Left Coast Sports Babe

Six of the first eight NFL playoff games in the books.  .Only Green Bay-Dallas, and Pittsburgh-Kansas City left.

And here’s the real burning question –  will either game be the first this postseason to be decided by less than two touchdowns?

So after that performance will Jed York and 49ers try to make a trade for Brock Osweiler? #HOUvsNE

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Love rooting for old men in professional sports. Don’t love that 34 years old is considered old. #DevinHester #SEAvsATL

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San Antonio Spurs played in Mexico City tonight. With all the foreign players on the team and what Popovich has said about Trump, good thing we don’t have the wall yet. The President- Elect might not let them back in.

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#RinglingBros circus to close after 146 years. Because they couldn’t possibly compete with the daily circus in Washington?

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Thinking right about now USA really really misses Walter Cronkite.

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American Apparel is closing all its stores. “Sad, but what’s American Apparel?” said everyone over 30.

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R.I.P. Dick Gautier, 85 ,Hymie the Robot, in “Get Smart.” Right about now we could use someone like him against KAOS. “People hate, robots love.”

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Trump’s latest Twitter barrage was to attack Rep. John Lewis, who said he wasn’t an legitimate president. He said Lewis was “all talk talk talk, no action.”
Have news for the soon to be Tweeter-in-chief. “Bloody Sunday” doesn’t refer to something involving Megyn Kelly.

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Jennifer Holliday , who won a Tony for Dreamgirls, has backed out performing at the inaugural, and apologized to the LGBT community, saying she does not support the President-Elect. Standby for Trump tweeting that the Tony’s are overrated.

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New reports are that Donald Trump allegedly invited Miss Hungary to his hotel room after attending the 2013 Miss Universe pageant. Of course maybe this is shameless fake news attempt by Trump to curry favor with Bill Clinton.

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Sen. James Inhofe defended Donald Trump’s comparison of leaking intelligence agencies to Nazi Germany. “Sure, those are his words. He has a sense of humor. Isn’t that strange?”

I think i liked “Springtime for Hitler.” better.

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Donald Trump told the WSJ that he may lift Obama’s sanctions against Russia. And that he was open to meeting President Putin after he is inaugurated. Well, finally, some things where folks on both sides of the aisle believe him.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says he wants to reduce length of games. “People, particularly millennials, have increasingly short attention spans. So it’s something, as a business, we need to pay attention to.”
The average NBA game is under 2 1/2 hours. MLB, NFL and college football fans are just giggling.

Adam Silver says @NBA wants to shorten length of games to keep fan interest. Wouldn’t it make more sense to shorten length of season?

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Anyone but me thinking that Friday the 13th was a lot less scary this January than Friday the 20th?

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If someone had come up with a screenplay based on US politics over last year it would be been rejected as scary but too absurd.

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In December, Paul Ryan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that ““it will clearly take time” to come up with an ACA replacement “It’s not going to be replaced come next football season.”
Next season? Thinking that repealing Obamacare is going to be a lot like the 49ers firing Jim Harbaugh

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Steelers assistant coach Joey Porter will be back with the team, and on the sidelines in Kansas City for the playoff game this weekend. Charges against him, which include assaulting a police officer outside a Pittsburgh bar last Sunday, have been dropped.
Well, good to see some equality before the law, as in the same rights for coaches as players?

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Bill Littlejohn, on the Chargers planning to play their first two seasons at the 27,000-seat StubHub Center in Carson: “Won’t they be embarrassed by all those empty seats.”

(of course 27,000 looks like a big crowd at the end of most of the 2016 season’s 49er games.)

If our Founding Fathers had only thought to say “a well-regulated militia with good healthcare” in the 2nd amendment….

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Now the #WSJ is calling for FBI Direct James Comey to resign. Well, yeah, what do you expect from such a liberal newspaper

Paul Anka has pulled out of performing at Trump’s inaugural. Did he get a better offer from #DWTS?

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A company called “Don’s Johns” provides many porta-potties in DC. During the inaugural Trump administration will have company’s name taped over, which is getting more publicity than maybe just leaving things alone. Well, good thing for them there is no guy named Golden with a portable shower company.

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With Ivanka & Jared Kushner moving to DC so nice to remember that many didn’t vote for Hillary because they didn’t like dynasty politics.

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As we debate Obamacare, do people really not realize that pre-existing conditions didn’t just keep poor people from getting insurance, they kept millions of people who COULD pay from getting insurance. Young, old and middle-aged. But I guess that doesn’t matter, especially to those in Congress who have benefits for life.

