Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 13, 2019

Good news for you people who are too busy to go through the drive-thru window at McDonalds --beginning this summer, Uber says they'll start delivering Mickey-D's by drone. No, we're not kidding. Bloomberg News reports they'll be starting service in the San Diego area as soon as they can get clearance from the FAA. But don't look for the drone to drop lunch (or dinner) on your doorstep. Instead, the drones will apparently have to fly to a designated zone where a courier will pick up the food and bring it to your house.

Archeologists are now claiming that Chinese people were smoking cannabis at least 25-hundred years ago. Today's London Guardian has a report which says residues of high-potency cannabis were found in ancient wooden incense burners at a burial ground in the mountains of western China. So when you buried Mom and Pop in ancient China, EVERYBODY had a good time.
Well, maybe not. In fact, the scientists also found some skeletons which had holes in their skulls or cuts in the wrong place and broen bones, which may have meant that some of the deaths were sacrifices to the Gods.I of course, prefer to believe the former.

With the St Louis Blues champions at last, Axios Sports reports an interesting follow-up. Back in January, during a visit to Las Vegas, a Blues fan bet $400 that that they'd win the Stanley Cup. Today, Scott Berry is $100,000 richer with those 250-1 odds that he got.