A little of this and a little of that

First off, congratulations to England's Prince Harry and his new fiancee, actress Meghan Markle (Suits), who announced their engagement on Monday. Wedding is sometime in the spring, and, oh, the media circus that will follow. Certain disreputable supermarket tabloids have been claiming the engagement/and or nuptials had already taken place as a means of trying to attract readers to their now useless rags, which belong in the fiction section of your local newsstand, not at the front counter, alongside, say for example, Time, which is dealing with its own problems with perception, especially as it relates to a certain deranged lunatic running the country.
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And, as for President Trump, he put his foot in his mouth again Monday. In attendance at an event honoring the Navajo codetalkers of World War II, Trump took the occasion to make a subtle dig at one of his Democratic rivals, Senator Elizabeth Warren. As long as there are cameras present, Trump is going to make a fool of himself, but only he and his brainwashed followers won't see it that way.

Trump is a 70-something man-child who reacts the way a little boy would when things don't go his way, except that little boys, say around kindergarten age, don't know how to use Twitter, and abuse it the way Trump does.

The President railed against the NFL again as well, and his detractors see it as a distraction from the real issues at hand, including the national tax bill, which Trump doesn't know how to address, or care to. Seems to me much of his policy was borne after watching "Wag The Dog" a few times too many.
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Troy High senior tailback Joey Ward's dazzling touchdown run vs. Lancaster made ESPN's SportsCenter Top 10 Plays for Sunday. As Albany Times-Union and Spectrum News high school analyst James Allen tweeted on Sunday, and it was retweeted by Troy High's Twitter account, Ward "spin-dried" four Lancaster defenders en route to the end zone. Watching the game on TV, I'd say this was an accurate description.
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Even though New England & Pittsburgh have matching 9-2 records with 5 games left, the Steelers are the #1 seed in the AFC as of now based on a greater conference record, and the two teams are set to meet next month, which would decide the #1 seed once and for all. Pittsburgh struggled to put away Green Bay on Sunday night, thus making fools out of the oddsmakers who installed AFC North leaders as a 14 point favorite. New England was favored by as much as 16 1/2 vs. Miami, and covered, but they, too, had their struggles, despite the fact that Miami was without starting QB Jay Cutler (concussion).

I still think the Pats should do more to diversify the offense (didn't see the game, as it was not available in the Albany market), rather than cater to Tom Brady's ego and keep the offense based on him. Rex Burkhead, who came over from Cincinnati in the off-season, scored two TD's on Sunday, and between Burkhead and Albany native Dion Lewis, New England does have a good enough running game, but in the mind of CIA wanna-be Bill Belichick, it's an afterthought since he has to pacify his primadonna QB first.
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Time to hand out a belated Dunce Cap, if but because the story was late in reaching the local press.

Joseph Cooper, 30, was arrested not once, but twice on shoplifting charges last week, and on the same day, no less.

You see, Cooper first stole some items at Market 32 (formerly Price Chopper) on Hoosick Road, and was arrested by state troopers, who issued an appearance ticket, charging him not only with petit larceny, but also drug possession, since they found cocaine in his car.

Not to be outdone, the troopers were called later that afternoon to Walmart, further up the road, and Cooper was arrested again. This time, he was sent to the county jail.

Now why would this Dunce let himself get busted twice in the same day? I'd say he may have still been stoned from the cocaine enough to lose sight of the fact that even though he went back to the general area where he was busted the first time, he got nailed again. Probation isn't the answer in this case, but rather a few months in the jail should straighten out his few remaining brain cells.