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May 10 2020
No Sports?
Yes, Bowling is a sport. My Mother, Emily, actually used it to fulfill her Athletics mandatory electives. I don’t think she was very good and whatever talent she had I don’t. I’m utterly hopeless and was even before my Arthritis. My Grandfather and my Great Grandfather both rolled a few 300s and the scoresheets were …
May 10 2020
Happy Mother’s Day
A DocuDharma tradition now on The Stars Hollow Gazette. I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she’s never met a brand name she didn’t like whereas I’m perfectly content to buy generic. I thank her among many …
May 09 2020
Pre-Historic Britain
Sometimes I like to feature Documentaries that have less than obvious connections to current History and Politics. In some ways we know a great deal, pretty Professional Amateur Archeology has become one of those “eccentric” hobbies the English have embraced (like Bird Watching) and on weekends people wandering around with metal detectors is a fairly …
May 08 2020
Oh, you mean Stephen Miller’s Wife
Not just Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s Valet anymore. A top aide to Vice President Pence tests positive for coronavirus By Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post May 8, 2020 A top aide to Vice President Pence has tested positive for the coronavirus, making her the second known person working at the White House to contract the illness …
May 08 2020
Not So Bad
At the peak of the Great Depression in August 1932 Unemployment was 25.5%. Not as bad as that. At the peak of the Great Recession in October of 2009 Unemployment was 10%. Worse than that. U.S. unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, the worst since the Depression era By Heather Long and Andrew Van Dam, …
May 07 2020
Yeah… Nancy
Like Atrios I find it hard to believe she’s even a Democrat, let alone Left or Progressive. She’s a Pluto/Kleptocratic Neo Liberal Oligarch Corporatist Sell Out and she is doing an objectively bad job currently, whatever her past credentials. Our old friend dday– Unsanitized: Pelosi Dials Up a K Street Bailout by David Dayen, American …
May 07 2020
Thanos
I now hold Omnipotence. What should I do with such Almighty power? The answer to that is actually quite simple- anything I want. Anything. I am incapable of error. Any result that displeases me I can simply reverse. There is nothing I need to worry on, for I am Thanos. And Thanos is supreme. Supreme. …
May 06 2020
Wrong Brother
What did you think Kimosabe meant? Body Bags Instead of Requested Covid-19 Testing Kits for Native American Clinic Seen as Cruel Metaphor by Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams Wednesday, May 06, 2020 A Seattle-area Native American health center in April received body bags instead of requested equipment to handle the coronavirus in what tribal officials described …
May 06 2020
A Real Boy?
I’m a lonely orphan robot. Just a scrap metal tower A misfired piston Run on squirrel power His galvanized insides Can feel no joy He wants to be a real boy I wanna be a real boy! Yeah! Not a titanium toy Don’t give my battery flattery What I want is more grey matter-y A …