Snopes did a sweep though North Carolina media looking for evidence to rebut the claim of all the organizations involved that the man in question was not “leading the fight.” All they found was a year old quote from Chad Sevearance, who was convicted of sexual contact with teenage boys when he was 20 years old. The quote was lamenting the defeat of a Charlotte civil rights ordinance in 2015 because "someone can ask me to leave a restaurant because I’m presumed to be gay or transgender."

The resulting stink about his criminal history led to his resignation as president of the LGBT Chamber of Commerce. But what really frosts the cake is they are trying to start a meme about men molesting little girls in the ladies room by attacking a man who was convicted of sexual contact with persons of the same sex.

The Washington Post reported Prince’s brother in law claimed the superstar had been awake for 154 hours just before he was found dead of as yet unknown causes. A teenager in San Diego set the Guinness world record for staying awake in 1964 at 264 hours. Guinness no longer tracks staying awake because it’s too dangerous.

It figures a teenager would hold the record.

When I was 18, I got stood up on a Friday night date. I couldn’t decide if I was more pissed off or hurt but I was not sleepy, so I thought I’d go to work and get a jump on the next week. The military computer room was under guard but open to cleared people 24/7 because it was in a command headquarters.

The week’s work for my entire swing shift crew was ten reports. I got so into it that when I noticed it was almost Sunday, I took it as a challenge. I couldn’t leave to eat while running several machines by myself but I did clean out the vending machines and rolled on a junk food high. When my boss showed up Sunday evening, report number ten was being spat out of the printer. I had made one mistake, but I managed to recover with a bit of re-programming even after I was getting fuzzy.

Without that error, I would have had a clean finish of the full week’s work for four guys. As it was, they had to stand there for a couple of hours and change the printer paper when it ran out.

I was not fit to drive back to the barracks, but I love the feeling it gives me to remember having done it over 50 years later. There was a series of rat experiments on sleep deprivation and the rats died. They never did figure out cause of death, but they must not have used teenage rats.

Foreign Policy reported that U.S. forces executed a “roof knock,” where a bomb is detonated directly over a house to scare the occupants away. It failed when a woman ran from the house in Mosul but re-entered before the missile arrived. The target? Approximately $150 million in cash destined for the ISIS troops’ payroll.

“We’ve been burning our own money in Iraq for years,” Cousin Ray grumbled. “About time we burned some of theirs.”