Post No. 1,750

 I am not sure why I started doing this in the Before Time (2006) and I'm not going back to look at those early efforts.  But it's harmless enough and it keeps me from breaking things.  They tell me blogging has gone the way of cassette tapes and tooth powder, and I think, I wouldn't mind having those things back.  So I go on.  The world is still weird and sometimes wonderful.

Mostly weird.  For instance, newly elected Arizona state representative Liz Harris says she will refuse to do her job unless the state immediately holds a new election because she doesn't like the way the last one came out.  Fine with me.  You own the libs, Liz!  Tell your friends.

A country singer named Jake Flint died a few hours after his wedding (to a woman called Brenda).  It's very sad but what a song it will make.

Someone asked Herschel Walker why he's running for the Senate.  "As I was sitting in my home in Texas, I was sitting in my home in Texas, and I was seeing what was going on in this country.  I was seeing what was going on in this country with how they were trying to divide people."  Like Trump, he sometimes needs two or three tries to get over the high hurdle posed by an English sentence.  This happened a year ago so maybe the people who water and prune him have explained the difference between Texas and Georgia.  Maybe not.  And if Empty Greene thinks this picture will help his chances...

 

...she's doesn't know as much about Georgia Republicans as she thinks she does.

The comedy team of Burkman and Wohl, who pleaded guilty to telecommunications fraud for making thousands of intimidating robocalls to Ohio voters in 2020, got a judge with a sense of humor.  Judge John Sutula sentenced them to probation with electronic monitoring and also ordered them to spend 500 hours registering voters in low-income neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.  I hope someone checks the forms they hand in.  

Mitch McConnell, RINO?  McConnell condemned The Dinner, saying, "There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy."  Trump responded by calling him "a loser for our nation and for the Republican Party."  Guys, guys, you're both right!

Even Benjamin Netanyahu stopped praising Trump long enough to suggest that eating with antisemites was "a mistake."  Hey, Donnie, another ungrateful Jew!

While the Republicans argued over who sat where and who brought the marble rye, Democrats were busy with actual stuff:

The House passed a measure to avert a pre-holiday rail strike and a separate bill giving railroad workers seven days of sick leave.  Enjoy it, you won't see anything this adult for two years.

The Justice Department sued Jackson, Mississippi, for failing to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The second Tribal Nations Summit was held at the White House.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York was elected leader of House Democrats.

The Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act, after twelve Republicans were persuaded to vote for it.

Jurors were busy, too.  They convicted Oath Keepers Elmer Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs of seditious conspiracy for their part in the Trump putsch.  The two could have twenty years to keep oaths in one of our fine penal facilities.  It's hard to imagine they'll get probation.  Rhodes once promised that "the antifa flag or communist flag" will never fly over the White House.  Is that true, anti-fascists?  We have a flag?

Well, steam my dumplings!