On My Mind #22: Overdose Deaths Plummeting; "Booty Bumping" on the Rise
Plus, whatever happened to all those pool boys?
Dear Readers,
I’m starting to think I need to be more careful with my weekend posts. Two weeks ago I made fun of Dave Grohl, America’s #1 dad, and two days later he confessed that he’d recently fathered a child with someone other than his wife. Last weekend I broke from our regularly scheduled program to insist that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance must be stopped. Later that afternoon someone was lying in wait to assassinate Trump.
It’s getting downright weird.
But have you heard the latest?
It’s always the tennis coach!! What ever happened to the pool boy?
Also, I like how they put “hot” in scare quotes. Is his hotness a source of some controversy? You be the judge:
I genuinely feel for Grohl’s wife. Page Six. What a nightmare.
Though I also just noticed some of the other headlines over at Page Six: “50 Cent trolls Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs over massive lube stash . . .”
There’s a lot of stupid out there, people.
Speaking of which, while I’ve become so allergic to Trump that I couldn’t watch the debate last week, I was wondering about one thing: Did they even talk about the ongoing overdose crisis?
I combed the transcripts and found that the answer is mainly “no.” Though perhaps they were just anticipating this week’s big news:
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