Ain't gonna happen

So the people of Clark County must now bend over and take it from the NFL.

Only politicians and billionaires escape the erf-you. Maybe casino CEOs.

If I were running Las Vegas, I would demand that every resident gets free tickets to 4 NFL games each season, plus 1 game with 4 tickets to bring friends or family. Or scalp.

Registered voters get 1 extra free game. Registered voters who actually voted get seats in the owners' boxes.

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Want to help me? Don't help me

My like-it-a-lot affair with Firefox is shaky today.

Mozilla's all about safety online, which is great.

But ... today, after yet another update, Firefox blocked Adobe Flash from running on a website I visit several times a day. I appreciate that it alerted me, and that it had a button to turn off the block.

Starting a few days ago, Firefox began posting a warning on the log-in page of a website I visit daily, saying that it's not safe — with a cute little padlock crossed out in red — and info might be stolen.

I know people who crawl all over the Web, with nasty hangovers. They need Firefox and its warnings.

But those same warnings are ticking me off.

I have places to go and things to download.

Get out of the way, Firefox.

If only Apple would turn Safari into a useful browser, I'd go back to it. How about some way to see what the browser's doing, moment by moment? How about a separate line for searches?

Safari, however, continues to be a piece of crap, compared to Firefox. Even the increasingly annoying Firefox.

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Where's Vlad's military might?

If I were not so lazy, I'd shovel through the INet in search of the latest location of V.P.'s army.

If I lived in any country with a border abutting Russia, I would be very afraid.

The U.S.'s credibility is non-existent; anybody who says Russia's ready to invade this place or that will be ignored. As in crickets.

As for DJT and VP Pence, now they're just embarrassing.

My wonderful, smart boss, Bob, a long time ago pointed out that people do not hire people who are smarter than themselves.

I would expect leaders of other countries to cancel visits to the U.S., knowing that it's a huge waste of time ... but now I think they will come just for the laughs.

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A touch of tune-out

I enjoy watching Rachel Maddow's cable-TV news show, frequently learning things I don't know I want to know, until she tells me.

However, she has a passion for context that drives me away.

As Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, noted today, she has a habit of burying the lead. I wanted to know what DJT's 2005 tax return said, but after an eternity of context, I tuned out. I'm fast with the remote anyway, a bad habit, but my fraying attention span's overtaxed.

RM said today she doesn't care about the criticism of her DJT tax report. Duck's back, meet water. If only she could teach DJT how to react like that.

I worked for a couple of brilliant editors in my brief career as a newspaper reporter who would go bat-shit crazy over Ms. Maddow's treatment of the lead.

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Betting the wrong horse

I had a chance to bet real money on how soon DJT would melt down. Didn't take the bet.

My guess was somewhere around the 4th of July. Looks now like he's going to peak sooner.

And the fanatics that surround him cannot save him, even if they wanted to.

Pity V.P. His big play to neutralize the U.S. so he can take over the world has crashed, exploded, burned, and polluted Washington, D.C.

Does Mike Pence wonder, in the middle of the night, who he has to kill to get off the Mother Ship?

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Outwitting Vlad P

What if the Russians' hacking into U.S. political sites wasn't aimed at helping DJT win?

What if they wanted him to lose?

His most recent loans are from Russian banks and such.

As president he is immune to lawsuits, even over his deadbeat ways.

When he stiffs them, which he will (it's in his nature ... scorpion vs. frog), he is untouchable for years and years.

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