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In a BBC interview, Nicole Kidman said about Trump ‘So I just say, he’s now elected, and we as a country need to support whoever is the president because that’s what the country’s based on. Whatever, however, that happened, he’s there, and let’s go. For me, I’m very, very committed to women’s issues.”
She has a point, and I hope Trump is better than many of us fear.
But it’s a lot easier to make that statement when you have dual Australian citizenship.

We’re hunting a witch? Well, don’t you follow the yellow, or should I say golden, brick road?

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To all those folks who complained about having to explain blow jobs to children with Bill Clinton – how do you feel about “golden showers?”

So @realDonaldTrump, after helping lead birther movement, now tweets about a witch hunt. Not happy is he when other side has the pitchforks.

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And after that #ObamaFarewell a whole lot of folks in both parties wonder if it’s too late to repeal the 22nd amendment.

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Russians, hackers, questionable business deals, cronyism… Somewhere Richard Nixon is just shaking his head.

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CNN reporting that “Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers” presented classified documents last month to both both Obama and Trump, including
“allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.”
Standby for a fierce response from the President-Elect. Against U.S. Intelligence.

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#DeshaunWatson has declared for NFL draft. Hope memories of his great night winning National Championship sustain him during time with the Browns.

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While on vacation in the Caribbean, country singer Brett Eldredge posted an online picture of a live snake he found in a toilet. A picture, come on…..as a country singer shouldn’t he write a song about it?

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Manny Ramirez, 44, has agreed to play for the Kochi Fighting Dogs of Japan’s independent Shikoku Island League. Let’s hope Manny being Manny doesn’t affect U.S. – Japan relations.

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#MeghanMcCain tweeted “Meryl Streep’s speech is why Trump won.” If she’s such an expert maybe she should have warned dad about Sarah Palin.

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Tom Cotton attacked Cory Booker for Booker’s plans to testify against Senate colleague Jeff Sessions as Trump’s attorney general pick. calling it a “disgraceful breach of custom.”.
Where was Cotton’s outrage last year on the Senate refusing even to consider Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland, or was that somehow a “graceful breach of custom?”

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Inside baseball bus to hell time: So do today’s Trump rumors mean that Moises Alou might be getting a call to serve in this administration? Callous, I know.

Anyone but me thinking – if you don’t have a team or a bet in a particular game @NFL football has become pretty boring.

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Wonder how many football fans started watching #OAKvsHOU wild-card game & switched over to watching replays of #RoseBowl. #notexactlypretty

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Draymond Green after last night’s Warriors’ loss “I’m kind of thrilled that we lost because you usually make corrections when you lose.” If that’s true, the 76ers should be the most correct team in the NBA.

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Happiest people in SF Bay Area after #Warriors late meltdown against #Grizzlies must be advertisers who bought future 4th quarter ads cheap.

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The Limited just closed all their stores. Shocking! The Limited still had stores?

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There’s a certain logic to GOP efforts to both repeal the ACA and slash social security. Without coverage fewer people live to collect decades of benefits.

In Benicia, California, police had an easy mid-afternoon arrest when an alleged drunk driver crashed her SUV – into a parked patrol car. Your move, Florida.

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Democrats in the Senate led by Cory Booker are introducing a bill against a Muslim registry.  Doesn’t matter your religion or ethnicity. If they can register Muslims, they can register you.

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Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, is now complaining that the GOP-controlled Senate has scheduled confirmation hearings too quickly for Trump’s cabinet nominees, and so the OGE is unlikely to complete their ethics reviews in time
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Now had Congress only moved to gut the OGE at the same time as the Office of Congressional Ethics, guessing Trump wouldn’t have tweeted to complain

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A CNN review found that Monica Crowley, who will serve as Trump’s senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council,   plagiarized over 50 sections of her 2012 book ?What The (Bleep) Just Happened,” from many sources. #wearegoingtoneedabiggerswamp

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More information regarding the alleged Ft. Lauderdale killer – According to the Anchorage police chief:: He was arrested & charged with criminal mischief after police received a call about a physical disturbance in Jan. 2016. He was arrested again in Feb after he violated an order to stay away from his girlfriend & their apartment. In March, police received another physical disturbance call, but “were not able to establish probable cause for an arrest” There was another DV call on Oct. 15, “but officers were told by a municipal prosecutor not to arrest him”, On Oct. 21, police received ANOTHER call accusing Santiago of strangulation, but could not establish probable cause for an arrest.

