HULK SMASH!!!

So much for Sharapova-Serena being much of a match. In fact, there weren’t many surprises at all, as the seeded players cruised along. The exception was Kerber going out on the ladies side. And Federer dropped a set! Expect more of the same today, although the number of big matches will be small compared to yesterday.

Elsewhere, the Yanks, Dodgers, D-backs, Athletics, Reds, Phillies, Cardinals and Rockies all won on an abbreviated slate of games. A lot of players are coming out in support of Andrew Luck. The Texans may not have enough players to field a team with all the injuries. College and pro football both inch closer. And that’s about it. I don’t know enough about Serie A to comment on the game yesterday. Most of the games in that league are fixed anyway, from what I’ve been led to believe. So I won’t even note Inter Milan winning 4-0.

On the hunt…for porn.

Yesterday’s slate of birthdays was particularly weak. Let’s see what today has in store for us.  We’ve got serial killer Ed Gein, Warmonger and nanny-stater LBJ, the lovely Tuesday Weld, the equally lovely Barbara Bach, moviegoer Paul Reubens, political strategist and snappy dresser Roger Stone, MTV’s Downtown Julie Brown, rock god Alex Lifeson, and actor Aaron Paul who has a movie or something coming out soon.

Well that list was marginally better than yesterday’s.  But I’ve sure as shit seen better.  Anyway, there’s a big world full of big news. And we hit on the most important of them with…the links!

Coming soon to a city near you!

Hey Silicon Valley, how’s about y’all go fuck yourself? Seriously.  And when you’re done, stick your heads in a woodchipper.

In one of the most egregious cases ruling against personal responsibility, Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $572M in opioid lawsuit. The state charged them under “public nuisance” laws and, get this, they said they misled doctors while promoting their meds.  Now let’s for a second forget that everybody for decades have known opiates are inherently addictive. How the hell do they say its the company’s fault when all the side effects discovered during the FDA approval process are included in all the company’s literature by law and that its the doctor’s responsibility to know what he’s prescribing.  So either:

  1. the doctor’s didn’t read the literature about the drug before they prescribed it
  2. the FDA didn’t do a good job of identifying and listing side effects during the trials
  3. J&J committed fraud by omitting it from the information send to doctors

Now there’s no way in the world its #3, because they would have charged them with a slew of felonies and fraud instead of what they usually charge people with who don’t cut their grass often enough.  This is a fucked up verdict. I only hope the state SC reverses it. Although I’m not optimistic that the same justice system that stands to receive a huge windfall of cash by leaving the verdict to stand will reverse course.

::inhales:: ::exhales:: ::inhales:: ::exhales::

Ok, I’m calmed back down. Maybe this story about weed will mellow me out. Just kidding, I don’t take the pot. But that’s a pretty good piece that does a better job of recognizing reality than most reporting on…anything.

Oops, accidentally unplugged. Our bad. We’ll do better next time.

Of course, this is perhaps the least surprising news in the world. Maybe in the history of the world.

Just in case you stopped thinking New York City’s cops weren’t self-absorbed and self-serving cretins who care more about their “brothers” than justice, this’ll snap you out of that delusion. Not that I’m not happy about the numbers. I’m just not happy that whether they do their job or not is dependent on the city allowing them to operate above the law.

Soon you’ll be able to go into a KFC and say “it tastes like chicken”. Of course you could just order chicken and these damn militant vegans could stop telling us how horrible we are for eating meat while trying to make everything they eat taste like it. Whatever, Popeyes is taking over as KFC dies anyway. Not that either has chicken as good as Bojangles. Sadly I can’t get my Bojangles here.

Well those are the links. I’ve got to play more than one song today because they’re too short. Here’s the second one. And yes, there’s a birthday tie-in for both of them. Figure it out.

That’s all I got. Have a wonderful day, friends!