I can't watch college football without laughing about the blatant cash grabs. Ohio State travelled to Washington. Utah travelled to West Virginia. California travelled to Boston. Oregon travelled to Pennsylvania. All while tuition increases have been higher than ever. It's embarrassing.

"A new command I give you: Just shoot one another." Book of Glock, Chapter .38.

In deference to our Irish kin and to European "football," I will predict the outcome for Sunday's NFL game to be played in Dublin: Steelers score a safety to beat the Vikings, Two - Nill!

Time to add this to the dictionary: Clusterfuck (n.) - See the 45th and 47th administrations of the United States presidency.

Just because Jimmy Kimmel's show is going to be restored, do not go back to Disney yet. That's all they want. Be strong - make it hurt them for a few months at least. Every lost dollar matters!

All-time wins by a Pittsburgh Steelers head coach (to be posted often): Chuck Noll - 193 Mike Tomlin - 185 Updated after week three of 2025.

Pittsburgh Pirates: 2023 = 76 wins 2024 = 76 wins 2025 = 66 wins with 7 games left to be played. IT GOT WORSE. HOW DID IT ACTUALLY GET WORSE!?

Fun update: The Associated Press, those pesky mavens of truth, sued the Felon 45 / Fraud 47 White House because he insisted they change the name of a body of water. The courts have agreed with The AP. It shall remain The Gulf of Mexico. He is such a putz!

Kids get killed. - Keep our guns! Cops get killed. - Keep our guns! Teachers get killed. - Keep our guns! Public speakers get killed. - Keep our guns! Worshippers get killed. - Keep our guns! Shoppers, party-goers get killed. - Keep our guns! FOR REAL...WHEN DOES IT END!?

Disney/ABC subscription has been cancelled. It might only be $15 a month, but if enough of us do it they will notice. "Like a prize fighter in a corner is told, 'Hit where it hurts...' silver and gold!" (U2) I support the freedom of speech.

The film CAUGHT STEALING is an under-the-radar gem. Somewhere between Guy Ritchie and Quinten Tarrintino sits this underdog hit. Highly recommended, even though they stole 1998 and the car accident from the plot of my novel. 😎

Dear God, Just checking in on your 2025 employee performance review. Yeah, gonna have to give you "Failed to meet expectations". Turns out, you created a lot of stupid people. Signed, Humanity

EVERY single American adult should be forced to watch (that other) Kirk being shot, and then be told, "That is the same way KIDS...CHILDREN have been shot in school countless times - over and over and over again." Maybe then they'll get it.

I am a Steelers fan to the end, but I will laugh if History plays a joke on us by having Jordan Love and the Packers beat Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers in Super Bowl LX.

All-time wins by a Pittsburgh Steelers head coach (to be posted weekly): Chuck Noll - 193 Mike Tomlin - 184 Updated after week one of 2025.

Wait. The White House's "defense" of a birthday card sent to a pedophile is... "That's not his signature"!? They honestly think we're stupid. Someone make this end, please!

Not quite "We Bought a Zoo" and not quite "Dead Poets Society," but the film THE PENGUIN LESSONS is worth watching. Based on actual events, it is funny in an old-fashioned interaction-of-life way, and heartwarming in a simple-yet-relatable way.

I'm stuck in a waiting room with "Live Free or Die Hard" (Bruce Willis and others) on the TV - one of the dumbest things I have ever seen in the history of tough guy eye candy.

Hot take: YouTube has done better with an NFL broadcast from Brazil than Prime did last year from Cleveland.

Who has a new story published in 2025? This old author does! THE HEMLOCK JOURNAL has published my story "The Mule," which was written over a decade ago. (Keep trying, writers!) thehemlockjournal.com You can buy a paper copy through Barnes & Noble, or an E-book copy through apps mentioned within.

When History asks how, "How did America fail?" it will be answered, "Because those in power failed the children." - Cut education budgets - Removed food security - Weakened Youth protection services - Allowed shootings in schools - Protected a known pedophilia network History will shame us.

The only problem with Joan Jett and Billy Idol touring together in 2025 is that they are trying (poorly) to make slick, black leather cool again. That era of fashion died for a reason.

