Day 536

• The perils of needing programming...  ESPN got hornswoggled yesterday.  A scam artist, masquerading as an Ohio high-school football program, somehow got his team onto an ESPN early-season high-school football schedule (much less the early-season high-school football schedule of the other team) when a supposed team from "Bishop Sycamore" played national #1 high-school powerhouse IMG Academy of Florida.
• The Ohio coach somehow was able to dupe ESPN (a place with a repository of annual recruiting and high-school prominent players) into believing that "Bishop Sycamore" had a bunch of these players and that it would be a good idea for them to be matched up with the Florida team.
• Basically, what can be pieced together is that a marketing firm, Paragon Marketing, aids and abets getting these games on ESPN -- and they got scammed, completely.  The coach of "Bishop Sycamore", an ONLINE CHARTER SCHOOL...  I mean, fucking really??!?!?!???  How is that even feasible?  An OUNCE of research makes this evident that the team was non-existent last year (0-6 in non-sanctioned play, I might add!!), many of these players aren't even high school age, but probably 19 or 20 and didn't get passed through for being good enough or whatever...  
• And it's apparent that IMG Academy caught on -- it was only 44-0 through the third quarter, when that kind of team could easily have put 100 up by then!
• One of the players is already college-age and has been trying to scam his way onto major college football for AT LEAST TWO YEARS, showing up with fake credentials and a fake ID to a 7 on 7 camp...
• Ed Asner passed away yesterday.  The only surviving member of the Mary Tyler Moore main cast now:  99 year-old Betty White!
• ... as has Ron Bushy of Iron Butterfly -- he of that suspiciously rock and/or roll song "In A Gadda Da Vida"...
• We are now up over 100,000 hospital cases a day for the coronavirus.  We're going to lose the fucking medical system.  I'll have more to say on this in another post!   
• Hurricane Ida has hit New Orleans as a Category 4 storm, and the entire city is now without any power at all.  The entire electrical grid is down in New Orleans.
• Oh I love this...  Conservative group on Facebook is trying to permeate the rest of us, and I finally had enough and fired off at a couple of them.  One then responded that I am treasonous, to which I told them the accurate penalty for such and to get their gun out of their anal cavity and shoot us.  They flagged that and ran to daddy...  I'd say "mommy", but they'd rather rape their mommy than be born by them, if their view of women is any indication...   
• I also see why I drew Twitter phone-number demand number three...  Calling one of Trump's female frontpersons a whore.  Hey, I'm sorry if the truth hurts widdle Wepoobliken fee-fees...   
• After another boxing farce, Jake Paul says he's done.  What, bitch, got the PPV numbers and didn't like them??   
• Not a good day for Ohio football -- a more legitimate high school's coach has had an arrest warrant issued for him.  Youngstown Cardinal Mooney head coach Carl Pelini (older brother of LSU defensive coordinator Bo) -- domestic violence.  Aw fuck, what a shock!!   
• Carson Wentz and two other Indianapolis Colts have made the COVID list, but for contact tracing -- so no apparent impact yet, as long as they continue to test negative.
• A MAGAT pig in Pennsylvania has basically said he wants armed and "strong men" to physically eject (and probably worse) school boards who impose mask mandates.  Steve Lynch, running for a county post in Pennsylvania -- says he has 20 men who will go in and force them out.  Try it.  Seriously.  Because some of us are getting to the point we'll just kill your fucking ass if you don't kill us first.   
• "Make Men Great Again"????????????????  "Make Men Men Again"??????  SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!