It’s Monday. Had some decent weather over the weekend for the Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Joliet, Illinois. My favorite former NASCAR driver Tony Stewart claimed his second-career NHRA Top Fuel win yesterday, running 329.10 MPH to take down a 15-time winner Justin Ashley. Even better, Stewart now has the points lead in the division. If he wins the championship, it would put him in a category of his own.

NASCAR was in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, for the annual All-Star race. This is always a fun race to watch because it’s about one thing and one thing only—the one million dollars! There are no points, it’s only about winning a cool million and that’s exactly what Christopher Bell did.

Next Sunday is the high holy day of racing. The day starts with the 109th running of the Great American Race, the Indianapolis 500. After that is NASCAR’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. That’s a lot of racing action for one day, but I’m already prepared with extra beer and munchies.

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It’s Saturday! I don’t usually post updates on the weekend, but when I saw MAGA idiots losing their shit over an image (above) posted by former FBI director James Comey, I decided to say something.

Comey posted the photo and said, “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” Comey wrote in an Instagram post on Thursday night.

It didn’t take long for Trump and the radical-right to proclaim it as ‘a call for the assassination of the president’.

Trump himself also said, “A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know … that meant ‘assassination,’” the president said. “And it says it loud and clear.”

Well I’ve heard the term “86” used many times throughout my life. Never once was it ever interpreted as assassinate. Just for fun, I even looked it up.

WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY:

eighty-sixed or 86’d; eighty-sixing or 86ing; eighty-sixes or 86es
Synonyms of eighty-six
transitive verb

1
informal
a
: to refuse to serve (a customer)
“Beer here, barkeep,” he said. “You’re eighty-sixed,” Lucy said. “Cut off. No more for you.”
—Mary Karr
b
: to eject or ban (a customer)
The club’s bouncers eighty-sixed her.
I nodded at the corner bar beside us. He said, “I can’t go in there.” “Why?” “I’m eighty-sixed.”
—Andre Dubus

informal
a
: to remove (an item) from a menu : to no longer offer (an item) to customers
Many small restaurants or bars may run into issues with their inventory. When there are not enough ingredients left to make a popular dish or drink, they’ll have to 86 it. This prevents customers from ordering it and then getting upset.
—Joshua Weatherwax
b
: to reject, discontinue, or get rid of (something)
Democratic leaders also eighty-sixed a similar amendment introduced in the House version of the bill …
—Dell Cameron
Sadly, … the heartless bottom-liners on the food committee eighty-sixed the black raspberry [ice cream] for good.
—Greg Kesich
So after attempting a Zoom interview that had them sounding as garbled as the off-camera adults in a “Peanuts” special, we eighty-sixed the audio on our computers and talked on the phone …
—Brian O’Neill

Feign your outrage elsewhere.

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It’s Friday! I was out for dinner again last night and the first thing I did was check the drink menu for Yuengling and… there it was! I can definitely get used to this.

It got fairly steamy here yesterday with temperatures in the 90s. It kicked off a mess of thunderstorms, lightning, wind, and tornado warnings, but it blew over with only some wind damage here and there. The north and south of us had much more damage.

Anyway, I have a new amateur photo to share with all of you. This one was actually supposed to have been featured last Friday, but then there was that glitch that prevented me from posting the update. Everything seems good now, so enjoy it along with the double babes & double jokes!

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Keep, I hope your readers aren’t too shy for this one of mine. Cheers. -Anonymous