Alaska Summit 2025: Trump: "Will you end the war in Ukraine?" Putin: "No." Trump: "Will you destroy the Epstein evidence?" Putin: "Absolutely, Comrade!" Trump: "Then we have a deal. It's a good deal, the most beautiful deal." End of "Summit"

"Without compassion, there can be no end to hate...Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two-thousand years?" - Billy Joel, 1993

If you like rock-and-roll as much as I do... If you like documentaries as much as I do... If you like Billy Joel's music as much as I do... Then do yourself a favor and watch "And So it Goes" on HBO / Max. It is an excellent recap of his life! After all, "It's still rock-and-roll to me!"

We happened to be at a club where they are having a disco night. I think the kid DJ is confused. He just played "China Grove" (Doobie Brothers) and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Queen). 70s music...yes. Disco? HELL NO. GTFOOH!

It's not weird to dream (in my sleep; not ambition) that I'm a helicopter pilot. The weird part is that my only job in this dream was to shuttle football players who had transferred back and forth between Georgia and Florida. It was a full-time job. I guess it shows that football will resume soon!

I guess I'll just root for the Seattle Mariners for the rest of 2025. As the only MLB franchise to have never appeared in the World Series, it gives me something the Pirates cannot - measurable joy while watching football.

Only the Pittsburgh Pirates could score 9 runs before their opponent even takes a swing...and then lose the game 17-16. Words cannot describe.

The new Superman has been out long enough. Screw spoilers. 1) It does not lack for humor - quite funny. 2) Superman has a dog. Argument over. Supe is the best superhero of them all!

We no longer have a Justice Department. We have a Protect Trump Division of the White House. And Democracy remains on life support.

To those who sat out the 2024 US POTUS election because "Kamala Harris did not have clear support for Palestine." How'd that work out? Palestine is under siege, Felon 45 / Fraud 47 is now Rapist-in-Chief, and Betanyahu is still killing innocent people in Gaza. We might have had peace in that region.

"A man is ruined when the times change but he does not." - David Mitchell, novelist

Rush warned us: "Lessons taught but never learned. All around us anger burns! Guide the future by the past - long ago, the mould was cast. For they marched up to Bastille Day. The guillotine claimed her bloody prize. Hear the echoes of the centuries: 'Power isn't all that money buys'."(Bastille Day)

So...who gets to write the Felon-45 / Fraud-47 biography titled "The Unhinged US President"?

We can expect this outcome: The Epstein file will eventually be released...but with redacted information. It will include more blacked-out bars than any legible text. It will name three or four dead people and claim the rest is being "withheld in the interest of national security." Perps will walk.

In truth, if people were actually "pro-life," we would not have any homeless people in the world.

Sorry, but I will not "pray for Texas." I will hope for the best for the 50,000 people in Kerry County, TX, affected by the flooding. And I will mourn the loss of those who have died. But the other 30 million citizens who allowed Greg Abott to be their governor can pound salt.

Good writing starts by putting interesting characters in a unique situation. (A just-now Kirk thought!)

Let us fear what comes next. The First Amendment reads, "Congress shall make no law..." And soon (I bet) Felon 45 / Fraud 47 will argue, "But it doesn't say a POTUS cannot make a law that allows _______" (fill in a terrible idea)."

In the long run, England may have won the War of 1776.

So the Felon-in-Chief is now wearing - get this; I'm not making this up - a red MAGA-style cap that reads "Gulf of America." He really can go lower...almost every day.

As we witness so-called "leaders" in Congress vote against the interests of the American people, let us recall the words by Neil Peart of Rush: "Power isn't all that money buys."

We like to call ourselves "the greatest nation" on Earth...but we still have men who won't even flush the damn toilet in a public restroom. Okay, 'Murica!

Odd that people who call liberals "snowflakes" are afraid to say "No" to anything that Felon 45 / Fraud 47 demands. So...we "libtards" are emotionally weak but they take a knee to anything he says or does? Sure - got it.

Pirates 9 / Mets 1 Pirates 9 / Mets 2 Pirates 12 / Mets 1 Did not have that on the 2025 Baseball Bingo Card.

Why have the Simpson-family characters never aged? I guess at just under 800 episodes and counting, we could assume that it has been just over two years of their lives...since 1989. 🤔

NICE - Season four of THE BEAR starts out with "That's the Way" by Led Zeppelin.

Update: For those claiming "no lives were lost" in the US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, NBC is reporting...and I sadly quote, "dozens of scientists were incinerated." Let that set in, All Pro-America! Yes. Iran had to be deterred from developing weapons. But by "incinerating" human beings?

Per Reuters News, proof our so-called POTUS is a fucking lunatic: ...Trump raised the idea of regime change in Iran. "It’s not politically correct to use the term, 'Regime Change,' but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!"