A little of this and a little of that

 You've seen the promos prior to the Olympics with actor Terry Crews, fresh from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, touting himself as an Olympic Superfan. While NBC commentators are working remotely while the action takes place in Beijing, China, giving new meaning to the phrase, "plausibly live", another celebrity fan has some heat with NBC.

Leslie Jones, while on Saturday Night Live, was employed as a special commentator at a couple of Olympiads for the network, and is live-tweeting the current Games. For now. Jones, currently hosting Supermarket Sweep for ABC, has said she may end the live-tweets because NBC doesn't want her using their videos without their permission. Well, that's understandable.

File photo courtesy of Yahoo!.

Maybe they should've signed her to reprise her previous Olympic gig, and then, there wouldn't be any drama.

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It wasn't enough that the AFC got the better of the NFC in the Pro Bowl----again----on Sunday, winning, 41-35 and fending off a late NFC surge, but now one of the NFC's top runners got an unexpected escort out of Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. 

New Orleans running back Alvin Kamara was arrested after the game, and charged with battery. I didn't read all the details, but it sounds like a domestic abuse case. Just the last thing the NFL needs right now.

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If you're a GOPer being investigated on an assortment of charges, the last thing you want to do is add more gasoline to the fire by either giving interviews where you are angling for sympathy points from your brainwashed base or appearing at campaign rallies absent of any semblance of reality by spewing the same garbage that got you in trouble in the first place.

This applies to the following:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Florida Misrepresentative Matt Gaetz.

Disgraced former mayor, soon-to-be-disbarred lawyer, and national embarrassment Rudy Goofiani.

Citizen Pampers and his sons, Dumb Donald II & Stupid-E.

Disgraced ambulance chasers Silly Sidney Powell and Looney Lin Woodchips.

STFU and go away!

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When I was attending a private Christian academy in town between 1977-9, the church had no problem accepting some books I had to part with due to my family moving to the ginormous spread I still live in. This included biographies on Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Paul Jones, and a generous collection of Hardy Boys novels, plus 2 volumes of a Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia set my mom acquired from A & P back in the day, but never finished.

Tame stuff compared to the fiction being destroyed by a crackpot pastor in Tennessee.

Greg Locke organized a bonfire in which copies of the Twilight and Harry Potter series of novels were destroyed, all because of the arcane, dark themes depicted in the books. Both series spawned movies, of course, earning pop culture icon status.

But where Locke falls off the rails is in claiming that the spells created by Potter's creator, J. K. Rowling, are real. No, they're not, dumbass. 

Locke fabricated the claim about the spells to scare people into giving up the books. This guy is so out of touch, he'd even burn copies of Scooby-Doo comic books to make his point, and probably did.

I wonder if his church is in the jurisdiction of a certain mayor in Tennessee who'd like to debate some of the points.........!