Happy Thanksgiving folks....
1/ A sobering article by a historian in the Guardian on how the Rittenhouse verdict has
empowered the far right.....
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hen Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of murdering two men during anti-racism protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last week, the verdict was celebrated by far-right politicians and pundits across the US. Several Republican lawmakers offered Rittenhouse an internship and Fox News host Tucker Carlson called him “a sweet kid”.
2/ 19 unanswered questions about the Jan 6 attack from Don Winslow films.....excellent, and damn good questions...
3/ You aren't hearing much climate denial from the right recently, but they are using climate change to toughen immigration
and strengthen borders. We are in some scary times.....
Standing in front of the partial ruins of Rome’s Colosseum, Boris Johnson explained that a motive to tackle the climate crisis could be found in the fall of the Roman empire. Then, as now, he argued, the collapse of civilization hinged on the weakness of its borders.
“When the Roman empire fell, it was largely as a result of uncontrolled immigration – the empire could no longer control its borders, people came in from the east and all over the place,” the British prime minister said in an interview on the eve of crucial UN climate talks in Scotland
4/ Very clever, very funny - an SNL game show titled "Republican Or Not".....
5/ Andrew Sullivan on how Republicans are now [what used to be] extremists....
I was a different person in the time before I realized that the only way to stop the far-Left was through radical use of state power to reorganize nearly every institution.
That’s a quote from a tweet that seems to me quite typical of one theme now resurgent on the right. That theme is that the only way to defeat left illiberalism is through right illiberalism. It was the single cohering thread at the recent National Conservatism Conference, as David Brooks reported. It’s where a lot of the intellectual excitement is. And in a country as ideologically and culturally diverse as this one, it’s a total dead end. It does nothing but intensify the mutual cycle of revenge and resentment that is cutting what’s left of the sinews of our liberal democracy.
6/ Cecily Strong IS Jeanine Pirro in this SNL cold open.....seven pretty good minutes...
7/ Tom Tomorrow.....be thankful this Thanksgiving....
8/ "To Breed Or Not To Breed" is the title of this story in the Times - couples are choosing not to have children because of the
possibility that their kids' lives will be much worse than theirs....
They are, of course, correct.
Before she married her husband, Kiersten Little considered him ideal father material. “We were always under the mentality of, ‘Oh yeah, when you get married, you have kids,” she said. “It was this expected thing.”
9/ A full Weekend Update...the lads are on form in this one.....the format is - segment 1/ jokes [really good], 2/ a skit with Yoda [yech - might want to FF],
ads, 3/ jokes [very good] and 4/ Mother Earth [fair].....overall 13 minutes....
10/ Ghislaine Maxwell is going on trial soon......and I'll bet there's a lot of nervous elites....
For some reason my computer can't open this, but hopefully you can - it's a good story....
11/ Essential workers in a restaurant are the back of house staff, but they are treated like garbage in a lot of businesses - but these
workers are quitting and leaving food service for other jobs, and some restaurants are struggling....
Throughout the pandemic, news outlets have covered the restaurant industry’s struggle with labor shortages and rising costs. But reports of restaurant workers quitting in droves, customer complaints about slow service and limited menus, and hand-wringing over “a lack of work ethic” consistently overlook a fundamental detail: Restaurant workers, especially back-of-house (BOH) workers, are dying in outrageous numbers from this pandemic. Laboring in jobs that pay less than a living wage, they’re forced to choose between taking their chances elsewhere or remaining in jobs where the risk to their lives can’t be understated.
12/ Ooooooohhhhh.....if only....
13/ And on the same lines as #11, there's a trucker shortage for excellent reasons - low pay, long hours
and being treated as if they're disposable....
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t Joe’s Travel Plaza, a neon-lit rest stop on California’s main interstate highway, truckers can get a brief respite from life on the road. There’s a TV lounge, a laundry room and a free shower if you buy at least 75 gallons of fuel. There’s even a pair of massage chairs in the corner.
14/ Wish this was a joke....
15/ Umair with his gloomy take on America's right being empowered to get much more violent, and just in cans you think this is
the usual Umair OTT polemic reread #1....his writing is more extreme, but it's the same message....
In this post, I’m going to talk a little bit about what the Rittenhouse case was really about. Not for the shooter — but for the right. Why did they rally around it so intensely? Why did they celebrate death so jubilantly? Who gets joyous and giddy about people being shot? This case was about something much, much bigger than a teenager with a gun.
16/ Alanis Morrissette is the subject of a new documentary "Jagged"....
Do you remember Alanis Morissette? Not the Buddhism-practicing, essential-oil-mixing, Earth-mother figure we know today. The first Alanis Morissette. The one who threw on Adidas low-tops and an oversized T-shirt and thrashed her hip-length, un-straightened, un-blonde hair around any stage she could find while absolutely destroying a hook about how her whole purpose in life is to never let some guy forget what a prick bastard he is. That Alanis Morissette.
17/ Want to get depressed? Here's an award winning Covid documentary...."The First Wave"....
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t is tempting to suggest that the Covid deniers, the hoaxers, the hucksters, the anti-vaxxers, the flat earthers, the merchants of disinformation and the crackpot conspiracy theorists be strapped into a chair and force fed The First Wave, a harrowing documentary about the early toll of the coronavirus pandemic.
18/ Jane Campion's "Power Of The Dog".....Netflix Dec. 1....
