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The information age: the time in which information has become a commodity and is quickly and widely disseminated and easily available through the use of television and computer technology. Ah, those were the good old days.  The Information Age seems to have quickly and widely devolved into The Misinformation Age.  What’s that?  It’s when anybody …

Questions we had a few.  Fifteen actually.  That was so yesterday. Thoughts, we have a few.  Today.  Five only. But first a request.   BBR management has been actively seeking council both from the medical and legal community with concerns for our loyal reader’s safety.  As a result, beginning 8/1 it is our policy that we …

To mask or not to mask?  That is but one of the many questions that the CDC must ask, and answer. Main St. (we have plenty of toilet paper and Clorox Wipes on the shelves) and Wall St. (new highs on major averages nearly weekly) are behaving much differently than last April 2020.  Meanwhile, the …

  In case you missed it(ICYMI), yesterday the Kansas City Chiefs announced that they will retire Warpaint, their longtime Native American/Indian pony mascot that has roused fans at Arrowhead Stadium since 1955. If you’re quite young or quite woke you very likely did not need the “ICYMI.”  In fact, you might be ROTF that we …

Deep in the heart of Texas hearts have been broken.  Now more are about to be broken. Last season the Houston Rockets and James Harden broke off an eight-plus-year relationship.  It had its ups and downs and ended without an NBA Championship. The decision was mutual to part.   Weeks later, J.J. Watt and the Houston …

Want to see a quick magic act?  Watch closely as three letters (NIL) will make four letters (NCAA) disappear. Abracadabra alakazam!  And so it is, and so it will be. Name, Image, and Likeness is a money-making opportunity for NCAA “student-athletes” that is monetizing rather quickly.  The possibilities are endless and the money plentiful. For …

There’s no time like the present unless you want to wait a year.  And, time heals all wounds unless it doesn’t.  And so it goes for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics as they will officially open in 24 hours.  It’s 2021, but better late than never. And for many, the Olympics is about to start(maybe), or …

Let’s make a deal.  We’ll feed you as many nuggets as we can cook up by 8:30 CDT.  We’re late against the deadline. So, hopefully, you’re not too ravaged this fine summer Friday morning.  LA County has reinstituted face masks as mandatory due to a barely discernable blip on their new cases tracking graph.  Too …

CNN is at it again.  Haven’t you noticed?  That’s understandable if you haven’t yet returned to the gym or been through an airport post-Covid. Yesterday, treadmill humming along, one of our staff members noticed the dreaded Covid new cases reported box firmly entrenched on the right side of their broadcast all over again.  In font …

In 1903 the Wright brothers’ first flight ever went about 300 yards .  Twenty-four years later Charles Lindbergh flew The Spirit of St. Louis 3600 miles nonstop across the Atlantic from New York to Paris.  America applauded and St. Louis roared. In 1995 the NFL Los Angeles Rams relocated to St. Louis.  Twenty years later …