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Apr 08 2017
The Missing Minutes
Or, The Night Without A Sponsor No doubt you’ve heard about Bill O’Reilly’s ~$14 Million settlements of sexual harassment cases (still a drop in the bucket compared to the Billions municipalities across the United States have paid to settle and suppress cases of Police Murder) and sympathized as insincerely as you can but it is …
Apr 07 2017
First We Take Manhattan
What can I say? I’m a sucker for Technopop. Dear Brian Williams: Leave the rhapsodies to Cohen By Christine Emba, Washington Post April 7, 2017 Brian Williams is a student of the arts. We were reminded of this Thursday night as he waxed rhapsodic over the sight of 50 cruise missiles streaking towards Syria, an …
Apr 07 2017
The $94 Million* Circus
* Each Tomahawk costs about $1.6 Million, Trump fired 59. During Roman times Emperors would offer Bread and Circuses to assuage a restless population. Now Bread has immediate and obvious uses for the average citizen and to this day is heavily subsidized in most European countries. Circuses? Well first of all they didn’t mean what …
Apr 06 2017
So Nunes is out.
Surprise, surprise, surprise. Dog days after Devin Nunes: New GOP leaders of House Russia probe aren’t much of an improvement by Simon Maloy, Salon Thursday, Apr 6, 2017 While this represents a nice morsel of comeuppance for a politician who’d turned his own committee into a humiliating clown show, there’s little reason to believe the …
Apr 06 2017
Minneapolis
I look remarkably good for someone who’s 120+ years old, mostly blind, suffering from chronic anemia and fluid retention, and basically bionic on my left side. You see, like Clemens, I still have my hair. Now Sam attributed this to the fact that he washed it frequently with lye and lard soap, heavy on the …
Apr 03 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Finals
9:20 CBS North Carolina-Gonzaga Should be Gonzaga all the way.
Apr 03 2017
Voter Fraud Does Not Exist
Or at least to the extent that it does (which is statistically insignificant) it’s a Republican problem. What the Republicans would have you believe is that every single dead person not expunged from the voting rolls, every single person who neglects to unregister before registering in a new location, and every single non-citizen who registers …
Apr 02 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Final
6:00 ESPN South Carolina-Mississippi State Well, I must say the urgency has gone out of it. Today we are celebrating a Birthday (not mine) and a friend and I are headed out to Dinner and a Movie. I’ll be back whenever. A UConn loss is rare and memorable because they have an excellent program and …
Apr 01 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Semifinals (Round of 4)
6:09 CBS Gonzaga-South Carolina Gonzaga of course. 8:49 CBS North Carolina-Oregon Go Ducks!
Mar 31 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Semifinals (Round of 4)
7:30 ESPN2 South Carolina-Stanford First of all, South Carolina. Secondly Stanford (whom I’d normally root against because they tolerate Condoleezza Rice) because it sets up the Samuelson sibling matchup. 9:30 ESPN2 UConn-Mississippi State C’mon. What about ‘Go Huskies!’ are we not understanding? UConn Husky, symbol of might to the foe. Fight, fight Connecticut, It’s vict’ry, …