Hysterical Headlines (Funny or Absurd) for January 3rd:
Bottom Line: These are your daily doses of nonsense from the (often GSS) media and my hot takes...
10 positives from the Dolphins' disappointing 6-10 season: Sun-Sentinel
Hot Take: Let's see. A ten-win playoff team from a year ago reverses course and goes 6-10 and you manage to come up with ten positives. That's eternal optimism. Vegas had Miami winning nine games coming into this season so they managed to be three games worse than the already predicted decline.
Here are a few positives that come to mind.
The season's over
The Dolphins are getting a higher draft pick than they'd have netted with nine wins
If you still think Ryan Tannehill is a good quarterback you've got that to look forward to next year (dirty little secret - Jay Cutler's 80 QB rating this season was only 6 points worse than Tannehill's typical year)
What's not to get excited about?
This New Year, Tell Trump: Enough E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Hot Take: Yeah, who wants the best economic growth in twelve years, record high retirement and investment account balances, best employment opportunities in 17 years, biggest raises in eleven years, 4% more money in their pocket from what they earn. It was all so much better before all of that wasn't it?
New Year, same predictable non-sense from those who've been fighting meaningful progress every step of the way. From a psychographic perspective it's fascinating to watch people become increasing hostile as your quality of life improves. It's also pretty disturbing that it's loathed by many politicians on the left and their allies in the media.
Can Hollywood Change Its Ways? Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker
Hot Take: Can Hollywood change its ways? Hmm, let me see. I didn't know it was a prerequisite to sexually harass and abuse people in order to work in the industry...so I'm going to go with yes. On the other hand, if there's doubt about whether it's possible - I'd suggest all with a lack of certainty self-deport to the nearest club where they teach you to not to place your hands in the pants of other people you work with or to threaten the careers of younger professionals unless they comply to your practice of placing your hands and whatever else wherever you want them.
Until tomorrow...