Then in November, he told the FBI the CIA was telling him to fight for ISIS.  THEN they took his gun. But they gave it back in December. The same one he allegedly used this week.

Remind me again about that well regulated militia?

Just guessing our founding fathers never imagined a world where it would be legal to check a gun AND ammunition on an airplane.

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Meanwhile in North Carolina, an 11-year-old boy was showing his 6-year-old cousin the shotgun he got for Christmas. Police say the gun accidentally went off and the girl was fatally shot. #ifonlyshewasarmed

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The average NCAA college football game last year was 3 hours and, 24 minutes. While most people, including colleges and conference commissioners think that’s too long, ESPN reports “the biggest challenge, however, is determining how to shorten the games.”
More specifically trying to get the games under 3 hours and still keep 90 minutes of commercials.

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Atlanta Hawks GM Wes Wilcox apologized after joking at a season ticket holder meeting “I know you guys may be angry with me, but I’m used to it because I have a black wife and three mixed kids, so I’m used to people being angry and argumentative.”
Proving once again that money and power are no guarantee against #cantfixstupid

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And with all the problems of the world today, even the Cleveland Cavaliers are not immune. Lebron James this morning “We got to get a point guard.”
#getouttheviolins

Wonder how many #Warriors & #Grizzlies fans turned off Friday night’s game after 3 quarters? To quote Julia Roberts in  Pretty Woman – “Mistake, big mistake.”

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So Wikileaks has tweeted – “We are thinking of making an online database with all “verified” twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.”
What could possibly go wrong?

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So Mexico will pay the U.S. back for the #GreatWall?” Is this the sort of planning that got all of those Trump companies into bankruptcy?

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Trump doesn’t have time for intelligence briefings but he does have time to get involved in a state race for the head of the GOP in Ohio. He made personal phone calls and sent letters for a woman who supported him to unseat the current chair, a Kasich supporter who had been successful for the party but was lukewarm at best for Trump.
So good to see the President-Elect acting Presidential and above petty vindictiveness.

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But yeah, Trump is so  focusing on the important issues facing our country.
Two tweets from this morning: “Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got “swamped” (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for….being a movie star-and that was season 1 compared to season 14. Now compare him to my season 1. But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary”
#WTF?

Cowboys’ DE Randy Gregory has been suspended a year for another violation of the NFL’s substance abuse policy, his third suspension of the season. He will be eligible for the 2017 postseason.
It’s all part of the league’s “12 strikes and you’re out” policy..

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Biggest problem w/ Dak Prescott is he makes it hard to hate Dallas Cowboys. Asked if he was staying in town for bye week – “Yes, Good try.”

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In Texas, a newly elected prosecutor wore a Dallas Cowboys jersey during his swearing-in ceremony last Sunday.  Well, let’s hope he’s never on the case when one of the team is a defendant.

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NFL television viewership dropped 8% this season from last, with the biggest drops Sunday and Monday nights. Roger Goodell said last month that the election was “certainly a factor.” Well, yes, that and maybe the fact that the league has a whole lot of really lousy teams?

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Florida AG Pam Bondi, who dropped her nvestigation into Trump U after Donald Trump gave her campaign $25K, is getting White House post. #Refilltheswamp

So just the Rose Bowl we all expected. A USC team that lost to Stanford by 17 against a Penn State team that lost to Michigan by 39.

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Well phooey, I was expecting the #RoseBowl to go at least into quadruple overtime.

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If you’re going to miss two field goal attempts in the Rose Bowl, might as well make the last one. #USC

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Happiest people in Vegas starting about half-time were those who bet the #RoseBowl “over”, which is 62. #Wedontneednostinkindefense #PennState #USC

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Both USC and Penn State offenses in Rose Bowl looked like men against boys. #bustohell

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Give Lane Kiffin credit, anyone can be fired from a losing team, how many people can get fired, or ask to leave early, on an undefeated team one game from the national championship.

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A spokeswoman for Dick Clark Productions says allegations that Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance was intentionally sabotaged are “defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd.”
She’s right; if they wanted to do any sabotage for ratings would have made more sense for a wardrobe malfunction.

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In France, a new law mandates workers’ “right to disconnect.”  The law requires companies with more than 50 employees to establish hours when staff should not send or answer emails
At this point France may need to consider a wall to keep potential Americans immigrants out

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Hadn’t heard of her but like her style: British singer Rebecca Ferguson will perform at Trump’s inauguration on one condition- that she can sing “Strange Fruit,”  a 1937 protest song.

