They say...

They say that these things come in threes.

RIP Gene Upshaw.
RIP Kevin Duckworth.
RIP (middling MLB star of the 80s to be named later)

Yeah. That's right, world. You waited 6+ months for THAT nugget from me. Be grateful you got that. I recently received both a pooping pig and a crapping cow key chain, and let's be honest: blog or make small animals crap?

You know which one you'd pick.

As an aside - I'm old enough to remember a time when the Russians were the bad guys, their nukes were pointed straight at central Iowa (EVERY ONE OF THEM, DAMN IT!) and there was no way I was going to live to see 40 thanks to the certainty of Reagan and Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernenko going to war.

Russia has been a "democracy" now for more than a decade.

Funny how a few weeks of bullying their neighbors puts me right back in the Cold War frame of mind.

Silver lining concerning the last 10 years of the Cold War? Iowa played in 3 Rose Bowls.