I must admit his musical charms are lost on me except as parody and this story may seem a bit macabre falling on the heels as it does of the announcement of the death of his only Grandson at the age of 27, presumably of suicide. But it’s not really about Elvis at all, outside …
Category: News
Jul 13 2020
Pottersville
C’mon, It’s A Wonderful Life. Clarence? Zuzu’s Petals? Buffalo Gal? You can hardly have missed it, before A Christmas Story it ran 24/7 from Thanksgiving to Boxing Day. It’s a bigger problem than you think. Not only are arrears due in a lump at the expiration of the moratorium, but they’re mostly uncollectable so valuations …
Jul 12 2020
Mueller Speaks
Which he never does. Weak Tea if you ask me. Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so By Robert S. Mueller III, Washington Post July 11, 2020 The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond …
Jul 12 2020
No Sports?
2019 Women’s NCAA Water Polo Championship: Stanford v. USC 2019 Men’s NCAA Water Polo Championship: Stanford v. Pacific
Jul 12 2020
The Breakfast Club (Cold Pizza)
AP’s Today in History for July 12 Julius Caesar born; Walter Mondale taps Geraldine Ferraro as the first woman to run on a major party ticket for the White House; Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party; Oscar Hammerstein born. Breakfast Tune Hide Head Blues (banjo cover) Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs …
Jul 11 2020
Smallpox Blankets
Not made up, real History. At that biological Genocide is one of the lesser indignities we inflicted on the First Nations which makes me glad to read news like this- Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Native American Rights in Oklahoma By Jack Healy and Adam Liptak, The New York Times July 11, 2020 The Supreme …
Jul 11 2020
Since April
April, May, June, only a Third of July. Not long at all really. The worst president ever keeps getting worse by Max Boot, Washington Post July 11, 2020 Three months ago — all the way back on April 5 — I proclaimed Donald Trump the worst president ever. Oh, how innocent I was. Sure, I …
Jul 11 2020
House
Told you I wasn’t done with these yet. They’re harder than they look if your Youtube queue isn’t primed correctly and it’s a struggle to keep out the right wing bullshit trash anyway. Anyway who’d a thunk Sir Richard Starkey, MBE would turn out to be the safe and sane one. This is about my …
Jul 09 2020
An Appointment In Samarra
An old Arabian Fable adapted from a translation by W. Somerset Maugham in 1933. There was a merchant in Bagdad who went to the Market to buy provisions and he was jostled. When he turned he saw it was Death and Death made a threatening gesture, Shaken he took his fastest horse and fled to …
Jul 09 2020
A Win, Win?
I peg you as a “Glass is Half Empty” kinda guy. What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing you did mattered? “Pretty much sums it up for me.” So far, MSNBC has been “Glass is Half Empty” based on it not being …