Who’s the S—hole Country Now?

Posted on January 21, 2026 by bpriddy

It’s good to see ourselves through other eyes sometimes.

Newsweek reported a few days ago about a Norwegian’s response to President Trump’s plea for more immigrants from Scandinavia instead of so many from “s—hole countries” such as Somalia, his country of choice for his latest profanity-laced bowl of white supremacist sludge.

The response from Chris Lund, a Norwegian vocalist, has gone viral. We think he has some interesting points, namely that the Scandinavian countries are far superior to ours, especially Trump’s version of ours that Lund finds crude, cruel, and lacking civilized values.

One of the many puzzling things about Trump’s plea for more Scandinavians is that they come from a system he loves to pummel as socialism. But to hear Lund describe it, there are many things there more attractive there than here.

—once you get beyond the cold, dark winters.

Trump spoke last month (December 9) at Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania where he brought out his tired whine that the best people are not coming to the United States (the best people have NEVER flocked to the United States; they had and have good lives in the Old County). He appears to think his musings are humorous: “Why it is we only take people from s***hole countries…Why can’t we have some people form Norway, Sweden, just a few? Let’s have a few from Denmark…Do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. Do you mind? But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting,”

Lund told Newsweek he spoke out because of the “recurring irony of being told America is the ‘land of opportunity’ by someone who doesn’t seem to realize that, for Norwegians, moving there is a massive downgrade….When you compare five weeks of vacation and a year of maternity leave to the American system, the offer is a joke. I’m not trying to be mean. I’m just looking at the benefits package.”

On December 12, Lund took to his Threads account, @chrislundartist, where he wrote in a now-viral post: “Trump said he wants more immigrants from Norway. I have reviewed the offer, and I have to decline. The benefits package is terrible. You offer two weeks of vacation if we are lucky; we get five. Your maternity leave is ‘good luck,’ while we get a year. Your healthcare plan is GoFundMe, while ours is free. And your safety plan is just ‘thoughts and prayers.’ Moving to the US right now feels like leaving a spa to go work in a burning hot dog stand. Thanks, but we will stay in the snow.”

The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority says all employees are entitled to at least 25 working days of holiday each year, and employers are duty-bound to make sure each employee uses all of their holiday allowance. The maternal leave policy there entitles new parents to a total of twelve months—or as much as three years if the parents go back part-time. The Commonwealth Fund says the country offers universal health coverage that is paid for by automatic taxes and payroll contributions.

Lund told Newsweek he has visited the States, and once thought of moving here. here. But now?

“The U.S. looks less like a dream destination and more like a cautionary tale. I’ve realized I much prefer free healthcare and a life that doesn’t revolve entirely around surviving the latest political crisis.”

Some accuse him of being “obsessed” with the United States. Not obsessed, he says, just observant. “The truth is, what happens in America affects everyone. A lot of Americans don’t seem to understand the impact their country has on the rest of the world. Your economy and your politics vibrate across the globe, so we have to pay attention.”

He suggests President Trump should be worried about what would happen if people from Norway moved here in big numbers. “If we actually moved to the U.S. and started voting, we most certainly wouldn’t be voting for him. We’d be voting for the very things he calls ‘socialism.’”

Photo Credit: Lund–//www.viberate.com/

Sports : A Glass Slipper With Spikes; A Shadow Over the Baseball Season; Tigers split two; Cardinals Move Beyond Arenado; Portal Update

Posted on January 20, 2026 by bpriddy

By Bob Priddy, Missourinet Contributing Editor

(MEAVIS)—Former Missouri Tiger place kicker Harrison Mevis is living kind of a Cinderella story with the Los Angeles Rams, kicking the Rams to one game away from the Super Bowl.

A year ago he was preparing for the United Football League season with the Birmingham Stallions after signing as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers for the 2024 season and being waived. He hit 20 of 21 field goals for the Stallions, a performance that drew the attention of the New York Jets who put him on the practice squad before cutting him loose in September. Two months later he signed with the Los Angeles Rams and was activated from the practice squad two weeks after that to replace, for one game, the Rams’ regular kicker, Joshua Karty after Karty missed an extra point and a field goal. He hit all six of his extra points and all three of his field goals and joined the fulltime squad two weeks later.

Jan 18, 2026; Chicago, IL, USA; Los Angeles Rams placekicker Harrison Mevis (92) kicks the game-winning forty-two yard field goal held by punter Ethan Evans (42) against the Chicago Bears during overtime of an NFC Divisional Round game at Soldier Field. Matt Marton-Imagn Images

In the regular season, Mevis was perfect on 39 extra points and nailed 12 of 13 field goals. He was perfect against the Bears on Sunday with two extra points and two field goals including the walk-off winner from 42 yards out to end the game in overtime, 20-17, Rams.

The Rams play the Seahawks next weekend for the NFC championship with the winner headed to the Super Bowl two weeks later.

CHIEFS)—The Kansas City Chiefs reportedly want to bring back he guy who was known for his creative offensive approach–Eric Bienemy, now he running backs coach for the Chicago Bears. Kansas City has asked permission to talk to him about replacing Steve Nagy. He was the OC for Kansas City for five years before moving on after the 2022 season.

Re-sculpting of the Chief roster has begun by saying goodbye to seven members of the practice squad whose contracts have not been renewed. The biggest name was Clyde Edwards-Hillaire who came to the Chiefs in 2020 and was impressive. In his first 33 games, he averaged 4.5 yards per carry. But injuries and other health issues including PTSD limited his role and he wound up on the practice squad, and now has been released. Others cut loose are offensive guard Nick Broeker and wide receiver Jason Brownlee, who were called up to fill roster gaps this year but didn’t make much of an impression. Also gone are defensive end Malik Herring, tackle Marlon Tuipulotu, tight end Tre Watson, and fullback Carson Steele.

The Chiefs on-roster running back situation is changing, too, with Isiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt entering free agency. Last year, the Chiefs averaged just 106.6 yards rushing per game, which—coupled with a porous offensive line, made things harder for Parick Mahomes and he passing game.

(MIZPORT)—Calum McAndrew at the Columbia Daily Tribune has done a fine job keeping track of who’s coming and who’s going and who is homeless in the college football portal scramble.

Here’s his list of additions since we filed our sports reports last week:

Naeshaun Montgomery, wide receiver, Florida (Jan. 10)
Jaden Jones, defensive end, Florida State (Jan. 10)
Donta Sampson, defensive tackle, Miami (Jan. 11)
Brunno Reus, punter/kicker, Florida State (Jan. 12)
Cavan Tuley, defensive end, Houston (Jan. 12)
Nick Evers, quarterback, UConn (Jan. 13)
Elijah Dotson, cornerback, Michigan (Jan. 13)
Sione Laulea, cornerback, Oregon (Jan. 14)
Va’aimalae Fonoti III, running back, Montana (Jan. 16)
Kenric Lanier II, wide receiver, Minnesota (Jan. 16)
Colin Sorensen, offensive lineman, Charleston Southern (Jan. 16)
Mark Shenouda, punter, Tennessee State (Jan. 16)
CJ May, defensive end, Louisville (Jan. 16)

Those who’ve decided to seek greener artificial term since our last posting.

Beau Pribula, graduate, quarterback (Virginia, Jan. 12)
Jaylen Early, redshirt senior, offensive lineman (Jaylen Early, Jan. 11)
Nate Johnson, senior, defensive end (Auburn, Jan. 10)
Justin Bodford, redshirt sophomore, defensive tackle (Middle Tennessee State, Jan. 15)
Daniel Blood, senior, wide receiver (Washington State, Jan. 10)

Some guys couldn’t find something better.

Brandon Solis, redshirt junior, offensive lineman (NA)
Robert Meyer, sophomore, kicker (NA)
Ryder Goodwin, redshirt junior, kicker (NA)
Tavorus Jones, redshirt senior, running back (NA)
Shamar McNeil, redshirt junior, cornerback (NA)
Damon Wilson II, senior, defensive end (NA)
Dakotah Terrell, redshirt freshman, tight end (NA)
Mose Phillips III, senior, safety (NA)

(MIZZBB)—The Tigers split a pair last week with a distressing loss to LSU on Saturday in which they once again let the game get away from them in the opening minutes and never got it back. LSU outscored Missouri 10-0 in the opening minutes…and won by ten.

Against Auburn at home, the Tigers went down by seven in the first half before T.O. Barrett’s basket put Missouri in front and they stayed there. In Baton Rouge, LSU let the Tigers get close in the second half but always got a stop when they needed it—which Missouri didn’t do. It was LSU’s first conference win.

Missouri came into this week 3-2 in the conference. The Tigers face Georgia tonight in Columbia.

(The Baseball)—It might seem premature to be thinking of the end of the 2026 baseball season three weeks before pitchers and catchers report for spring training. But there is a shadow over this season. This year is the last year of the collective bargaining agreement with players and concerns are growing about how smaller market teams such as those in St. Louis and Kansas City can remain competitive, especially financially, with the New Yorks and Los Angeleses.

