Two things

Two things on my mind...

The other night, some fans hadn't even settled into their La-Z-Boy recliner when Aaron Rodgers, new to the New York Jets, crumpled to the turf with an apparent Achilles injury, which may have ended his season, if not his entire career. 

Sitting before his TV, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes tweeted (or X-ed), “Hate that man… Praying for the best.” 

How long did it take for someone to text Mahomes and suggest he add a comma? Soon, he came back and added the punctuation to make his sentence more clear and more pleasant:

“Hate that, man.”

“Knew i was going to need that edit button on here one of these days,” Mahomes added. 

It reminded us of the old "He loves cooking his family and his pets" statement, which fairly cried out loud for commas.

And then I read that our society has finally reached a cultural pinnacle, now that Matthew McConaughey has become the last of our celebrities to write a children's book, following the leads of Reese Witherspoon, Serena Williams, and Seth Meyers.

McConaughey, best known for chirping "All right, all right, all right" in movies, titled his book "Just Because."

“Just because I let go, doesn’t mean that I stopped climbing,” goes one entry that shows a skateboarder zooming up a ramp.

And then, this Zen-timental entry above a picture of a sad girl painting a picture of a smiling sun, “Just because I mean it, doesn’t mean that I’m not lying.”  

McConaughey says his book is "about the poetry of life, instead of having the pressure on us that feels like we’re told every day that we need to be absolute about every single thing.” 

Now that sounds like a credo any child could understand. Their moms will buy them the book because they find the author attractive, and the young ones will fall asleep quickly at night, rather than hearing Mom read them one more page.