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Trump playing the skeptic re allegations against Russia, “I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else.”
Did Putin tell him to say that?

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The House GOP defied chair Paul Ryan and quickly voted to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics tonight. Among other things the proposal would would bar the panel from reviewing any violation of criminal law by members of Congress, accept anonymous reports of Congressional wrongdoing, and make any public statements or hire any communications staff.
Right, because we shouldn’t disturb all those fragile new alligators in the swamp?

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In Texas, a homeowner fatally shot a guest at a New Year’s Eve party. KHOU-TV reported that “the owner claimed that a fight erupted between him and the drunken man when he refused to leave, adding that he had no choice but to shoot.”
Your move, Florida.

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T.C’s New Year’s thought  “Happy 2017 Everyone! I see that Donald will be writing his own Inaugural speech… and Mariah Carey will be proof reading it.”

On a positive note, #BettyWhite survived 2016!

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And 49ers, Browns and Rams fans don’t have to suffer watching their teams anymore until Fall 2017.

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A Texas state representative is recovering after being shot in the head by a stray bullet after a New Year’s Eve get-together at a home with friends and family. #GodBlessTexas #Ifonlyhewerearmed

The SF 49ers have fired Chip Kelly. Wonder who Jed York will now sign to a 3-year contract to be the team’s next interim coach?

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A plane is towing a banner today in Santa Clara: “Levi’s Stadium – The House That Harbaugh Built.” Well, the team sucks but at least 49ers fans are still in good form.

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Trent Baalke said his firing was “the right thing to do.” Well, for the first time in years the 49ers GM was correct.

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Just as well #Browns lost, #49ers with #1 draft pick would be like dog actually catching a car – they wouldn’t know what to do with it

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Wonder if Brett Favre is calling the Raiders, who’ve now lost two QBs to injury in two weeks, to say “I’m available.”

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The NY Jets would like to thank both Bills and Mariah Carey for making sure that this weekend they weren’t the most embarrassing thing in New York.

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The Bills gave up a touchdown today against the Jets on a NY kickoff, when both returners became confused and backed away from a live ball in the end zone….which they should have done if it were a PUNT. Well, it’s only week 17 so maybe a bit too early for players to really know the rules?

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The Washington Redskins today fell out of the playoff picture. I’m confused, do we blame Trump or Obama?

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If Dick Clark weren’t already dead, Mariah Carey’s performance last night might have killed him.

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Mariah Carey apparently thinks her New Year’s Eve performance was sabotaged so ABC could get better ratings. Wow, that’s paranoid enough against the media that Mariah maybe really should be singing at the Inaugural.

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Donald Trump’s press secretary isn’t happy with the American public; “instead of trying to mock him or undermine him, it’s time that people started to give him credit for actually getting things done.”
Uh, but okay, Obama’s still President, Trump hasn’t actually gotten anything “done” yet.
But rest assured, the American people are ready on January 21, for better or worse.

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And to end on a cheerful note:  Again, happy new year.  May your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions

Not often as a Californian for nearly 40 yrs, I ever admit any East Coast supremacy. But they did make it to 2017 first.

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Mariah Carey didn’t really melt down during New Year’s Eve Times Square show; she just wanted to send 2016 off in an appropriate way.

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But really, #2017withMariah.  Was this supposed to make us feel less awful about 2016?

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On a bright note for football fans up in Washington at least today’s loss didn’t come down to an inexplicable and heartbreakingly stupid play call by Pete Carroll.

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And while Washington was widely anticipated not to be worthy of being in the same playoff game against Alabama lost, they didn’t even come close to the most embarrassing performance of the day.

But of course, nothing is  Urban Meyer’s fault.

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49ers are reportedly going to fire both Chip Kelly and Trent Baalke, in theory to clean house. But kind of hard to clean a house that’s still on the same rotten foundation. #JedYork

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Saw a complaint that President Obama has played 66 rounds of golf this year. How long until Americans start begging Trump to go play golf?

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Just trying to imagine what GOP would be saying if a Democratic President-Elect was defending Russia against our intelligence services?

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Really, are there any more surprises w/ @realDonaldTrump & Putin now?. Maybe some wonder what they’ll get each other for #ValentinesDay.

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Reports are that Trump is considering corporate lawyer George Conway as solicitor general. While Conway has little of the usual government experience, he is married to Kellyanne Conway.
Is this another of those moments where we put down the novel or turn off the movie as too implausible?

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The latest fake news on Obama is that he is anti-semitic. Given all that he’s been accused of amazed he’s been elected – twice.

