It may be shocking that it took this long, but the Country Music Association has banned all confederate flags from its annual music festival. The Country Music Association added “Confederate flag imagery of any kind” to the prohibited items list at the upcoming CMA Fest in Nashville, Tennessee. The four day festival takes place starting June 9th.
Does this include tattoos?

Read more at Charlotte Observer

This year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee had an exciting finish, with the first ever spell off to decide a winner. The victor, Harini Logan, spelled 21 words in 90 seconds to break the tie.

This is penalty kicks for nerds.

The cable news streamer admitted they overuse the phrase Breaking News and promised to cut it out. It seems like every time they put up a new story, they called it “breaking” because everyone clicks on “breaking” news. But what about you MSNBC, asked mediaite? And how about every single website on the internet, while we’re at it.

Here’s some Breaking news: none of these channels actually has news let alone breaking news.

Read more at Mediaite

CNN to Simmer Down On ‘Breaking News’ Banner. How About MSNBC?

Generation X and Baby Boomers may remember persistent failed efforts to convince the US to change from the Imperial system of measurement to the more logical metric system. It never happened. But now the UK decided to go the other way and join us with inches, ounces, and degrees fahrenheit instead of centimeters, litres and celsius.

The only reason why they tried to force it on us was because you guys did it first.

Read more at barstool.

The congressional committee has planned its first televised hearing, and it will take place during prime time. The special will catch us up on what they’ve learned so far, and will air on June 9 at 8 p.m. ET.

If they want America to watch, their first witness should be Amber Heard.

Read more at NPR

Thousands of digital currencies will completely collapse in the next few years and thousands have already failed. This news comes from actual crypto experts.

Not according to the guy who hacked Tom Rhodes.

Read more at CNBC

Former mayor and wannabe PIP (politically important person) Rudy Giuliani is looking to improve his image, so he hired a public relations expert. His new PR manager is none other than Kristin Davis, the famed Manhattan Madame who ran a high end prostitution ring.

It’s great to see he finally has himself straightened out.

Read more at Mediaite.

Her big tell-all book, “Here’s the Deal” sold just 25,000 copies in its first week. The numbers plummeted after that. Even her main squeeze Trump trashed it.

If she was nicer to her influencer daughter, Claudia, maybe she could get a pop.

Read more at Showbiz 411

A planned $35 million dollar baseball complex for the Rays has been shot down by Governor DeSantis soon after the team tweeted a plea for gun control. The team ha tweeted, “This cannot become normal. We cannot become numb. We cannot look the other way. We all know, if nothing changes, nothing changes.

All 15 Rays fans will vote against him in the next election.

Read more at NY Post

Joe Girardi is out. Bench coach Rob Thompson will fill in while a replacement is found.

It’s the first week of June and this is the sign that the entire season is over.

The Phillies have relieved Joe Girardi of his duties as manager today. Bench coach Rob Thomson has been named interim manager for the club through the end of the 2022 season. In addition, coaching assistant Bobby Meacham was also relieved of his duties. pic.twitter.com/lVL60RrSnJ

— Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) June 3, 2022

Miles Teller who plays Al Ruddy in Paramount’s new series based on the making of The Godfather threw out the first pitch for the Phillies. It was a perfect strike.

Finally a pitch meeting that’s believable.

.@Miles_Teller let it eat.

(MLB x @SIRIUSXM) pic.twitter.com/RgUI7MNOJ8

— MLB (@MLB) June 1, 2022

Norman Chad who you may know as the color for the World Series of Poker said his old friend Tony Kornheiser is dead to him ever since Tony stopped inviting his friend to appear on PTI. “I was persona non grata. … It was either (Tony) Kornheiser himself who said, ‘No more Norm,’ or the guy who ran the show (executive producer) Erik Rydholm. It had to be one of the two and it was probably both.”

Don’t worry, he’s almost dead to all of us.

Read more at Awful Announcing

Last weekend we heard that Depp was on stage with Jeff Beck for two nights after the defamation trial ended, but before the jury delivered the verdict. On Friday the duo announced they collaborated on a studio album, which will be available in July.

Jeff’s new album is called From Rod Stewart to Johnny Depp :what a long strange trip its been.

Read more at variety

Fourth of July will premiere in select theaters on July 1st. The movie stars Joe List, with Louis CK directing and co-writing with List.

Joe List is on everyone’s summer movie list.

Matthew Morrison went on Instagram to explain himself after he was let go from Dancing With the Stars. He shared the DM to a contestant that landed him in trouble. He said he DM’ed the woman “Hey, it’s Matthew. If you don’t mind, would love to get your number and talk you through some things.”

Weird. Thought he told her to swing by the Morrison Hotel.

Read more at digg.

Sources say the comedian and actress has been tapped to play sister to Bradley Cooper’s starring role as Leonard Bernstein in the movie Maestro. Just this week, after revealing an image of Cooper in makeup, the filmmakers were accused of promoting JewFace, something Silverman has been outspoken against.

One way to do away with a complainer is to put her on the payroll.

Read more at Vanity Fair

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