The “Game of Thrones” saga is coming to an end. So as not to lose the enormously popular series, producers look to going to the other end … with a prequel.

You know why statues are bing attacked? Statues can’t hit back.

I’m thinking of forming a Black Lives Anti-Matter movement. When the two groups meet on the street, they’ll all explode.

There is a movement afoot to have a woman play James Bond in the next movie of that franchise. Caitlyn Jenner might be appropriate for that role. Or Charlize Theron, who could say, “My name is Blond. James Blond.”

In a savage retaliation for U.S. sanctions, Russia ordered a reduction in staff at U.S. embassies in that country.

After six months of Donald Trump as President, the swamp still isn’t drained. We may have to conclude that it isn’t actually possible to drain the swamp. Ever.

U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., said the Democrats’ message is more than just opposing President Trump at every turn, as Democrats have been doing. She wants to tell Americans “We can see them.” Except for U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who can’t see the people in the district she represents because she doesn’t live in that district.

There were only six people in the room when President Donald Trump discussed certain issues with Vladimir Putin. Nevertheless, CNN and NBC will come up with the anonymous sources who were at the meeting.

A Japanese hotel has accommodations for the dead, really. There are shelves built in rooms to hold coffins so that grieving family members can spend one more day or two with their deceased kin. The hotel is located on a dead end.

Sometimes you gotta just shake your head. In Illinois, which is about to go broke, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner wants any spending plan to include some of the agenda that he says he was elected to enact: a property-tax freeze, legislative term limits and changes to the workers’ compensation insurance system to cut costs for businesses. Democrats, led by Rep. Michael Madigan, have resisted, saying those changes would hurt the middle class. Just exactly how would a property tax freeze and the other two proposals hurt the middle class?

And in another state with a budget crisis, Gov. Chris Christie enjoyed a day on a beach closed to the public because of New Jersey budget impasse. People didn’t believe it at first, thinking that Christie was actually a beached whale.

Jay-Z and Beyonce named one of their sons “Sir.” If he ever gets knighted, he will be addressed as Sir Sir. And when he asks someone if they like his music, that someone can answer, “Sure, Sir Sir.”

A budget dispute has shut down many state government operations in New Jersey. That reportedly included the Division of Motor Vehicles, but it was hard to tell because the people inside the DMV office didn’t move any slower after the shutdown than before the shutdown.

Federal officials say that grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park are no longer threatened. People have finally learned the appalling consequences of threatening a grizzly bear.

Two men in California face felony charges in connection with the theft of 1,200 beehives. They were caught in a sting operation.

A police officer in Ohio had to run down his own vehicle when it rolled away from the scene of a traffic stop. He caught up with the car, opened the door while the car was still moving and jumped into the driver’s seat. It was the first known case where a police officer pulled himself over.

U.S. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said if ObamaCare is repealed, or even changed, “hundreds of thousands” of Americans will die. Oddly, she’s correct. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die every month. It just doesn’t have anything to do with what Congress is doing.

Just curious. How many of you would like to see all waiters and waitresses in restaurants banned forever from using the word “perfect.”

I found a way to not interrupt my whole day by taking a nap in the afternoon. After I get up in the morning, I immediately go back to bed.

Slimmer aircraft bodies are making news at the Paris Air Show where commercial airliner manufacturers can shop their wares. But apparently they don’t know that the traveling public doesn’t want slimmer airliners; they want to sit next to slimmer passengers.

A Pennsylvania man has won $870,000 in a medical malpractice suit after doctors removed the wrong testicle in a surgical procedure. Many doctors are golfers. You’d think they’d know the importance of choosing the right ball.

The latest on President Trump’s Russian connections: Two sources have told The Washington Post Trump was observed reading “War and Peace,” a large book written by – you guessed it – a Russian.

Special investigator Robert Mueller, appointed to look into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, has as a first step hired 14 lawyers. Well, that should speed things up.

A recent study indicates that 7 percent of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Wonder where they think evaporated milk comes from.

Fishermen in the North Sea caught a two-headed porpoise. They caught the odd fish because the porpoise, when confronted by the fishermen, couldn’t decide which way to run, or in angling parlance, didn’t know which way to head.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced on June 15 that 93 million Americans die every day due to gun violence. He said that twice, so I guess we Americans only four days before we’re all dead.

Speaking of quotes, this was the tail end of a statement by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “But for them to all of a sudden be sanctimonious as if, they don’t, never seen such a thing before. And I don’t even want to go into the President of the United States. But in terms of some of the language that he has used.” Again with her, there seems to be a disconnect between making law and making sense.

And speaking of dumb quotes, actress Elizabeth Banks said at an awards ceremony, ““I went to Indiana Jones and Jaws and every movie Steven Spielberg ever made, and by the way, he’s never made a movie with a female lead. Sorry, Steven. I don’t mean to call your ass out, but it’s true.” Actually, it isn’t true. Spielberg directed “The Color Purple,” which starred two females. Well, the awards ceremony wasn’t held to recognize smart people.

