Rant #2,071: Think

Just some random thoughts today, since it is a Friday and I feel all burnt out at this time during the week ...

Reba McEntire is the new Colonel Sanders in the Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials ... 

Is this just a fun takeoff on the Colonel, who has been portrayed by male-only comics, wrestlers and others, or is KFC making a political statement about acceptance?

I think it is the former, but if it is the latter, I wonder why the company feels it has to do this?

Larry Nassar given many lifetimes behind bars for his heinous acts against young female gymnasts ...

In my opinion, he actually got off pretty lightly, but aren't the parents of these girls also culpable in sort of a third-person way, because they allowed their children to go in alone with this monster?

I think that they are. Nassar created a level of trust, but do you ever let your female child go in with a male doctor without a female nurse, especially after some of the girls actually told their parents of the abuse and were not believed?

The "Horror House" couple banned from having any contact with their 13 children ...

Yes, they have to stay away from them, but they can talk to them through their lawyers, and yes, although we do believe in innocence before guilt, should even this little window of contact be afforded to these alleged monsters?

I think that the gruesome duo does not deserve any contact with their kids ever again. Period.

The poster boys for steroid use in Major League Baseball continue to be a ways away from getting into the Hall of Fame ...

I guess that is a good thing, but will Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens ever get into the Hall of Fame, and do they, in fact, deserve to be enshrined?

Yes to both questions, as you cannot deny their dominance during their playing careers, which was there before the steroid use, and based on their percentages creeping up every year, they will get in, whether purists like it or not.

Record number of flu cases reported this year ...

Does that mean that the warnings that we must take the flu shot really didn't work?

No, I think it just means that the strain of flu we are dealing with this time around is more virulent, and the current flu shot is pretty much worthless against it.

The time has come to end today's Rant ...

I tried something a little different today, just to mix things up a bit, and I am wondering if you liked this change of pace?

I certainly did, and that is why I tried it, and I hope you agree.

That being said ...

Can you have a good weekend, and can you wait until I speak to you again on Monday?

I sure hope so.