I’m sorry to report the passing of Tommy Smothers. He was a funny man and made me laugh whenever I caught one of his performances. What higher compliment can there be for a comedian?

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Ha, ha, Lauren Boebert is leaving Colorado’s 3rd district to try a run in Colorado’s 4th district. Does she think the good people of Colorado haven’t been following her antics outside of the 3rd? She knows she doesn’t have much of a shot in the 3rd. Apparently, the hand job in the theater full of kids didn’t go over too well with her constituents. They didn’t mind the fascism or hateful, anti-American rhetoric, but the handy was a bridge too far. Maybe the cons in the 4th district will be more forgiving. I hope not…

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Stinky Don? I’m hearing it a LOT these days. A lot of people are saying it. Smart people, very fine people. A lot of people have been coming up to me, big people, brave people, with tears in their eyes and saying “That guy stinks” or “Can you believe the smell coming from that guy?” It’s no wonder there are tears in their eyes. Some say it’s just a disgusting body odor he tries to cover up with colognes. Some say he wears diapers because he just craps where he is – and then wanders around with a full diaper.

It’s been said that Donny eats McDonald’s so much because he’s afraid he might get poisoned. He is known to prefer the little, single-serving bottles of ketchup, likely for the same reason. Maybe the guy doesn’t shower because he’s afraid somebody can do something to harm him while he’s in there. It also seems likely that a guy with a diet of Big Macs (or whatever) over the course of 70+ years is just going to stink, sweatin’ out that lard. (Donny, have a salad.)

There’s a guy who put out a TikTok video that claimed he saw Donny get kicked out of a restaurant in the 1980’s because he stank so badly. He said the people at the tables closest to Donny just couldn’t stand the smell and complained, so the manager had no choice but to ask Donny to leave. That suggests the stench has been following him around for 40 years or so. Yuck!

A former staffer on ‘The Apprentice,’ Noel Casler, said Donny has lost all bowel control from doing too much speed, Adderall, and cocaine through the years. He said they had a guy on set who had the horrifying job of helping clean Donald up whenever he soiled himself, which happened often. Often enough, in fact, they nicknamed that poor staffer, “Wet Wipes.”

There’s a video out there, somewhere, of people smiling at Donny until he turns away, then rushing away from him or holding their noses or otherwise registering their disgust. The Republican Lincoln Project has a new ad out called “Limburger” that plays up the whole Stinky Donald angle. It’s said that Henry VIII of England smelled so badly one could know the king was on his way even before they saw him because the smell preceded him. Maybe Stinky Donald is trying to out-do Henry VIII. (He does keep churning wives, too…)

To me, the funniest part of the whole kerfuffle is that Donny’s team felt the need to respond to the charge. I mean, it could be that the whole thing is just the left having a little fun at Donny’s personal hygiene expense but old dependable just couldn’t let it go. He’s VERY thin-skinned. He had to respond. The thing is, in his response, nobody tried to deny that he stinks. It was more of a “Donny’s not the only person who smells” response. Classic Donny because it was a pathetically stupid move.

#TrumpSmells

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Amazon Prime is going to start including “limited advertisements” in it’s video service unless you pay an additional fee. According to MY mind and way of thinking, if I pay for a subscription service, it should NOT have ads. That’s what the subscription is for. If I have to put up with ads, why pay for the subscription? Bezos is double-dipping. Do you suppose he’s short on money? Nah, just greedy…

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I’ll tell you what, I like Brock Purdy, now, more than I did before the Monday night debacle. No, not the interceptions. I like the after-game attitude. He came out to the inevitable after-game press conference and said, “I have to look myself in the mirror and ask myself why or how that happened and why I made those decisions. And so, our team came ready to play, and for me to make some decisions like that, it pains me, and it’s not fair to these guys. So I have to realize that and understand that, and I have to get better for my team.”

That’s what he’s supposed to say, but sometimes, guys don’t. And he certainly didn’t have to. Purdy gets saddled with five interceptions in that game. Five. But OF the five, there was exactly ONE that was a bad throw from the Quarterback to a defender. On three of those plays, Purdy hit the receiver he meant to hit right where he meant to hit him, only to see the ball fall from their hands. Normally, the ball just falls to the turf, the refs pick it up, and they get back to the game. There were a couple of those, too. But the picks? The missed pass didn’t fall down, it bounced up. Defenses love that. They learn to try to capitalize on it. They practice it. The Ravens are a very good team that does capitalize on opponent’s errors. And so they did. But a popped up pass that hit the correct receiver – who failed to catch it – isn’t the QB’s fault in my book.

The last interception? Someone hit Purdy’s arm as he threw the ball, causing the pass to go somewhere other than where it had been intended. Not Purdy’s fault. But Purdy didn’t point fingers. He just said he has to do better. Classy guy. STILL a very good Quarterback.

I suspect these two teams will meet again. I suspect the game will be different. I don’t know the outcome, of course, but the Niners are a better team than they showed on Christmas and these collapses don’t happen to good teams often. Niners lost their cushion in the race for the first seed but other than that, their position remains the same. Let’s go, Niners!