This afternoon, at 1900 EDT, the NHL's Florida Panthers face the Toronto Maple Leafs -- Sheldon Keefe's Little Spuds Hard to Peel -- in Game 2 of their Stanley Cup playoff series. Despite having won Game 1, the Panthers remain the underdogs. Walt hopes they will be mindful of this advice from a great sage.
And our National Sports (as long as it's hockey) Editor, Poor Len Canayen, adds:
* Once Only You Live. Cunning linguists will know that although Yoda, for some reason, speaks English, his syntax -- the sentence structure he uses -- is classical Latin. Caesar wrote "Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est" -- "All Gaul in three parts divided is" -- not "All Gaul is divided in three parts". So... Once Only You Live. Bonum est.
Ed. here. Walt is taking a couple of days off to recover from the intense activity of last week (and clean out his attic, q.v.), so today I'll just post a link to another great piece of satire from the Babylon Bee.
CORUSCANT—Journalists at Coruscant News Network, Mustafar Satellite News Broad Casting, and the Core-planets Broadcasting System have cautioned people against blaming the Empire for blowing up Alderaan.... Click here to continue reading.
Dave Sussman and Bill Whittle discuss how Hollywood has rewritten crucial scenes in Star Wars to accommodate a new politically correct, inclusive, diverse, yada yada yada view of heroes and society, and how it enrages a large swath of millennials. Mr Whittle explains the "walk away" strategy, and how it can be used to weaken the Democratic Party and win the culture war.
Don't miss Bill's riff, around the 17 minute mark, on how Star Wars is (and was intended to be) a religion for a post-Christian world.
As someone who liked the first three Star Wars movies (Parts IV, V and VI), disliked the next three and was so put off by the trailers for those that followed that I didn't even see them, I give this two thumbs up.
Footnote (Footvideo?): Did Han Solo shoot first? Ed. found Bill Whittle's earlier (2012) video in which he discusses the issue. Here it is.
Now I understand -- thanks Bill! -- why there hasn't been a movie made in the last five years that I've found worth seeing. American movies stink! Hollywood stinks! Political correctness and leftist ideology stink! A pox on the lot of them!
Another footnote: If you enjoyed listening to Bill Whittle demolish Star Wars and American cinema, you'll surely get a chuckle out of "Story Time: Bill Reads a Hillary Clinton Children's Book!" Posted in February 2016, it wasn't the only reason why Hellery lost the election, but I'm sure it helped! LMAO!
I'm tempted to repost every episode of The Rebel ever made featuring Gavin McInnes. But they have their own site plus a channel on YouTube [plus you don't want to appear so lazy. Ed.] so I'll leave you to follow them on your own. I reserve my right, though, to pass along, through WWW, rants that tickle my funnybone more than a little. One such is Mr McInnes's comments on the excruciating political correctness of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, disappearing soon (if we're lucky) at a cinema near you.
WARNING: This video contains language and thoughts which some snowflakes may find objectionable!
There's more to The Rebel than Gavin McInnes. Ezra Levant, one of the founders, has been featured on WWW before, and remains one of my favourites. Mr Levant has come up with a brilliant plan to help The Rebel beat the CBC! Click here to hear all about it. I'm going to support them. How about you?
I know, I know... A day late and a dollar short. That's the way things go around here. Right, Ed.? In this case, TWO days late, Star Wars Day having come and gone before "we" got the joke and Ed. got around to finding some memes to show you. I guess it means we're not real fans?
Frankly, I didn't think much of Parts I, II and III, and am not looking forward to Part VII at all at all.