Other fun stuff you need to know

 Last night Barack Obama won his second Emmy Award.  He now has two and Trump has none.  Zero.  Nada.  Maggie's drawers.  One way or another, Obama is still laughing at him.

Trump is ineligible for the Nevada primary because his campaign missed the filing deadline.  This is just delightful.

Papers were filed on time for the Illinois primary, but Trump did not sign the customary pledge not to "advocate the overthrow of the government," a holdover from the McCarthy era.  "Fight the power!" is what I'd say if it were anyone else.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for a week after complications from an elective procedure and did not advise the White House.  Trump is already demanding that he be fired along with "'General' Mark Milley" (now retired).  When Tommy Tuberville crippled the military by holding up key promotions for nearly a year in a childish snit, Trump had no problem.

The family of Ashli Babbitt waited three years before deciding to cash in on her death, filing a $30 million lawsuit against...well, it says "the federal government," but that's a little vague.  Those guest shots on Fox don't pay as well as we thought.

Hitler, Hitler, who's got the Hitler?  After Joe Biden cited Trump's promise of "a full-scale campaign of revenge and retribution," heavy thinker Brian Kilmeade decided it was Biden who "went full Hitler."  The Hitler Hacky Sack season has just begun.

At a restaurant in Silt, Colorado (Silt, Rifle, who names these places?), Lauren Boebert allegedly slugged it out with ex-husband Jayson.  Police were called.  

Euphemism of the week:  "abnormal discharge of aircraft ammunition."  Translation:  Russia bombed the Russian village of Petropavlovka, 150 km from the Ukrainian border.  This is not an isolated incident -- Russian social media features the meme "Bomb Voronezh," meaning to hit your own territory.

What happens when an election denier loses an election?  We may be about to find out.  Michigan Republicans got together Saturday to terminate the chairmanship of borderline insane Kristina Karamo after less than a year, and she says she won't accept their decision.  The Gang of Putin found her fundraising "disappointing" and don't necessarily agree that Beyonce and Cardi B are satanic.  (Also yoga and Korean TV, I think.)  Court challenge coming up.

In a related story, Michigan Republican Rep. Tim Walberg praised Uganda for its "kill (or imprison) the gays" law, or as he puts it, standing "according to God's word."  And then God-hating Joe Biden threw Uganda out of the African Growth and Opportunity Act.  Keep advancing that gay agenda, Joe, and you'll be smitten.  Down.  Smited down.  Whatever the hell it is.  Gabon, Niger and the Central African Republican were also found to be in "gross violation of internationally recognized human rights."  Now do Saudi Arabia, Joe.

You can't buy publicity like this:  A door blew off an Alaska Airlines plane and was found in a backyard in Portland.  And nearby, in perfect condition, a brand-new iPhone sucked out of the cabin.  (Reminded me of the Volkswagen that starts right up after two hundred years in Woody Allen's Sleeper.)



This is endearing as all get-out:  Welsh wildlife photographer Rodney Holbrook put a security camera in his shed and shares video of a mouse tidying the place up at night.  Watch!



 




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