The African-American commander of the space station in Deep Space 9 is boring as paint drying on the wall. Zero charisma. Zero.

Warren Buffett’s retiring at age 95 with the stock market at historic highs. He has $300B in cash parked in U.S. treasuries and knows that by the time the stock market starts yielding new bargains, he’ll be dead, so he’s bowing out gracefully now.

Tom Cruise shows the strange facial configuration of the newly plastic surgerized. It doesn’t look too terrible (not as bad as the modern Cher) but it’s pretty stark.

I’m planning on watching sports games and doing a play-by-play article on some of them. The title will be something like CANUCKS 5 GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2.

The reason? I need to get close to my fellow citizens. Sports watching is an approved activity for the majority of men, and I want to be part of the ebb and flow. Besides, there’ll be fans of that kind of writing too.

If you have questions for me (Greg Nikolic, author of Dark Sport website) send them here. I plan on starting a Viewers’ Mailbag type thing where I answer letters and describe what I’m doing, thinking, or planning on doing. And so on. Don’t be shy! Click on the above link and post your question for me. If you’re a lurker, now’s your chance to shine.

The choice between giving a mugger your money and standing your ground is a stark one. If it happened to me now, I’d probably stand my ground. I cannot afford to have my Visa card and my debit card in the hands of a stranger. Likewise, I can’t afford not to exploit women when I get the chance. I need more money, pronto.

Mexico hasn’t been a threat to American citizens since the days of the Alamo. Canada is likewise pacified. So why have so many military bases scattered across the length and breadth of the United States? Is Fort Bragg there to station Special Forces, or is to keep a fist knuckled down on the South?

Home prices are finally tapering off a bit. They have a fair ways to go in their descent before reaching rock bottom. According to Wolf Richter of Wolfstreet.com, it was the Fed’s responsibility for lowering interest rates — suppressing them to record lows — that caused the valuations of properties nationwide to explode. And of course this spilled over into Canada, where the Bank of Canada mimics the Federal Reserve’s moves whenever it’s expedient to do so. I only hope by the time I’m ready to buy a home in downtown Toronto, the prices will have settled down to their minimum state and I can offer a premium on the home I have my eye on.

Over at Mishtalk.com, Mike Shedlock (Mish) continues to rail against the policies and stupidities of the American president. Mish strikes me as a George Bush Sr. kind of man, one who is averse to radicalism and supportive of law & order. He is out of step with the times. We are living in the dawn of populism, when the needs of the basic people are brought to the forefront of the nations in an attempt at soothing old sores and grievances…

And finally, the television show I Dream of Jeannie had a female lead who made magic happen by twitching her nose fetchingly. She was a cutie, alright. I wonder what would happen if she rebelled against her astronaut husband and turned into a vicious sex doll?