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Shake & Bake

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  Napoli, Italy is shaking up the neighbors in Pozzuoli, Italy as their friendly neighborhood volcano is making noise and magma movement which causes angst and trepidation amongst the Napoletani. Pozzuoli is a suburb of Napoli and the town experienced an earthquake of volcanic origins on July 31, 2026 so as to 1 ... close out the month of July and 2 ... remind all the Napoletani and Pozzuoli residents that they live on top of one dang nasty super volcano and that volcano could blow it's caldera half way up the slopes of Vesuvius at any minute. The residents of Napoli and Pozzuoli don't seem to mind all that much as and after all ... this would be Naples as the place is called by those English speakers that like to vacation there and enjoy the pizza which had it's creation in Napoli, Italy. I'd be willing to bet that pizza actually got its start in ancient Rome but I would not argue the point with anyone from Napoli. The Napoletani and Puteolani have no intention of movi...

Are You Ready ... ?

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  Thursday August 6, 2026 and NFL footsball is back. The Hall of Fame game will open the preseason of the NFL and with all the bullshit happening at present in our sorely troubled world, some good old footsball will be a welcome return to the good old days. Sadly the Hall of Fame game isn't on ABC which used to broadcast the HoF. Well so much for the good old days. I'm dead dang certain that there was money involved here and NFL commish Roger Goodell loves the smell of money. So, I've been down on the NFL in recent times and with good reason and most of those reasons are again down to Goodell. Goodell is a rank money grubbing asshole and there's little doubt about that. But the fuck does the owners proud and as long as the footsball masters are happy, the postmodern equivalent to slavery will continue to be same old same old. Speaking of same old ... former QB Tony Romo, big time broadcaster partner to Jim Nance, got himself in a bit of a squeeze having got caug...