Morning Musings

KFT, Kentucky Fried Tofu? That's what getting beta-tested in Atlanta. Well, maybe not tofu, but some sort of faux fowl by Beyond Meat. Their rival Impossible Foods have a vegan Whopper going at Burger King, so it's worth keeping an eye on. I'm not their target market, but if you can come up with less-expensive alternative to conventional dead animal flesh that tastes good, I'm interested.

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Rocky Mountain Way and Life's Been Good earwigs are going; Joe Walsh (not the former Eagles rocker) is throwing his hat in the ring.

This Joe Walsh is a conservative talker by trade and one-time Tea Party congressman. He was seemingly in a Trumpian mold, Birther and all before going sour on the Donald after his Putin lovefest.

The second verse of Rocky Mountain Way seems to fit the campaign, or at least Walsh's foe's flexibility with facts.

Well he's tellin' us this
And he's tellin' us that
Changes it every day
Say's it doesn't matter
Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat
Playin' it play by play
Time to change the batter

I'm not sure if Walsh is the pinch-hitter I'd have it mind, but he meets the modest bar of making Trump look good in comparison. This snarky Chris Cillizsa passage gets a chuckle-

Walsh, the newest entrant (or near-entrant) into the race, was a flame-throwing one-term congressman who repeatedly pushed the much-debunked idea that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.  [Mark] Sanford was bounced out of the governor's office in South Carolina after he left the country for a week to be with his Argentine girlfriend. [Former MA Gov Bill] Weld hasn't held elective office in more than two decades, and has been kicking around the fringes of presidential politics since the early 2000s.

 

This is, to put a fine point on it, a "Star Wars" bar of politicians.

 At least with the cantina crew, you could make a case for checking their US citizenship papers.

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Who's more honest, Trump or the Chinese government? Jim Cramer goes with The Donald, since he has a domestic media who will call BS on his whoppers, unlike Beijing. Beijing's whoppers are 100% cow  ..  pies, while Trump does have some red meat in there on occasion.

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While we're on 70's rock, we can crank up Steve Miller's Take the Money and Run as a serenade to Andrew Luck. Unlike the Bonnie and Clyde-esque pair of Miller's song, Luck earned his dinero. Like Megatron a few years ago, he wanted to leave while he was still mentally and physically intact.