DOUBLE JEOPARDY.........THE FALL OF KING JAMES, THE RISE OF PRINCESS EMMA.......

             Like millions of people, BD (Beloved Daughter) and BQ take turns shouting our answers to 'Jeopardy' questions at maximum volume.........usually so loud that if the show were broadcast live, the contestants might actually hear us from thousands of miles away.........

              And in the great Universe maxim of "Sooner Or Later, Everybody's Gotta Go Sometime", the relentless sports better James Holzhaur went down to defeat.........

               .......at the hands of an equally relentless 27 year old Librarian, Emma Boettcher......(delighting our veryown librarian BD to no end.......)

               Watching this Clash of The Titans can be both exhilarating and depressing..........fun when you know the answers along with the champs.......but soul-crushing as you mutter, "How the hell do they know this shit?????"  when they nail the correct answer to  "Charlemagne's third cousin married this Princess who ruled the duchy of Schlembledorff"......and you don't.

                  Watching them, you realize James and Emma are the real stable geniuses among us........and they're really good at making the rest of us look dumber than Trump.

                  So all hail this mighty transference of power.......(which happily coincided with Alex Trebek's increasing optimistic news of his cancer battle.)

                   James no doubt will pop up on Championship games, doing battle with that collection of vaguely obnoxious former winners, like Buzzy, Austin and that Creepy Smile Guy whose name I can never remember.......(the one who looks like his smile is achieved by ramming a cattle prod up his ass...)

                 And best of luck to take-charge Emma as she begins her reign using James' take-no-prisoners, go-for-broke strategies......(hit the big money clues first and hunt down those Daily Doubles.....)

                   .........that is.....until she runs out of luck.......and straight into Sooner-Or-Later-Everybody's-Gotta-Go-Sometime........