On The Beat- Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…

By Mr. Curmudgeon

Australian actress Ruby Rose accuses Katy Perry of sexual assault 20 years ago. That’s a serious and rather common allegation. Maybe PTSD kept it bottled up? Or maybe it’s an old-fashioned money grab (Rose is seeking $5 million). Or maybe this has to do with a man. Possibly Rose has a crush on former Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau? Either way Perry denies it. Harvey Weinstein also denies his rape allegation in his 3rd rape trial taking place in New York. Coitus causes so much trouble… Researchers studying happiness in 100 countries found the unhappiest age to be 47. Three months and I am out of the woods with only 32% liver damage… In college baseball, the ETSU Buccaneers took on the #5-ranked Georgia Bulldogs. It was a scrappy, high octane game that the Bulldogs won 12-10. But ETSU fought to the end, like the Vikings storming the settlements of King Aethelred The Unsteady to exact revenge… In Alaska the house unanimously passed a bill to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18. You think it would pass without much difficulty, however, it seems to have been put on the shelf. Politicians losing the right to legally sleep with 16-year old girls has hit an unforeseen obstacle, imagine that… Today we remember Joey Ramone who died on this day, Tax Day, in 2001. The Ramones song “Beat on the Brat,” is loosely rumored, to be dedicated to the Internal Revenue Service… Founder of the Christmas bar crawl, Stefan Pildes, is soon to become the con in SantaCon after being arrested on wire fraud charges… Omaha police arrived on the scene of a bizarre attempted kidnapping in progress caught on tape involving the filthy suspect, Noemi Guzman, whose hair is partially dyed red (always the unnaturally colored-haired ones) stole a knife from Walmart and tried to abduct a young child before police filled her full of lead… Guy Fieri responds to critics questioning his “bro” exchange with accused sexual assaulters Andrew and Tristen Tate at a recent UFC fight, saying “I don’t know them and I don’t support them”. Probably not the best social climate right now to be seen cavorting with people under such suspicion, especially with the onslaught of sexual assault accusations (most of which are probably true) peppering the daily rags… Connor McGregor and ex-sparring partner, Artem Lobov, reach settlement in their whiskey (Proper Twelve) dispute without bare-knuckling out in the distillery parking lot… Mason student used AI and pics of his classmates to create realistic nudes. Ah, so Ashley was a real blonde after all… Yankees come back from behind yet again, BetMGM was buzzing as an infield pop-fly flub put Jazz Chisholm on base. Wells Walks and then Caballero knocks them home for the win. Yankees are definitely a team you don’t go to see live if you have a heart condition… My sister brought up an interesting point. Does anyone else fond it odd that Bill and Melinda Gates are affiliated with an organization charges $$ poor people in third-world countries for fresh water? Do they not have enough money?… A Rutgers study suggests 6-year-olds are getting their hands on e-cigarettes and inhaling… Hiker in southern California bitten by rattlesnake. Lucky to be alive. Lucky it wasn’t a grizzly… We present it, you decide…