Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. The on again, off again deal stayed on this time until it went through. Then hours later tweets like this began to appear, denouncing the platform and announcing departures like a commercial airlines flight. I don’t like cancel culture. I don’t like it when conservatives or liberals either one do it. The first time I ate at Chick-fil-A, in the fall of 1990, I didn’t know who owned it nor anything about their family. The politics of the founders had nothing to do with my decision going forward of which chicken restaurant to eat at. Marina Sirtis, Counselor Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation if you don’t know, says she cannot “be a part of anything owned by Elon Musk.” Twitter is a platform we use to reach followers. Leaving a social media platform silencing your own voice, not anyone else’s. Who buys and sells the company is or should be a non-issue, imho. The irony is the reversal that has taken place just in the past 20 or 30 years in our culture. In the late 80’s Clorox pulled their ads from the 30 minute sitcom Cheers. They didn’t want to support (and purchasing commercial time really is support) the attitudes and behaviors prevalent among characters of the show. Similar protests and boycotts happened when The Simpsons premiered. I had an 8th grade teacher that practically ground his teeth while telling us about a Bart Simpson t-shirt he saw that simply said “Underachiever.” We probably all remember the Southern Baptist boycott of Disney in the mid 90’s. Maybe now there is something worth avoiding but it was hard back then for families looking for kid friendly shows and movies to avoid all things Disney across the board. The irony is that today it’s liberals who seek to avoid or silence anyone that doesn’t think, act and speak like they do. The people who used to tell us if it feels good do it and the same people that claim to want the freedom of choice for everyone will turn around and limit your choices if you choose wrongly, by their double standards anyway. Alright, that’s my soapbox for the day. On to other stuff.

I’ve had two McRib sandwiches in the past week as the national rollout date of October 31st approaches. McDonald’s warns that this may be it and the McRib is on it’s farewell tour. The last farewell tour was back in 2005. Better play it safe and get your fill of them while they last. By the way, telling me how much you don’t like them isn’t going to change my opinion in the slightest.

This was last Saturday. If you know what to look for you can find myself, my mother and my wife in that picture. Hunger Walk raises money for food banks in our community. We didn’t do quite as well as last year, I imagine due to the higher cost of things like gas and food affecting the bottom line of those who donate. The need is great, God is good, and we even more thankful for everyone who dug deep and contributed.

Maybe this was more of a Happy Monday image but on a slow news day this makes the cut. While I am generally opposed to animals being forced to wear clothes, this seems just about right. He looks happy enough in uniform, dressed for the occasion of serving and protecting.

Tonka dump truck – I had one when was 3 or 4 that I could put one knee into bed and push with my other foot. I rode that thing around our house like it was a scooter. Just like they used to make cars and trucks out of metal, toys were no different.

Everybody hates Nickelback, until a new album goes on sale. Candy corn is only produced seasonally and if everybody hated it they wouldn’t be able to sell 35 million pounds of it during that season. Click here to watch The History Guy take a deep dive into Circus Peanuts, Licorice sticks and Candy Corn. While I eat all of those candy corn is usually the only one I purchase. That 3 lb. tub I showed last week is nearly gone.

Leslie Jordan, shown above with the cast of Call Me Kat, passed away this week at the age of 67. He may have had a medical emergency which caused the car crash he was involved in. Jerry Lee Lewis, perhaps the original bad boy of Rock ‘N Roll, has passed at the age of 87. And finally Vince Dooley, long time coach and athletic director at the University of Georgia, has passed at 90. He is seen in the pic above on the sidelines of the Georgia-Oragon game just a few weeks ago.