Ah, it’s good to be home (and it’s even Friday; how cool is that). And to get a good night’s sleep (as good as it gets these days, anyway). They seem to be quite afraid of transmitting disease or something down there. I saw more bottles of hand sanitizer in five days than I’ve seen in my entire life before that. I always knew DC was a dirty place filled with dirty people. Actually that’s not true. Most of the people there are very nice. It’s the ones that aren’t from there that suck.
Meanwhile, oil has started washing ashore on the LA coast and into the Mississippi River. I hope you like your shrimp nice and slippery. Not to worry, though, because we have square watermelons. I’ve never really cared for watermelon (or shrimp, for that matter; I don’t like food you gotta fuck around with to eat, whether it’s spitting out seeds or cracking shells or whatever, and I also don’t like food that looks like it did when it was alive, and I don’t like food that has more than four legs and looks like a bug), But that’s just me. I don’t like big hats, either.
Speaking of big hats, yes, as Vernon mentioned yesterday, the big hats were out in force for the Dorothy Height funeral in DC yesterday (in fact, Joe Biden was caught on-mic leaning over to President Obama at the service saying, “that’s a big fuckin’ hat), and it was of course big news down there. Such a shame – she was only 98. I don’t think I’d have had much chance to get in, though, as they were only handing out 700 tickets to regular people.
One thing I will guarantee right now (and you can hold me to this): you will not need a ticket to get into my funeral, though I hope to have DVDs available for purchase in the lobby. At least a soundtrack CD.
President Obama has interviewed a potential Supreme Court nominee – 56-yr old Sidney Thomas of Montana, who was appointed to the 9th Circuit in 1995 by Bill Clinton. Thomas looks like a “safe” choice (gee, what a shock that Obama would go for a safe choice), and he’s a white guy (the fact that he’s from Montana – which comes in at #51 for number of black people, with a little more than two thousand black people, or three-tenths of one percent of its population – should have tipped you off to that), which is cool ‘cuz what the Supreme Court needs is more white guys. Of course, this is just the first trial balloon to go out, and no nominee is safe when it comes to Republican fundraising and faux outrage.
Oh well, time to get ready to go through the motions of getting through the day.
Pj, you’d look stunning in this.
Damn, can’t he find someone a little younger than 56?
Our guys in Afghanistan doing it better than the Lady’s video imho
John Fugelsang needs his own radio show. I can’t believe this is the same guy that hosted America’s Most Inane Videos or whatever that show was called.
His occasional impersonation of Chris Mathews is great.
Today’s Fugelsang poem
Miss Shrill Baby Shrill – cried out ‘Drill, Baby, Drill!’ – Never planned on a spill, baby, spill – She was only a shill, baby, shill.
http://www.blog.johnfugelsang.com/
To belatedly answer Kat’s questions from yesterday:
1) Kendrick Meek is a good guy. Former state trooper, current congressman, very down to earth. Only bad rap on him is that he more or less “inherited” his mother’s seat in Congress when she retired, but he’s held it long enough that his record can stand on its own.
Right now, he’s not well-known outside south Florida, but he’s started campaigning in other parts of the state and seems to be doing well. He’s sitting on his campaign funds for now while Crist and Rubio beat each other up, so that he’ll have money to spend after the primary. Since Crist has more or less made the primary a moot point, maybe Meek will start advertising in some markets where he’s not as well known. FL is an expensive place to campaign, with nine media markets.
2) Crist swears the tan is genetic. He’s of Greek origin, and being in a sunny climate doesn’t hurt either. He’s had silver hair as long as he’s held public office, which sets off the skin tone as well. (It just occurred to me that I probably know way too much about this.)
Some good interviews on KQED this morning if maybe a little San Francentric but who doesn’t like Willie Mays and beer?
‘Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend‘
Anchor Steam Sold
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I didn’t like Tweety’s dismissive attitude toward Meek yesterday.
Can this day get any worse?
And another drilling rig overturns in Louisiana.
Yep, that was supposed to be up there but I suddenly saw red when I saw John Bolton.
Yeah, I hate the thought of having to endure that asshole.
But as long as I am thinking about Captain Kangaroo
Instead of looking at Boltons sorry ass, I’m going to be watching Carmelo play what will probably be his last game of the year and after next year, PJ will probably be able to watch him in real time playing for the Knicks or the Nets. 🙁 This town just aint big enough for Melo
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I’m of Greek descent and I don’t look like that. :tongue:
Glad Meek is one of the good guys. That name doesn’t engender strength, however.
Oh how I’d love to hear Mort do this obit:
Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies at 87
Along with the twin-towers Sno-Globe I bought at the Grand Central Station gift shop, I’ve still got my ceramic Anthora coffe cup to remember my only trip to the big city in 2000.