Just Asking

Growing up, if I asked my old man a question, he’d tell me to look it up myself, the theory being one learns more by putting some effort into the quest for answers.

But the old man is gone and I’ve become a lazy, old man. So, allow me to share some questions on my mind, not that I’m pursuing answers or anything like that.

Now that Caitlin Clark is sidelined with injury, does the WNBA season get put on hold until she returns?

Did you read that ticket prices for upcoming games of her overhyped Indiana Fever team are trading at prices 71 percent less expensive than they were before her injury?

Talk about shooting down conventional wisdom, even as President Trump goes hard on illegal immigration and with a presumed emphasis on Hispanic offenders, would you believe that a poll by Insider Advantage shows Trump’s job approval rating is near 60 percent – AMONG HISPANICS?

Would you agree that we need some more Hispanic lawmakers, particularly in the Senate, considering so many white male RINOS (Republicans In Name Only) are intent on voting against Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”?

Are you buying the explanation that French president Emmanuel Macron’s wife hitting him in the face as plane doors opened was just playful interplay between a man and his wife, who is 24 years older than he is and, a former teacher of his?

Did you hear that a lip reader, as quoted by the New York Post, says the wife told Macron as she refused his arm, “Stay away, you loser”?

Did she not have wooden ruler with her to use on his knuckles?

Does anyone else recall gymnastics star Mary Lou Retton wanting a red Corvette after taking gold at the 1984 Olympics and being presented one?

And does anyone remember being a bit surprised to learn back then that Retton already had a Porsche?

Could it be that’s the same Porsche Retton was driving earlier this month when she was stopped for erratic driving and issued a DUI charge?

Should Pirates fans take solace from the reality that their team, currently 20-36 and last in the NL Central, is not nearly as putrid as the Colorado Rockies, now 9-46 and on an historic pace in terms of MLB futility?

Anyone else wondering when James Comey again will walk on the beach and just happen upon messages left for him using seashells?