1/. Republicans are furious at Biden for being normal....
The American presidency offers numerous opportunities for a chief executive to make use of his symbolic role as head of state in a way that advances the national interest while simultaneously benefiting his own political standing. Donald Trump usually forfeited these opportunities, either because he was unable to pretend to care about people who didn’t vote for him or because he couldn’t adapt his free-form insult-comic rants to a teleprompter format.
2/. Pete Buttigeg was on Seth Meyers show in his new role as Secretary of Transportation.....great
interview, I like this guy! Six minutes...
3/. Challenging story from Andrew Sullivan on how Biden's policies are beholden to the far left.....but there's a fundamental flaw in
his rant.....Joe Manchin! Ain't going to happen.
The past year has been a bewildering period in American political and social history. We are in the last, maddening stages of a year-long pandemic that forced deep changes in everyone’s lives. In the middle of it, we saw a sudden mass movement emerge around the policing of black America, pioneered by the young, a movement that now sees any difference in outcome between various identity groups as completely intolerable. We saw American cities in flames. We had an election with a massive, historic turnout, even as the plague was about to hit its peak.
4/. A wonderful ad from VoteVets on Tucker Carlson's commentary on women in the military. Note the Pentagon issued a press release today, saying "talk show hosts do not influence personnel decisions"....what a change from the last four years...
5/. The Military isn't responding to any of Tucker Carlson's BS....
In a past life, Tucker Carlson used the presence of women in the military to needle Democrats; when Barack Obama’s administration lifted a ban on women in frontline combat roles, Carlson tweeted, “The administration boasts about sending women to the front lines on the same day Democrats push the Violence Against Women Act,” implying that the two entirely unrelated policies were somehow contradictory. This week, he returned to the topic, this time to disparage the women themselves. On Tuesday night, the Fox News host responded to Joe Biden’s praise of female service members this week by accusing the president of trying to force the U.S. military to be “more feminine.” On International Women’s Day, Biden had said that the military is “designing body armor that fits women properly, tailoring combat uniforms for women, creating maternity flight suits, updating requirements for their hairstyles.”
6/. The wonderful Tom Tomorrow.....
7/. Even though we realise these attack ads don't have any effect on Republicans, thay are very
satisfying to watch....like this one from Meidas Touch....
8/. Covid has done one really good thing - brought the fossil fuel industry to its knees.....but we need more.
Jeff Goodell with a very good story in Rolling Stone....
A year ago, things were looking pretty grim, climate-wise. The president of the United States was a thug who thought climate change was a hoax and science was a conspiracy to remove him from office. In Oregon, when a bill came up to put a price on carbon, Republican legislators walked out of the capital to dodge the vote. Internationally, whatever momentum had been generated at the 2015 Paris climate agreement had dissipated. In Brazil’s Amazon, more than 4,200 square miles of rainforest were destroyed to create land for farming and cattle grazing. In the once-frigid Arctic, a record 32 million tons of goods were shipped on the mostly ice-free Northern Sea Route. The world was slouching towards climate hell.
9/. Not seen this before - a sex chat line for nerds....with Paris Hilton on SNL...an amusing 2 minutes....
10/. The Republicans are split between the Trumpies and the conservatives.....but what happens next? A good column in the Times...
Where do Republicans go from here? Is it more populism? Trumpism without Trump? Trumpism with Trump? Warmed-over Reaganism? Will the party embrace a middle-class agenda? Or maybe it will just return to the anodyne mediocrity that gave Donald Trump an opening in the first place.
11/. A Supercut of two President's responses to the coronavirus....exactly one year apart....let's make that
one real President, and teleprompter Trump......
12/. A very interesting piece from Andrew Sullivan on how our tribal look at the ethnic makeup of this country is way behind the
reality....he has an excellent argument....
If there’s one core assumption shared by the two tribes of our culture, it is that America will soon be a “majority-minority” nation. Among today’s seniors, “whites” still dominate; but among children, “non-whites” are now a very clear majority. The debate about when exactly America will become a majority-minority country moves around a bit in the projections, but it’s somewhere near the middle of this century. And this underlying reality has created a kind of background noise to our debates about race and culture, immigration and populism.
13/. Dr. Suess and the Republicans...
14/. In our haste for the vaccines let's remember the drug companies that are making billions and billions.....
The arrival of Covid-19 vaccines promises a return to more normal life – and has created a global market worth tens of billions of dollars in annual sales for some pharmaceutical companies.
