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- I’m voting Democrat straight down the ticket in November and I am encouraging others to do the same because (1) the candidates are better, (2) they reflect my views and (3) they’ll make sure we get to vote again. Oh, yeah, and no matter who is at the top of the Democratic ticket, they won’t be an adjudicated rapist.
- Trump-Vance, a made-for-TV pairing of five-letter names that fit nicely on a campaign sign. That’s probably as much consideration as went into that decision. Programming over policy.
- To gain financial support nowadays, Republicans must practice Theilism, the new Scientology, before MAGA or Christianity.
- Nothing personifies the GOP more than drunken, stumbling Rudy Giuliani, a drunk, corrupt, bankrupt old white man attempting to avoid responsibility for any- and everything.
- The disappointing Teamster’s President Sean O’Brien missed a major point in his RNC speech: today’s consumer price increases are due to corporate greed to fill shareholder pockets. The cost of living goes down when corporate profits are in direct line with worker wages.
- All-day cartoon networks led to the death of the Saturday morning lineup of cartoons, which led to the end of the campy “Saturday Morning Preview” shows the networks would run on a Friday night starting in the ‘60s and ‘70s, giving kids a reason to let Mom and Dad sleep a little longer.
- Trump’s minor granddaughter addressing the convention is what happens when you don’t have the support of two generations of women in your family. And Junior calling his daughter “sexy” demonstrates the family’s crudeness is genetic.
- The AR-15 used to graze Trump was manufactured at an arms factory Trump visited last year. Apparently, even guns don’t want Trump in office after hearing him speak.
- Vance is a do-nothing legislator with a populist glaze. Scratch the surface and you’ll find he’s all self-serving surface. He’s Jim Jordan in eyeliner.
- McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets are made in one of four shapes that have names: the Boot, the Bell, the Bowtie and the Ball. Y’know, just like real chickens.
- Don and Melania have all the chemistry of orange juice and toothpaste.
- Don’t dis Schwarzenegger, the actor. The actor knew how to pick scripts and catchphrases. His Terminator and Conan franchises are iconic. I wish he would’ve done more with Ben Richards from “Running Man,” though. Of course, they’re all essentially the same character in different circumstances, but he was an entertaining character.
- As much as anyone, Bob Newhart’s style of stand-up was made for albums. The deadpan was perfect for audio-only. But his most remembered bit will be the last scene of his second sitcom, with a great call-back to its predecessor.
- The order of preference, BTW: Hot Mustard. Buffalo. Barbeque. Honey Mustard. Ranch.
- Watching a free broadcast of an MLB game on TV, which I synced so well with the preferred radio feed from my team on my laptop, when I moved my laptop off my lap to go make tea–moving the computer’s speakers–I actually gave myself momentary motion sickness. The more you know…
- I’ve always been partial to old British roadsters. They all had an individual style and an unreliability that made them simultaneously charming and maddening. Setting aside virtually every Aston Martin, my two favorites: the Jag XKE Series 1 and the 1964 Austin-Healey 3000 MK III.
- “He didn’t jump. He was pushed.”
