Frank Rich hasn't posted for a couple of weeks, and I was hoping to get his take on the second debate and the Trump phenomenon, and lo and behold - there it was yesterday, a long insightful look at The Donald and Rich's surprising conclusion that Trump's effect on our democracy will be beneficial, by exposing the corruption and dysfunction of our political system.....
It's a very good read for any of you interested in politics, longer than usual but worth taking the time.....
As the summer of Donald Trump came to its end — and the prospect of a springtime for Trump no longer seemed like a gag — the quest to explain the billionaire’s runaway clown car went into overdrive. How could a crass, bigoted bully with a narcissistic-personality disorder and policy views bordering on gibberish “defy political gravity,” dominate the national stage, make monkeys out of pundits and pollsters, and pose an existential threat to one of America’s two major parties?
Of course, it was the news media’s fault: The Washington Post charted the correlation between Trump’s national polling numbers and his disproportionate press coverage. Or maybe the public was to blame: Op-ed writers dusted off their sermons about Americans’ childish infatuation with celebrities and reality television. Or perhaps Trump was just the GOP’s answer to the “outsider” Bernie Sanders — even though Sanders, unlike Trump, has a coherent ideology and has spent nearly a quarter-century of his so-called outsider’s career in Congress. Still others riffled through historical precedents, from the third-party run of the cranky billionaire Ross Perot back to Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin, the radio-savvy populist demagogues of the Great Depression. Or might Trump be the reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy (per the Times’ Thomas Friedman), Hugo Chávez (the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens), or that avatar of white-racist resentment, George Wallace (George Will)? The historian Richard Hofstadter’s Goldwater-era essay on “the paranoid style” in American politics was once again in vogue.
Have you ever worked in an office? If so you will find this four minute animated video about the unmentionable subject of pooping at work either 1/ uncomfortable or 2/ extremely funny!
We’ve all been there. You’re at work, when all of a sudden the grumbling in your tummy rises to the surface, but not knowing how to relieve ourselves inconspicuously. This short guide will give you all the tips needed for etiquette on how to properly pinch a loaf in the workplace.
I've always had the impression that for all their wealth the Walton family give almost nothing back to the community in charity or good works, and here's a list to prove it......they are the cheapest megabillionaire bastards in the country, although the Kochs aren't much better.
Keep their greed in mind the next time you go to a Walmart, or better still - go somewhere else.
The Walmart heirs give to charity like they pay their workers: Very little
We knew the hugely wealthy Walton family was greedy and cheap when it came to other people. You only have to look at Walmart's labor practices and global supply chain to know that. But it's shocking to see just how ungenerous they are when compared with their peers among America's wealthiest billionaires:
A pretty decent Bill Maher "New Rules", and he starts with psychics in Times Square and riffs this theme......some good jokes in this five minutes......
Bill Maher ended his show last night by comparing Republicans to con artist psychics making phony predictions to make gullible people believe them.
Maher brought up recent crackdowns in New York against psychics scamming people out of money, bringing up the question of whether it’s okay to rob stupid people. Maher said, “Send your answers to Glenn Beck.”
But then he invoked the GOP’s many, many predictions about dire consequences if President Obama was reelected, clarifying that “I’m not saying Republicans are like psychics because psychics are right sometimes.”
He ran down a list of Republican claims that the country would be worse if Obama did this or that thing, but it didn’t quite happen that way, and Maher commented, “For a party that’s so anti-gay, they sure pull a lot of stuff out of their ass.”
There are lists galore of all of the new TV coming this fall, but neglected a little are the ones returning you may have missed the first time. Here are 22 shows you may have missed.......
When most people talk about "fall TV," they're talking about the huge glut of new shows that networks — broadcast, cable, and streaming — put on the air between September and November. But fall also means the return of some of TV's best — or at least most entertaining — shows.
This fall might be a pretty weak one for new shows, but it's positively stuffed with great returning shows. Below are 23 we think are worth watching, organized by return date. Some are among TV's best. Some are just shows we like keeping up with. All are worth celebrating as part of the annual ritual of stuffing your DVR as full as it will go.
The best jokes from The Edinburgh Festival
1. Darren Walsh: I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It’s Hans free.
2. Stewart Francis: Kim Kardashian is saddled with a huge arse … but enough about Kanye West.
3. Adam Hess: Surely every car is a people carrier?
4. Masai Graham: What’s the difference between a hippo and a Zippo? One is really heavy, the other is a little lighter.
5. Dave Green: If I could take just one thing to a desert island, I probably wouldn’t go.
6. Mark Nelson: Jesus fed 5,000 people with two fishes and a loaf of bread. That’s not a miracle. That’s tapas.
7. Tom Parry: Red sky at night: shepherd’s delight. Blue sky at night: day.
8. Alun Cochrane: The first time I met my wife, I knew she was a keeper. She was wearing massive gloves.
9. Simon Munnery: Clowns divorce: custardy battle.
10. Grace the Child: They’re always telling me to live my dreams. But I don’t want to be naked in an exam I haven’t revised for.
Honourable mentions
Jenny Collier: I never lie on my CV, because it creases it.
Ian Smith: If you don’t know what introspection is, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself.
Tom Ward: I usually meet my girlfriend at 12:59 because I like that one-to-one time.
Gyles Brandreth: Whenever I get to Edinburgh, I’m reminded of the definition of a gentleman. It’s someone who knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.
Ally Houston: Let me tell you a little about myself. It’s a reflexive pronoun that means “me”.
James Acaster: Earlier this year I saw The Theory of Everything – loved it. Should’ve been called Look Who’s Hawking, that’s my only criticism.
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