The Schloss-Blog is declaring this week ... slap me silly!
I was going to offer a salute to all the women out there sporting a G.I. Jane look but didn't want to risk Will Smith showing up at my door, slapping me and telling me to "Keep [his] wife's name out of [my] fucking blog."
The person who showed real restraint there last week, the person who showed he was really a man, was Chris Rock, who could have dumped on Smith right then and there, but didn't and hasn't since.
Smith got a standing ovation when he accepted his Academy Award later in the evening.
So it is true - we live in the age of salute-to-assholes. As evidence, "more likely than not" criminal Donald Trump got 74 million votes in defeat (isn't about time we did away with the electoral college before Wyoming decides who the next president is?).
A once-and-former friend of mine accused me of being demeaning to women and marriage in general for saying in a Facebook thread about this matter that Jada Pinkett Smith was a strong-willed woman who can fight her own battles. He also said, without citing a source, that Will Smith was "belly" laughing and Jada wasn't laughing at all, and suddenly - surprise - Smith was up and slapping away and then cursing from his seat.
Am I the only one who thinks that "belly-laughing" Smith was prompted into the slap by his strong-willed wife, who allegedly (key word: allegedly) had taken Rock as one of her paramours in the Smith-Pinkett self-declared "open" marriage?
Why else do you prompt your otherwise "belly-laughing" husband into slapping someone over a G.I. Jane joke when the jokester may or may not have known about you having alopecia? Although if he slept with her, as alleged, well, you'd think the bald-headed thing might have come up in pillow talk.
Did I just demean women and marriage? Does anyone who agrees also find themselves people who demean women and marriage?
I'll let you tell me. Meanwhile, the person who accused me is doing a slow bern.
Also, Smith is out as a member of the Academy and should never have been allowed on stage to get his award in the first place.
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Meanwhile, Italy's men's national soccer team lost in a stunning upset to North Macedonia, thus Azzuring that they will not qualify for the World Cup final 32 in Qatar later this year.
Thus 'azzuring,' get it?
No? OK, that one bombed.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an act of sexual righteousness, signed legislation that he says makes sure "...girls are going to play girls sports and boys are going to play boys sports."
What he was really saying is that Florida disrespects and doesn't want anything to do with members of the trans and LGBTQ communities.
And that will be a key plank in his platform for his 2024 presidential run.
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With the war in Ukraine still raging despite the supposed peace talks, Russia is working hard to make sure accuracy about its inept yet disgraceful military effort does not reach its ordinary citizens (is there such a thing as an ordinary Russian citizen and how is it different from an ordinary American?).
Anyway, Russia has shut off most social media platforms from its general public, but not WhatsApp, which is supposedly too immensely popular with Russians, and YouTube, which is the same.
But like Donald Trump's "Truth Social," an abysmal failure, Russia's prospective replacements for WhatsApp and YouTube - ICG and RuTube, respectively - are flopping miserably.
So, Donald Trump and Putin continue to have so much common - flopping in new business ventures online and begging for help from foreign governments. Trump has openly asked Russia for dirt on the Bidens as we continue to supply Ukraine with resources to fight Russia. Meanwhile, Russia has supposedly reached out to China for military and economic aid.
Shameless has no boundaries.
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Trump's Truth Social, btw, supposedly has 513,000 users since launching in December. However, enrollment has dropped to 8,000 a day from an initial high of 157,000 when launched, mostly due to extreme technical glitches and outreach limitations (not available yet to Android users, for example).
Truth is, it's not very social at all. Sorta' like Trump..
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When I walk early mornings along the Biltmore Links Golf Course, I like to listen to Dan Patrick's show on Fox Sports Radio. Insightful, thoughtful, funny.
If I walk early enough, "Two Pros and a Joe" is on ahead of Patrick, starring Brady Quinn, LaVar Arrington and Jonas Knox.
They are a disgrace to humanity. Almost every conversation I hear from them sinks to innuendo and toilet humor. It's like they can't help themselves.
Then they lower themselves even more by having Petros Papadakis on one morning a week with them, who loves to indulge in innuendo and make small of kids who come out of fabled Mater Dei High in LA. You know, like Matt Leinart, Matt Barkley, Colt Brennan and Todd Marinovich. Hall-of-Famers, right?
Oddly enough, when Knox does his own show on the weekend, he's focused, on target and biting about issues in sports, results in sporting events and prospective fallout from recent controversial happenings.
I expect more out of Arrington, who played productive years for the Giants and Redskins after a stellar career at Penn State. Quinn was a washout though as a pro, going 4-16 in games he started over 4 years, completing just 53 percent of his passes, with 12 touchdowns and 17 interceptions.
On air, he broadcasts like he played.
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A few closing thoughts:
- Are we afraid to piss off Putin? Do we really think he'd launch a nuclear war?
- Why did DeShaun Watson get $230 million guaranteed? Well, he might have 22 payoffs to make.
- Alex (InfoWars) Jones was held in contempt of court for blowing off depositions relating to damages in the case he already lost disparaging the reality of the Sandy Hook massacre. Problem is, he loves it and wears it like a badge of honor.
- Finally, who thinks Brady came back because Bruce Arians retired and went into the front office? Most people, that's who.
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