1/ Andrew Sullivan makes a strong case for Joe Biden.....see what you think....
Biden seems to flummox Trump. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
If you’ve been reading the liberal media and Left Twitter the past couple of months, you’d be certain of one thing: Joe Biden is hopelessly out of touch — too old, too white, too male, too handsy, too racist, too misogynist, too unwoke, and far too compromised by his past positions to be the Democratic nominee in 2020. Josh Marshall, while liking Biden, regardedhim as “unsuited to the moment in almost every way imaginable.” Jamelle Bouie saw him as a repugnant variant of Trumpism: “For decades Biden gave liberal cover to white backlash.”
2/ SNL's cold open, a Family Feud game with Game of Thrones and the Avengers.....
Amusing if you are familiar with either show/movie so you will get the excellent zingers....if you aren't familiar, don't bother - 7 minutes....
3/ Says it all....
4/ Bill Maher's opener, one of his better ones with great jokes galore.....a funny five minutes....
5/ A clear, concise article on a view of the future for our world from MIT Technology Review....the author lays out what's likely to happen and when, and has no illusions that our system can change in time to mitigate the disasters to come.
I know this is depressing, I know you don't want to deal with it but it's coming in your lifetime - at least be mentally ready. Remember, none of the Trumpies have any idea what's coming.
The fantasy version of apocalypse always begins with the longawaited event—a missile launch, escaped virus, zombie outbreak—and moves swiftly through collapse into a new, steady state. Something happens, and the morning after you’re pushing a squeaking shopping cart down a highway littered with abandoned Teslas, sawed-off shotgun at the ready. The event is key: it’s a baptism, a fiery sword separating past and present, the origin story of Future You
Catastrophic global climate change, however, is not an event at all, and we’re not waiting for it. We’re living it right now. https://www.technologyreview.
6/ A very funny and totally political Adam Sandler as "Opera Man" on Weekend Update....four great minutes....
7/ Sam Bee with a skit satirizing "Aliens", with Sigourney Weaver.....two imaginative minutes....amusing.
How do you kick off a political humor show when the whole world is suffering from massive political burnout? Go off-world, of course. Samantha Bee started her 2019 Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with an extended Aliens parody, complete with Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ripley. Between the sketch and the Alien high school play, Weaver has been rippled out this weekend. Bee played a Newt-like version of herself, scared and living alone on a vessel taken over by reporters running away from the 2020 election.
8/ For anything to get done on climate change it's up to the young....at least in Britain they're trying....
Unlike Amerika.....
On April 15, thousands of activists from a movement called Extinction Rebellion started occupying several sites in central London, shutting down major roads and demanding the country’s politicians take immediate, drastic action in the face of climate change.
For more than a week, the streets were awash with an infectious sort of hope. Beyond the potent symbol of popular power represented by their presence in the heart of the city, activists and passers-by had the chance to experiment with collective politics.
9/ A most unusual "New Rules" with Bill Maher.....He gets a little strange, but some "fall off the chair" funny
moments too....a worthwhile 8 minutes....
10/ At this point in 2019 Mary and I agree with this column from Paul Krugman, but the election is 18 months away. Right now we feel we need
new blood who can fight against the reality of a Republican Party that's insane.
It’s still very early, but Joe Biden has emerged as the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders is in second place, although he appears to be fairly far behind, and one poll shows him in a statistical tie with Elizabeth Warren. So what should we think about the men currently leading the field?
Well, I have concerns. Not about electability, a topic about which nobody knows anything.
11/ Samantha Bee does some excellent comedic reporting on "deep fakes", manipulation of images and voices to create fake
tapes of [say] politicians.
This will be a 2020 election issue! A very interesting five minutes....
And by the way this is Sam Bee, not Nicholas Cage....
12/ One of the major failures of the Democrats is the way they have abandoned organized labour, and letting Republicans gut the unions....
Excellent story from Thomas Edsall...
Even as many Democrats appear to accept organized labor’s decline, Republicans recognize the crucial importance of unions and are determined to gut them further.
The conservative who may understand labor’s ongoing significance best is Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
In a 2017 essay for OZY.com, “Why Republicans (and Trump) May Still Win Big in 2020 — Despite ‘Everything’,” Norquist, a longtime anti-tax, anti-labor activist, argued that continuing the right-wing’s effort to crush labor’s power will be of vital importance to the outcome of the next election
13/ Do Canadian Universities have admissions scandals? Nothing whatever like US colleges.....here's why...
The St. George Campus of the top tier University of Toronto. Canada has a much more streamlined approach to college admissions A decade ago, Janice Aurini interviewed 41 upper-middle-class parents in Canada and asked whether they had a preference for where their children earned a university degree. One woman named Grace said her kid wanted to go to medical school, but she didn’t care where because it’s not as if the patients would care. Grace elaborated, “I don’t know anybody who goes to the doctor’s office and looks at what school they graduated from and what marks they got, right?”
Another mother called Lily told Aurini that her oldest son went to the University of Toronto, but not because it’s often labeled one of the best universities in the world. Lily was more excited that he was able to live at their Toronto home for the first three years “so that we could feed him and what have you, and didn’t amount a lot of debt.”
