asons. Quote, this is one of the women on the team. Pretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this. Our coach just really likes winning. He just really likes winning. He's like most coaches I think. Secretly everyone just knows it's the wrong thing to do. The female Penn swimmer said during a phone interview. And then she goes on, quote, when the whole team is together we have to be like, oh my gosh go Leah, that's great, you're amazing. It's very fake, she added.

I don't know, I could talk more about this but it's so funny that it's hard for me to empathize with the fact that they're real losers in the story, right? The people who trained for these, trained to be on the team and you know maybe it'll hurt them in some way in the future. So I do feel bad for them but I love the fact that this newly female swimmer is not only beating the records but by beating them by like half a minute. One of his swimming races he won by half a minute. That's not even close. That is so ridiculous that this whole thing is just hilarious.

Now here's what I like about it. I guess that wokeness is eating itself. The reason that there's a women's team at all is because women said hey that's not fair and they were right. It wasn't fair at all. And so they got some fairness and then the trans people said hey that's not fair and then they went to get some fairness of their own. And then the people who got that fairness in the first place, the women, say hey we want to keep our fairness. We don't want to give up some fairness to you. And so the wokeness is eating itself and it's bad for women no doubt about it but it's good for this trans athlete.

So I would say the number of people who won and the number of people who lost were roughly even. One woman lost the top spot and one trans athlete, also a woman according to the new rules, won. So there's one person having a better day and one person having a worse day. That's what sports is all about. Sports is not about just winning. It's about losing with grace. It's about being a good sport. Are these women being good sports and taking their loss with grace? No they're not actually. They are because according to this when the whole team is together they're clapping and saying you're amazing Leah. Anyway, just the whole thing makes me laugh.

I saw a review in the New York Times about Yoko Ono and her role in the Beatles based on this news special, this documentary about the Beatles and it's called Get Back because the name of the show and it's terrific. You know I said before I'm about two-thirds through it. I just love it. It's just mind-blowingly fun if you're a fan or even a student of the Beatles. I'm more of a, I think I'm a fan and a student trying to learn what works and what doesn't.

And here's what the New York Times said about Yoko and the Beatles Get Back. Yoko Ono is always there. First it's unnerving then dazzling as if she is staging a marathon performance piece protesting the cult of male artistic genius. And that's actually pretty close to the take I had when I was watching it. Now I saw a number of people say what did Yoko do? If you watch the show she's just sort of sitting there minding her own business. I mean she's sitting right in the circle so she's shoulder to shoulder with Lennon as he's trying to create music and trying to work but she's not doing much. I mean she's not throwing in her opinion.

Kirby Carpe Dunked Him says in five years the WNBA will finally be watchable. It'll be all men. Not nice, Carpe. Very unwoke. I disapprove so strongly of your sporting preferences. But here back to Yoko. As a person who creates things for a living let me give you some advice. How much do you think I could have created if my wife and or girlfriend were sitting right next to me while I was doing it? Do you have any idea how much of a pressure that would be? Any idea?

So here's the problem. The point of having a spouse is that you're putting them first, right? I mean that's sort of baked into the whole deal of a spouse. If you take the person that you put first into a situation where it's a collaborative situation you're done. You're done. Because John can't say anything that he knows in advance will cause him a problem at home. And if he goes home and Yoko says you know John I like that one thing you did today but I like that other thing a little bit less, does John say no this is my thing and I will completely ignore your opinion, the most important person in my life whose existence is so important to me I don't want you more than an inch away from my body at any time? Do you think he can say no to Yoko? Well yes I mean he could say no but he's going to be very strongly influenced by not only what she does but what she might be thinking. Try to create something under that environment. Good luck.

So Yoko had the freedom to be in on this. Do you think she should have had less freedom and the world would have been a better place? Nobody knows. Now let me defend John Lennon and Yoko. Let me say as clearly as possible it was their marriage. If they decided that that worked for them and the cost of that was maybe the Beatles breaking up but they knew it and they made that choice, good for them. The world does not have some right to Beatles music or something, right? But he has a right to have whatever relationship he wants with the wife and she has the same. So I definitely do not find fault, not even a little bit, with what John Lennon and Yoko did. None. I find no fault. It was their life. They can do what they want and the rest of the Beatles just have to deal with it.

But I can guarantee it hurts their creativity because I can't even imagine, I just saw your word imagine combined I guess that's not a coincidence. Yeah I can't even imagine that they could be as effective with her in the room as with her not in the room. I can't even imagine.

So here's what peak pandemic looks like. You know everything starts out well-meaning and we're all confused in the first fog of war but as we work things out you start getting more and more reasonable and now your policies and things make more sense. You know we're not washing our groceries that are being delivered. We're not going crazy anymore. We're not wearing gloves everywhere. So you get smarter and smarter as time goes by. But then I think there's this point where you start getting stupid again.

Here's our current situation. Number one, the attenuated, meaning weakened, Omicron virus. It appears to act like a natural vaccine and there's some important people saying that now and it's probably, maybe almost certainly, the only way to end the pandemic would be an attenuated virus. Now experts are saying that's the only thing that stopped the Spanish flu was a variant that overcompeted and it wasn't as bad. So while we have this Omicron that looks like the only way out of the pandemic, at the same time the experts are talking about how we can stop that variant in its tracks with vaccines that we would have to take presumably forever. Those two things shouldn't be happening at the same time. Or at the very least the people making the vaccinations should be saying we're doing this just in case. Just in case we find out something we didn't know about Omicron. But if they're saying we're going balls to the wall to stop the Omicron, they need to be stopped. That would be basically criminal negligence. I mean that would be one of the worst things