Derrick Goold of the Post-Dispatch says the DeWitts, father and son, think upcoming negotiations could be the most “significant of this era” particularly because of the financial disparities that have grown in the last year.

Goold observes that four of the most prominent free agents have signed deals worth at least $100 million this winter all of them have signed with the major market teams. The DeWitts point to the seemingly bottomless checking account of the Dodgers, who signed Kyle Tucker for four years and $240 million. The Dodgers now have eight nine-figure player contracts. Goold counts only here such contracts in the entire history of the Redbirds.

The players union is unlikely to agree to any kind of a salary cap. Bill DeWitt Jr., promised, “We’ll do the best we can in terms of being competitive.”

We’re still waiting for either of our teams to bust loose with a big free agent signing. The Cardinals have finally ended the painful dragged-out departure of Nolan Arenado, who hopes to find renewal in the twilight years of his career with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

(CARDINALS)===Whether the Cardinals got any kind of return (they also sent $31 million of Arenado’s remaining $42 million contract to Arizona) for Arenado appears to be some distance away. They get Jack Martinez in return. He was an eighth round 2025 draft pick from Arizona State. He’s a righty with a 92-94 mph fastball and an above average changeup and a below-average slider. He has yet to make his professional debut but he fits in with the Cardinals focus on developing young players. In his last college season, he made fifteen starts and fanned 110 batters in 77.1 innings but he had a 5.47 ERA.

The Cardinals signed ten free agents to minor league contracts in the last week or so.

(ROYALS)—The Kansas City Royals want more home runs this year and they might get them by moving the outfield walls in by eight to ten feet at the foul poles. Center field will still be 410 feet away but they’re cutting 18 inches off of the ten-foot high wall. The changes also expand seating. There will be 150 more fans in left field waiting to catch homers and about eight new drink rail seats in right.

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The Royals have signed a dozen free agents to minor league deals. They’ve also signed an intriguing kid shortstop named Jaider Suarez, the 22^nd ranked prospect by MLB’s Pipeline. He’s an international free agent that the Pipeline says “has the physical look of a potential impact talent.” He was 13 in 2023 when he hit .355 and walked twice as often as he struck out in Cuba’s U15 National League.

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Rolling along—

(INDYCAR)—The knights of speed have a real knight in their midst now. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has knighted Dixon “for services to motorsport.” Luxon described him as “a hero to young New Zealand motorsports fans and his work fundraising for children’s charities is invaluable.” Dixon is a six-time IndyCar champion with 59 victories—one of which is the Indianapolis 500. He’s 45 now, moving toward senior citizen status in a sport filled with a lot of 20and 30 years olds. Dixon finished third in the points standings last year and remains Ganassi Racing’s top driver.

(NASCAR)—NASCAR is ditching its widely criticized playoff system and returning to the Chase format. Gone is the “win and you’re in” system that let drivers who finish far down in the standings replace driver who had much better years in the playoffs because the lower-runners managed to win a race. Joey Logano is the poster child for that issue, taking the title in 2024 although he had an average finish of 17.1 and finished the regular season 15^th in points would not have made the then twelve-driver championship field if another driver had not been disqualified in the last regular-season race. Logano had won one race that year and went on to become champion when he won the last race of the season.

The new format eliminates eliminations. Sixteen drivers will compete. There will be no elimination rounds and the champion will be crowned from within that ten-driver field on a points basis, not on the basis of which of four final competitors finishes highest in the last race.

(Photo credits: Mevis—Field Level Media)

Notes from the Minnesota War Zone II

Posted on January 19, 2026 by bpriddy

A warning—do not rise to the bait. Unfortunately, a lot of people didn’t get the memo. They sent their own message.

This memo was sent to at least some state employees and people at the University of Minnesota last Thursday.

The Cedar Riverside area of Minneapolis is described as a historic “point of entry for immigrants since Swedes, Germans, and Bohemians began arriving in large numbers during the late 19^th century.” Today it is sometimes called “Little Mogadishu” because it has become the largest concentration of Somali-born residents in the twin cities.

A key figure in the anti-Muslim protest was Jake Lang, a January 6^th participant who served four years in prison before President Trump pardoned him. Some of his rally colleagues dragged him away from the scene at Minneapolis City Hall, bleeding from the back of his head.

Reports indicate he was leading the Americans Against Islamification’s “Crusader March on ‘Little Somalia.’” One report says he intended to burn a copy of the Quran during the rally. Lang was dragged away to safety by one of his group after about ninety minutes of yelling back and forth and when the chaos that he sought to stoke went after him.

Another report says a member of the group was chased into a parking garage and struck with a flagpole. During the chaos, one of those protesting the presence of Lang’s group noticed the man was bleeding from a head wound and was heard shouting into a megaphone, “This guy needs medical help. He needs mental help. The bleeding is natural for Nazis, but he needs mental help.” When another woman, a protestor, asked the man if he needed help, he replied, “No, I’m good. Thank you, though. I appreciate you.”

It’s not clear if the two reports are referring to Lang or if there was a second man. Later, Lang texted on X from a hospital that he “was just literally LYNCHED by anti-white mob of liberal and illegal immigrants…PRESIDENT TRUMP SEND IN THE NATIONAL GUARD They are lynching White Christian Americans!!!!!”

Some will say he asked for what he got. Some who have studied contemporary accounts of lynchings will say that what happened to him is nowhere near a lynching. And some will question whether there is anything at all Christian in his words and actions and President Trump’s roundup up of Somalis there. .

On one hand, the worst thing that can happen is for people to give the Langs of our country the attention and reaction they provoke. On the other hand, what happened at that rally is a clear statement that good people will not stand for Trump’s ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign.

We aren’t in Minneapolis but we all should wonder how we would react if it was OUR city and OUR state being put through these experiences because they didn’t vote for Trump and don’t kiss his political ring.

Sometime the best protest is a silent, glowering presence, bristling with danger for the provocateurs but not giving them the violence they want.

But it’s easy to say that when it’s not your city and it’s not your people, your neighbors, who are endangered by someone who is really, just a petty, pitiful vengeful little man who misguidedly believes he is more than just a President of the United States.

—when he is, in fact, so much less a President and a man, and a disgrace to the office.

Obituary for a Politician

Posted on January 14, 2026 by bpriddy

In 1968, Nancy and I were in Sacramento, California where our friend from college, Tracy Wood, was a United Press Reporter in the Capitol. We went with her to a news conference with Governor Ronald Reagan. No credentials. No security checks. We just walked with her into the room.

She took us on a tour of the Capitol which, though big with a genuine gold dome, was not nearly as impressive as ours. We went into the House of Representatives that recently had been redecorated and told us House Speaker Jesse Unruh’s first impression if it was, “It looks like a French whorehouse.”

Jesse Unruh already was something of a political legend in California, the kind of political figure I wish we had today here and in Washington. Compared to Unruh, we live in a political world where genuine almost-larger-than-life figures are replaced by bland, small and often self-important individuals who tell us they will fight for us but instead are just throwers of sand in the political sandbox.

I was looking up Unruh’s most famous quotation about lobbyists a few days ago and I came across the Washington Post’s obituary for Unruh that made us wish for an era we are old enough to remember—when politics was properly passionate in the proper places, where it seems heavyweights fought over issues in the chambers and laughed over dinner at a restaurant.

It is discourteous, it is said, to speak ill of the dead but in this era there are a number of candidates for whom we might not speak well. His is the kind of obituary for a politician we are not likely to see when the final gavel falls for too many of this generation:

Washington Post

JESSE UNRUH A ‘BIG DADDY’ WHO GAVE POLITICS AND POWER A BEAR HUG

By Lou Cannon, Washington Post August 5, 1987

When Jesse Unruh arrived in Sacramento 32 years ago as an overweight, underpaid state assemblyman, he became part of a legislature that was largely of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists and for the lobbyists.

The history books will say that Unruh, who died of cancer Tuesday in his California home at the age of 64, took money from these lobbyists and used it to elect legislators who made him, as speaker of the Assembly, the most powerful politician in California. The historians will also say that Unruh used this power to transform a supine and dependent legislative body into one that had a decent respect for the people and sufficient resources to represent them. They will say that the Unruh era was a time when the legislature initiated action to help the needy, protect consumers, advance civil rights and save some of California’s magnificent parklands before developers could destroy them.

During the Unruh years, these achievements were overshadowed by the forceful personality and gargantuan appetites of “Big Daddy,” a nickname given him by his friends and hurled back in his face by his enemies.

He was called “Big Daddy” because of his supposed resemblance to the domineering southern father played by Burl Ives in the film version of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” But Unruh really was more Broderick Crawford than Ives, the Crawford who portrays a thinly disguised Huey Long in “All the King’s Men” and rallies the rural dispossessed to his banner by calling them “hicks” and promising them a taste of the power they have never had.

When Unruh went to the legislature, he was a real hick from the cotton fields of Swenson, Tex., by way of the Navy and a GI Bill of Rights education at the University of Southern California. He had been dirt poor, and he once said that he never wore socks before he was 12 but that no one could tell because his feet were so dirty.

