Day: March 31, 2016

I’m starting to feel for Trump a little. Not a lot, mind you. I don’t want the man to be president, but I have noticed that media coverage of him has shifted to a really negative cycle now that his campaign manager is accused of roughing up a reporter. Lets be clear: The man relegates campaign press to a caged bullpen during rallies. His distaste for the press is clear. That being said, it is interesting that the negative cycle was only triggered by the abuse story. Here’s the worst part:

I’m on his side here.

Hear me out. I saw the footage and recognize the coming lawsuit and criminal charges as frivolous. Yet everyone is demanding the dude be fired. Why? This is behavior in line with his role and responsibility. Trump cannot and will not cave to the media pressure on this one and it will make him a stronger candidate. I will say this: I’d rather Trump be my president than Cruz.

 

Some Thoughts:

1. Some of the best basketball in the history of the sport is being played over in the Western Conference of the NBA. The Warriors are on pace the break the 72-win mark set by the Jordan and Pippen lead Bulls oh so long ago (95-96). The Spurs have already set the home win streak record at 38-0 and have a legit chance to win the last three to have a perfect home season. It isn’t like everyone else in the league sucks. I mean the Knicks always suck and the Lakers are terrible, but there seems to be a level of parity everywhere else in the league. This is a big accomplishment.
2. Speaking of the Lakers, as Kobe makes his farewell tour the Lake show seems to be on the verge of absolute implosion. Check this figure: It is possible that both the Spurs and the Warriors will have fewer losses than the Lakers have wins. The Spurs have 12 losses. The Warriors have 7 losses. The Lakers have 15 wins. At least Kobe is having fun on his farewell tour. Last night Dwayne Wade crashed Kobe’s press conference just for giggles and a public goodbye.
3. Rhonda Rousey is done. She is done the way Tyson was done after the surprise Buster Douglas loss. Her confidence is broken and her desire–her heart–seems out of it now.

Couple of things to say tonight so I will run them down:

1. Blog and wine is merely perfection. Or per-fiction as the wine goes. The hard to get red blend is magical.
2. Saw Batman v. Superman again and enjoyed it more the second time around. First view is the fanboy viewing and as a fanboy I was disappointed. I wanted a great many things to happen that did not. As an educator I found that there is a lot of great material in the script, though I felt that it was very much paint-by-numbers. The film painstakingly pointed out all of the deeper context stuff we arrived that on our own.
3. I still have very little hope for the large crossover movies as they pertain to DC. Marvel will get it going again, but DC is too damn introspective to make it work all of the time.
4. Three minutes left to blog and I’m low on words and consciousness. Yet another one of those nights where I don’t seem to have enough left in the tank to make a valuable contribution.
5. Going back to the movie, I felt Affleck did a better job as Wayne than the Bat. He was better than Clooney at least. I’m okay with him filling out the suit moving forward, but if I don’t get me some Robin imma snap.