The much heralded special event on FOX for Major League Baseball and I’m not sure what else only took two days to complete and embarrassment is just one of the emotions to feel. Most of us contribute in some way to the degradation of the environment but I don’t think that it is being preachy to to say that deliberately wasting what is called gasoline in an extravagant way by holding a “race” that awards the winner for ostentatious fuel burning while wars are waged with many unnecessary casualties over the production and profiting from petroleum products constitutes either bad taste or ignorance, neither of which is punishable as crime.

Attendance at the ball game at a racetrack was reported as 91,000 or so in Tennessee. In the land of Trump, the general mentality seems to open hostility to weakness, which is how wanting clean water, air and food is interpreted.

There is a World Cup for futbol scheduled to be played partly in the United States next year. There is an Olympics scheduled to be held in Los Angeles in 2028. F.I.F.A. and Olympics officials should very seriously consider canceling or moving both events as soon as possible. Nevertheless, that probably will not happen and that will certainly be to our regret. The excuse will be that because of something no one wants to say, at least not yet: millions, if not billions in potential “earnings” are involved. Potential big fires will be treated as little more than an annoyance to greedy Ben Dovers. Hot weather, hot fires, and hot politics will be forbidden by President Nero’s executive orders.

Switzerland was a good site for the Women’s Euros even though it contains many rich people because its cities don’t resemble war zones. The United States sells itself as the best place on Earth just like Disneyland as the happiest place. Most of the world knows what bullshit that is but television executives always go for the numbers. The World Cup and the Olympics should be examples of international cooperation and peace. Instead, with Pope Donald involved these are recipes for disaster.