A lot of words, but not much happens

Just what a bunch of us figured: we in Pictou County were not hit by the mother of all storms on Thursday, a weather bomb of all weather bombs.

It was a heavy windstorm that knocked out power for a few hours overnight in parts of Pictou County, but nothing that was hard to handle. We did not get Mother Nature’s best shot — not by a long shot.

Jong Un and U.S. president Donald Trump got into a spat this week, out in the Twitter playground. They must have found themselves with nothing to do because they started off 2018 by threatening each other with nuclear war.

I didn’t worry too much about

but he isn’t stupid, and he’s not going to get into a battle he can’t possibly win. He was probably still a little drunk from his New Year’s Eve party when he tweeted about nuking the U.S., and he

can’t possibly think that would end well for him.

On this side of the Twitter universe, nobody with any brains in the Oval Office will let Trump make the real big decisions: sure, they’ll let him play with his cellphone and his Twitter account, because he’s said and done so many stupid things that whatever he tweets now no longer has any impact.

He just won’t be allowed anywhere near the nuclear button. The button that he thinks is the nuclear button probably isn’t the nuclear button at all; it’s like a little kid’s plastic telephone: it doesn’t do anything but provide amusement for the one with the small, undeveloped brain, while the grown-ups do the real work.

Here are my first-round picks for the National Football League playoffs. If you are a serious football fan, the next few weekends are some of the best of the entire year.

Should you decide to join a pool, however, make sure the money’s been secured upfront. You’ll just have to trust me on that one.

Tennessee Titans at Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith is so under-rated, and the Chiefs are tough to beat when they’re at home. They are also, across the board, a more complete football team than Tennessee.

Chiefs, 23-16.

Atlanta Falcons at Los Angeles Rams — If it weren’t for a bad decision by their offensive coordinator late in the game during last February’s Super Bowl, the Falcons would have been the champions. Greed overcomes good judgment, as someone once said.

Atlanta is a wildcard team with plenty of experience to draw upon and they can handle playing on the road in January.

Falcons, 33-24 Buffalo Bills at Jacksonville Jaguars — In a battle of two teams that have been bad or really bad for quite awhile, two very good defences will be in charge of this one. The Bills are on the road, but what team wouldn’t want to play an opponent whose quarterback is Blake Bortles?

Bills, 20-19. Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints — The Saints lost just once all season on their home turf — and that was to the New England Patriots — and beat the Panthers both times they played them.

Saints, 26-19.