Sunday Reads and So Forth, June 21

And who, pray tell, are you going to call when something horrific like this happens?  Not the woke idiots who think we should "defund" the police, that's for sure.

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Blood Horse magazine gives its take on yesterday's Belmont Stakes, won by Tiz the Law, the favorite.

I have been trying to fill the "gaps" in my Triple Crown glass collection.  I have a lot of them, especially of the Kentucky Derby, but when I was made destitute around 2010, I had to skip buying them.  Now I am trying to backorder older glasses these days.  I have the Kentucky Derby glasses for this year, and I am ordering the Belmont glass, but the Preakness glasses won't be available until August.

COVID-19 has really screwed up sports.

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Oops on the part of Trump's campaign because it has used songs not approved by a late performer's family.

Four of Tom Petty’s family members came together Saturday night to quickly release a statement blasting the president for using the rocker’s “I Won’t Back Down” at his Tulsa campaign rally, saying Petty “would never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate. He liked to bring people together.”

The statement said that Donald Trump “was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind. Both the late Tom Petty and his family firmly stand against racism and discrimination of any kind.”

Petty's family isn't the only one to object to use of their songs in Trump rallies:

The end of Trump’s lengthy and typically polarizing speech was met by the opening strains of the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” as always. The British group has repeatedly asked the Trump campaign to stop using the song, to no avail.

Others who have objected to their music being used by Trump at rallies include Pharrell Williams, R.E.M., Aerosmith, Neil Young, Adele and the Village People.

The campaign should stick with a safe choice like Lee Greenwood songs.

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Cartoon of the Day:

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So much for the big turnout in Tulsa:

From our Chief White House @Acosta : Turns out Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are “pissed” at Trump Campaign Mgr. Brad Parscale for predicting a much larger turnout at the Tulsa rally last night than actually showed — only 6200. There were thousands of empty seats. #CNN

— lisa mirando (@LisaMirandoCNN) June 21, 2020

Of course, people are staying away from huge crowds even if the president of the U.S. shows up.
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A reliable source mentions the pathetic turnout last night:

Tulsa Fire Department says Trump rally attendance was about 6,200 https://t.co/4pkqRaOKjS pic.twitter.com/yLN3gZWob1

— The Hill (@thehill) June 21, 2020