Sunday Punch

In his op-ed piece today at nypost.com, Kyle Smith had a hilarious response to Ryan Reynolds’ recent white guilt apology for his having married Blake Lively — not on a plantation — but on a field that had once been a plantation: “Bro, be sorry about “Green Lantern,” not your wedding.” Kudos, sir.

The 1619 Project, liberals remaking of American history, will soon be introduced in public education. It states that 1619 — not 1776, when American colonists declared independence from Britain — is actually our nation’s birth year. That was the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in the colonies. I wonder if private schools will follow suit. I hope there will be an uprising against this abomination.

Stop already with the articles on Red Billy de Blasio. It’s a waste of ink and space. Even the left no longer cares about him.

The president’s four end run executive orders around the snail-paced congress gives Dems almost exactly what they wanted. Of course they are outraged. Was it a brilliant political move or will it be quickly forgotten by undecided voters? To those concerned about the debt/deficit, I don’t know what to say other than few in Washington seem to care or worry about it.

Here’s an amusing boys will be boys headline from the sports world: “Fighting is up during unique NHL playoffs with empty arenas.”

The PGA Championship is being played in ‘Frisco, which means pro golf in prime time — yay! Added bonus: since Tiger Woods is out of contention, there will be a minimum of the insufferable fawning and pandering to him.

Marvin Gaye’s magnificent Inner City Blues popped up on one of my homemade CDs as I was driving this morning. Released in 1971, the final track on the What’s Going On album, much of it applies to the current climate, especially: “Crime is increasing/ Trigger happy policing/ Panic is spreading/ God knows where we’re heading.” One point might have made the song a victim of cancel culture today — the lament about taxes — anathema to the left. Is my use of the lyrics cultural appropriation? Too bad.

Not much action at the floating book shop today. My thanks to young Bek, who bought The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Child Needs to Know by E. D. Hirsch, and to the gentleman who purchased Green Day’s Dookie CD and two DVDs; and to the man who settled his tab.

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