Flash!  The big story of the day is about to come to an end.  Brian Lochte, has apologized to Brazil!  Great.  Four young headstrong athletes, out on the town allegedly do some minor damage to a gas station bathroom only to have the near non-event blown up into an international incident by 24-hour newschannels in need of something, anything to report,  making the swimmers look more like serial killers than four athletes who made a mistake as pundits bleat like sheep, “Ugggghhhhly Ameeericans…. Ugggghhhhly Ameeericans….Whhhhaaaaa….they are sooooo Ugggghhhhly.”

Get over it.  All four athletes have apologized.   Somebody made an $11,000 donation to a judo academy in Brazil, which apparently was enough to un-ruffle the Brazilian’s ruffled feathers.   The gas station presumably has a new soap dispenser or toilet paper dispenser or whatever was allegedly damaged and can now charge tourists ten-bucks a head to view the horrible “crime scene.”  Presumably it has been released by the police department’s crack forensic investigators sent out to determine whether anyone had peed on the wall.

It’s done.  Let it go and focus on the next horse not yet dead but ready for kicking, speculation on how long Kellyanne Conway will last now that suspected Putin operative Paul Manafort has been sent packing?   How long was he there?  Weeks?  A month?

My bet is that Kellyanne won’t make it to November.  No way.  She’ll be around until the Trumpster’s next big temper tantrum and that’ll be that.  See ya, Kellyanne, “Your’re Fired!”  Not to worry though.   CNN and MSNBC can always use another former campaign official to help bump up their objective approach to “news” coverage.   Makes me yearn for the days when there was still a line between actual news coverage and commentary.

Can’t wait to see what they’ll do with the naked statues of the Donald with a  tiny male appendage popping up at various locations from New York to Los Angeles.  Can’t wait to see that.   Wonder if they’ll be able to squeeze it in,  while continuing to kick around Hillary’s email server, which should have been dead and gone months ago along with the confluence of unfreezing Iranian money and the release of four American hostages – another smelly, stinking, rotten corpse of a story.   Like Whitewater and Vince Foster.

So much news, so little time.   Gotta find something that’ll drive the ratings now that the Donald has finally managed to grit his teeth, swallow hard and perform his much-anticpated “pivot.”   Another huge story for an intellectually malnourished nation.