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- A former president of the United States gets indicted for the first time in the nation’s history, and by the end of the week, it’s not even mentioned in the A-block of most news shows. That’s how fucked up the Republicans made this week.
- Sure, I can completely see Clarence Thomas as a “yacht rock” fan: on a boat, drunk and swaying to Buffett.
- White Catholic
priest judge demands from the pulpit bench that parishioners citizens follow his sermon ruling. And the GOP wonders why people have turned on them. Good luck with suburban women in 2024, Republicans.
- Make no mistake: Republicans are a Party based on vengeance and self-declared grievance. In Tennessee, the GOP is running roughshod on democracy because Democratic leaders in Nashville opted not to host the Republican National Convention in 2020. Their feelings hurt, state Republicans are now showing how unfit for civil leadership they are.
- Something you won’t hear: more Americans are employed today than at any time in US history: 158.1 million. Biden has not only overseen the recovery of the 2.6 million jobs lost during the Trump debacle.
- Republicans expelled two Black men from the Tennessee legislature for supporting gun violence protestors who entered the state house legally–the building was open so the public could attend the session–with the GOP leaders claiming incongruously that their actions were worse than the January 6th insurrection. The protesters were not violent, though they were loud. Republicans simply cannot abide by people publicly undermining their talking points.
- Keep the names Justin Jones and. Justin Pearson, the two ousted Tennessee legislators, in your mental Rolodex. I foresee them both becoming Stacy Abrams-level voter advocates.
- The United States has always been able to indict a former president. They are ordinary citizens; they are not extraordinary. What’s extraordinary is the fact that the US had a 250-ish year run of not having to do so because voters generally didn’t support pre-corrupt candidates.
- Clarence Thomas accepts half-million-dollar trips and fails to disclose them, and nothing will come of it because the Supreme Court has no enforceable ethics rules. But a cop who accepts a free lunch from a grateful resident can be fired for corruption because we expect law enforcement to be above board.
- My hope is the Senate Judiciary Committee opens an investigation into the general ethics of the Supreme Court, probing each justice’s–and their spouses’–finances. Include Democratic-appointed justices as well because Democrats understand justice is not concerned with who nominated the individual. Plus, increase reporting requirements for all federal judges, regardless of level, to include a list of all gifts, like the White House does.
- Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip regularly. It considers Gaza its territory. It would be like the Pentagon regularly launching missiles at Puerto Rico.
- Marjorie Taylor lasted less than an hour outside her Bubble as she traveled to New York City, where she was heckled relentlessly. While she claims most “real Americans” live in settings like her rural/suburban district, she’d be wrong: 83% of Americans live in cities or their immediate suburbs, and that population is growing (it was just 64% in 1950). Taylor’s perceived “American way of life” is the overwhelming minority.
- A short respite to Virginia Beach to recharge my wife’s batteries during Spring Break. Military aircraft flying overhead takes me back to vacations in Brigantine, NJ when fighters would routinely buzz the beaches a few thousand feet off the ground. So in my mind, beach vacations mean Top Gun.
- When I was younger and played baseball–I will readily admit to not being a very good hitter–the handful of times when I made good, solid contact with a pitch and sent the ball flying was exceptionally satisfying. The sound and the feel of the bat at that moment are sublime. I understand why players sometimes watch the ball soar. It’s magical.
- It’s often said that it was a brave man who first ate an oyster, but the one who put cheese on it the first time was truly insane.
- No federal judicial district should have only one judge. It should be three at a minimum, with some assurance that no president appointed all seats. What’s happened in North Texas is a true miscarriage of justice and it only happened because Republicans were able to forum shop.
- Women will start hoarding mifepristone like Elaine’s sponges on Seinfeld. Men will have to be “Mif worthy.”
- Late night talk show rankings: Colbert is now and will be top for the foreseeable future. Then Meyers, then Kimmel and Corden, and running last is Fallon. I find the current version of The Tonight Show inane.
- I feel cheated. No one offered me a free vacation valued at $500,000. All I got was Marriott points.
