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- For the first time, the Trumps are learning what life’s like for the rest of us who have to follow the laws and can’t buy our way out of charges.
- The parents who are crying about CRT being taught in their schools were the kids too fragile to watch ABC Afterschool Specials as children.
- Whatever the fuck is going to happen in Ukraine will be a circus. On the off chance Putin doesn’t invade this weekend, he’ll leave sufficient forces along the border to keep everyone on edge indefinitely. He’s working to destabilize the West, and he’s got all the time in the world.
- One thing about Biden: He’s repaired much of the damage Trump did with our NATO allies. The entire alliance stands united against Russian aggression. Kudos there.
- Rand Paul wants truckers to protest across the nation, paralyzing the supply chain and holding the economy hostage…because sure, what the fuck, right? Let’s have our elected leaders plot for the destruction of America because their feelings are hurt.
- I learned this week that one of Rand Paul’s sons was charged with assaulting a flight attendant in 2013, which may explain why Paul voted against a bill that would ban people charged with assaulting flight crew from ever flying again.
- Watching the slow walk back on Fox regarding their initial claims about the Durham report is a masterwork in how to “unperson” their own history.
- How insulated is the Fox audience? According to Aaron Rupar, Fox mentioned Hillary Clinton more than 100 times on Thursday, but only said anything about the Trumps being ordered by a court to sit for depositions twice throughout the day.
- I think everyone at Fox actually has a secret crush on Hillary, and because they all have the collective maturity of an 11-year-old boy, they’re figuratively punching her in the arm and pulling her pigtails.
- The Olympics curling competition has benefited from announcers who are a delicate balance of play-by-play broadcasters and educators. They have an obvious exuberance for the sport, but not an undue excitement. They are the opposite of golf announcers.
- The people who yell the loudest about preserving their freedoms are the same ones who will proclaim that they can’t fix a situation because “it’s in God’s hands.”
- I misspelled a word writing with a fountain pen and waited a second for a squiggly red line to appear under it to confirm my error. I’m not programmed at all.
- Peter Thiel is promoting a conservative hook-up app that he, as a gay man, would not be able to use. Such is the unending actions against their best interests conservatives support.
- Someone has the original championship trophy for the NFL, the Brunswick-Balke Collender Championship trophy, in a china cabinet somewhere. It went missing after the only time it was awarded in 1920.
- Trump’s accountants broke up with him on Valentine’s Day. It’s not them, Don. It’s you. It’s definitely you.
- The major streaming services of today are like the major broadcast networks of the 1940s and ‘50s. Within a decade, most people will have migrated to five or six major players.
- Years ago, my wife graded my college exams. She worked as a reader for my Philosophy of Religion professor, who was blind, reading the “bluebooks” for exams, his journals, his mail. She’d write notes for me in the margins of the bluebooks; the professor would hear the pencil across the paper and question her about why she was writing more than he dictated. We got married 30 years later, and I still have those exam books.
- As I’m coming up on a college reunion/homecoming next month (we hold them during lacrosse season), I was thinking about some of my favorite classes. I probably learned the most in a Materials Engineering class. I enjoyed the playwriting classes most. The Women’s Studies course “Freud on Women” wasn’t what I expected. I think my favorite two were Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion, although Atomic Theater: Nuclear War in Film was really a blast.
- I sometimes post certain stories knowing that specific commenters–mainly trolls- will make specific comments in an attempt to be humorous. It’s fun to watch it play out. You rarely disappoint.