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President-elect Donald Trump ““If you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old fashioned way because I’ll tell you what, no computer is safe.”
Well he and his friends ought to know.

The 49ers voted the most Len Eshmont, for the most “inspirational and courageous” player in 2016, to Colin Kaepernick. Well, it’s not like anyone deserved it for actual play on the field.

Reports are that Trump is considering corporate lawyer George Conway as solicitor general. While Conway has little of the usual government experience, he is married to Kellyanne Conway.
Is this another of those moments where we put down the novel or turn off the movie as too implausible?

Really, are there any more surprises w/ @realDonaldTrump & Putin now?. Maybe some wonder what they’ll get each other for #ValentinesDay.

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Stanford QB Keller Chryst injured his right knee in the 1st quarter of the Sun Bowl. And I am sure Christian McCaffrey both feels both very sorry and very vindicated.

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And yes, Stanford survived by 2 against North Carolina. But can the Cardinal hire a special coach in future just for the fourth quarter?    #Toomanymeltdowns  #RoseBowl #FiestaBowl …..

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Sarah Palin has called on Trump to leave the UN. And she’ll then do her part by keeping an eye on Russia from her house?

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Bristol Palin wrote a blog post attacking “A-listers” who have refused to perform at Trump’s inaugural, and saying Hollywood is chock-full of “sissies.”
Is Bristol really just upset Trump hasn’t asked her to perform a dance?

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After President Obama expelled 35 diplomats, Russia has vowed to retaliate. Wonder they are threatening – to interfere w/ our elections?

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Donald Trump’s tweet on Putin’s decision not to respond with sanctions to Obama’s sanctions “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!”
Or at least Putin can count the days until January 21?

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In California, prosecutor dropped a DUI charge from last year against a man who tested positive for nothing more than caffeine. Based on experience with my friends and family members, the bigger danger is many people driving WITHOUT caffeine.

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In a British plan to cut accidents on the road, new young drivers might be forced to spend 120 hours on the road with supervised practice before getting their licenses.
If they seriously want to cut accidents, how about a plan to have older drivers who are relatively new to smartphones also spend supervised time driving with their phone in the car?

A women singer from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has resigned from the group saying that “Looking from the outside in, it will appear that Choir is endorsing tyranny and racism by singing for this man… and she “could never look myself in the mirror again with self-respect” if she performed at Trump’s inaugural.
Well, yeah, we all know those crazy liberal Mormons.
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Horrible story for any parents. But a Texas couple is suing Apple after their daughter was killed in an accident they say was caused by a driver using the FaceTime app while driving.
Have to wonder, would they sue a gun manufacturer if she was killed by someone accidentally firing a gun?

Okay, we all agree 2016 has sucked in a lot of ways. But in a year when “Loving” is a likely “Best Picture” nominee, nice to know the US has made some progress. Congrats to Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian.

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Robert Hulseman, 84, has died. He invented the Red Solo Cup. Not sure what they will be serving at his funeral, but we sure know in what they will be serving it. #cheers

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, asked by a British interviewer about bringing Hamilton to London in 2018: “It’s a rap musical about the Founding Fathers of America -are you worried that the British won’t know much about the subject? “Can I tell you a dirty secret? Most Americans don’t know either.”

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Carrie Fisher, who never got an Oscar nomination, “I’ve waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything. I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It”s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?”. #oneofakind

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Explanation for the younger generation about Debbie Reynolds: Once upon a time she was America’s Sweetheart, blonde, pretty and supposedly in a perfect marriage with another celebrity, Eddie Fisher. Except that he left her for a beautiful thrice-married exotic woman, a woman who would later leave him.
Yep, in short, Jennifer Aniston and Brangelina in the late 1950s. (Although Debbie and Eddie had two children, one of them  Carrie Fisher.)

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Apparently @realDonaldTrump is writing his own inaugural speech. Presumably 140 characters at a time?

Trump on Russian hacking -“”I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly “The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on. And we have speed — we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure we have the kind of security we need.”
Okay, fine, take out the word “computers” and substitute “guns.”

Open note to 2016. There’s still time, you could kill off an actual a**hole or two.

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Cheery words to look forward to at the end of a tough year – “Pitchers and catchers report…”

Some fans are upset that some college football players have chosen to skip 2016 bowl games. Of course, do challenge the average fan at this point if they can REMEMBER any 2016 bowl games.

