FOOT, SHOT IN THE

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz?  Are you still running for president?  If I were you, I'd bail out now because if you stay in, you might as well go ahead and burn stacks of your own money for what little good staying in the race will do you.

Because you're not going to be getting any of my money anymore.  This kind of crap happens far too often.  Right now, Howie, I'd rather drink a cheap instant than patronize a Starbucks.

THE SADDEST WORDS EVER WRITTEN

Bourbon warehouse still burning.

The Jim Beam bourbon warehouse that started around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday is still burning in Woodford County, according to authorities.

 

After trying to put out the fire throughout Tuesday night into Wednesday afternoon, the Woodford County Fire Department is going to wait to extinguish the fire for a day or two "because of the environmental consideration," said Drew Chandler, Woodford County Emergency Management director. 

 

"There is less environmental impact to allowing the ethanol to continue to burn," he said. "That’s really all that’s left."

YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE

The next time you see any story at all about these people, remember that they were beaten 5-2 by a bunch of 14-year-old boys.

I do think it would be hysterically funny if the Administration announced that the women's team was not going to be invited to the White House but that under-15 boys team was.

WOW

SoCal's getting slammed.

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Southern California on Friday, the day after the most powerful earthquake struck the region in two decades.

 

The earthquake could be felt from Las Vegas to the California coast and people as far away as Phoenix reported feeling the rumblings.

 

The epicenter of the temblor was about 10 miles northeast of Ridgecrest, in the desert, the same area where Thursday's earthquake was recorded. That 6.4 magnitude quake was called the strongest to hit Southern California since 1999, but Friday's quake was more powerful.

DR. SHELDON COOPER, YOU HAVE A CALL ON THE WHITE COURTESY PHONE

What could possibly go wrong?

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.

 

She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel, past a powerful magnet and into an impenetrable wall. If the setup is just right — and if the universe cooperates — some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall. And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.

 

Or destroyed existence as we know it but to-may-to, to-mah-to.

SHOW OF A LIFETIME

If you ever get a chance to see one of these, take it.  If you're not already there, get yourself into the zone of totality wherever you have to go.  The show doesn't last that long but it is one of the most impressive things you will ever witness.

I lived in the zone of totality during the last one.  It started a little after 1:30 in the afternoon on a bright, sunny day.  I didn't try to get a picture of the eclipse itself since I didn't have a good enough camera or the photographic chops to get a good shot even if I had one.

But once the show started, it only took a couple of minutes to turn a sunny afternoon into night.  Literally.  The streetlights all came on and I could actually feel the temperature drop as well.  A few minutes later, it was a bright, sunny Missouri afternoon again.

If I ever get a chance to see another one, I'm there.

SIEG HEIL

Kammi promises to go full-Obama.

 

TEA, HARBOR, DO THE MATH

Some British colonies aren't as...colonial as they used to be.

Any attempts to enforce legislation from Westminster on issues ranging from same-sex marriage to ‘belongership’ and financial services regulation will be strongly resisted, according to leaders of several territories, following talks in Grand Cayman this week.

Despite the disparate concerns of the various territories, leaders from the Falklands to Bermuda were united in their opposition to the UK dictating policy from thousands of miles away.

A UK law seeking to impose public registers of beneficial ownership on Britain’s territories – seen as a threat to the financial services industry – is a key concern for several islands.

“Modern-day colonialism is what is being attempted by those persons is Westminster, and I am certain that all Overseas Territories will resist it vociferously,” Bermuda Premier David Burt said at a press conference following the summit at the Kimpton Seafire Hotel on Wednesday.

Several other leaders expressed similar concerns, and insisted the pressure from the UK on various issues is helping them to forge closer bonds as they seek to resist what they see as constitutional overreach from the mother country.

NO, NOT AGAIN

Having a Darryl Kile flashback here.

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died Monday at the age of 27, stunning Major League Baseball and leading to the postponement of the team's game against the Texas Rangers. Skaggs was with the team in Texas when he was found unresponsive in his hotel room, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the AP reports. Police said they were investigating, but no foul play was suspected. Skaggs, who would have turned 28 on July 13, started the Angels' game Saturday night against the Athletics. He had been a regular in the Angels' starting rotation since late 2016, when he returned from Tommy John surgery. He struggled with injuries repeatedly over the past three seasons but persevered to become a valuable starter in Los Angeles' injury-plagued rotation. He started 15 games, going 7-7.

If past performance is indicative of future results, the Angels season is basically over.

BUSING, KAMMI? REALLY?

Do you really want to run on this?