5/19/25 - What A Horse Race, Cheating, and Dancing With..What?

Monday 5/19/25

Celebrate:

Accounting Day

Boy's Club Day

Celebrate Your Elected Officials Day (there are some that can F*$% Off)

May Ray Day

National Devil's Food Cake Day

National Hepatitis Testing Day

World Family Doctor Day

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Weekend Box Office

1. Final Destination: Bloodlines $51.0M exceeding expectations and getting great reviews.

2. Thunderbolts* $16.5M

3. Sinners $15.4M

4. A Minecraft Movie $5.9M

5. The Accountant 2 $5.0M

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The 150th Preakness Stakes was run Saturday and what an exciting race!!!!!! Journalism was the winner coming from 6th and bumping two horses to get through!

Ridden by Umberto Rispoli, Journalism broke well from the second gate and settled off the pace that was set by Clever Again. The 3-year-old colt ran a similar race as he did in the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, coming from back in the pack to contend down the stretch. This time, Journalism and Rispoli, who finished second in Louisville, had enough in the tank to take the lead in the final strides.

The final finish

Journalism (8-5)

Gosger (20-1)

Sandman (4-1)

Goal Oriented (6-1)

Heart of Honor (12-1)

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This was probably inspired by all the talk of students today cheating with smartphones, A.I., and other technology.

More than 10,000 adults were asked recently, and 59% claim they never cheated on homework or tests in high school.

28% admit to cheating "occasionally" . . . and only 4% admit they did it "frequently."  6% say they aren't sure, and 3% "prefer not to say."  Younger men were the group most likely to admit to cheating in school.

54% of adults say they would NOT cheat on homework or tests if they were in school now.  21% say they might a little, and only 5% say they would do it frequently.

Only 4% of adults think "all" students are cheating right now . . . but 23% say "most of them" are, 22% say "about half of them" are, and 32% say "some of them" are.  Only 3% of adults believe NONE of them are.

I can't say much..I would probably find a way to...um...get help...because I cheated on Wordle last week.

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A disturbing avian mystery is unfolding in a Northern California town where residents have reported birds "exploding."

After..and it's a new word..necropsies..investigators are suggesting foul play.

It appears that injuries were consistent with trauma from a pellet gun, BB gun or a slingshot.

As the casualties have mounted, locals have speculated on everything from the birds being electrocuted by power lines to a phantom serial bird killer being on the loose.

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"Dancing with the Stars" kicked Tom Bergeron to the curb in 2020, but he's finally returning to the dance floor.  Actually, make that the OCEAN floor.

Tom is hosting a special for the Discovery Channel's Shark Week called "Dancing with Sharks" and it's EXACTLY what the name implies.

Expert divers and their SHARK PARTNERS will perform routines devised by a, quote, "world-class underwater choreographer."

And yes, we're talking about REAL sharks, not Left Shark, or Bob the Shark.  Although both would be awesome.

Bergeron posted an Instagram video with the caption, "See you this summer.  It will be fintastic."

It's all going to go well until someone loses a limb.

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The British pound is the oldest currency that's still in use.  It was established 1,200 years ago.

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