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QBs often give their offensive lines Christmas gifts, and this year is no exception. Eagles rookie Carson Wentz.gave each of his linemen an engraved Beretta shotgun. Maybe to protect themselves from Philly fans? #whatcouldpossiblygowrong?

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Men/women quotes of the year from the UK Times, following the break-up of Iggy Azalea and Nick Young:
Azalea on Instagram: “Unfortunately although I love Nick and have tried and tried to rebuild my trust in him, it’s become apparent in the last few weeks I am unable to. I genuinely wish Nick the best. It’s never easy to part ways with the person you planned your entire future with but futures can be rewritten and as of today mine is a blank page.”
Young on Twitter: “Single.”

History lesson for those who believe cinematic life began with Star Wars. Yes, Carrie Fisher was Princess Leia. But her father was Eddie Fisher, an incredibly popular pop singer in the early 1950s. Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, a 1950s film star. Both had their own TV shows. But their marriage broke up when Fisher had an affair with Reynolds’ good friend, who he later married, a woman named Elizabeth Taylor….
The breakup was also major news in the days BEFORE social media….. Amazing in some ways Carrie survived as long as she did.

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Thousands of people signed a petition demanding a Hunter College professor be fired after his husband heckled Ivanka Trump on a JetBlue flight..
So to show that in this country we shouldn’t bother family members, we want to fire the heckler’s family member?

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Apparently President-Elect Trump wasn’t very happy with the interview with Obama said he would have won a third term. This tweet “President Obama campaigned hard (and personally) in the very important swing states, and lost.The voters wanted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Okay, whatever you think of Trump, can you imagine his tweets if he had actually LOST? (or if we simply didn’t have the electoral college.)

You know 2016 has been a long year when you wake up and are just glad not to see yet another headline about somebody dying.  And DAMN IT CARRIE FISHER.

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Another thing that sucks about 2016. It is bad enough to lose aging icons. It is worse to lose icons who are more or less your age.

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The NBA now says that LeBron James’ dunk with 1:43 remaining in the Cavs-Warriors game should have resulted in a technical foul for “deliberately hanging on the rim” after the dunk was completed.
So what’s more surprising, that they admitted it at all, or that the league acknowledges a superstar should ever be called for anything?
What’s next, actual traveling violations?

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Some fans chanted “We want Romo,” and “Tony, Tony, Tony,” during the 2nd half of last night’s Cowboys win in Arlington. Presumably the chants were from Lions fans?

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In Santa Monica, a synagogue door was smeared with feces and food in an apparent antisemitic attack on the first night of Chanukah So is it a war on Chanukah now too?

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Thinking for #Hanukkah really to become a major U.S. holiday we need to come up w/ one standard spelling. #Chanukah

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Malls across the U.S. were evacuated due to after-Christmas brawls. Although while police were called there are no reports of serious injury. #Ifonlytheshopperswerearmed

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That “special relationship” is going so well. Headline in London Times “Use Brexit to steal UK trade says Trump aide.” The story notes how “Wilbur Ross, the billionaire incoming commerce secretary” has called Brexit a “God-given opportunity.” for the U.K’s rivals, including the US.
Well, at least we have Russia…. Sigh.

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An interesting side note from President Obama’s news conference about the election, and one I hope future Democratic nominees might heed. (I HATE HATE HATE the prevent defense.) :
“If you think you’re winning, then you have a tendency, just like in sports, maybe to play it safer.”

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John McCain, showing signs of why he used to be every Democrat’s favorite Republican, on the alleged Russian hacking: “If they are able to undermine an election, they’re able to undermine democracy”
Of course to be fair, perhaps there is a bit of sour grapes that the election they didn’t hack was 2008?

Happy boxing day. To those who observe. And to those who don’t. Happy after-Christmas sale day.

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So at the malls are the Valentine’s Day decorations up yet?

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Steve Kerr last night after #Warriors loss to #Cavs – Curry “could make better decisions.” @NBA version of #Firstworldproblems

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Defensive tackle Dontari Poe just threw a TD pass last night for the Chiefs.  No it’s not just that you’ve had too much eggnog. #DENvsKC

You know 2016 has been a long year when you wake up and are just glad not to see yet another headline about somebody dying.

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Oops, Sarah Michelle Gellar tweeted out “Do u really want to hurt me? I guess you do 2016 – #ripboygeorge” Guess these 50 something English white boy rockers all look alike?

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The Cavs’ Richard Jefferson got a technical foul yesterday for winking at the Warriors’ Kevin Durant yesterday. Winking?! Even the No Fun League thinks that might be overkill.

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