words & actions of an itinerant, Middle Eastern carpenter with a bloodline that included a hooker & a lyre playing warrior poet with adulterous & murderous tendencies that side hustled as a circuit preacher with a sandled 12 man traveling deacon board in relation to the outward display of my Christianity. Now to tomorrow’s big game. By the time “One Shining Moment” plays around midnight, 1) both Auburn & Florida will return to “football school” status & alumni will return to bemoaning the employments of Freeze & Napier while longing for Spurrier & Dye. 2) Due to N-I-L, there’ll never be another C**dere*la. 3) Some anti-DEI type will get his tighty whiteys in a wad (double entendre intended), when it’s realized that 3 of the 4 head coaches in San Antonio are of Jewish lineage & the other, the winner of Monday’s natty because his team has the least talent of those in the town where Davy Crockett bought it but more dog in ‘em, is Native American 🏀