Among the biggest winners will be Moderna and Pfizer – two very different US pharma firms which are both charging more than $30 per person for the protection of their two-dose vaccines. While Moderna was founded just 11 years ago, has never made a profit and employed just 830 staff pre-pandemic, Pfizer traces its roots back to 1849, made a net profit of $9.6bn last year and employs nearly 80,000 staff.
15/. An essay on the life of a minimum wage servant.....very enlightening, and unless you
are a Karen might change your behaviour....
She knocked over a pitcher of iced tea, then pointed to a waitress across the restaurant. “
That one did it,” she said.
That one was my friend.
The woman was somewhere in her late 30s, the kind of wife that comes with the kind of salary that lets you treat 4-star restaurants in Manhattan like your kitchen. My friend didn’t argue. She didn’t mention she’d been standing in the same place for fifteen minutes, polishing silverware. She didn’t hint the only way she could’ve knocked over the iced tea was through telekinesis. She just walked twenty feet across the room to apologize.
She cleaned up the woman’s mess.
This is what it’s like to work a minimum wage job.
16/. Umair with a treatise on America's birth rate....which has dropped a lot...
America’s birth rate is now so low it’s less than two kids per couple, which of course is what you need to keep a population growing, short of immigration. This fact plays into fascist fears of “white genocide,” which I’ll come back to.
17/. The Times lists the best TV on Netflix....some new ones to me!
Today's video - don't be put off by the hippie look of this guy - the moves he makes with this hoop are amazing......
Shot at Venice Beach, CA.............
Todays "getting old" joke
A seventy-eight year-old man is sitting on a park bench, sobbing, when a
young man walks by and asks him what's wrong.
Through his tears the old man
answers, "I"m in love with a twenty-five-year-old woman."
"What's wrong with that?" asks the young man.
Between the sobs and sniffles, he answers, "You can't understand. Every
morning before she goes to work, we make love... At lunchtime she comes
home and we make love again, and then she makes my favorite meal. In the
afternoon when she gets a break, she rushes home and we have more sex, the
best an old man could want. And then at suppertime, and all night long, we
make love."
He breaks down, no longer able to speak.
The young man puts his arm around
him. "I don"t understand. It sounds like you have a perfect relationship.
Why are you crying?"
The old man answers, again through his tears, "I forgot where I live."
Today's short bonus joke.....
So this 78 year old guy is having coffee with his friends and they see him take a viagra out of his pocket, cut it i
nto 4 pieces and take a piece with his coffee.
Shocked, they ask him if he is still having sex?
"No" he said. "I just want it to stand up a little bit so I will stop peeing on my new golf shoes."
Today's philosophical jokes
| Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself,'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin..' - Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter) <><> I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.' - Eleanor Roosevelt | |
<><> Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.. - Mark Twain <><> The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible - George Burns <><> Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge <><> Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain <><> By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates <><> I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - Groucho Marx <><> My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante <><> I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. - Zsa Zsa Gabor <><> Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. - Alex Levine <><> My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. - Rodney Dangerfield <><> Money can't buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan <><> Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP . - Joe Namath <><> I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. - Bob Hope <><> I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.. - W. C. Fields <><> We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers <><> Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill <><> Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.. - Phyllis Diller <><> By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good spit it out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ May your troubles be less, may your blessings be more, and
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Today's medical joke....
A nice, calm, and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, “I would like to buy some cyanide.”
The pharmacist asked, “Why in the world do you need cyanide?”
The lady replied, “I need it to poison my husband.”
The pharmacist’s eyes got big and he exclaimed, “Lord have mercy! I can’t give you cyanide to kill your husband. Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!”
The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist’s wife.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and said,
“You didn’t tell me you had a prescription.”
Today's sports joke...
At one point during a game, the coach called one of his 9-year-old baseball players aside and asked, "Do you understand what co-operation is? What a team is?"
"Yes, coach", replied the little boy. "
"Do you understand that what matters is whether we win or lose together as a team?"
The little boy nodded in the affirmative.
"So," the coach continued, "I'm sure you know, when an out is called, you shouldn't argue, curse, attack the umpire, or call him an asshole. Do you understand all that?"
Again, the little boy nodded in the affirmative.
The coach continued, "And when I take you out of the game so that another boy gets a chance to play, it's not a dumb ass decision or that the coach is a shithead, is it?"
"No, coach."
"Good", said the coach. "Now go over there and explain all that to your grandmother.
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