Let’s get some random thoughts out of the way. When is the last time that you heard of a college football or basketball player being academically ineligible to play? Yeah, me too, been a minute. Division I college sports is now just a minor league to the pro leagues. I’m not sure if that should matter, but I think we can stop with the “student” portion of the “student-athlete” talk. It’s an assumption that’s not always true these days.
The funny thing is that college sports has the extremes of “students.” There are players that have never stepped foot in a classroom and then we have more graduate students and advanced degree students than ever before, because they play more than four years these days. Make it all make sense.
General Motors was falling in line with government craziness in 2020 and predicting that over 50% of their vehicles would be battery operated by 2035. Turns out they were all wrong. Turns out consumers like the combustible engines. GM took a $1.6 billion hit this quarter as part of their scale down of the EV crazy thoughts that no one with an ounce of common sense believed. The government and these corporations drank some serious Kool Aid on this matter and it’s another example of how out of touch the business and government had gotten with real people during this time period.
Hang this column on your refrigerator and check on it in 2030. Similar thoughts are going to be prevalent about these data centers that politicians are citing as some sort of economic boom for the area. These data centers will become problem neighbors in record time. They suck down your electricity and water, and they have insatiable demand for more land and utilities as time progresses, and I predict they will be seen as pariahs before it’s all over. Your children and grandchildren will be attending public hearings on what to do about them.
Man, I’m all in my cranky old man takes. Gotta kick out of this.
Probably missed the lede on this column, but pretty impressed with that former McDonald’s worker that brought some peace to the Middle East. Dude was flipping fries just a year ago, took a bullet to the ear and now he’s brokered a peace deal between two groups that have hated each other before they wrote The Bible. That’s quite a career progression. Would look rather good on a LinkedIn page, in my opinion.
This reminds me that I have not had a French fry for years. It makes me sad. I’m allergic to them. They make me fat(er).
I had a “Happy Indigenous Person Day” text this week. I am very confused about Columbus Day. Can we fix this before liberals take back the government?
Is Chris Columbus still bad? I know he got a little lost and maybe didn’t really find this place, but honestly who hasn’t ended up at the wrong place a time or too. Maybe he was a drinker. Anyway, I’m not sure if it is politically acceptable to still give Chris any credit on Columbus Day or if I should be celebrating something else.
Need some government guidance on this ASAP.
(Guy Speckman can be waiting patiently for Columbus Day guidance from the government)