” . . . They live in a steady shame and insult of discomforts, insecurities and, inferiorities, piecing these together into whatever semblance of comfortable living they can,” James Agee wrote of similar sharecroppers. This is what Unruh’s life was like as a boy and, in some inner recess, what it must always have been like. After he became, at 39, the youngest speaker of the Assembly in California’s history, he told a friend, “I’m still not sure I’m not going to wake up some day and be on a small farm out there in Texas.”

Perhaps because he knew what it was like to be truly powerless, Unruh had a keener appreciation of power than more sheltered politicians. “He was the premier politician in the state because he knew the issues and understood the uses of power,” said Stuart K. Spencer, a longtime Republican adversary and friend. “He used power to advance the causes he believed in. He was very honest and didn’t go sneaking around when he wanted money like some politicians do. But the key was that he was willing to use the power once he acquired it.”

Unruh’s Democratic candidates and Spencer’s Republican candidates competed for the legislature in campaigns of brutal intensity and misrepresentation. Afterward, they would drink together and tell stories about what they had done to each other. Unruh did not avoid his adversaries, and he valued most those who shared his understanding that politics was both a noble calling and a dirty business.

Unruh was not afraid to get his hands dirty. He despised those who disdained political detail or soared above the petty and sometimes ugly struggles by which he remade the State Assembly. Unruh boasted too much and ate too much and, for a long time, drank too much. But he did not shrink from the reality of his faults or his virtues.

Instructing freshman assemblymen on how legislators were supposed to behave in lobby-ridden Sacramento, Unruh would say, “If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and then vote against them, you have no business being up here.” This doctrine formed the core of Unruh’s political theology. He knew that the lobbyists were an eternal fact of life. He believed that the way to deal with them was to accept this fact and use their resources to advance his own agenda.

He did not deal as successfully with Ronald Reagan as he had with the lobbyists. Unruh was too proud of his political skills to appreciate the contempt which many Americans hold for politicians as a class. Gov. Reagan, who did not know the contents of his own legislative program, understood and shared this prejudice and exploited it at Unruh’s expense.

But it is also true that Unruh, who was at bottom an unrelenting, populist Democrat with a personal understanding of poverty, gave Reagan a tougher political race than any other Democrat has before or since. You can look it up, as Casey Stengel would have said. Without money or organization or an attractive television personality, Unruh nonetheless came much closer to defeating Reagan at the polls than did Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, President Jimmy Carter or Vice President Walter F. Mondale.

After Unruh lost to Reagan in 1970, his political life went downhill. He was strong enough to accept defeat, but he was unable to deal with powerlessness and being out of the legislature. As an elder statesman, he was a bust.

Unruh subsequently was elected state treasurer, a job whose requirements he mastered within minutes and which gave him time and freedom. But his home was no longer in the future, and he spent the rest of his life recalling the glory days when he had been “Big Daddy,” the powerful speaker of the Assembly.

He had a right to do that, a right to feel pride in his accomplishments. He did something that no else has ever done. He went to California as a Texas hick and remade its corrupt and backward-looking legislature into a modern instrument of democracy. This is not a small thing.

Oh, how I would like to see those words about eating, drinking, etc., and voting against them on the wall of every legislative office in our Capitol. I’ll bet a craftsman in Jefferson City could sell of lot of ‘em. Maybe they would provoke some cultural change.

Sports—Arbitrations; No Free Points; In With the New at Mizzou; No Arbitrations

Posted on January 13, 2026 by bpriddy

By Bob Priddy, Missourinet Contributing Editor

Let’s start by thinking warm thoughts—

(BASEBALL)—Both of our teams have avoided arbitration with several players by signing several guys to one year deals.

(CARDINALS)—While many fans have been focusing on possible trades by the Cardinals or he signing of free agents, the Redbirds have been keeping players in the nest through arbitration.

MLB Trade Rumors reports reliever JoJo Romero has signed for $4.25 million. Fan favorite, outfielder Lars Nootbar, is in the fold for $5.25 million. All-Star second baseman Brendan Donovan will get $5.8 million. The Cardinals are going to pay Andre Pallante four-million for his second full-time starter season. Utility man Nolan Gorman, who hit .205 last year, will get $2.665 million. Another utilityman, Silver Slugger winner Alec Burleson, has signed for $3.3 million after hitting .290 with 18 homers. And pitcher Mathew Liberatore gets $2.26 million.

(ROYALS)—Signing on for another year are outfielder Kyle Isbel, infielder Michael Massey, and pitchers Bailey Falter, John Schreiber, Nick Mears and Daniel Lynch IV.

(STADIUM)—Discussions about a new stadium for the Kansas City Royals have dropped into a kind of limbo. It appears both Missouri and Kansas are getting tired to trying to conclude a deal. Clay County Commissioner Jason Whitington said a few days ago he’s finished negotiating. The State of Kansas also has had enough, apparently leaving Kansas City as the only option.

Sources indicate, however, talks are ongoing with Kansas. One issue is whether the legislature will have to approve any financial deal outside the STAR bonds program.

On this side of the line, a judge has heard a lawsuit from a couple of state legislators saying Missouri’s stadium financing law is unconstitutional. He’s still studying the arguments.

Team owner John Sherman still says a downtown ballpark is what the team wants.

(MIZBB)—Missouri went 2-0 for the first time in the SEC only to blow its chance to go 3-0 for the first time since its days in the Big 12. With two top-tier wins to start the conference season, Missouri went to Oxford Mississippi to face an Ole Miss Team with a mediocre start to the season.

And the Tigers blew it.,

Coach Dennis Gates pointed to Ole Miss’ second-chance points down the stretch as a major factor. A more frustrating one is that the worst free-throw shooting team in the Southeastern Conference put on a clunker clinic, hitting only half of its 24 free throws in a 76-69 loss. Missouri drops to 12-4 (and also dropped a chance to make a dent in the top-25 ratings).

Another major factor was the loss of their trey touch, starting 6 for 14 in the first half but getting only one in ten in the second half. (Ole Miss was 9-23).

Missouri meets Auburn at home Wednesday night. Auburn is 10-6 overall, 1-2 in the conference.

(MIZFB)—Pretty portable week. Let’s run down the lists:

Thirteen new guys will be in black gold next year. The biggest catch is Quarterback Simmons from the University of Mississippi. He was a four-star recruit who lost his starting job at Ole Miss when an ankle injury sidelined him and Trinidad Chambliss took the ball and kept it. In 17 career games, two as a starter, he hit sixty percent of his passes for 1,076 yards and four touchdowns. He also was intercepted five times.

Incoming defensive players are Oregon cornerback Jahlil Florence, Auburn linebacker Robert Woodyard Jr., safeties JaDon Blair from Notre Dame, Kensley Louidor-Foustin from Auburn and defensive end Jaden Jones, who moves north from Florida State.

On the offensive side, Cincinnati wide receiver Caleb Goodie will face portal competition from Auburn’s Horatio Fields, and Naeshaun Montgomery from Florida State; Also picked up are running back Xai’Shaun Edwards from Houston Christian, linemen Luke Work of Mississippi State, Josh Atkins from Arizona State, and Jefferson City native Will Kemna who is returning to Missouri from Manhattan, Kansas.

Several departing players have landed new gigs—-although last we heard Beau Pribula was still shopping himself around. But K-State will get WR Joshua Manning for his senior year and redshirt freshman OL Keiton Jones while Mississippi State picks up Marquis Johnson to play wide receiver for his senior year. Redshirt senior offensive tackle Jayven Richardson heads to Boulder, Colorado; Redshirt freshman running back Marquise Davis goes from being a Tiger to being a Louisville Cardinal. Virginia Tech has signed redshirt freshman defensive end Javion Hilson. Redshirt freshman OL Henry Funuko and redshirt junior OL Johnny Williams IV are off to North Texas; redshirt sophomore wide receiver James Madison II will play next year at UTSA; Redshirt senior Caleb Flagg heads to Central Florida. Senior WR Daniel Blood has signed with Washington State and senior safety Marvin Burks Jr., will be in Madison, Wisconsin.

One Tiger has been convinced to step back from the portal—cornerback C. J. Bass III, a four star recruit who got into a couple of games early in the season, got four tackles and a pass deflection.

(Brady & Burden)—How did the former Missouri thrower and receiver do in their first NFL season? Luther Burden’s season continues after his Bears beat the Packers last weekend 31-27. He has 47 catches in 60 targets for 652 yards and two touchdowns in his rookie year. He was 3 fr 42 against Green Bay.

Brady Cook, who was an undrafted free agent signed by Jets, over he quarterback job for the last four games of a 3-14 year. The Jets lost all four of his starts and the other game in which he played. He hit 57.5% of his passes (88/153) and threw for two touchdowns. But he also threw seven interceptions. His game usually was a short one—only 125 yards generated by his 88 completions.

(MOSTATEPORTAL)—Ryan Beard left Missouri State University to become head coach at Coastal Carolina. So many of his players have moved with him that it almost might be considered Missouri State—East.

