Welcome to this Sunday’s Third Degree: Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. Today we target: Titles and Tidbits

  • Qualitatively, how well does the voracious and variable news cycle feed the American maw and mind?
  • Do titles (read headlines) and tidbits (brief backstories) titillate and satisfy?
  • Is the need for speed and brevity consistent with the pace of life?
  • Can the Third Degree engage on similar terms with an occasional foray into breaking news? Read on?
  • Washington Cancels Commanders: Washington, ever mindful of this Championship Sunday and “Redskin” heritage, cancelled its interim name and, DEI sensitive to skin color, renamed the team to Black, White, Brown and Yellow Skins? Four Skins for short? Lesson for the whole town?
  • Trump Indicted Again: New York Attorney General Leticia James and Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, joined forces with SNL sexy librarian Margot Robbie to accuse then 13 year old Donald with overdue library book charges, fees, and interest now totaling millions plus class action alleging concomitant, adolescent, bathroom behavior causing lifetime PTSD anguish to librarians everywhere (83% of all librarians are women)?
  • Reaction to Library Charges: “Cooked up by crook and a KKK sympathizer who ought to renounce and change their names– James, related to Jesse, and Bragg, a Confederate General?”
  • Biden New Jewish Policy: Wandering a Deli, munching pastrami and rye, commenting on “Israel’s” war, what prompted his assertion that it is illegal to hate Jews more than they deserve?
  • Sanctuary City Salute: Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson (Swede?) proudly affirmed, by solemn proclamation, Chicago’s unrelenting sanctuary status for illegal aliens of all kinds providing, of course, that they don’t come to Chicago?
  • DC Statehood : Three-time Mayor Muriel Bowser ($250,000/year salary) argues for statehood based on: Out of control crime, failing schools and racism while supporting no filibuster and control of the Senate in perpetuity? Hopes to take Chicago’s place as Orkin’s number one bedbug city in America? Maybe already there?
  • Nudity Now: Scientists report that worldwide clothing industries inject more pollution and CO2 into the atmosphere per annum than all the planes and cars put together and urge no more clothes? Strip down now, save the world, but for starters, can you imagine bowling?
  • Third Degree to End: Won’t 5 1/2 years of Sunday columns be enough already? So, 49 Sundays from today (go Lions), an earned sunset time? Can you expect, however, that we will keep marchin’ ever onward to new horizons of books, videos, podcasts and live appearances, notionally titled “Generally Speaking”? Now that’s Breaking News?

Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living. The actions and answers are yours.