Champion Totty

European football’s “Champions League” competition is an annual event — a mini-World Cup, so to speak — which attempts to answer the burning question:  “Ignoring national boundaries, which is the best football club in Europe?”

I know that in these parts, football (“soccer”) is about as popular as Underwater Australian Wrist Wrestling (Friday nights @ 3am on ESPN), but bear with me because I’m not going to talk about the game anyway.

The ECL’s main TV host is an Albanian named Eva Amati, and she makes all our U.S. female sports presenters look like male drag artists.

And her Valentine’s Day pic:

I want to lie on a bed and listen to her murmur sweet Italian* nothings in my ear.


*She speaks Italian and English fluently, as well as her native Albanian.

Death Wish

Here’s a lovely story out of France:

They said the man was sitting at a bus stop with a knife in each hand.  “When police turned up, he ran towards them, without saying a word,” the source added.
One of the officers then used an electric stun gun but failed to control the crazed man.

Remarkable restraint under the circumstances, say I.

Another officer then quickly opened fire with his pistol and hit the suspect in the chest.  There were attempts to revive the man but he was declared dead at the scene.

Of course, this being “journalism”, we aren’t told how many times the asshole was shot, which is important.  French fuzz typically use 9mm Europellets in their sidearms, which makes me think that he was double-tapped (at least).  Or if a single shot, it was nice and accurate and blew out Knife Boy’s heart — in which the cop is to be applauded.

Either way, we should be told.

And at least the corpus delicti  didn’t take a knife to a gunfight, but two knives.  Which didn’t help his case much.

Finally, we don’t know anything about said asshole, but I wouldn’t bet against it being a “migrant” of African origin or else a Muzzie who hates infidels, rather than some local nutcase named Jean-Pierre du Peau-Le-Plus-Blanc.

Either way, we should be told.

I suspect that it was one of the former categories rather than the last, simply because we aren’t told anything about him.

Duet

I described this little performance to Longtime Buddy Trevor as “two old Jews making wonderful music together”, and I stand by the statement.  Listen to it tonight after dinner, and marvel at the virtuosity.

Had Edvard Grieg also been Jewish, it would have been a Tribe Trifecta, but I’ll take what I can get.

Quote Of The Day

Man, it sure is difficult to come up with a single quote of the day, nowadays.  I should just post a transcript of all the responses by WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt — who (unlike her Biden-appointed predecessor) is not a DEI hire and actually knows what she’s doing — but let’s just take this one, made in response to this action by the White House:

Gone are the days where left-wing stenographers posing as journalists, such as yourself, dictate who gets to ask what.

Is it So Wrong that I’m falling in love with her?