Offensive lineman Cristian Loaiza, 6-5 and 315 pounds, will have two years eligibility. Quarterback Deuce Bailey, who was one of the highest-rated high school QBs to sign with Missouri State filled in for starter Jacob Clark this year and went 23/47 for 335 yards and ran for another one. He will have as a target WR Tristian Gardner, who was third on the MoState receiver roster but led all freshmen in Conference USA with 30 catches, 465 yards and six touchdowns. With him on the receiver corps is TE Jackson Kohl.

Another CUSA all-freshman team member, long snapper Mitch Weisenborn, has gone east.

Some guys from the defensive side also have followed Beard. DT Ahmad Poole had fifteen solo tackles among his 29 tackles this season. Three tackles were for loss. He forced two fumbles. Cornerback Ryan Grayson played in four games but preserved his redshirt.

LB Braxton Starnes, 6-3, 215 was in four games as a true freshman with four tackles, one for a loss and one pass breakup.

Nickleback Don Quist also goes to Coastal Caroline, as dones DT Dezmond Barnes, a member of the all-CUSA freshman team.

Some players who had entered the portal have changed their minds and will play for new coach Casey Woods who had been SMU Offensive coordinator. Staying in Springfield after all are TE Jeron Askren who at 6-3, 230 is in line to become the number one tight end for the Bears, safety J. J. O’Neal, who was a team captain last season, has three interceptions and ten pass breakups to go with 68 tackles heading into his fifth and final year, and fellow safety Christian Ford who has two years of eligibility after his last season highlighted by a forced fumble, three pass breakups and 39 tackles.

(CHIEFS)—-Whoops. The Chiefs are at home. Not at Arrowhead. Just at home. Their move in another five years has become a mini-political issue. St. Charles County Senator Nick Shroer has his undies in such a knot about the proposed move that he wants to take away the Chiefs title as Missouri’s Official Football Team that they have held since 2019. He thinks that honor should go to the St. Louis Battlehawks. Speaking of which—-

(BATTLEHAWKS)—The St. Louis Battlehawks and the rest of the UFL teams start their third season March 27. They will have a new coach, but a familiar name to St. Louis fans—Ricky Proehl, a member of the “Greatest Show on Turf” during the Rams’ tenure in the Dome. He’s held several coaching jobs since retiring from the NFL and was the ‘Hawks receivers coach three years ago.

Former Head Coach Anthony Becht has moved to Florida to lead the Orlando Storm, a new UFL Team.

The Battlehawks have had winning records the last two seasons but have failed to advance in the playoffs.

They’ll have a new quarterback this year. A. J. McCarron has become the head coach of the Birmingham Stallions. It’s a homecoming for him. He was a star at the University of Alabama.

The league has a new look this year. The Orlando Storm, Louisville Kings, and Columbus Aviators replace last year’s Michigan Panthers, Memphis Showboats and the San Antonio Brahmas. Returning from last year are the Battlehawks, DC Defenders, and the Stallions.

(CARDINALS)—A lot of people are waiting for the spiked shoe to drop on a major trade or a major free agent signing. Nothing groundbreaking has happened yet. The most recent transaction had pitcher Zak Kent designated for assignment and picked off the waiver wire by the Cleveland Guardians.

(ROYALS)—Nothing’s up to date in Kansas City.

Next: people who play with tires.

(NASCAR)—NASCAR’s rocky off-season continued this week with the resignation of NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps, a casualty of the off-season anti-trust trial that was finally settled out of court. His status was crippled during the trial by the admission evidence some inflammatory emails he sent attacking one of the sport’s icons—former driver and team owner Richard Childress.

Dodge’s return to NASCAR will be with its RAM pickup truck. RAM is going to hold its own series in which fifteen drivers will compete for one of the five seats in the regular truck season for Kaulig Racing. It will be, in effect, an eight-episode reality show produced by the folks with the UFC.

(INDYCAR)—Two months and two days from today, IndyCar runs its first race in Texas in three years and there’s some pretty big talk in anticipation of it.

After all, it IS in Texas. The President of the Grand Prix of Arlington, Bill Miller, has told Motorsport.com, “This could be a signature marquee event on the IndyCar calendar for years to come,” and suggests it could take the use of temporary road courses “to a higher level.”

The track will be 2.73 miles around with fourteen turns. Organizers haven’t decided yet how many miles will be run in the race. The longest straightaway is just short of a mile, long enough for cars to reach at least 200 mph before making a hard right.

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Off-season tire testing has given Will Power his first full taste of being part of Andretti Global, his new team after seventeen years with Penske. He got familiar with the car, the crew, and a new engine manufacturer in tests at Phoenix. Power said afterwards that all the new stuff wasn’t all that strange once he hit the track. “You feel very out of place but once you get in the car and you get rolling, then it’s just like, ‘Oh, it’s an IndyCar. It’s going through the same processes.” He called his first few runs “very good.”

One thing the tire tests have focused on is the right front tire that takes a lot of cornering weight on ovals. Firstone, the tire supplier for IndyCar, has developed a wider tire for that corner that improves grip.

An open test for all teams is scheduled for next month.

On the Minneapolis Front Lines

Posted on January 12, 2026 by bpriddy

Minnesota—a state of Lutherans, loons, lutefisk, and Lake Wobegon—is suddenly a war zone. To hear the Trump administration describe it, it is filled with dangerous Somali fraudsters, and as HHS Secretary Kristi Noem put it, a “domestic terrorist” got what she deserved, a woman that Vice-President Vance claimed was influenced by a vaporous “left wing network,” and that President Trump accused of “violently, willfully, and viciously” running over ICE agent Jonathan Ross—characterizations all quickly issued with absolutely no knowledge of what happened to Renee Nicole Good, a recent Kansas City resident who had moved to Minneapolis about a year ago. Her wife, Rebecca, said in a statement, “We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness.”

A recent editorial by the Wall Street Journal disputed the fulminations from Trump, Noem, Nance and their associates: “Minnesota’s Fraud Problem Isn’t Immigrants: It’s the vast size of the welfare state that corrupts them,” suggesting that generous benefits and numerous programs so large that comprehensive oversight is rendered impossible create opportunities for fraudsters. The Journal blamed both political parties for the situation.

When we were organizing the Missourinet in 1974, the first person I wanted on the my news staff was Jeff Smith who had worked with me at the now defunct KLIK radio station in Jefferson City right after he left Indiana University. Jeff was a terrific reporter whose career path took him into marketing and management. He and his wife Denny remain among our most cherished friends.

Jeff retired as a VP with Northwest Airlines and now is heavily engaged in non-profit work in Minneapolis. Among his colleagues are Somalis. Last week, just as the significance of the killing of Renee Good was starting to sink in, I asked Jeff and Denny to share some of their thoughts. Denny in particular has an interesting perspective on the immigrant situation, which became the focus of their comments.

Here is what they sent:

ICE Storm in Minnesota –

from Jeff and Denise (Denny) Smith

Four days ago, as we write this, Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Depending on which account you believe, she was either a hero or a domestic terrorist. There’s no doubt that the event sparked a storm of outrage on our cold, wet streets.

Unfortunately, we may never get a neutral account of what happened. The Federal government is acting as the sole investigator following its role as executioner. It’s the latest trauma our community has endured in the last seven months, including a fatal school shooting and the assassination of a State Representative.

Renee Good’s death is an outcome of the Trump administration’s decision to send more than 2,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents to Minnesota. Trump is clearly ratcheting up his determination to punish Minnesota for being blue.

As a white woman, born in the U.S., Renee Good wasn’t the chief target of these agents’ attention. Those would be people who are brown or black.

Minnesota has been home to us for forty years, since we migrated from Missouri for a career opportunity. Thank God we didn’t move from Mogadishu. If we had migrated from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, we now would be labeled “garbage” by President Trump. If we wore a hijab or had brown skin, we would likely be afraid to leave our home, fearing an ICE agent’s impulsive imprisonment.

Somalis in Minnesota are neighbors and co-workers. They comprise the largest population outside of Mogadishu and our communities depend on them every day. Somali Americans have become integral parts of all aspects of a diverse Minnesota that ranks in the top ten states for health, education, our business environment and other measures.

Quoting the Sahan Journal, a local newspaper serving Somalis, “The vast majority of Somalis here and across the United States are U.S. citizens, and most who are not have legal permanent residency.” Among many professions, they provide needed services for people at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. They care for older adults living in our communities for seniors. They work in our food processing plants. But, according to Trump, they’re not “legitimate” Americans.

By that definition, most likely, neither are you.

Only indigenous Americans have non-immigrant roots. The Twin Cities are home to more than 8,000 tribal members. But that population also does not feel safe. Last week, ICE detained four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe because they could not provide proof of citizenship. They were unhoused and living under a bridge.

And they are not white.

Unless you are a Native American, you too are connected to an immigrant. Did your forebearers come from Poland, or Ireland, or Italy or, involuntarily, from Africa? If so, your ancestors knew what it’s like to be labeled “garbage,” or worse.

