The Year Of Nominality Ends With The Emergence Of Roger Replacement.  That Year Of Nominality actually ended early- to mid- December of last year.  This is the account of what happened the day after the Heir got his Linuxtop and running.  That personification that I the Mentor talked about in the last episode was, in fact, Roger Replacement.  Roger Replacement has a lieutenant named Robbie Replacement, and it's the latter the Heir will have dealings with going forward.  The Year Of Nominality that ended was mainly about making sure that tech doesn't run your life, to the point where your pro-sex convictions are at risk.  Some other things we get to talk about on this episode are that one law that's being passed in an increasing number of cities making it illegal to feed the homeless, the New York Giants ending yet another losing season, whether or not shoveling snow actually gives you a heart attack, the assaults by Bill Cosby and whether the days are numbered for those charming Victorian houses in residential areas of cities.  Click Play All at: https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

From all of us in the Bachelor,

Happy Valentines!

It looks as though our upcoming episode may very well become available on Valentines itself, not that we necessarily planned it that way.  But please be sure, no matter when we do put out the episode, to Keep Sex In Valentines.

Even though the Heir didn't necessarily need a victory on this one, he didn't think Brooklyn served vengeance enough on a Jason Kidd team.  Brooklyn fans booed Kidd last November or so for his prima-donna style ambitions toward May 2014 which got him fired, and yet his Milwaukee won anyway in that game, and the narrative is that that was vindication for him.  Brooklyn's defeat tonight only serves to reinforce that narrative.  The Heir believes Brooklyn needs to find a way to take that vindication away again, even if they were in Milwaukee tonight, and even if such vindication theft may take years to materialize.  The Heir likes Lionel Hollands a lot more than Jason Kidd as a head coach, but he also believes Hollands is a little too pragmatic, a little too nuts-and-bolts.  He's someone who understands the game, but doesn't quite understand the fans.  It's possible he believes (wrongly) that how the fans feel about rivalry (including one on a former head coach) is irrelevant.  He needs to understand, along with Prokhorov (not sure I the Mentor spelled that right), that there's at least a significant minority of fans who really do want to see Jason Kidd drown.  To have vindication taken away from him and for the Nets to get that vindication in return.  So in March of 2018 or so, when Brooklyn wins its first game in years against Milwaukee, at Barclays, and by 20+ points, the Heir and the rest of his anti-Kidd contingent will be there to make Kidd pay for his vindication narrative.  Sooner or later it's going to happen.  And by that time Brooklyn will become a team to fear all across the NBA, even trouncing Portland in a turnaround upset.

The Heir's happy to listen to two Brooklyn victories in a row.  He's hoping that they get to turn it around in February after a terrible January (seems like they were losing 2:1 that month).  He's generally happier with Lionel Hollands than with Jason Kidd as head coach.  Hollands is a more nuts-and-bolts guy as opposed to the drama queen thing with Kidd.  So they had a good November and December, and January was where their dreams of going above 500 slipped away.  That's not to say that they can see such dreams a reality in February, but it's just that now they need to control the bleeding.

The Bachelor offer its congratulations to the New England Patriots for their Superbowl victory.  On audio we were hearing the play-by-play commentators saying that this victory was a vindication for them with Deflate-Gate.  Not so fast, the Heir says.  Because the Heir just got a text from the NFL commissioner's office: they want the Heir, starting after this coming Labor Day in September, to be there at each stadium's equipment room, before each game, to personally inspect the footballs with a pressure gauge, to officially approve of the pressure of each football that's going to get played.  In short, the issue of game integrity should still run paramount, despite the media and Blynn Zimmerman wanting to use the "vindication" as this coming week's talking point memo, and then forget that Deflate-Gate ever happened.  So if the Heir hears one morning a week and a half from now with the sports minute that there was a new development in Deflate-Gate, there will be close to no commentary anywhere on the matter (certainly not on visual).  Blynn Zimmerman was hoping for a Nipple-Gate from Katy Perry just so he won't talk about Deflate-Gate if he had to.  We in the Bachelor have always made it a point to not follow the herd, and very often forsake the herd to drive one important point home: two can play the vindication game.  The herd is moving away from Deflate-Gate, but the Bachelor is heading toward it.  It's not against New England (the Heir doesn't really like Seattle anymore than New England), but for the game.  He doesn't want the commissioner's office to just let it go just because the media will almost certainly do so.

"Keep Deflate-Gate alive.  The integrity of the game is still at stake."