If you are worried about your Kansas City Chiefs, don’t be. A quick scroll of my Facebook feed and it appears that many of my acquaintances have solutions. A realtor from Doniphan County, Kan. had a post that included a comment that they should move training camp to the University of Nebraska. Another post from a pipefitter friend in Andrew County included the suggested retiring of Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, and Andy Reid.
Not sure what the Chiefs are spending on personnel evaluations, but they could save a lot of money by simply logging into my Facebook feed.
Something about age has made me not worry so much about sports teams I cheer for. Been a good run, but I’m not losing any sleep if the championship era of Chiefs football is over for a bit. As a young man, the mood of my week was often dictated by the success of Marty Schottenheimer offenses, I’m built for this era. You can’t depress me with a few dropped passes and a sub .500 record.
As sad as this may be, this is called maturity.
I stumbled on a nice life hack last week. Many of you are probably well ahead of me and if so, just skip over to Foley or Kamler’s column, they’re probably entertaining this week.
Anyway, my wife and I were trying to decipher some medical tests last week. Nowadays, you get the actual test results within your online portal, long before you see a doctor to explain the report. I took a screenshot of CT scan report we were trying to understand and simply posted that in Chat GPT and asked for a layman’s explanation and it spit it out in a few seconds. It was incredible. A full summary of the report in clear terms, from a screenshot, within seconds. Put me down as in favor of all of the data centers we can build at this point, I couldn’t care less if they suck all our water wells dry.
Ok, I’m just kidding about the data centers, but this artificial intelligence stuff is going to rapidly change our world. I mean within the next couple of years or maybe weeks.
The bias of media is well documented at this point, but I get a kick out of the continued wordsmithing that is done on a daily basis. Read an article in a Missouri online newspaper this week that was headlined, “US Supreme Court seems ready to back Trump in case of fired FTC Commissioner.” The rancor just jumps off the screen.
In reality, the US Supreme Court rules on the interpretation of the law and constitution. If they are “backing” anything beyond the law, then they’re not doing their job, yet when the liberal media sees a potential opinion that would benefit the Trump administration or uphold their position, it becomes the “court backing Trump.” If it were the opposite, it would be “Court upholds the law.” The problem is that all sides use the words like water torture on our brains at this point. It’s just a constant barrage of right or left “slant” that is almost unavoidable for any of us.
(Guy Speckman can be reached wordsmithing with his friends about Chiefs Football)