NASA is announcing a news class of astronauts this week, even though the U.S. has no space vehicles for them to pilot. Which is kind of like sending your kid to driver’s education but not having a car for the kid to drive. On an up note, astronaut training will include learning Russian since Russia is the only country that can send astronauts to the space station.

So these two Muslims – man and wife – buy a pepperoni pizza. When they’ve eaten half of it, they realize (somehow) that the pepperoni is made from pork. They both get sick (according to the lawsuit). Here’s my question: the wife converted to Islam, but before she was a Catholic. Would she have gotten sick if she’d eaten pepperoni when she was Catholic?

There is now a self-driving garbage truck, so be careful where you’re standing on trash day.

Several news sources noted that when President Trump flew from Saudi Arabia to Israel, he got closer to Russia.

Lindsay Lohan reportedly turned down a part in the movie “Hangover.” Apparently, she was involved in an actual hangover at the time.

It takes more genes to create a tomato than it takes to create a human. However, there are far more humans named Gene than tomatoes named Gene. So we’re even.

Not content with slamming President Trump on a daily basis, The Washington Post published on May 19 a recap of all the articles slamming Trump during the previous week. In related news, the Pulitzer Prize board has announced a new prize category – the Pulitzer Prize for Unrelenting Bias.

An anonymous source has reported to The Washington Post that Donald Trump was seen consuming a cocktail at a reception. The source is believed to be knowledgeable, a female bartender from New Jersey with blond hair and green eyes working the 6-11 p.m. shift. The source reported that Trump was consuming a white Russian.

A pair of students at the University of Kentucky crawled through an air duct in an apparent attempt to steal exam questions from the professor’s office. They were caught because the professor was working late, not because they were duct taped by a surveillance camera.

A frightened woman in Wisconsin saw a student entering a high school dressed as a Star Wars storm trooper on the school’s Star Wars Day. She did what any reasonable citizen would do; she called 911, and school officials did was any reasonable school officials would do, they evacuated the school. Apparently, the parent told police, “The Empire is striking back.” The incident prompted school officials to reinstate the school district’s “no-costume” policy, which is going to make for a rather boring Star Wars Day the next time around. What they might also have done is send a message to parents reminding them that the Star Wars movies are fiction.

A woman crossing from Mexico to the U.S. was discovered carrying three pounds of heroin taped to her buttocks. What tipped custom officials off was, while waiting in line, she asked an officer, “Does this heroin make me look fat?”

Janet Yellen, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, graduate of Yale and Brown universities and Pembroke College, recipient of the Wilbur Cross Medal and a Guggenheim Fellowship, former professor at the University of California, former lecturer at the London School of Economics, and author, says women still face challenges in the workplace. Not her, apparently, but other women.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has announced that Ismail Haniya has been chosen as its new overall leader. At ceremonies in Gaza, Haniya received the black ski mask and AK-47 as the terrorist organization’s traditional symbols of office.

California plans to place a tax on space launches that will be calculated by the mile. At, say, $10 per mile, the Cassini space probe to Saturn would now owe California $7.46 billion. Incidentally, that would not come close to paying off California’s state debt.

The Trump administration is relaxing rules on school lunches kids never ate.

The latest news on sexual harassment scandal at the Fox television network: two women have alleged that they were sexually assaulted by Homer Simpson ten years ago. Attempts to contact the Simpson family for comment have been unsuccessful.

One of the news features of the Samsung S8 phone (besides the fact that it doesn’t burst into flame) is a heart rate monitor. That’s for those of you who can’t do that with a clock and a thumb.

This is news: The Washington Post published an article that didn’t slam President Donald Trump.

Technology comparison: The U.S. sent the Cassini probe 746 million miles to Saturn to study the planet, its rings and several of its 62 moons. The probe became the first man-made object to enter Saturn’s atmosphere and emerge back into space. It is the fourth spacecraft the U.S. has sent to Saturn. And on the other side of the world, North Korea launched a rocket into Earth’s atmosphere that traveled 400 feet before it blew up.

An Italian neuroscientist is planning the world’s first head transplant later this year. If you were thinking of nominating someone as a head donor, he’s already got one.

Headline: NASA is running out of space suits. It may have to rely on space casual wear.

Four rare white tiger cubs were born at a private zoo in Austria and are doing fine. Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter organized a demonstration outside demanding the production of an equal number of black tiger cubs.

Former President Barack Obama has accepted two $400,000 speaking engagements from Wall Street fat cats, or more than twice as much as Hillary Clinton got. Well, Obama actually is an entertaining speaker.

Recipients of honors at the Latin Music Awards included … Justin Bieber. Wasn’t aware Latin America extended up into Canada.

Russian intelligence goes down, the headline should say after a Russian naval intelligence ship in the Black Sea ran into a cargo ship and sank. You know, if the intelligence ship couldn’t see a cargo ship right in front of it, should we worry about those ships sailing off our coast?

In a recent episode, Kim Kardashian gives her first TV interview about being bound, gagged and robbed at gunpoint in Paris last year. Ellen DeGeneres begins by saying, “I don’t know that everybody understands how horrific that experience must have been for you.” Why not? Kim and the other Kardashians have been talking about it for over a year.