“She didn’t even mention the ranking,” said Aurini, a sociology professor at Ontario’s University of Waterloo and the author of an upcoming study on steps that parents take to prepare their kids for college.
14/ Interesting story titled "How To Make Doctors Think About Death".....it's true as far as it goes, but doesn't mention the primary reason
for aggressive treatment of dying patients - there's lots of money to be made from someone who's terminal....
Keep that in mind when you read it....
My patient, an octogenarian with pneumonia and acute leukemia, was too frail to tolerate the standard treatment for his cancer, and trying to cure his pneumonia with intravenous antibiotics, when the leukemia had already compromised his immune system, would only have weakened him further. It made sense to switch him to “comfort measures”: to focus on alleviating his suffering rather than curing him.
It would also make sense to have general treatment guidelines for situations like this, guidelines to indicate when comfort, not cure, is most appropriate. But no such guidelines exist.
15/ If you aren't watching The Good Fight, you should be - excellent TV, intelligent and current stories....Mary and I are waiting for season 3 to
come up on Amazon!
Seasons 1 and 2 are great TV...
In the second season of the serial drama “The Good Fight,” Diane Lockhart, an attorney played by the regal 67-year-old actress Christine Baranski, makes a heated speech at a meeting about a legal strategy for impeaching Donald Trump. “I have spent the last few months feeling deranged,” she shouts, though she uses an expletive before “deranged.” “Going numb! All Trump, all the time. What’s real, what’s fake? Well, you know what? I just woke up.”
This captures a pretty widespread feeling among Americans right now — consider all the women who mobilized for Democrats in the midterms — but it’s surprisingly rare to see it expressed in pop storytelling.
16/ Some decent-looking movies coming out in May....synopses and trailers....
Because man can not live on Marvel superheroes alone, May is gifting us some strange blockbuster creatures: a wisecracking genie, a lightning-shooting rodent gunshoe, a three-headed dragon monarch fighting everybody’s favorite giant green lizard. Plus: Elton John gets the biopic treatment, John Wick gets even more revenge, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels gets an all-female remake and one of the year’s most glowingly-reviewed fest-circuit dramas efforts gets an official release. Here’s what’s coming to theater near you this month.
17/ Last week we featured best streaming in May....this story gives us the best TV in May....not sure of the difference, but more shows for you.
See if any tickle your fancy....synopses and trailers....
Yes, we’re all going to be busy saying goodbye to Game of Thrones this month. But May will also bring us an older HBO classic that’s back for a long-delayed proper wrap-up. (How we’ve missed you, Al Swearengen.) Meanwhile, the greatest athlete of the 20th century gets an essential two-part doc — and the Wu-Tang get a four-parter! — while Archer has one last parody-scenario up its sleeve and Jordan Klepper gets another shot at Comedy Central. Here’s what you need to set your DVR for over the next 30 days. (You can find our streaming picks for May here.)
Todays redneck joke
(Don't make me come splain this to you! Read the last line again, slowly.) |
Todays joke for married men
A man and his wife were driving home one very cold night when the wife asks
her husband to stop the car.
There was a baby skunk lying at the side of the road, and she got out to
see if it was still alive.
It was, and she said to her husband, "It's nearly frozen to death. Can we
take it with us, get it warm, and let it go in the morning?"
He says, "OK, Get in the car with it."
The wife says, "Where shall I put it to get it warm?"
He says, "Put it between your legs. It's nice and warm there." "But what
about the smell?" said the wife.
He says, "Just hold its little nose."
The man is expected to recover, but the skunk she used to beat him with died
at the scene.....
Another married men joke
"Doc, you've gotta help me! My wife just isn't interested in sex
anymore. Haven't you got a pill or something I can give her?"
"Look, I can't prescribe..."
"Doc, we've been friends for years. Have you ever seen me this
upset? I'm desperate! I can't think; I can't concentrate; my life
is going utterly to hell! You've got to help me."
The doctor opens his desk drawer and removes a small bottle of
pills. "Ordinarily, I wouldn't do this. These are experimental;
the tests so far indicate that they're VERY powerful. Don't give
her more than ONE, understand? Just ONE."
"I don't know, doc; she's awfully cold..."
"One. No more. In her coffee. Okay?"
"Um... okay."
He thanks the doc and heads for home where his wife has dinner
waiting. When dinner is finished, she goes to the kitchen to
bring dessert. He pulls the pills from his pocket and drops one
into his wife's coffee. He thinks for a moment, hesitates, then
drops in a second pill. And then he begins to worry. The doctor
did say they were powerful.
Then an inspiration strikes... he drops one pill into his own
coffee. His wife returns and they enjoy their dessert and coffee.
Sure enough, a few minutes after they finish, his wife shudders a
little, sighs deeply and heavily, and a strange look enters her
eyes. In a near-whisper and in a tone of voice he has never heard
her use before, she looks at him seductively and says, "I need a
man... Right now!!"
His eyes glitter, and his hands tremble as he replies,
"Me too..."
Todays final married guy joke
The wife told me to go to the doctors and get some of those tablets that "help" get an erection.
You should have seen her face when I came back and tossed her some diet pills! I am still looking for a place to live. |
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