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- One is the defendant in a criminal trial about hush money payments to a porn star to benefit his political campaign, just one of four of his criminal cases. The other said worms ate his brain and this time, it wasn’t a paranoid, anti-science assertion. But Joe Biden’s age is the key issue in this election.
- Trump’s gag order isn’t literal enough for me.
- Rick Scott was the head of HCA while it was undertaking the largest Medicaid fraud scheme in history. He’s the type of person Donald Trump uses as a character witness.
- RFK Jr. is what you become when you don’t take vaccines, kids.
- Marge defiantly identifies “the uniparty” as she heard boos after she moved to remove the Speaker but once again, she completely misses the point: she’s the outlier. The People have spoken. She lost. We might not be politically united, but we’re united against acts of sabotage.
- Jamie Raskin didn’t miss a committee hearing or floor vote while undergoing chemotherapy to fight cancer. Rick Scott missed a Senate vote to travel to Manhattan to prostrate himself before the persecuted leader …’cause priorities.
- Although Trump refuses to post on dead-named Twitter, he still somehow reposts screenshots someone on Twitter took on his social media site. It’s funny: he’s acknowledging his site is a poor duplication of the original.
- Calling the reboot of Matlock a “CBS Original” is wrong on so, so many levels.
- Kristi Noem’s horrific book tour, which she cut short like Cricket’s life, was a farce as she tried to soften assassinating a pet and pretending like she didn’t claim to meet Kim Jong-un. She’s just bad with media, and she thinks she’s so slick, like Kari Lake.
- How much violence across history has been caused by three liquids: water, whiskey, or tea?
- My bookmark on when debate in Congress degenerated: when they allowed charts and graphics during floor speeches and committee hearings. That’s when people like Marge et al started playing to TV viewers. Remove the signage and you’ll get back to work.
- Speaking of brain worms, I renew my recommendation of BrainDead. It’s timelessly funny and scaringly prescient about the cultishness of modern politics.
- Kudos to Stormy Daniels for standing strong in the face of the Trump shitstorm. Once again, she stood up for herself when faced with a lawyer wanting to humiliating her. Slut shaming is SO 1980s, just like Trump.
- Iconic songs based on real events: Neil Young, “Ohio;” Don McLean, “American Pie;” Harry Chapin, “30,000 Pounds of Bananas;” Gordon Lightfoot, “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” And strictly from a historical–not musical–perspective, Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner.”
- I don’t know where Steve Bannon will be jailed, but it’ll see a sudden increase in laundry costs with all the additional shirts in the prison laundry.
- Properly made risotto–cooked slowly adding a single ladle of warm broth at a time–by far is my favorite pasta. It’s delicious and it’s adaptable: you can add myriad ingredients to a base recipe. But don’t go crazy; two or three things–like shrimp, asparagus, and Parmesan–are all you need. It’s like really good pizza: less is better.
- Now’s the time, folks. Now we start to get new voters registered and psyched to vote. Talk to your kids and their friends about registering to vote. Make sure your neighbors know the issues. If they’re registered, make sure they know the impact of policies that they care about. And here’s a tip: Send them calendar events to request a mail-in ballot and another to mail it. Or send one for Election Day. Do whatever you can to get them to vote.
