Anything Goes For Halloween–Almost

Cole Porter wrote:

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, God knows
Anything goes
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose
Anything goes

So let me just say, I don’t care what you dress up as for Halloween. It won’t offend me, and it probaby won’t even interest me (which may offend you, but that’s a different column).

I heard that Ryan Clark, the excellent ex-ESPN football commentator and former player, who happens to be an ostentatiously big-talking lib, but who is so smart and interesting to me on football that I don’t care if his Trump take is dumb, wore a make-up disguise, on the air, for Halloween.

Specifically, he dolled himself up to look like Bill Belichick, his “Inside the NFL” co-contributor. I saw a pic. It was a lot of make-up and it was a pretty good likeness (he actually looked like Mike Myers doing Sean Connery on the old SNL, to me).

It might have made some people laugh. He was having fun. It seemed to offend no one.

Ryan is black. Bill is white. So, “whiteface”, right?

Imagine if the pancake make-up was on the other foot, so to speak.

Every lady on “The View” would need her own box of Puffs Extra Soft. CNN would preempt all election coverage (and yet weave Trump into the story somehow).

Ryan Clark would be condemning…well, Ryan Clark.

Like I said. I don’t care. Have fun for Halloween. It’s not my bag, but people seem to really like it, and we need all the laughs we can get.

It’s just an odd look—literally—for such a woke guy.

And no one was offended.