As a second-generation Sicilian, Denny’s grandparents and their families were vilified by white Americans as the new “Niggers” and were recruited to replace black cotton field workers during the great migration north by southern former slaves.

There’s always the “other” and they usually have dark skin.

We acknowledge that a few Somali Americans are at the center of the documented fraud in some Minnesota social service agencies. However, we trust that the fraudsters will receive swift justice and that the bureaucrats who allowed it will be held responsible.

We are alarmed by the Trump administration’s broad-brush judgements, especially of non-white Americans. We should not be so quick to judge entire populations. We should not be so quick to judge, period.

Our move introduced us to a region shaped by both harsh winters and remarkable cultural diversity. Over the decades, we’ve witnessed how new waves of immigrants, from all corners of the globe, have been welcomed to the fabric of Minnesota, bringing fresh perspectives, food, traditions, and resilience. This blend of backgrounds has enriched our state and broadened our understanding of the world.

We’re glad we migrated to Minnesota and we pray for our city.

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For the record: Native Americans were not recognized as general citizens of this country, not even by the Fourteenth Amendment, until June 2, 1924 but were not guaranteed the right to vote in every state until 1948.

It’s important to hear from people such as you and me in America’s occupied areas—-because ICE is among us, too. And so are immigrants.

The death of Renee Good is a case filled with complications and Minnesota authorities are not ceding the investigation and prosecution of the case to Trump’s FBI or any other federal agency whose trustworthiness is as limited as our President’s honesty.

But the basic point to remember is this: The “domestic terrorists” in Minneapolis are the ones sent there by President Trump to punish a state that is not in his political column. His justification that people from those places he calls a “sh—hole countries” are committing massive fraud is a blatant slander of thousands of good people and a craven excuse for his abuse of power.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board disputes Trump’s singling out of Minnesota and its Somali immigrants: “Minnesota’s Fraud Problem Isn’t Immigrants: It’s the vast size of the welfare state that corrupts them—not immigrants or a particular culture.” Others have noted the billions of dollars poured into Pandemic relief programs have led to massive systemic nationwide fraud, suggesting that Trump’s singling out Minnesota and its Somali residents for military intervention is far beyond the limits of reality.

None of us deserves what is happening in Minneapolis and in too many other places in our country today. As Renee Good put it, “No matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness.”

Compassion and kindness are two of the many things grievously missing in our national dialogue and particularly from our national leadership.

Maybe we’ll ask Jeff and Denny to report from the front lines of our president’s war on his own country again as the ICE campaign and the killing of a 37-year old poet simmer in this frigid time.

Donnie and Nico

Posted on January 7, 2026 by bpriddy

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” said Chairman Mao as he led his armed struggle/revolution in the 1930s.

Today we have an impulsive, petulant short-attention span child with a pistol who has invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president and his wife and brought them to our country to face American criminal charges. As is usually the case with Trump, there is little indication that any kind of long-term thinking went into this scheme. He says the United States is going to “run” Venezuela but it is clear there is no plan in place to do so. There are no planeloads of diplomats in Caracas developing a transition plan, no one sent in to calm an uncertain and certainly angry population.

Secretary of State Rubio tried to clarify to a minor degree that we do not plan to “govern” Venezuela only to have Trump double down that we are going to “run” the country. The Washington Post, citing two White House Sources say a personal grudge might be a factor in Trump’s actions. Suggestions had been made that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado should be put in charge of the country. Trump showed no interest in the idea? Why? Because Machado accepted the Nobel Peace Price last year. And we all know that Trump for reasons that only he cannot understand stood no chance anyway.

The Prize Committee cited her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.” She had her detractors including a faction that disagreed with her support of Trump’s oil embargo.

So who IS in charge now?

Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez Gomez has been sworn in as acting president. She has declared the country deserves peace and dialogue, not war and is offering cooperation with the United States. On Saturday however, after the kidnapping, she had a different tone, calling the kidnapping “barbaric” and saying she still considered Maduro the leader of the county. Time and circumstances, however, bring a reality to things. She’s a lawyer and a diplomat who has been Vice President since 2018.

She seems to have put forth somc contradictory messages. On her social media channels Sunday, she said Venezuela wants to develop ‘balanced and respectful international relations…based on sovereign equality and non-interference. She called on Washington to agree with a program “oriented toward shared development, within the framework of international law.”

At the same time, she ordered police “to immediately begin the national search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or support for the armed attack” by the United States.”

President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy leaves so many questions unanswered.

What does that look like, his plan to run Venezuela, apparently with no interest in “balanced and respectful international relations” and shared development within the framework of international law?” Unfortunately those are not things Trump respects. Will our miliary take the place of the police and other security forces? How long will it take them to become as well-versed as the existing Maduro loyal miliary, police, and security establishment? And how much blood will be shed in gaining military control of the country?

(For that matter we have not heard the human cost of the arrests of the Maduros, or the building damages caused by the raid and whether this county will rebuild the damaged properties.)

Who will the United States install as it military governor, or whatever the title might be?

One would think that a true leader would have these things decided and in place within hours after turning a country upside down. But not our impulsive child-president with a pistol.

There is precedent for this kind of thing but we haven’t heard Trump justify the Maduro arrest by citing the arrest Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega exactly 36 years earlier, to the day. Noriega’s dictatorship had been supported by the U.S. government that had paid him large sums to fight drug trafficking, and to keep an eye on Cuba. He fell out of favor by pushing for Panamanian Independence. There also were suggestions he was taking bribes to let drugs reach our country. President George H. W. Busch sent in American troops to topple the regime. He spent 20 years in an American prison for drug trafficking, and seven years in France for money-laundering. He was returned to Panama with a 60-year term for murder, corruption, and embezzlement. He was 83 when he died in 2017.

The trial arguments will be fascinating. Whether they are similar to the Noriega is something we want to see. The idea of snatching the president of another country, and putting him on trial for violating the laws in a another nation will be an interesting discussion point and one that the United States Supreme Court will have to parse.

If we can arrest Maduro, can we enforce our speed limits on British roads? Can a French person who shoplifts an American product in Paris be prosecuted here? Can the president of a foreign country be charged under American law for exporting a product that is legal in his county to meet a growing demand that product in the United States?

By the way—-what happened to the Fentanyl excuse? Now all of the talk from Trump is about Venezuelan oil.

Associated with that question is this: Can a President of the United States be prosecuted here or anywhere, for failing to reduce the demand for Maduro’s product, in effect sanctioning by inaction its use?

When did Venezuela’s drug captains become more important than the Columbian Drug Cartels that dominated our drug concerns for so long? Trump has indicated Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Iran, and Mexico are potential targets of someone who agrees that power comes from the barrel of the gun. He drools over Greenland, especially, which has never been a threat of any kind to us.

I probably could cook up more questions but I’ll leave that to you. But here is another one?

If we’re going to run Venezuela, why not make it a 51^st state? If we want Greenland for its rare earths, why would not Venezuela and its oil be the new star on our flag?

Our cynical self has peeled around my shoulder and suggested we would rather have Greenland and Canada because Venezuela has brown people in it, and Canada and Greenland people are white. But, “We’ll worry about Greenland in about two months,” the child with a gun said on Air Force One.

In the meantime, the spotlight is off the Epstein papers for a while. That’s okay. When it swings back, there will be a huge volume of material sifted from the most recently studied papers.

Finally, this note on this topic—Maduro is a bad guy. But is violating international law and other standards the answer to the problems he caused?

And how should NATO respond when his guerillas hit Greenland

Have at it folks. The box below would welcome you comment and concerns. We are, after all, in this world box together.

Sports: A Good Time to Retire; a Big Win; The Portal Opens

Posted on January 6, 2026 by bpriddy

By Bob Priddy, Missourinet Contributing Editor

(CHIEFS)—Travis Kelce has no reason to play football next year. There are no worthwhile records to be set. He has plenty of Super Bowl rings. If he returns to the Chiefs he will be returning to a team taking the first steps toward rebuilding the dynasty that has eroded, as happens to sports dynasties. He is physically and mentally intact and has a wonderful new life awaiting him that there is no reason to delay enjoying.

He caught a couple of passes in the final game of 2025-26 that made him the fifth tight end to get to 13,000 yards and the fastest to get there. He was the fourth-leading scorer for the Chiefs this He played as usual with commitment and effort in an absolutely forgettable game that featured eight field goals and was decided on a safety. With the 14-12 loss the Chiefs finished a 6-11 season with their fourth quarterback on the field and patches at other positions. Chris Oladokun, the number three QB, actually had a higher completion percentage than Patrick Mahomes as the backup to the backup although his quarterback rating was only 15.1 (Mahomes was at an uncharacteristic 68.8.

The last time the Chiefs were this bad was the year before Andy Reid showed up to coach.

Once again, Mahomes and his successors were handicapped by an offensive line that showed all the strength of tissue paper in protection.

The Chiefs gave up the sixth most points in the NFL, ranked 21^st among the 32 teams in scoring. Twenty-two players accumulated rushing or receiving yards. Eleven players scored points but Xavier Worthy, Brashard Smith, and JuJu Smith-Schuster had only one touchdown each and Isaih Pacheco had only two.

