Rant #1,882: Nothing From Nothing

Today is April 13, the 103rd day of the year.

It is also Holy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, leading up to Easter Sunday this weekend.

Yes, and I will see you tomorrow, same Bat Place, same Bat Time.

Sometimes, I wake up in the morning and know exactly what I am going to write about.

Other times, as I am eating my breakfast, I formulate my writing plan, and figure out exactly what I am going to Rant about for the day.

Other days, I am at a real loss to talk about anything, and today is one of those days.

There are things to talk about, but nothing in great length.

That passenger on the United Airlines plane who was dragged off the plane because he would not give up this seat ... typical Internet hysteria reporting about half the story.

The doctor--who was suspended for several years for inappropriate conduct--evidently did cause a ruckus on the plane he was asked to get off of, and yes, those dragging him off the plane used a bit too much force, but again, his behavior was holding up the flight of dozens of people.

He is being portrayed as a victim, because a cellphone video showed him being brutalized. Yet the back story, which the Internet has been slow to report, shows that this guy has had issues in the past, and was not being cooperative in this case ... so who is the real victim here?

And then we have White House Spokesman Sean Spicer, who had trouble comparing Syrian leader Assad and Adolph Hitler because "Hitler didn't use chemical weapons against his own people."

I guess he doesn't consider the gas chambers used during the Holocaust as "chemical weapons being used against his own people."

Sure, it reflects poorly on our President, and sure, others will pick up on it as revisionist history, as sort of a Holocaust denial.

If I were Spicer, I would resign. Yes, he did say a really stupid thing, and yes, he offended lots of people.

What else is going on in this wild world we live in?

The NBA season mercifully ended for the two New York basketball teams yesterday night, the Knicks actually pulling off a win and the Nets not fielding their full team and thus, the loss that they achieved was inevitable.

Combine the two teams together, and they have less total wins than a few NBA teams had on their own.

The Knicks and Nets are, currently, bottom-feeder franchises, and it was difficult to watch the two play out their games this season, a season that couldn't end quick enough for either team.

Now that that is over, my attention turns to baseball, and all I can say is "Here Comes the Judge."

Yankee rookie outfielder Aaron Judge has picked up the slack caused by the injuries to other players on the team and led the Bronx Bombers to another home victory yesterday.

Right now, Judge looks like the real deal, a 6 foot 7 inch belter that has the world at his fingertips.

The funny thing is that this player was a questionable major leaguer during spring training, changed many minds with a fine spring, and it now has carried over to the early regular season.

Can he keep it going? Only time will tell.

There, I have written about a couple of subject in a column that I had previously no idea how to handle.

That also happens sometimes, you just put fingers to the keyboards and somehow, before you know it, you are on your way ... sort of a train of thought column, just typing whatever is coming out of my head, truly off the top writing.

Heck, maybe it is even stream of consciousness writing, I simply don't know.

See you tomorrow, hopefully with a better game plan than I had today.