No, I am not talking about the season, the weather, or the "whatever you want to call it" in Washington.

No, the new sports season began on Sunday after the 2024-2025 Super Bowl. Today, all the pro football teams are equal. We must wait until next year to learn if our favorite team will be a winner.

This year, I am intrigued by the WNBA. It is gearing up for a new season to take advantage of newfound popularity. Much of the new interest is due to Caitlin Clark, who got the ball rolling. Public interest in her skills drew new TV coverage, and the new TV coverage attracted big crowds and advertising dollars. Suddenly, the league bank accounts were in the black, and they spent their newfound money on things like charter jets, upgraded practice and locker room amenities and, yes, on salaries for the players. Voila, America can see these athletes show off their remarkable skills.

As our collegiate basketball season focuses on stars, the TV pundits tout Duke freshman, and Maine native, Cooper Flagg, as the next big deal. Will he become the next superstar? Why not? If superstar Larry Bird came from tiny French Lick, Indiana, (population 1,729)? Why can’t the next basketball superstar come from our Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine (population 3,300)? Like Bird, Flagg can score, visualize the court, and is a sterling passer.

For me, the most important sporting event this week is the opening of the 2025 major league baseball season as spring training began in the southland. Will the Red Sox be able to climb out of the basement? Will they finally be in the hunt for the AL East pennant? Will they edge out the evil Yankees at last? I hope so.

We all need all sports as an alternative to the national food fight playing out in Washington, D.C.

Tell me, just what is the point of the nasty scrum playing out in the hallowed halls of the puzzle palace on the Potomac? I don’t know, and neither do the so-called experts. They have not wrapped their arms and egos around the swirling currents, statements, and misstatements stemming from the three-week-old Trump/Musk administration.

For example, what in the world is this body named DOGE that seems to be running the government? I can’t seem to find it in the Constitution. What is this swamp they are trying to drain? They say they are trying to eliminate woke practices. Just what is this woke stuff? I understand how the new guys want to replace and destroy the old guys they blame for investigating/prosecuting them in the last go-around. I get that. I understand that the new guys want to claim it is not an act of revenge. But, what walks like a duck ... You know the rest.

I happened to catch a video of POTUS at the national prayer breakfast trumpeting his executive order to prosecute anti-Christians. He declared he would move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians. But didn't I see him attack the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., who asked him to go easy on the unfortunates? Didn’t his VPOTUS accuse the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling illegal immigrants to get federal funding?

According to the AP, that brought a sharp retort from His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, the same guy who gave the invocation shortly before Vance took his oath of office. Cardinal Dolan, no liberal, called the VPOTUS remarks: "scurrilous and nasty.”Then the pseudo-co-POTUS, Elon Musk, called for slashing aid to certain Lutheran church relief agencies after the disgraced former Army General Michael Flynn (remember him?) said the money they received from the government amounted to money laundering.

Is the President's favorite sect, the Evangelical Christians, in an ideological/theological battle with the traditional mainstream Christians? Don't they share the same Scripture? I seem to remember one of the reasons the founders invented America, which was to provide a respite from thousands of years of bloody European religious wars.

I wonder whose neck is next on the chopping block? Most importantly, when they are finished, will "all the king's horses and all the king's men" be able to put it all back together again?

Are things in D.C. a mess? If you are a fan of the mythical Canadian poet Ruth Zardo, I guess everything is just fine.

Meanwhile, I bought an ordinary (not free-range) dozen eggs for $8. OK, it was not $8.00, it was $7.99.

We once were told soaring egg prices were due to the incompetence of the Democrats. Now that the Republican MAGA crowd is in charge, the high price of eggs is due to bird flu.

Oh, I get it. In politics, like in real life, the winners blame the losers.

We all are living in interesting times.