While the tendency is to think the Chiefs have gotten old, the NFL says they were the 8^th youngest team in the league with an average age of 25.92. The youngest team was the Packers at 25.23 and oldest team was the Commanders, 28.09. Chris Jones is the oldest lineman (if you don’t count Kelce), at 31.

A lot of new people will be wearing Chiefs shirts next year, starting with the offensive line that has weakened considerably in the last couple of years or hasn’t reached its potential—perhaps because the Chiefs have haven’t had some of the top-level draft choices for a decade.

They will have their first top ten draft pick since they chose Patrick Mahomes in 2017. Reid is optimistic: “We’ve got a good nucleus of guys that are veteran players. They’ll be back and I think you want that foundation, and that’s where you start. And then you give Brett (Veatch, General Manager) an opportunity to have the draft picks that he has and picking where he’s picking; you know he’s going to do a great job there. And then whatever happens free agent-wise, or guys we signed up — wherever that goes — you still have a long way to go to add people and do what you need. So, there’ll be a fresh start coming up.”

The player lineup isn’t the only parts of the team that’s changing. The Tennessee Titans have asked permission to talk to Steve Spagnuolo, the architect of the defense about their head coaching vacancy. They also want to talk with Offensive Coordinator Mike Nagy, whose conract is up.

Assistant Defensive Line Coach Alex Whittingham is headed to Michigan to work with his dad, Kyle, the new head coach of the Wolverines.

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(MIZPORT)—The first of this year’s Tigers to jump ship have signed with new teams. Senior Wide Receiver Marquis Johnson gets a better deal at Mississippi State and redshirt freshman running back Marquise Davis is rushing to Louisville. Safety Caleb Flaggs is headed to Central Florida. Kansas State gets lineman Keiton Jones.

Late yesterday afternoon, things developed quickly. The first player to shift to Missouri is cornerback Jelil Florence, dropping in from Oregon. He announced his plans to change shirts in November. He was the #54 recruit in 2022, four stars. Florence is a redshirt junior so 2026 is the only year we’ll see him. 35 career tackles and four interceptions. He’s important because all three of this season’s cornerbacks finished their eligibility.

Mizzou also got wide receiver Caleb Goodie from Cincinnati and Auburn linebacker Robert Woodyard Jr.

In non-portal pickups, Missouri took three-star defensive lineman Jocques Felix away from Iowa State. He played for St. Louis Cardinal Ritter and verbally accepted Iowa State before officially settling on Missouri. He’s rated three stars. The Tigers also signed four-star defensive lineman Tajh Overton in December.

(MIZSTATEPORT)—Missouri State’s coach has left for Coastal Carolina, replaced by SMU Offensive Coordinator Casley Woods. But that has sparked a big turnover of ten offensive and eleven defensive players. Missouri State has not signed anyone yet.

(MIZBB)—A Tiger team has finally beaten a ranked opponent during this school year. Missouri withstood a late Florida charge Saturday to upset the 22^nd ranked Gators 76-74 at Mizzou Arena. The loss dropped Florida out of the AP top 25 for the first time since week 18 of the 2023-24 season. Five SEC Teams are in the top 25 this week and five more got votes, but Missouri got none.

Trent Pierce saw his first game action after a hand injury early in the season and scored ten points after coming off the bench, including the layup that put Missouri top 66-65, followed by a three-pointer that gave the Tigers a lead they never gave up. Jaden Stone, also returning from injury had 9 points.

Missouri trailed for most of the first half but tied it at the buzzer on a three-pointer by Trent Burns, their 7-5 center.

Florida went into the game leading in rebounds with a plus 17.2. Missouri matched their 37 rebounds. The Tigers are now 11-3

Missouri plays Kentucky in Lexington tomorrow night.

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Speed—

(NASCAR)—Twenty-six days from the NASCAR guys will be racing again. It’ll no an exhibition race at Bowman Gray Stadium.

—One of NASCAR’s iconic speedways has been bought by the International Hot Road Association—Rockingham. “The Rock,” in North Carolina, is home to NASCAR second and third-tier races after being part of the Cup schedule, 1965-2004.

(INDYCAR)—53 days to the engines firing at St. Petersburg to starts the 2026 IndyCar season. But before that several top series drivers will get their blood running at the 24 hours of Dayona. Five of last year’s seven race winners will be on the high banks in sports cars. An IndyCar driver his been part of the winning teams in five of the last six 24s.

Indianapolis 500 winner and national champion Alex Palou and his Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon will drive Acuras in the GTP class for Meyer-Shank Racing. Wayne Taylor Racing’s Cadillac will include Colton Herta, who has left IndyCar to build a Formula 2 career.

Sebastian Bourdais, four time IndyCar champion, will share the cockpit of Tower Motorsports ORECA 07 with Ganassi Driver Kiffin Simpson.

Andretti Global will have all three of its IndyCar drivers. Kyle Kirkwood will be in a Lexus GTD PRO entry. Will Power, who moved to Andretti from Penske in the offseason will get his first taste of the Daytona. Marcus Ericcson will be in a Lamborghini for Wayne Taylor Racing. And Christian Rasmussen will run in the LMP2 class.

Although IndyCar has no races in Missouri, the 2026 schedule offers several day-trip possibilities, depending where you live. Indianapolis hosts a road course race on May 8 with the 110^th running of the 500 on May 24^th. They’ll be at World Wide Technologies Raceway, just across the river from St. Louis, on June 7. Nashville’s not that far away from some parts of the state. IndyCar will run there on July 10. Races at Milwaukee will be on August 29-30.

(Photo Credits: |Florence: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images; Kelce—Instagram).

We All Know What Tomorrow Is

Posted on January 5, 2026 by bpriddy

How can we forget?

I had been asked to keep a pandemic journal because we had no personal journals from the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic that told how people survived day by day during that scary time. We share some of those times because there was, at the start, no known medicine to treat whatever it was, and—as was the case with the misnamed Sanish Flu (it could have been the Kansas Flu)—the first advice was to mask up, stay indoors, close public gathering places such as bars, restaurants, churches, etc.

I was working on my Journal on January 5, 2021, watching video of the Trump rally that was becoming more dangerous with every lie that he told. I was not very forgiving of him for years before and I will never forgive him for this day. He remains the most despicable person in public or private life I have ever run across. I added some photos to the entry as they became available and a text of Trump’s incitement to riot a couple of days later so journal reader a century from now (or longer, of course, I hope) will know how our country survived a pandemic but darned near didn’t survive Donald Trump—the first time. As long as there is a United States of America it will be a national shame that he was elected again, and more and more people are understanding that now. Here is how I watched in horror—as I hope you did—what happened that day. Wednesday, January 6, 2021

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I begin this entry at 1:50 p.m. while watching something happen in Washington that neither I nor my citizen ancestors going back to the days of Washington, Jefferson, and even earlier founders could have imagined—thousands of supporters of our president, egged on by him in an hour-long tirade near the White House—have laid siege to the United States Capitol, interrupting the debate on certifying results of the Electoral College. I am watching FOX, the network that has been uncomfortably friendly with our president for years, as some demonstrators are trying to break through the doors into the House of Representatives.

Reporters just said law enforcement officers are guarding the doors with guns drawn, and another of the reports said moments ago that he’s been getting text messages from ambassadors saying this country would be highly critical of other countries if anything such as this happened there.

What we are seeing is appalling. One observer calls it “a breakdown of the constitutional process.” It’s the most significant incursion inside our Capitol since the British attack in 1814. There is no doubt our president stoked this outrage and has been doing it for months, years. This morning, he and his children and other supporters had a rally near the White House. His son, Donald Junior—who hopes to become the next national chairman of the Republican Party—told the crowd that their presence should tell mainline Republicans their day is past. “It should be a message to all Republicans who have not been willing to actually fight, the people who did nothing to stop the steal. This gathering should send a message to them: This isn’t their Republican Party anymore. This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party. We’re going to try and give our Republicans the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.” Then his father ranted for about 90 minutes, speaking to a crowd he had been begging for several days to show up in Washington today. He urged the protestors to go to the capitol.

They did and about an hour after Congress started the process and started dealing with the first protest—of the Arizona results the House and Senate suddenly adjourned. When I saw that happen (on C-SPAN) I switched to CNN and then to FOX because I suspected there was trouble developing.

FOX reporters are as stunned as anybody on the other (less Trumpish) networks by what is unfolding in front of them. Others got into the hallways and office areas.

Protestors get into the capitol and are shown on video walking through Statuary Hall.

One reporter on Pennsylvania Avenue just reported things are becoming increasingly violent in the streets. Senators and Representatives are locked in their offices. The Vice-President, who was presiding over the joint session, has been evacuated. The President apparently is in the oval office where he earlier sent a Tweet criticizing the VP for lacking courage to overturn the election results today. That was after VP Pence told members of Congress he would not try to singlehandedly throw out electoral votes. He had sent a letter to all members of Congress saying, “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.”

