1/ The always excellent Frank Rich with his commentary on the week's news....
Feeling the heat. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today, Donald Trump’s frantic attempts at an impeachment defense, efforts by Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo to protect themselves from Ukraine fallout, and Bernie Sanders’s health issues.
A week in, Trump’s defense to the growing impeachment proceedings seems to be tantrums and denial. Is there a cost to failing to develop a more focused plan, or will this strategy help him slip out of trouble, as it has in the past?
We can safely assume that even Trump’s most ardent fans would not put him and “focused plan” or “strategy” in the same sentence.
2/ Sam Bee with an amusing five minutes on impeachment.....funny stuff!
3/ Good story from the Times on why Republicans are so mute in the face of Trump's increasing madness....
In a sane world, the reaction of Republicans to the “memorandum of telephone conversation” between President Trump and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, combined with the whistle-blower complaint filed by an intelligence officer describing a White House cover-up, would be similar to the response of Republicans after the release, on Aug. 5, 1974, of the “smoking gun” tape that finally broke the Nixon presidency. Republicans wouldbegin to abandon Mr. Trump, with senior figures urging him in private and in public to resign.
This may be asking too much of Republicans, who have lost their way in the Trump era.
4/ The Times Magazine has an extended interview with Rachel Maddow, how she works and what drives her.
A fascinating in depth profile of the most articulate talking head on cable news.......
Rachel Maddow was trying to get to work. She only had to get from the glass door of her doctor’s office to the tinted-windowed S.U.V. that was idling at the curb, waiting to spirit her to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, but there was a hitch. Maddow had torn three ligaments in her left ankle — fishing accident — and one of those ligaments ripped off a piece of her bone, so now she was lumbering toward the sidewalk, her foot strapped into a boot, her lanky body bent over crutches that creaked and boomed with every hit to the sidewalk. In Manhattan, this had the effect of a kind of ritualistic drumbeat, alerting every liberal within earshot to her presence.
5/ Rachel Maddow with her A block from Tuesday where she explains not just the Ukraine-Biden issue, but what's behind it......
Russia. You won't get a better background than this.....yes it's 25 minutes, but it's really interesting....
6/ Explainsley To Ainsley.....Colbert gives a one minute lesson to the blond idiot on Fox and Friends....
7/ Bill Maher "New Rules", and he tears into white liberals feeling guilty for
being white......a pretty good five minutes....
8/ Interesting story on why we as a species cannot cope with climate change......
Climate change is nothing new. We have known about this issue since the 1960s. When looking at the possible consequences, you would expect immediate and global action. We all know this is not what happened. So the question I cannot wrap my head around is: why do we keep procrastinating? Some important steps have been taken, but considering the scale of this issue we have not even started. How come? How is it possible for us to know that climate change is a threat but to not act accordingly? Let us try to find answers to those questions, which may help us find solutions. Bear with me. https://medium.com/@
9/ John Oliver with three minutes on impeachment....
10/ A well written, and utterly terrifying story titled "He's going to get reelected, isn't he"......
On Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump stood at a podium in New York, where he was attending the United Nations General Assembly, and gave something resembling a press conference. In a discursive 81 minutes, he called Democratic senators “con artists” for investigating allegations that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a girl when he was in high school. He insisted, in his signature third person, that China has respect for “Donald Trump’s very, very large brain” and that North Korea’s brutal dictator wrote him a “very personal,” “beautiful” letter. There was word salad about Middle East peace and something about Chuck Schumer voting against George Washington.
And when it was over, despite all the agita on social media, I thought to myself: He’s going to get reelected. Or, more precisely: For all I know, he’s going to get reelected because his voters certainly didn’t see what I just saw. https://medium.com/the-
11/ SNL's Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che....two good minutes.....
12/ Umair with an essay about Greta and Trump......fascinating....."
There was an historic moment yesterday, captured in photographs, which struck me — and probably you, too — as especially poignant. Momentous. Special.
The strutting fascist at the head of the world’s crumbling capitalist empire — preening in the glow of the cameras. And behind him, the humble, defiant schoolgirl — trying to save the world. What a moment. But what is it that’s so striking about it? Why does it touch sane and thoughtful people so?
13/ SNL fake commercial for "Downton Abbey" the movie....amusing....two minutes....
14/ A new idea from the Times - weeknight pasta dishes......some really good ones here....Mary!
Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. We devoted an entire edition of the print Food section (the actual newspaper! Remember her?) to weeknight cooking on Wednesday, including a photo essay of what more than a dozen families around the world eat for dinner.
I wrote about what I learned in a year of weeknight cooking — both in doing more of it myself, and in writing about it every week for all of you. There are bonus scenes of me, trying to cook dinner with an ancient serrated knife and really nothing else in the kitchen of my vacation rental in August.
15/ Car and Driver's best SUV's and trucks for 2019.....
We get it: America likes trucks and SUVs, as demonstrated by our collective ongoing voting with our vehicle-buying dollars. Automakers, while simultaneously trying to predict what’s ahead in an electrified and autonomous future, are nevertheless cashing in on these nearer-term opportunities by both stuffing entries into every last subsegment and by discontinuing many long-running cars.
To help sift through the confusion caused by this flurry of activity, we gathered all of the new or substantially revised entries along with last year’s winners—54 vehicles in total—to answer the question of which is the best in each of our 10 categories of SUVs, pickups, and van. Our entire editorial staff spends a week driving and evaluating all of the vehicles, and this isn’t a quick, round-the-block test drive.
Todays vibrator joke....
A mother was walking down the hall when she heard a humming sound coming from her daughter's bedroom.
When she opened the door she found her daughter naked on the bed with a vibrator.What are you doing?" she exclaimed.The daughter replied, "I'm 35 and still living at home with my parents and this is the closest I'll ever get to a husband."Later that week the father was in the kitchen and heard a humming sound coming from the basement.
When he went downstairs, he found his daughter naked on the sofa with her vibrator."What are you doing?" he exclaimed.The daughter replied, "I'm 35 and still living at home with my parents and this is the closest I'll ever get to a husband."A couple of days later the mother heard the humming sound again, this time in the living room.
In there, she found her husband watching the Super Bowl on television with the vibrator buzzing away beside him."What are you doing?" she exclaimed.He replied............"Watching the game with my son-in-law."
Todays little old lady joke
This may be us someday …. or earlier !
When asked by a young patrol officer, "Do you know you were speeding?"
This elderly woman gave the young officer an ear to ear smile and stated:-
"Yes, but .... I had to get there before I forgot where I was going."
The officer put his ticket book away and bid her good day.
Makes perfectly good sense to me!!
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