Jesse's Thoughts

I am not a gourmand or a foodie at all. I would best describe myself as porcine . Or sometimes porcine and sometimes avian . I read a news story about then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg pigging out one day and the next strictly limiting how and what he ate to maintain his slim figure. He was kind of vain, not that all celebrities and people in the spotlight aren't.  Especially in this heat and humidity, I crave ice cream. I would be perfectly happy to eat ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner between July 1st and the end of September, when the heat and humidity in Japan are pretty unbearable. But even I know that can't be done and sometimes eat a salad or at least a balanced meal from time to time.  But open a bag of potato chips around me and watch me inhale them without stop, no matter the season.

 In the US all of the NBA teams in the bubble in Orlando, as well as some MLB teams decided not to play their scheduled games. They are doing so as a form of protest against police abuse, this time in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin. There are multiple news stories about this, such as here , here , and here . The term boycott is being used, but the players are not boycotting the games. Boycott is a consumer not spending their money on a product in protest. To not take part in work as a form of protest, which is what the NBA, WNBA, and MLB players are doing, is called a strike . Here are some news stories using the correct word. Sometimes, in conversation, the right word gets stuck on the tip of your tongue or the wrong word comes out; conversation is extemporaneous and not always full of perfect grammar or terms. But news agencies have copywriters whose job is to catch mistakes and fix them. Even so, not all mistakes are caught.