Rant #2,742: Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On

Good Morning!
 
It’s Wednesday, September 29, 2021, and we have exactly 93 days before this idiotic, horrid year ends and we move into a hopefully much better 2022.
 
But honestly, it is just another day on the schedule.
 
I have to go to my allergy doctor today for a “consultation,” something they used to do on the same day as the day I got my shots for the month, but now, for whatever reason, they separate the consultation into its own unique day.
 
I look on my Yahoo News feed—the pre-eminent news feed in the world, if you ask me—and I see that right near the top of the feed is the announcement that actress Katharine McPhee has teamed up with a lingerie company to bring the world the perfect bra for women, like herself, who are D cups or bigger.

 
I mean, come on, that is major news, isn’t it? … for both women and men, I guess ,,, and with pictures of McPhee in various stages of undress, I mean, this is REAL news, not fake news for all of us to dive into.
 
Good luck to her new venture, and I hope it busts out all over the place!
 
And what of Brian Laundrie, the “person of interest” in the Gaby Petito case?

 
By now, he is either out of the country or in an alligator’s stomach.
 
Your guess is as good as anybody’s, and is certainly as good as the less-then-Mayberry-like police who are on this case and have pretty much botched the whole thing since day one.
 
Where is Kojak when we need him?
 
All that this case proved is that big city police departments, such as New York City’s men and women in blue, are so much better at their jobs than these small town Podunk police forces.
 
These forces seem to be made up of one Barney Fife after another, but heck, the FBI can’t even find this guy … I think they have to ask Wally Gator what the deal is here at this point in time.
 
And then we have the New York Yankees, currently on a seven-game winning streak, trying to secure a spot in the MLB post season as the top team in the Wild Card race.

 
This is the most befuddling team I have ever seen in any sport, one day looking like world killers and the next day looking like they could not beat a Little League team.
 
They are on a really good streak now, with Giancarlo Stanton’s “homer a day” stance and with Aaron Judge not far behind.
 
The thought went through my head the other day that if the Yankees make the playoffs, win the Wild Card game, and somehow get through the playoffs to the World Series and win it, this will be, absolutely, the most unlikely team ever to win a championship in the team’s long and storied history, a team that was as down and out as possible during some stretches of the season, and very unwatchable at times.
 
But somehow, they grind away, and their remaining five games will be the proof in the pudding if this team is a mirage or the real thing.
 
Who celebrates birthdays today?
 
Actress Greer Garson, who left us in 1996, would have been 117 years old today.
 
Actor, singer and businessman Gene Autry, who passed away in 1998, would have been 114 years old today.
 
More recent births include singer and all-around troublemaker Jerry Lee Lewis, who turns 86 years young today.

 
I guess we can all blow out the candles on their birthday cakes, but there simply isn’t a “Whole Lot of  Shakin’ Going On” today.
 
Is there anything else of consequence happening on this obviously very slow news day?
 
No, not very much at all.
 
Like I said, it is jut another day on the calendar, and with everything going on in this bizarro world, I really hope that it can stay that way, don’t you?