The NFL draft is now complete, and we are granted a football break until training camp and if you don’t think the NFL owns the average American’s calendar, you’re not paying attention.
I don’t watch the NFL Draft beyond an occasional look-see. The process strikes me as very odd modern era employment process. At this point, college football players can play wherever they want each year, but NFL players are put up in a draft and have no choice of where they play. Careers and millions of dollars are made and lost just by the luck of the draw on which team selects which player. Seems counter intuitive to a capitalistic and free society, but I’ve probably overthought all this. Football can detach even the most normal of us from reasonable thought moorings.
Remember back when you were worried about what the Trump Administration would do about TikTok? That seems like a day or so ago. I guess we’ve all moved on. Those were the days.
Kudos to the City of Weston. In December they voted to install some Flock cameras to keep you safe and intrusively barge into your life. A social media group cropped up and started to hammer the city on this issue and in April, the Weston Board of Aldermen stopped the installation of the cameras. If you’re a Flock Camera advocate, I’m sure you feel less safe. If you’re against them, like I am, just be brave, we’ll get through this with a bit less safety and bit more freedom. Saving democracy ain’t easy.
According to the Kansas City Star reporting, a new “Plaza of the Northland” is planned near the intersection of Interstate 435 and Highway 152, near Liberty. Gotta say, I live fairly close to this location, and I’d love to tell people I live near the “Plaza North,” with a heavy rich person tone to my delivery. Might even start playing some doubles tennis or squash on the weekends and probably have to start attending soccer matches and drinking whiskey “neat,” just to solidify my “Plaza” lifestyle. I’ve never been good at wearing Lacoste sweaters around my waist, but I can learn. Need some scarves for winter. I’ll check with Foley. Gotta find a used Range Rover for the wife, can’t be driving around in pickups, like country people.
Anyway, this is probably going to change me, plan accordingly.
Honestly, did we ever settle that TikTok issue? I feel like we have a lot of loose ends as a country, can we “tighten our policy” up a bit? I understand that Iran is a threat and all, but could we have some bomb dropping meetings in the mornings and maybe take 30 minutes before lunch and settle our social media policy? I’m not ungrateful. I want the Strait of Hormuz open, but I also want my TikTok algorithm to make me laugh each day as well. I’ll support either party that prioritizes this.
I currently hold one vote in such matters.
(Guy Speckman can be found monitoring the Plaza North development and shopping for hip hugging sweaters)
