Do they know it's Friday?
I finally caught up with the Burkman-Wohl Comedy Hour, which all the networks inexplicably ignored. Never mind, this is why we have the Internets. The boys are getting much better at this. After striking out with their Mueller and Buttigieg non-shockers they remembered to hire someone to play the role of Accuser and provided him a script with vivid details (lime-green strap-on dildo!). All I would criticize is their failure to include a big name for the three-way. (AOC? Rachel Maddow?)
The one thing Senator Warren's campaign needed was a memorable slogan, and thanks to Jack and Jake it has one: "#Cougar2020" is trending, as the kids say. The Senator tweeted, "It's always a good day to be reminded that I got where I am because a great education was available for $50 a semester at the University of Houston (go Cougars!). We need to cancel student debt and make college free for everyone who wants it."
Make sure Burkman and Wohl get free tee shirts. You can't buy publicity like this.
Over on the Fox News website, where Trump will never see it because he doesn't know how to use a computer, Andrew "Real Judge" Napolitano writes that Trump's July 25 shakedown conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky "manifested both criminal and impeachable behavior." He goes on, "Trump also suggested that his impeachment would produce a second American Civil War. This language is a dog whistle to the deranged." I suspect Napolitano's employment at Fox may be nearing its end, but he has a chance to be the first judge ever to appear on Dancing With the Stars, so it's not all bad.
If you were distracted by real life, or comatose, or just refused to pay attention, the last three miserable months of Trump are laid out by Eliot Weinberger in the London Review of Books. Perhaps British readers will learn from our disastrous mistakes. Nah, they already have an actual democracy, and very few of their readers were voting for BloJo anyway. The same September 26 issue also has an article on Enoch Powell, the father of modern British racism.
"A John LeCarre novel starring the Marx Brothers" is how Charlie Pierce describes the Ukraine Follies. Gee, I wish I'd said that, everybody's repeating it around the club. "Nobody will trust American diplomats again for a very long time, nor should they." A sober reminder that whoever becomes the forty-sixth president will have a bigger task than hiring exterminators for the White House and moving Andrew Jackson back to the cellar. Mr. Pierce is not at all certain this country will recover from its experiment in reality TV government. You know, I was watching the hearings back in the summer of 1973 when Alexander Butterfield was asked if there were tapes of conversations in the Oval Office. I remember the pause -- it's about to hit the fan -- before he said, "Yes." Now imagine Nixon and the guys standing on the lawn, yelling "Perjury is a very hard rap to prove! A million dollars -- we can get that! Rose, you'll have to erase some stuff before we hand over the tapes!" Why is this taking so long?
High winds and rain in Alabama. Better late than never, OK?
The one thing Senator Warren's campaign needed was a memorable slogan, and thanks to Jack and Jake it has one: "#Cougar2020" is trending, as the kids say. The Senator tweeted, "It's always a good day to be reminded that I got where I am because a great education was available for $50 a semester at the University of Houston (go Cougars!). We need to cancel student debt and make college free for everyone who wants it."
Make sure Burkman and Wohl get free tee shirts. You can't buy publicity like this.
Over on the Fox News website, where Trump will never see it because he doesn't know how to use a computer, Andrew "Real Judge" Napolitano writes that Trump's July 25 shakedown conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky "manifested both criminal and impeachable behavior." He goes on, "Trump also suggested that his impeachment would produce a second American Civil War. This language is a dog whistle to the deranged." I suspect Napolitano's employment at Fox may be nearing its end, but he has a chance to be the first judge ever to appear on Dancing With the Stars, so it's not all bad.
If you were distracted by real life, or comatose, or just refused to pay attention, the last three miserable months of Trump are laid out by Eliot Weinberger in the London Review of Books. Perhaps British readers will learn from our disastrous mistakes. Nah, they already have an actual democracy, and very few of their readers were voting for BloJo anyway. The same September 26 issue also has an article on Enoch Powell, the father of modern British racism.
"A John LeCarre novel starring the Marx Brothers" is how Charlie Pierce describes the Ukraine Follies. Gee, I wish I'd said that, everybody's repeating it around the club. "Nobody will trust American diplomats again for a very long time, nor should they." A sober reminder that whoever becomes the forty-sixth president will have a bigger task than hiring exterminators for the White House and moving Andrew Jackson back to the cellar. Mr. Pierce is not at all certain this country will recover from its experiment in reality TV government. You know, I was watching the hearings back in the summer of 1973 when Alexander Butterfield was asked if there were tapes of conversations in the Oval Office. I remember the pause -- it's about to hit the fan -- before he said, "Yes." Now imagine Nixon and the guys standing on the lawn, yelling "Perjury is a very hard rap to prove! A million dollars -- we can get that! Rose, you'll have to erase some stuff before we hand over the tapes!" Why is this taking so long?
High winds and rain in Alabama. Better late than never, OK?
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