Politics: It is not often I agree with Trump about anything, but I agreed with him about Syria: let Assad and ISIS fight it out and wait till the dust settles before you pick a side. Since nothings works for the Yanks, why not leave em to it? It is as though the US forgot what Russia learnt in their own excursions into Afghanistan: this shit will bankrupt you. Enough of wars, since you aren’t really on any side, let Russia go bankrupt for awhile.
Live: Alabama Shakes tonight, with Drive By Truckers, who I’ve never seen before, opening and everybody out of the pool by 10pm because it is Forest Hills Stadium!
Recorded: That Naughty Boy single is really great and so is the new Rudimental, Leigh Nash is still in heavy heavy rotation. And Keith Richards isn’t.
Sports: As a Yanks fan, the Mets going deep three times while lowering their magic number to 8 with sixteen games to play is nothing but pain. Joe Girardi: ““We need to win games, that’s the bottom line. We didn’t score runs tonight. We had some chances early on and were able to come up with one and that was it. But we need to win games and we need to focus on ourselves and take care of business.” I am sick of Girardi and I am sick of Cashman and I am sick of the Steinbrenners. They needed to make some moves and didn’t bother. Whatever happened to win today?
Schadenfreude: After raising the price of their VIP tickets to $250 from $125 for next weeks Global Citizen all I can say is: i hope it rains on you, you bastards.