Pen-pricks

• Comedian Byron Allen bought the Weather Channel for $300 million Friday. It’s the only TV channel everyone visits. He learned at the Comedy Store that people will pay $20 a ticket to laugh, and about the only other thing they want to know is if it’s going to rain tomorrow.

• Joe Biden threatened to beat up President Trump in a fist fight behind the gym. Trump replied that Biden would go down fast. Our nation owes a great debt of gratitude to Joe Biden and Donald Trump for taking Washington politics and raising it to the level of professional wrestling.

• CIA former chief John Brennan told CNN viewers that he thinks Russia’s Vladimir Putin may have compromising information on Trump. What could embarrass him at this point? I suppose it could ruin Trump’s image if the word got out that “The Apprentice” was originally sponsored by Fidelity.