A few minutes ago he tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay Peaceful!”

One senator just tweeted a picture of protestors in the Senate Chamber.

The Mayor of Washington has instituted a 6 p.m. curfew.

So far, Josh Hawley has been silent—and he’s one of those who lit this fire several days ago when he announced he would challenge the election results. He was later joined by a dozen others, and the president who “rallied” his supporters in Georgia Monday and who encouraged demonstrators this morning to march on the Capitol.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, interviewed on FOX “cannot be sadder or more disappointed. This is not the American Way. I’m with capitol police; I’ve heard on the radio shots have been fired.” (we later learned a woman had been shot, apparently while with the crowd trying to break into the House chamber.) “This is Un-American, what’s going on.” He called on Trump to make a statement. The president sent out a Tweet shortly after that, about 2:15: “I am asking everyone at the U. S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No Violence! Remember WE are the Party of Law & Order—respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”

About the same time, Brett Baier on FOX reported Speaker Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had asked that the National Guard be deployed to clear the protestors.

2:30—FOX shows protestors breaking windows and climbing into the building.

Fox at 2:50 showed a photograph of a demonstrator sitting in the chair in Nancy Pelosi’s office.

The New York Times reported later that night that he’s from Arkansas, Matthew Rosenberg, who left a quarter on the desk and took a personalized envelope from the office. And he could be in very bad trouble. His Congressman, Steve Womack, tweeted about him, “I’m sickened to learn that the…actions were perpetrated by a constituent. It’s an embarrassment to the people of the Third District and does not reflect our values. He must be held accountable and face the fullest extent of the law. This isn’t the American or Arkansas way.” And Arkansas Senator Jim Hendren tweeted “Don’t know this guy, but he needs to go to jail.”

Another photo shows a demonstrator sitting in the Senate President’s chair.

Haven’t seen an I-D of this creep yet.

(all Photos in this post are from Google Images)

2:52—Pelosi and Shumer call on president to go on the air and call on protestors to leave.

2:55—DOD mobilizes troops. A barrier will be set up around the capitol, crowd to be cleared out. And a tight lockdown will be put in place.

2:20—FOX reports at least one person has been shot.

2:20—senate secured and demonstrators are being pushed out of the second and third floors of the rotunda.

3:05—President-elect Biden goes on the air. He began, “At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault, unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times. Let me be very clear: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect the true America, do not represent who we are. I’m genuinely shocked and saddened that our nation, so long a beacon of hope and light for democracy, has come to such a dark moment. America’s about honor, decency, respect, tolerance. That’s who we are. That’s who we’ve always been.”

He demanded the president call on his supporters to end an “unprecedented assault” on democracy. “I call on President Trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege.” He urged the protestors to end their occupation of the House and Senate and blamed today’s violence on Trumps refusal to accept defeat. “At their best, the words of a president can inspire. At their worst, they can incite…This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on sedition, and it must end now. I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward.” He finished, “President Trump, step up.”

A few minutes later the White House released a taped message from Trump encouraging people to go home—-but most of his 61-second message was a whine about the election:

“I know your pain, I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us, it was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now, we have to have peace. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order we have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt. It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us from me from you from our country. This was a fraudulent election. But we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home and peace.”

We love you. You’re very special. ?????? No condemnation, no criticism. Whine and pat these domestic terrorists you have encouraged on the heads and tell them to go home.

3:40—FOX shows video of woman shot in the capitol. She’s reported critical at a hospital. This is the only reported shot fired and only reported person injured.

It’s dusk in Washington now and reporters and city officials are worried about what will happen tonight, despite the curfew. The Mayor and metropolitan police have announced anybody on capitol grounds after 6 p.m. will be arrested.

4:15: Rep. Steve Scalise says he hopes to get the capitol open and continue the debates tonight. Some other members reportedly feel the same way but we haven’t heard from the Congressional leadership yet.

At some point in all of this, this afternoon, the networks proclaimed John Osoff had won the Georgia Senate election although the margin is so thin that a recount is likely. He’s 33 and will be the youngest member of the Senate although not the youngest person elected. That honor goes to Joseph Biden.

About 4:55 it was announced that police think the capitol is secure again.

About an hour ago, Hawley tweeted: Thank you to the brave law enforcement officials who have put their lives on the line. The violence must end, those who attacked police and broke the law must be prosecuted, and Congress must get back to work and finish its job.

He drew three quick responses:

Samuel George

Sir – you inflicted this by rejecting the vote of the people

Your name will always be associated with today. Cool legacy.

Alex Rozar

This was your doing.

Former President George W. Bush released a statement late this afternoon “A statement on the insurrection at the Capitol,” a pretty plainspoken comment. It’s especially impactful because he has seldom spoken about things since leaving the White House—as past presidents traditionally have done. But there’s no love lost between the Bush family and Trump.

“Laura and I are watching the scenes of mayhem unfolding at the seat of our Nation’s government in disbelief and dismay. It is a sickening and heartbreaking sight. This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic — not our democratic republic.

“I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement. The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes.

“Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation. In the United States of America, it is the fundamental responsibility of every patriotic citizen to support the rule of law. To those who are disappointed in the results of the election: Our country is more important than the politics of the moment. Let the officials elected by the people fulfill their duties and represent our voices in peace and safety.

“May God continue to bless the United States of America.”

Former President Clinton: “Today we faced an unprecedented assault on our Capitol, our Constitution, and our country. The assault was fueled by more than four years of poison politics spreading deliberate misinformation, sowing distrust in our system, and pitting Americans against one another. The match was lit by Donald Trump and his most ardent enablers, including many in Congress, to overturn the results of an election he lost.”

Former President Obama: “History will rightly remember today’s violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election, as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation. But we’d be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise. Right now, Republican leaders have a choice made clear in the desecrated chambers of democracy. They can continue down this road and keep stoking the raging fires. Or they can choose reality and take the first steps toward extinguishing the flames. They can choose America.

“I’ve been heartened to see many members of the President’s party speak up forcefully today. Their voices add to the examples of Republican state and local election officials in states like Georgia who’ve refused to be intimidated and have discharged their duties honorably. We need more leaders like these — right now and in the days, weeks, and months ahead as President-Elect Biden works to restore a common purpose to our politics. It’s up to all of us as Americans, regardless of party, to support him in that goal.”

Jimmy Carter: “This is a national tragedy and is not who we are as a nation. Having observed elections in troubled democracies worldwide, I know that we the people can unite to walk back from this precipice to peacefully uphold the laws of our nation, and we must. We join our fellow citizens in praying for a peaceful resolution so our nation can heal and complete the transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.”

Twitter has shut down our president’s access for 12 hours because of a message he put out this afternoon. Facebook took down his “We love you” video and has banned him for 24 hours.

The Kansas City Star tomorrow morning available on line this evening:

“No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.

“This, Sen. Hawley, is what law-breaking and destruction look like. This is what mobs do. This is not a protest, but a riot. One woman was shot and has died, The Washington Post reported, while lawmakers were sheltering in place.

“No longer can it be asked, as George Will did recently of Hawley, “Has there ever been such a high ration of ambition to accomplishment?” Hawley’s actions in the last week had such impact that he deserves an impressive share of the blame for the blood that’s been shed.

“Hawley was first to say that he would oppose the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College win. That action, motivated by ambition, set off much that followed — the rush of his fellow presidential aspirant Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and other members of the Sedition Caucus to put a show of loyalty to the president above all else.

“After mayhem broke out, Hawley put out this uncharacteristically brief statement: “Thank you to the brave law enforcement officials who have put their lives on the line. The violence must end, those who attacked police and broke the law must be prosecuted, and Congress must get back to work and finish its job.” So modest, Senator, failing to note your key role in inspiring one of the most heartbreaking days in modern American history. We lost something precious on Wednesday, as condolence notes to our democracy from our friends around the world recognize.

“Among those Hawley got to emulate him was Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, whose very first act as a member of the world’s greatest deliberative body was to sell out his country by attempting to overturn the outcome of a legitimate election.

“This revolt is the result, and if you didn’t know this is where we’ve been headed from the start, it’s because you didn’t want to know.”

“’The Frankenstein just tore down the doors to the palace,” U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Missouri, told The Star. Which happened because, as he said, “One-third of the nation has bought into a bald-faced lie, and they are living in a fact-free America.’

“’I’m currently safe and sheltering in place while we wait to receive further instruction from Capitol Police,’ tweeted U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, a Democrat from Kansas. ‘Today is a dark day for our country. It’s unacceptable that we have a President who has repeatedly condoned and even encouraged this despicable behavior. It must stop.’”

“We’ll say again what Davids is too polite to say: Trump did not manage this madness on his own. Far from it.

REPUBLICANS KNEW TRUMP’S FRAUD CLAIMS WERE BOGUS

“Just before the putsch began, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said sadly that we need to once again work from an agreed upon set of facts. Only now has he noticed that lying to the public on a daily basis poisons democracy.

“People have taken this too far,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News. Until he had to run for cover, McCarthy was fine with this sick stunt.

