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- Josh Hawley’s sprint merits an endorsement deal from New Balance.
- Who acted more like a leader: Joe Biden, who’s isolating after being diagnosed with Covid, or Donald Trump, who took a joyride with Secret Service agents and considered ripping his shirt off to expose a Superman logo while standing on Truman Balcony after discharging himself from Walter Reed?
- Don’t forget: Steve Bannon is literally a convicted con man. Yes, he got a pardon from a corrupt president which wiped the conviction away, but he was convicted of conning millions of dollars from people. He is the personification of Republican entitlement. How many times does he need to be convicted of crimes before the conservative dupes catch on?
- Kudos to the DOJ. The Bannon conviction was clearly a warning shot to the other people defying Congressional subpoenas. They went after the low-hanging fruit, got it, and now everyone else will have to reconsider their positions. Peter Navarro is next.
- Trump can’t protect Stevie Three Shirts from jail this time. There will be no pardon.
- Will the jail limit Bannon to one orange jumpsuit, or will they allow him his traditional two?
- Anti-choice advocates claim a life begins at conception, but now some of those same “pro-life” advocates are claiming that that isn’t true for a fertilized egg that embeds in Fallopian tubes. So when, do they believe, does a zygote stop being “life”? It seems they haven’t quite figured out what their beliefs actually are.
- Am I the only one who remembers “60 Seconds,” the snippets of news reports, like mini-“60 Minutes” segments, that were geared toward kids and would appear during Saturday morning cartoons on CBS? ABC had Schoolhouse Rock, but those CBS segments probably did more to interest kids in civics than anything taught in a school.
- Republicans in totalitarian states want to force pregnant patients to verify they’re still pregnant when they return from out-of-state travel. Democrats should set up checkpoints at state lines to ensure private citizens are traveling out of state to smuggle guns in. Let’s see how they react to that.
- Nearly 18 million Americans watched Thursday’s hearing on network television, not including streaming services viewers and those who DVR’d it. That’s roughly one in 13 eligible people of voting age. And no, Republicans didn’t watch, but Independents did.
- Let’s not forget the hard work of the House Select Committee staffers–a few score people who conducted interviews, organized information, and created the presentations–in creating the persuasive hearings that drew tens of millions of viewers.
- For sheer fun, the Blue Brothers movie car chase through a mall is tops, partly because of the complete destruction, but also the dialogue and music.
- Melania claimed she was clueless about the domestic terrorist attack occurring on January 6th, which is exactly how she spent every day in the White House.
- Language change suggestion: stop saying “right to same-sex marriage” and start saying “universal right to marriage” or simply “marriage equality.” The right is for consenting adults to choose who they want to enter into a marriage contract with, regardless of their genders.
- I hanker for a hunka cheese.
- The Major League All-Star Game is the only all-star game in major sports where players actually compete. There are no gimmicks like in the NFL or the NHL, and players play defense, unlike the NBA.
- Vietnamese summer rolls are the ideal hot weather food: shrimp, avocado, rice noodles, mint, basil and a nice peanut or tamarind sauce, all nestled in a soft rice paper wrap.
- I inherited a habit from my mother that I still enjoy today: I read cookbooks. To me, they’re reflections of our culture. The best are the local ones put together by a regional chef, a civic group or a church auxiliary where they include stories about the dish. My favorite is from a Louisiana cook: “Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make a Roux?”
- You knew exactly what this week’s gif was going to be before you opened the story. In this case, I’m not upset about being predictable, because… it’s Josh Hawley running away like the coward he is. The best part was how the the hearing room erupted in laughter as the clip was shown.
