Sounds like there’s big trouble a-brewing for Major League Baseball (according to ESPN, anyway, which isn’t always the most reliable source). Supposedly, they’re getting ready to suspend some 20 players foe using banned, performance-enhancing substances. I find it difficult to care, personally, and I figure if people want to shoot up with whatever, well, what do I care? Oh, but what about the children, right? And I guess if it’s against the rules, then it’s against the rules (the rules being those things that you’re allowed to ignore as long as you don’t get caught). But mostly I don’t care.

Sad to hear that Deacon Jones passed away. Most people probably remember him from his guest appearances on shows like The Brady Bunch, The Odd Couple, and Bewitched, but he apparently played a little football, too. Plus he sacked the QB without doing some ridiculous dance.

So apparently, when it comes to being heckled, Michelle Obama don’t take no shit.

Michelle Obama had a rare face-off with a heckler at a Democratic fund-raiser on Tuesday evening before the protesting woman, shouting for gay rights, was escorted out by party supporters.
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But where Mr. Obama, more accustomed to such interruptions, typically waits in place for the protester to stop and perhaps acknowledges the complaint, his wife chose direct confrontation.

She left the lectern and moved toward the heckler. “One of the things I don’t do well is this,” she said, to loud applause. She said the protester could “listen to me, or you can take the mike, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.”

Apparently the heckler – Ellen Sturtz – was rather surprised to get up close and personal with FLOTUS.

Sturtz was stunned by her close encounter with Obama, she later told The Washington Post.
“She came right down in my face,” the heckler said. “I was taken aback.”

Taken aback? She was probably lucky to not have been taken to the Emergency Room.

Have you seen the latest advertising-related controversy? Apparently Swiffer® is in hot water (so to speak) for an ad featuring a woman wearing a do-rag and holding a Swiffer® SteamBoost mop. This is somehow both sexist and seen as crapping on the legacy of Rosie the Riveter.

We have one of those, I think (it something that plugs in to charge, anyway). And I’ve actually used it (mostly I use the Swiffer® wet mop, because it’s easier to figure out. I will admit that my wife uses it more often than I do, though. I’m not sure this is sexist on my part, any more that it’s sexist on my wife’s part to not get on the tractor to cut the grass or used the compressor to put air in her tires. Just kind of a division of labor combined with that thing where whoever has the lowest tolerance for dirt tends to be the one who cleans first.

I think I’m more likely to do the dishes, though (especially since I use far fewer dishes). But that’s only because I like to be able to use the sink (we really need to get a dishwasher – it’s one of the few things I miss from the old house; actually, I miss all the appliances that were basically new when we moved). Oh well.

Oh well, time to get back to work, I guess.