The Schoss-Blog, for all you golf fans out there, is still waiting for Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world, to show up at the Ryder Cup. Oh, wait, it's over? (Don't worry, Tom Veeck, getting to Comey shortly.)
Scheffler and his teammates can't make putts, hit greens or fairways. Otherwise, they're playing great. Europe's team is well managed and has had solid pairings for four-ball and/or alternate-shot. Luke Donald, the Northwestern grad and one-time, long-time Illinois resident, has done a fabulous job with his lineup.
Keegan Bradley, who should be playing, instead is playing checkers and/or Scrabble with his lineups, and they keep getting beat. Bradley is a great golfer who should be out there playing, helping the team with his outstanding sticks while a more-experienced golfer, perhaps a Champions Tour member, is managing the squad (perhaps the suddenly unwelcome Phil Mickelson? WTF.).
As the President would say: PROSECUTE THESE GUYS. THEY'RE GUILTY (of playing uninspired golf).
Must be the tariffs.
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Sam Burns, the American who was the best putter on the PGA Tour all season, can't make a putt. And wasn't paired with his best friend, Scottie Scheffler. Why? Why not?
This team is playing like it has never seen Bethpage Black before. They should've been playing practice rounds there once a week all year long and everyday since the end of the Fed Ex Cup, in hopes they'd be on the team.
Clearly, they didn't.
I used to go sledding there every winter when I was a kid. Then, even I could find the greens.
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Meanwhile, back in D.C., anyone notice that Jim Comey has been indicted? No sooner did the prosecutor assigned to indict (not investigate, but indict) the former FBI director get pushed out, than a celebrity model-turned-Trump personal lawyer got an indictment.
Not only did Lindsey Halligan, a former Trump personal lawyer with no prosecutorial experience get an indictment, it had less than unilateral support from the grand jury, which threw out one of the three charges. A judge could very well toss the other two, they're so weak.
The indictment is so weak, in fact, that Comey, the former FBI director, can't wait to go to trial, he says. "Let's have a trial," he was quoted as saying almost as soon as the indictment was issued.
Trump is losing public confidence as he ignores the economy, poisons foreign relations with foes (Russia) and allies (NATO) alike and deports anyone who ICE agents think doesn't speak English and works a low-paying job. And the Supreme Court has blessed this tactic after lower courts called racial profiling what it is: unconstitutional.
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All of this has distracted Trump from ... America. From inflation, from rising prices, from pain-causing tariffs and, of course, the Epstein Files. Sorry, Donald, that was your artwork and signature on the birthday greeting.
Don't worry, he hasn't forgotten those. But knowing his approval ratings are in the dumpster and midterm elections are around the corner, where he could lose control of Congress, he is trying to get his Department of Justice to act quickly.
Decisively? Meh...with what's left over there in quality of personnel, not likely.
The Supreme Court seems to want to let Trump act beyond the limits of the Constitution. We'll see if they continue to.
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Trump has not been quiet about his intentions to get Adam Schiff, James Comey and Letitia James indicted, but his words may come back to undercut the indictments.
Instead of letting DOJ operate on its own independently, he is ordering them aloud to seek these charges and prosecutions. The kind of things defense lawyers salivate over.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, "107."
And in memory of Lenny Marks.
Anyway, more Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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This week's (and for the next few weeks), the Charlie Kirk quote of the week:
Transgender identity is a mental disease, needing "brain treatment."
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