Inventors have come up with an automated machine that can herd cattle. But they can’t seem to teach it how to stay on a horse.

One of India’s great epic stories – the Mahabharata – is going to be made into a movie. The Mahabharata was written long, long ago when the Indian language only had one vowel.

I would like to point out that no U.S. President – not one – elected in the 1800s ever released his federal income tax returns to the public.

If you need an illustration of how The Washington Post treats President Donald Trump, here’s an example. The Post commenting on an event at the White House: “Despite concerns that the event might not be well planned, all seemed to go off without a hitch.” What was the subject of The Post’s report? The annual Easter Egg Roll.

The good news for college students in New York is that they will be able to attend New York state public universities and colleges for free. The bad news is they have to live and work in New York after they graduate.

Texas may experience the biggest mumps outbreak in more than two decades. Well, everything’s bigger in Texas. So, just to be prepared, what does a big mump look like?

North Korea on April 16 launched a missile that exploded about 45 feet above the launch pad. That means any nation within 45 feet of North Korea is in mortal danger.

A new study indicates that army ants, much like Navy Seals, pick up their wounded comrades after battle and carry them back to the nest to recuperate. They leave no ant behind, so to speak. They evidently do this because there are so few ants left in the world. Again I ask, who pays for these studies?

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pronounced Ochmydinnerjacket) announced he would be running for president again. That is against the advice of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who decides who can run for what and all other state matters. That’s kind of like the Pope deciding who can run for prime minister of Italy, except the Pope doesn’t kill people who disagree with him.

A Republican won an election in Kansas for a vacant congressional seat in a race where Democrats tried to make the contest a referendum on President Donald Trump. Disappointed Democrats now allege Russians influenced the outcome.

The dirty little secret behind United Airlines dragging a passenger off the plane is that the airline also sent his luggage to Kathmandu.

I was in for medical tests and checking off blood tests I either wanted or needed and got to the PSA test, which checks for prostate problems. The prostate gland is unique to males. However, the line describing the test said “for persons with a prostate,” instead of “males.” Presumably this is so LGBTQ females who identify as being male won’t be offended.

A study just made public reveals that we are tying our shoelaces wrong, and that can lead to “catastrophic knot failure,” the authors say. Who pays for these studies?

Problems with getting old: I like sex, but now I have to check with my doctor first to see if my heart is strong enough to have sex. Ever call you doctor at closing time to ask if you can have sex?

Marvel has a new super hero – Squirrel Girl – that will become a scripted sit-com. I guess girls with nuts is the new normal.

Apparently when you grow older, your body develops the ability to conserve all the water you drank during the day and releases it only at 3 a.m.

Vermont, a state with no oil and gas reserves, has banned fracking, a method of recovering oil and gas reserves. Vermont has also banned unicorn racing and dragon hunts.

The season finale of “The Walking Dead” is near, and fans expect a major character to die. In past episodes, fans of the show mourned the deaths of cookie Sam, Noah, Tyreese, Beth, Andrea and The Governor, among others. But where is the sympathy for the hundreds of zombies who are killed every week?

The man who invested the electronic drum machine has died, reportedly of a severe headache.

National Atheist Day is observed on April1, otherwise known as April Fools Day. No other day would do.

A bunch of activists showed up at Ivanka Trump’s home and, many of them topless, danced for climate change. You’d think that without shirts in late March, they’d be in favor of global warming.

Researchers have discovered the shortest period of time ever measured. That would be the period of time between when President Donald Trump signs an executive order and Seattle files a federal lawsuit to block that order.

A North Dakota oral surgeon has been banned from practicing after being accused of pulling the wrong teeth and other immolar acts.

Two handymen working in a Baltimore public housing project were accused of trading maintenance work for sexual favors from tenants. It was called the “screw for a screw case.”

USA Today wrote in its March 31 edition, “A Republican leader … has withdrawn a bill that would have required testing of private wells that provide drinking water at least once every five years.” Those wouldn’t seem to be very useful wells.

A multi-million-dollar state construction project in Hawaii has been halted by the presence of a white tern’s nest with a single egg. Construction will cease while the mother continues to care for the chick, which means the project has taken a tern for the nurse.

I have to pass this on. Three armed thugs broke into a home in Oklahoma. The 21-year-old son of the homeowner had an AR-15 and shot and killed all three intruders. There was a notable lack of sympathy for the three thugs. One fellow named Jack Tawney commented, “When you commit a crime, you spin that ‘Wheel of Misfortune’ and sometimes it stops on ‘You’re Dead!'”

What will happen if the people who want to stop climate change succeed?

A group of paleontologists has documented the most diverse assemblage of dinosaur tracks in the world on the north-western coast of Western Australia. Thousands of tracks were found from at least 48 different species. The scientists believe that the dinosaurs were waiting in line at a DMV office.

Elon Musk has divulged that his company is working on a direct connection between a brain and a computer. The computer could pick up what the brain was thinking. Democrats immediately introduced a bill to prevent Donald Trump’s brain from ever being connected to any electronic device.