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here’s a rare sensual acuity in the film-making of Jane Campion. Hers is a body of work that can be mapped out in loaded touches: the tentative brush of skin against skin that sends a jolt through In the Cut; the caress of a piano key in The Piano. Even in a world like that of The Power of the Dog, populated by hard-baked ranchers, the softness long ago sandblasted from their manners, Campion takes a tactile approach to exploring her characters. But in this milieu, not given to gentleness and intimacy, a glimpse of hands working with strips of woven cowhide can take on a transgressive charge.
19/ Is this worth subscribing to the Disney channel for?
Maybe.....Peter Jackson's "Get Back", footage from the 60's with the Beatles in a recording session.....
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hen the world closed down in March 2020, most of us had to make do with pretending to enjoy video calls with friends or baking bread. Peter Jackson, meanwhile, was busy sifting through a mountain of unseen footage – 60 hours in total – of the Beatles, shot by the director Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969.
Today's Norwegian joke
A beautiful, curvy, woman, stark naked, jumped into a taxi in Minot, North Dakota. The taxi driver, good old Ole, an Old Norwegian man, opened his eyes wide and stared at the woman. He made no attempt to start the cab.
She said to him: "What's wrong with you honey? Haven't you ever seen a naked woman before?"
Ole said "Lady, I'm not staring at you, I am telling you, dat vould not be proper vair I come from".
She said:- "Well, if you're not staring at my boob's sweetie, what are you doing then?"
Ole looked at her and said: "Vell, I am lookin and I'm lookin, and I am tinking to me-self’s, vair in da hell is dis lady keeping da money to pay for dis ride?
She said to him: "What's wrong with you honey? Haven't you ever seen a naked woman before?"
Ole said "Lady, I'm not staring at you, I am telling you, dat vould not be proper vair I come from".
She said:- "Well, if you're not staring at my boob's sweetie, what are you doing then?"
Ole looked at her and said: "Vell, I am lookin and I'm lookin, and I am tinking to me-self’s, vair in da hell is dis lady keeping da money to pay for dis ride?
Today's retiree story
This is not a joke, just something that happened at Village at Riverwalk, an over 55 retirement community. The people who live there have small homes but often eat at the clubhouse where pancake breakfasts are served.
One morning one of the residents didn't show up for breakfast so my wife went and knocked on his door to see if everything was OK. She could hear him through the door and he said that he was running late and would be there shortly so she went back to the clubhouse dining area.
An hour later he still hadn't arrived so she went back to his house and she found him on the stairs to his lanai. He was coming down the stairs but was having a hell of time. He had a death grip on the hand rail and seemed to have trouble getting his legs to work right. She told him she was going to call an ambulance but he told her no, he wasn't in any pain and just wanted to have his breakfast.
So she helped him the rest of the way down the stairs and he had his breakfast. When he tried to return to his home he was completely unable to get up even the first step so she called an ambulance for him.
A couple hours later she called the hospital to see how he was doing. The receptionist there said he was fine, he just had both of his legs in one leg of his boxer shorts.
Today's intellectual joke
These may have you scratch your head a little but once you figure the joke, you are sure to react as if you just saw the gold coin on
your table even though it had been lying there the whole time.
1. Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
To.
To who?
No, to whom.
2. What did the DNA say to the other DNA?
“Do these genes make me look fat?”
3. A Roman walks into a bar and asks for a martinus.
“You mean a martini?” the bartender asks.
The Roman replies, “If I wanted a double, I would have asked for it!”
Another Roman walks into the bar, holds up two fingers, and says, “Five beers, please.”
4. A philosopher says to a linguist “What if, instead of periods, women had apostrophes?”
The linguist replied, “They’d be more possessive and have more frequent contractions.”
5. It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally!
6. A Buddhist monk approaches a burger food-truck and says “make me one with everything.”
The Buddhist monk pays with a $20 bill, which the vendor takes, puts in his cash box, and closes the lid.
“Where’s my change?” the monk asks.
The vendor replies, “change comes from within.”
7. How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber?
Ask them to pronounce “unionized.”
A plumber would say- ‘you-niun-ized’ ,whereas a chemist would say- ‘un-ayon-ized’. Gettit?
8. Helium walks into a bar,
The bartender says “We don’t serve noble gases in here.”
Helium doesn’t react.
9. Two chemists go into a restaurant.
The first one says “I think I’ll have an H2O.”
The second one says “I think I’ll have an H2O too”
— and he died.
10. What did the scientist say when he found 2 isotopes of helium?
“HeHe”
11. A linguistics professor says during a lecture that, “In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative.”
But then a voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
12. A hyperbole is an exaggerated claim. No, really, realllllllllllyyyyy exaggerated. I mean, like, the most exaggerated thing in the history of ever!!
13. As I said before, I never repeat myself.
14. I would make another chemistry joke but all good ones ARGON!
15. The statement below is true.
The statement above is false :/
16. I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a knob called brightness, but it doesn’t work!
17. The Higgs Boson walks into a church.
The priest says “we don’t allow Higgs Bosons in here”
The Higgs Boson says “but without me how can you have mass?”
18. I heard that Oxygen and Magnesium got together and I was like..
..”OMg”
19. There’s a band called 1023MB. They haven’t had any gigs yet tho
How many of these seemingly twisted jokes could you figure without straining your head?
