The discard pile

 Gotta get some trivial but annoying stuff out of the way.

...and why is everything he does reported to me?  So he lost his Instagram account for being a dick to Trevor Noah.  So what?    

That Facebook is losing customers is good news for everyone except Russian propagandists, QAnon conspiracy theorists and its employees.  Meta will no longer do their laundry.  It will continue to offer free meals, free take-out food and free shuttle buses to workers who often make six-figure salaries, but they'll have to hit the laundromat their own selves.  Aww.

After his latest court appearance Pigpen Bannon ordered the Pig Army to "take down the illegitimate Biden regime."  He didn't say how, but I imagine spitballs are involved.

"Russia has the might to put all of our brash enemies in their place," boasted Dmitri Medvedev, who is played by Dave Thomas.

Baby Tuckoo is not a full-time Putin propagandist.  He also finds time to attack environmentalists.  Not personally, he doesn't have the guts to stand up to a teenage girl, but his guest Luke Rosiak stopped by to psychoanalyze Greta Thunberg.  She doesn't know what she's saying, she just repeats what she hears because she has Asperger's syndrome.  Which doesn't work like that.  But if she's "mentally ill" then so is concern for global climate change, end of story.  

I would never have taken USA Today for a Marxist publication, or even a liberal one (there is a difference) but that was before they named Admiral Rachel Levine as one of their Women of the Year.  It was up to Candace Owens to call them out on their plot to "disrupt the family unit."  She also wants to know where Hillary Clinton stands on this whole transgender crisis because, well, nobody had disparaged Hillary Clinton on Fox for nearly two hours and the countdown clock was running.

"Western civilization?  That would be a good idea," said Gandhi, or something like it, during the years when the British were locking him up and Churchill was calling him "a malignant subversive fanatic."  Aditya Chakrabortty in the Guardian would agree.

This is personal.  I settled back to watch one of my favorite movies Sweet Smell of Success today and someone had colorized it.  James Wong Howe's gorgeous cinematography of that "dirty town" New York -- ruined.  I thought we weren't doing this anymore, Screenpix.

Russia has nationalized, or if you prefer stolen, some 515 planes leased to Russian companies.  Most of them belong to Irish companies, so -- Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Not only has Netflix raised its monthly fee but it will soon charge subscribers for sharing passwords.  I know Don't Look Up was expensive but how much profit do they need?  Sure, tell me what it has to do with gas prices.

Like Uber and Lyft tacking on a fuel surcharge.  (By the way, oil has dropped below $100 a barrel yet somehow it's not reflected in the retail price.)  How much goes to the drivers?

Woman-hating gynecologist and Republican idiot Roger Marshall treated members of the truck nuisance convoy to a tour of the Capitol, which is closed to most people.  I'm sure he wasn't helping them scope out the next insurrection/invasion.  

Eli Lilly promises to keep shipping cancer and diabetes drugs to Russia, but the Motherland will run out of Botox and other "non-essentials" very soon.  Will Putin open the national boner pill reserve?  How can their athletes remain competitive without steroids?  And what exactly causes this?

Christina Pushaw, spokescreature for Ron DeSantis, defending Florida's "Anti-Grooming" bill which posits that any discussion of sex with children will make them want to transition and be unattractive.  And with that I think I'm done.