Maybe Trump has a point

‘ll join the ranks of LeBron James, Anthony Rizzo and Colin Kaepernick and voice an opinion outside of my area of expertise.

These athletes have been ripped for speaking their minds on social and political issues, like they’re not qualified to share their thoughts on something outside of the basketball, baseball and football arenas. (I expect to get get some heat, too, for what I’m about to share.)

These athletes been told to “stick to sports”. It’s a ridiculous complaint from the peanut galleries, but I guess it’s a more friendly request than some of those Jackie Robinson heard during his playing days.

My beefs outside of the sports circles I follow:

• ‘Friends’ (that popular 90s sitcom) has to be one of the most godawful programs in the history of television. It’s atrocious. It isn’t funny, the writing is horrible and the characters are not likeable or believable. I understand ‘Friends’ was the hottest thing going in the 1990s. Rachel and Ross, Monica and Chandler, “We were on a break”, Brad Pitt and Elle MacPherson and the great Tom Selleck as guest stars… It was a time when our TV standards were remarkably lower than they are today and perhaps that’s why the show was outrageously popular. If not for the laugh track, I doubt thus show would spark laughter.
• The world’s dumbest human, Donald Trump, believes video games and movies are to blame for our violent society (ie: trigger-happy Americans). I think he has a point. We love the UFC, the so-called sport where steroid-induced men and women punch and kick and choke and elbow their opponent until someone dies (or taps out or is knocked unconscious). We love to see football and hockey players fight or get knocked out in the heat of competition. Concussions don’t scare anyone. We love violence, the blood, the fights, the brutality.
• Speaking of violence, when did Regina criminals take their game to the next level? Gone are the days of holding up the 7-11 with a butter knife. Today, Regina’s finest take their enemies prisoner and behead them in basements. And they steal cars using machetes in broad daylight. Stay classy, Regina.
• Are there consecutive traffic lights in Regina that have synchronized green lights?
•  What comes first (or at all): Capital Point completion or an overpass on Ring Road to avoid the rail crossing?
• Metallica is coming to Saskatchewan in September. I thought Mosaic Stadium was supposed to host these high-profile concerts. Instead, Metallica will play in Saskatoon that night and the $300-million building in Regina will sit empty (much like it has for the past four months).
• Which character on Friends did you NOT want to hit with a hammer?