“U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a Republican from Kentucky, said in a statement, ‘Today’s events at the U.S. Capitol are tragic, outrageous, and devastating. They are wholly inconsistent with the values of our constitutional Republic.’

“Yes, they are. But they are wholly consistent with Trump’s calls to overturn this election to address nonexistent fraud. And they are wholly predictable, given the willingness of most Republicans to repeat these baseless claims.

“When we wrote that Hawley’s actions were dangerous — and that those of Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt and others were too, in their pretending for far too long that the election wasn’t over — some readers found that absurd. ‘Oh my goodness, how will democracy and our country survive?’ one reader wrote in sarcasm. ‘How will Biden possibly govern? The Star editorial board’s hysteria over nothing is approaching CNN levels.’

“No doubt plenty of Americans will see even this free-for-all in the temple of democracy as defensible. And those of you who have excused all of the brazen lawlessness of this administration can take a little bit of credit for these events, too. They couldn’t have done it without you.

“Hawley, Marshall and other Republicans who upheld Trump’s con about widespread fraud knew all along that his claims were bogus. Now that they’ve seen exactly where those lies have landed us, decency demands that they try to prevent further violence by making clear that Joe Biden did not win by cheating. Please, gentlemen, surprise us.”

(Hawley gestures to the demonstrators this morning as he goes into the Capitol.)

About 9:30 tonight the Senate defeated the challenge to Arizona’s electoral votes 6-93 as several of the original protesting Senators withdrew their support of the challenge after today’s actions.

A TV station in San Diego (KUSI) says it has confirmed the identity of the woman who was shot to death inside the capitol. It says she’s Ashli Babbit, a USAF 14-year veteran who did four tours overseas. The French news agency, AFP, said tonight that Babbit tweeted yesterday about those going to Washington for the rally, “Nothing will stop us….they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light!”,

I had said right after the election that one of my greatest concerns was how much damage Trump could do before he left. I’ve written a couple of pretty harsh blog pieces (the most recent one was Monday) about him. I can’t say I was surprised by what happened today—I was surprised by the scope of the events but not that there was mob violence based on his encouragement of it. Now, with two weeks to go before he departs the White House, there are some concerns being voice in tonight’s news coverage about this deranged man with his finger on the nuclear trigger remaining in his job for those 14 days.

Tonight (it’s 10:15 p.m.) there’s talk about whether steps need to be taken under the 25^th Amendment to remove him. And there are reports of several resignations from his staff and possible resignations from his cabinet or high-level staff. There are also a lot of questions being asked about how the mob could have penetrated the Capitol security.

I don’t think I would want to be in the White House tonight. Our president must be in a rage that borders on insanity, not only because Pence hasn’t done his bidding and Congress not only won’t do his bidding and because some of his closest associates are on the verge of bailing out, but because he has no access to s social media, no way to rant and rave at an unprecedented level.

This has been one of those days that will be a “What were you doing when….” question is asked. It’s a landmark day in national memory much as the Kennedy assassinations and the King murder and the Moon landing, and the Twin Towers attack (and in Jefferson City’s case, the 2019 tornado). This one is so special because even the Kennedy and King assassinations didn’t leave people this shaken about the future of our republic.

It’s now after midnight. The TV nets are reporting the streets of Washington are quiet. The day’s toll, according to various reports: Four dead—one shot to death by a police officer and three who had medical emergencies. Fourteen police injured , two hospitalized, one critical.

The joint session re-convened. Two or three protests were offered but none had a Senator’s name on it—the first House member with one protest said the Senators had withdrawn their names. The count stopped with Pennsylvania when several House members and Senators Hawley and Cruz filed a protest. The Senate dispatched with the Hawley-Cruz part of it 7-92. The House is voting down the protest on its side of things but it’s time to call it a terrible day and go to bed.

While all of this has been going on, the common folks were dealing with the coronavirus. MODOH reports yesterday’s positivity rate was 21.5% and hospitalizations just under 2800. Nationally, yesterday was the deadliest day in the pandemic.

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And now, five years later, having witnessed his tragic-for-our nation return and his actions pardoning himself and his “peaceful tourist” followers from any responsibility for those events, having witnessed his and his followers’ efforts to turn Ashley Babbit into a martyr, having watched him try to prosecute those who would have prosecuted him if he had not kept his lies about that day alive and current, we are starting to see many of those who lacked courage to challenge him then and again in 2024 starting to realize what they have unleashed up on our freedoms and our national honor. Overseas, America’s symbol is Trump and it is a symbol that is daily destructive to our position in the world as a creator of and defender of freedom.

History will look at this generation of Americans and will ask, “How could they have gone so wrong?” Scholars will analyze and theorize, none of which will change what we are because of that day and the days since that all of us have witnessed.

It is 2026. Change seems to be coming. But as it evolves, the movements behind Trump and January 6 are returning also, Oath Keepers, Conspiracy theorists, and the Super-Religious Patriots who see power as more holy than service and who see their God in Trump. This is going to be an ugly year. But a year from now the nation will emerge battered, perhaps soon to be without him, although bearing the deep scars he has left. We must believe the Better Angels will outlast him and we then can get about the business of rebuilding our country.

The Couple

Posted on December 31, 2025 by bpriddy

Why can’t two prominent people be in love without somebody suggesting it’s all wrong and it’s all going to fall apart?

We blundered into an article on the internet the other day from something called OK! Magazine suggesting Travis and Taylor are headed for big trouble because Travis has said he and Taylor don’t argue. The writer compared them to George and Amal Clooney, with George saying they never fight.

Various “experts” chimed in that these relationships are doomed, in effect saying that two people in the spotlight can’t be happy with one another, or as the article suggests, is “whether the couple’s serene dynamic hides emotional distance rather than marital bliss.”

The article further elaborates: “One family therapist said: ‘It may seem perfect when couples say they never argue, but that can actually point to feelings being held back instead of real harmony. Disagreements are a normal, healthy part of connection – they help partners communicate openly. Avoiding conflict altogether can mean avoiding the deeper issues, too.’

Kelce and Clooney got together on Travis’ podcast, ‘New Heights” and the issue of domestic harmony came up. Clooney has spoken of his “conflict-free” marriage and told Kelce, “Neither of us are going to win the arguments, so why get in it? Dude, I’m 64 years old, and what am I going to argue about at this point? I’ve met this incredible woman, she’s beautiful and smart, and she stands for all the most important things that I believe in in the world, and I can’t believe how lucky I am, so what am I going to fight about?”

Kelce said he and fiancé Taylor Swift have “never argued” in their time together (has it already been two and a half years?). Both are 36. George is 64 and Amal is 47, for whatever value that might have to the discussion. They’ve been married for ten years.

The article continued: “One insider familiar with the Clooneys said: ‘Everyone adores George and Amal, but when they said they never argue, it raised eyebrows. It made people question what other parts of their relationship might be missing. And it means Taylor and Travis’ bond could be just as unhealthy as the Clooneys.’”

Unhealthy????? What “other parts of their relationship” are in jeopardy? To the layman, this sounds like a substantial crock.

(At our house, the biggest long-lasting point of disagreement is what’s for dinner. Couples have disagreements. Couples who love each other resolve them. A disagreement is not a fight that results in no resolution or a winner/loser resolution that creates smoldering resentments. But these “experts” seem to think that is how things should be. They’ve been watching too many soap operas.)

The breakup of celebrity relationships make supermarket tabloid headlines but the relationships that last are far more likely.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest 41 years

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick 37 years

Samuel L. and LaTanya Jackson 45 years

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Brad Hall 38 years

Denzel Washington and Pauletta Pearson 42 years

Sarah Jessica Parker and Mathew Broderick 28 years

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward 50 years

Sam Elliott and Katherine Ross 41 years

Phillip Mountbatten and Queen Elizabeth II 74 years

Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh 45 years

James Stewart and Gloria Hatrick McLean 45 years

Stan and Lilian LaBash Musial 72 years

Roy Rogers and Dale Evens 51 years

And we could go on and on.

As long as Travis and Taylor are able to ignore the tabloid’s pressures and are able to live their own lives, they’ll be okay. But the celebrity culture feasts on the beautiful, the rich, and the prominent and they have to stay above that and be whatever THEY make of their lives.

We would hope that people would just stand back and let them enjoy being part of each other’s lives—just as we would do for OUR social friends. If you would not have the same suspicions about your friends’ relationships, why would you be suspicious of theirs?

The all-star jock and the homecoming queen, that’s what we have with Travis and Taylor. It works. Just ask Norm Stewart (who will be 91 on January 20).

Norm and Virginia Zimmerly Stewart 69 years.

So, to Hell with the “experts.” Let the beautiful people be in love. Wish them a long and happy future. Remember when your eyes only saw each other and an unknown future was stretched out before you. Let them have that same joy and the same opportunity to build their own future. Find a checkout lane without a tabloid rack. Their life and their lives are nobody’s business but theirs.

(Stewarts: Columbia Daily Tribune; Clooneys: Microsoft Bling; Travis and Taylor: Instagram)

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