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• The Denver Broncos mocked Taylor Swift's affair with Travis Kelce after defeating Kansas City at home Sunday by playing her hit Shake It Off on the loudspeaker after the game. This fairy tale is getting old real fast. Travis Kelce wears uniform number 87 because he's Taylor Swift's 87th boyfriend.
• The White House voiced its disapproval Monday of the GOP House Speaker's plan to split the spending bills for military aid to Israel and to Ukraine so that the House will be voting separately for them. Concern is growing. The body count in Gaza and Ukraine is now approaching U.S. daily totals.
• The Doomsday Clock was moved up one hundred seconds this week to ninety seconds before midnight, the closest it's ever been to Armageddon. However there was some good news. President Biden promised that any Americans who die during World War III will have their student loans forgiven.
• The World Bank warned that oil prices could be headed much higher if the Israeli-Hamas war spreads further into the Middle East. I can only think of one silver lining to this cloud over our heads. Thankfully gas prices can never go above $9.99 a gallon because most of the signs only have three digits.
• Portugal enacted a law allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill and for seriously injured people. In this country, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans do not have a constitutional right to die. Obviously they've never watched a sketch on Saturday Night Live.
• President Biden issued an executive order seeking to reduce consumer risks in use of Artificial Intelligence. Biden said his order will keep AI algorithms in line with diversity equity and inclusion. On the day the machines rise and attack mankind, Joe doesn't want them prosecuted for looting Target
• The UAW strike ended against the Big 3 automakers Monday with a final deal in place. There is much union concern about fewer workers needed to make electric cars. While jogging on Sunset last week I got hit by a sub-compact electric Smart Car, and I had to go to the hospital to get it removed.
• Pew Research says Generation Z sees the world differently than millenials, Gen X or Boomers do. They have their concerns. My neighbor here in L.A. is 24 years old, and she told me she's worried that she only has two years left to be on her mom's health insurance, then she has to get another mother.
• The L.A. Dodgers are involved in a discrimination suit after two flight attendants sued United Airlines for staffing the team's charter flights with only blue-eyed blondes at the team's request. It's a reminder that Jackie Robinson Day is April 15th. The rest of the days are Scarlett Johansson Day.
• Anheuser-Busch announced marketing plans to win back customers they lost in the transgender endorsement debacle and will sponsor the UFC. Let me get this straight. In order to shed the beer's gay image, Bud Light is going to sponsor a sport where men wrestle each other on the floor wearing leotards.
• Vanity Fair says the hot jewelry for young women in New York is the Mood Ring, a craze back in the '70s. It's changed a little. When a girl meets you, if her ring turns red, it means she's attracted to you, if it's yellow it means she wants to sell you crypto and if it's orange it means you've been indicted.
• Fox News reported the Middle East teetered on the brink of an all-out regional war as Israeli troops moved into Gaza hunting for Hamas terrorists over the weekend. The night of the invasion, all cell phone coverage went completely dark in Gaza. So it's official, Cricket Wireless got the contract.
• The Daily Mail reported the Mideast crisis cascaded into regional tensions between Arabs and Israel. Turkish President Erdogan shook up the NATO alliance by threatening to go to war on Israel. President Biden is so mad at Turkey, there will be no pardons for Gobbler or Biscuits this Thanksgiving.
• The Weather Channel reports that the west coast of Mexico along with California will soon be assaulted by the every-nine-year El Nino winter weather condition. It's a cold, windy heavy rainy season. Just last week Hurricane Otis hit Mexico so hard it blew millions of Mexicans back into Mexico.
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