The longest day
Time to unwind.
When I was a young one, this marked the end of the spring marathon that began in April: Dad's birthday, Mothers Day, Mom's birthday, Mom and Dad's anniversary, Fathers Day. By now, we were out of money and ideas. The poor man generally got a book he didn't want or, later, a videotape. (Never a necktie -- we weren't idiots.) Eventually we just took him out to dinner. People used to do that.
I thought I'd start today with the lighter side of racism, though Terry Myers of Aberdeen, Scotland, isn't laughing. He was fined $350 for an email in which he called his ex-girlfriend's Irish-born partner a "leprechaun." The court called it a racially aggravated offense. They apparently had "history" -- the L word doesn't come out of nowhere.
If you went to bed early or switched over to Noir Alley, you missed Trump's walk of shame from the chopper to the big house. Treat yourself. He looks like Willy Loman after a particularly grim trip to Davenport, Iowa.
Pay attention, Brian Kemp, this is what vote suppression looks like. First you mail out ballots that don't reflect the voter's party affiliation. Then you reduce polling sites from 3,700 to 200, with one per black-majority county in Kentucky. Then you get a heavily armed white militia to stand outside every polling place -- oh, wait, you don't have to. Just be sure to thank the Chief Justice for castrating the Voting Rights Act. Maybe a case of Glennbeck single malt.
Rudolph Giuliani didn't get a tie for Fathers Day. He got Geoffrey Berman off his case. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York is no longer investigating his skeevy activities in Ukraine. In other words, TOTAL EXONERATION, Trump style.
Eskimo Pie is the latest food to be found racist. Can Brown Betty be far behind? Are crackers insulting to white southerners? This is fun and pointless. Days after Governor Cuomo signed a law banning the practice, there is video of a New York City police officer employing a chokehold on a black man. The whole re-naming campaign doesn't seem to be working. Nor does moving the portraits of Robert Hunter, Howell Cobb, James Orr and Charles Crisp out of the Capitol in Washington. If you know why they were there for over a century and why they're now in the basement, have a gold star.
The Vatican has called on Catholics to divest from fossil fuels in an encyclical warning about the consequences of climate change. Hey, Francis, shut up and pray.
NASA has released this picture from the Hubble telescope which clearly shows the Great Turtle A-tuin traveling eternally through space. Have a peaceful summer.
When I was a young one, this marked the end of the spring marathon that began in April: Dad's birthday, Mothers Day, Mom's birthday, Mom and Dad's anniversary, Fathers Day. By now, we were out of money and ideas. The poor man generally got a book he didn't want or, later, a videotape. (Never a necktie -- we weren't idiots.) Eventually we just took him out to dinner. People used to do that.
I thought I'd start today with the lighter side of racism, though Terry Myers of Aberdeen, Scotland, isn't laughing. He was fined $350 for an email in which he called his ex-girlfriend's Irish-born partner a "leprechaun." The court called it a racially aggravated offense. They apparently had "history" -- the L word doesn't come out of nowhere.
If you went to bed early or switched over to Noir Alley, you missed Trump's walk of shame from the chopper to the big house. Treat yourself. He looks like Willy Loman after a particularly grim trip to Davenport, Iowa.
Pay attention, Brian Kemp, this is what vote suppression looks like. First you mail out ballots that don't reflect the voter's party affiliation. Then you reduce polling sites from 3,700 to 200, with one per black-majority county in Kentucky. Then you get a heavily armed white militia to stand outside every polling place -- oh, wait, you don't have to. Just be sure to thank the Chief Justice for castrating the Voting Rights Act. Maybe a case of Glennbeck single malt.
Rudolph Giuliani didn't get a tie for Fathers Day. He got Geoffrey Berman off his case. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York is no longer investigating his skeevy activities in Ukraine. In other words, TOTAL EXONERATION, Trump style.
Eskimo Pie is the latest food to be found racist. Can Brown Betty be far behind? Are crackers insulting to white southerners? This is fun and pointless. Days after Governor Cuomo signed a law banning the practice, there is video of a New York City police officer employing a chokehold on a black man. The whole re-naming campaign doesn't seem to be working. Nor does moving the portraits of Robert Hunter, Howell Cobb, James Orr and Charles Crisp out of the Capitol in Washington. If you know why they were there for over a century and why they're now in the basement, have a gold star.
The Vatican has called on Catholics to divest from fossil fuels in an encyclical warning about the consequences of climate change. Hey, Francis, shut up and pray.
NASA has released this picture from the Hubble telescope which clearly shows the Great Turtle A-tuin traveling eternally through space. Have a peaceful summer.
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