Bedbugs!

 Honest to Thor, I just don't know.  Remember when All Quiet on the Western Front had its Berlin premiere in 1930?  Sure you do.  A mob led by Goebbels himself released mice and set off stink bombs in the theater and demanded that the film be banned for harming "German prestige."  So I'm deeply convinced that a similar action led to the MSNBC studio being cleared because of bedbugs as the putatively liberal channel prepared to cover the mass primary outbreak they insist on calling Super Tuesday.  Bedbugs are tiny and hard to see.  On the other hand, they seem to be plentiful at certain hotels.  Not naming any names.


For some men, rape is not enough.  They have to defame their victims, too.  No, not him, Roman Polanski, currently on trial in Paris for an interview in Paris Match calling Charlotte Lewis's accusation "a heinous lie."  Lewis says he raped her when she was 16.  Since Polanski is still wanted in the US for assaulting Samantha Gailey when she was 13, and another woman says she was ten when he abused her, it seems plausible.  At this point all kinds of film people usually come to his defense ("Chinatown is a masterpiece!").  I wonder if Trump will welcome him into the club.

But all the news out of France is not depressing:  abortion is now a constitutional right.  The French have an anticlerical tradition that stretches back to the Revolution and today it bore fruit, so to speak.  The best news for American women is that Walgreen and CVS will soon dispense mifepristone.  With a prescription.  In states where it's still legal.  If you don't mind running the gauntlet of chanting Bible-bangers.  I'm just guessing about the last one.

Trump is out trumping as usual.  It's getting harder for him to top his last bucketful of racist lies and exaggerations, but not impossible.  After reminding the MAGAts that migrant are coming here with "languages nobody speaks" he added, "Who would think we have languages that are like from the planet Mars?  Nobody, nobody, knows how to, you know, speak it."   That's right, Captain Covfefe, languages nobody speaks.  But if they're coming from Mars, where are the ships? would be the logical question.  Then he could blame Biden for concealing the big MARS INVASION!  

The stupid, it's spreading.  Trucking companies are short of drivers, so they've ordered Republicans to repeal the Safe Driver Apprenticeship Program so drivers as young as 18 can participate.  Insurance companies charge higher premiums for young males because their statistics show them to be the most accident-prone, but let's get them into the cabs of eighteen-wheelers.  MAGA!

It's Tuesday, so Michelle Obama's office issued its weekly statement that she will never run for president.  







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