Bengals gamble in picking John Ross

With their first draft pick and ninth overall, the Cincinnati Bengals gambled big time by selecting Washington wide receiver John Ross. The weaknesses are his size. 5' 11". 190 pounds. It's a little small for the NFL. The bigger problem is that he missed 2015 with an ACL injury. The upside is that he has blazing speed. He broke the 40 yard dash record for the NFL combine. He runs good routes. He's played defensive back so he knows how to exploit defenders. That should translate to an ability to outrun defensive backs and get open. But with that injury, I judge this to be a high risk-high reward draft pick. The grade is C Plus because of the risk. Check out his video highlights from last year below.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle trailer

Hooray. Here's the first trailer for the sequel to the Kingsman: The Secret Service, called "Kingsman: The Golden Circle." Wait a minute. That's Harry Hart (Colin Firth) at the end of the trailer. Didn't he get shot in the head and killed in the first one? Oh, well, maybe Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) missed.

Shut up Ivanka Trump

First Daughter Ivanka Trump was booed and received hisses when she said this at an international conference about women's entrepreneurship,

“I’m very proud of my father’s advocacy, (regarding family leave) ” she said, calling him “a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive.” Politico, April 25, 2017

Your father does not support families or women. Repeal of Obamacare will leave millions without health insurance. Defunding Planned Parenthood will leave women without health care. We all know about how he bragged about using his celebrity to sexually assault women. And he's been accused by women of sexually harassing them. So Ivanka, "Shut up." Oh, but please keep trying to moderate your crazy father. He does have the nuclear codes.

One last thing. I love this question from the moderator, Miriam Meckel.

“The German audience is not that familiar with the concept of a first daughter. I’d like to ask you, what is your role, and who are you representing, your father as president of the United States, the American people, or your business?”

Ms. Meckel, may I add that the American people are not familiar with the concept of a first daughter as political advisor.

Liberals must stop trying to censor speech

Liberal Bill Maher criticized progressives because the University of California at Berkeley, cancelled a speech by right-wing author Ann Coulter. She was later re-invited. (The Blaze, April 22, 2017 See I can cite conservative news outlets.) He called attempts to stifle speech by progressives as the "liberal version of book burning" on his HBO show Real Time.

Yes, I agree with Maher. Come on my fellow liberals. We believe in the Bill of Rights. You know, The First Amendment which guarantees free speech. And that means tolerating speech we don't agree with. Because it's out of this marketplace of ideas that truth can come out. The First Amendment protects conservatives as well as liberals.

Second, it is wrong for liberals to resort to violence when protesting these right-wingers. We, liberals are better than that. Don't give right-wing conservatives ammunition to attack our ideas based on lawlessness. Think about Gandhi and how he achieved justice through non-violence.

New Pirates of the Caribbean trailer has Keira Knightley in it

The new international trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has Keira Knightley in it. For you who don't know the series, she was in the first three films. I guess I'm going to have to look at Pirates of the Caribbean: At the World's End to see how they write her and her love Will (Orlando Bloom) back into the new sequel. Anyway, check out the trailer below. Knightly shows up at the 1:04 mark.

My reintroduction to this song from Kool and the Gang

I was vaguely aware of this song. But when I played Grand Theft Auto, I believe it was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I got to know it again. The song was "Hollywood Swinging" by Kool and the Gang. You can dance to it at the club. Thank you Lentarian for posting this on Youtube.

Dance with Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine with the song "1-2-3"

Time to get happy and dance. Here's Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine with the song "1-2-3." Look at the hair of everybody in the video! Well, it is 1988.