More Flotsam and Jetsam

More miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Would be interesting to track Jeep sales pre and post Springsteen Super Bowl ad. My instincts say Jeep's sales will be down because personally I know a good number of people who will now never buy a Jeep because of the ad. Go Woke Go Broke is a real thing... Imagine that football fans in Buffalo and other AFC East cities were especially thankful watching the Super Bowl that Tom Brady is now in Tampa Bay instead of on their schedules twice a season... I'm an awful person - if I'm playing cards in a bar with some of my friends who now hate Bruce Springsteen because he's become so preachy and left-wing and I'm losing - I will purposefully throw a few Bruce songs on the jukebox to throw them off their game... If I'm Pat Mahomes I would immediately become a devoted disciple of the TB12 Method. And if I'm the Kansas City Chiefs - I'd pay all expenses for him to do so... I'm also known for putting Richard Harris' MacArthur Park on the jukebox when playing pool to throw my opponent off their game. I'll even yell/sing the lines "Left the cake out in the rain and I'll never have that recipe AGAIIINNN!!" (Seriously not kidding about this)...  

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Net Neutrality defeated at Federal level but court says States free to act on their own.

- Where does Mexico get its guns? Interesting Fox News article seems to give a plausible justification for the Obama Administration's Operation Fast and Furious but also suggesting the border wall could stem the tide of illegal immigrants coming to the US AND illegal guns into Mexico.

- I did not know this.

- Speaking of exercise - How to work out like Tom Brady

- Good question - why hasn't the FDA made Naloxone available over the counter as a measure to help fight the damage cause by fentanyl?

- It's been 2-years since the passing of Tom Petty. Rolling Stone put together a list of what they consider his top 50 songs to mark the anniversary.

- Journal Nature retracts ocean-warming study. Because of bad math. On a related note - Michael Crichton was a very smart man.