Boom!

POTUS, FLOTUS, Prince Harry and his granny are having some fun promoting the upcoming Invictus Games in the U.S. The Obamas started it, with this message to Prince Harry:





Prince Harry fired back and he got his (now 90 years old) granny the Queen to help him:

Wow @FLOTUS and @POTUS, some @weareinvictus fighting talk there! You can dish it out, but can you take it? - H.

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 29, 2016

.@FLOTUS @POTUS How on Earth am I going to top that? 🤔 - H

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 29, 2016

Unfortunately for you @FLOTUS and @POTUS I wasn't alone when you sent me that video 😉 - H.https://t.co/sjfSQvkzb6

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 29, 2016

A Break From The Blog

Update: when I wrote this post I meant to include the countdowns to the two big events coming later this year:

Days until the Opening Ceremony in Rio: 100
Days until Election Day: 194

Original post:
Every now and then I take a break from blogging. For reasons that I can't always pinpoint, the blogger juices just run dry sometimes, and I'm in one of those breaks now. It won't be forever, I'll be back soon. In the meantime, check out some previous posts on topics ranging from Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin to the royals and the Kardashians:

Thoughts About Farrah Fawcett (5/11/09)
Veepstakes: Who Will Mitt Pick? (8/3/12)
Has It Really Been 15 Years? (8/31/12)
Contrived, Sensationalist, Repetitive, Witless (8/26/13)
Waiting For Schadenfreude (5/5/14)
Peggy And Jennifer Don't Like Mittens Anymore (1/17/15)
A Different Royal Visit (3/18/15)
Hypocrisy (6/28/15)
Blogging The Bach'ette: Gentlemen, Everything Is About To Change (6/30/15)
Friday Trump Blogging (7/17/15)
This Day In History, 2008: Who The Heck Is Sarah Palin? (8/29/15)
Diana And The Queen (9/10/15)
Lamar Odom (10/15/15)
Thinking About Vice Presidents (1/13/16)

And here are some of the recent People covers:

Issue dated May 9, 2016


Issue dated May 2, 2016



Issue dated April 25, 2016


Issue dated April 18, 2016


Issue dated April 11, 2016


Issue dated April 4, 2016

Lazy Headlines

These four stories are currently posted at people.com:

• Jake Gyllenhaal Opens Up About Heath Ledger's Death
• MSNBC Anchor Tamron Hall Opens Up About Her Sister's Unsolved Murder
• Janice Dickinson Opens Up About Breast Cancer Struggle
• Elizabeth Vargas Opens Up About Her Alcoholism

What's with all the "opening up"? Every now and then a word or phrase is overused and becomes annoying. This is one of these times.