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The Ledes

Saturday, May 18, 2024

New York Times: “Dabney Coleman, an award-winning television and movie actor best known for his over-the-top portrayals of garrulous, egomaniacal characters, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 92.”

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Friday, May 17, 2024

AP: “Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area.”

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The Washington Post offers tips on how to keep your EV battery running in frigid temperatures. The link at the end of this graf is supposed to be a "gift link" (from me, Marie Burns, the giftor!), meaning that non-subscribers can read the article. Hope it works: https://wapo.st/3u8Z705

Marie: BTW, if you think our government sucks, I invite you to watch the PBS special "The Real story of Mr Bates vs the Post Office," about how the British post office falsely accused hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of subpostmasters of theft and fraud, succeeded in obtaining convictions and jail time, and essentially stole tens of thousands of pounds from some of them. Oh, and lied about it all. A dramatization of the story appeared as a four-part "Masterpiece Theater," which you still may be able to pick it up on your local PBS station. Otherwise, you can catch it here (for now). Just hope this does give our own Postmaster General Extraordinaire Louis DeJoy any ideas.

The Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron. Washington Post: A “group of amateur archaeologists sift[ing] through ... an ancient Roman pit in eastern England [found] ... a Roman dodecahedron, likely to have been placed there 1,700 years earlier.... Each of its pentagon-shaped faces is punctuated by a hole, varying in size, and each of its 20 corners is accented by a semi-spherical knob.” Archaeologists don't know what the Romans used these small dodecahedrons for but the best guess is that they have some religious significance.

"Countless studies have shown that people who spend less time in nature die younger and suffer higher rates of mental and physical ailments." So this Washington Post page allows you to check your own area to see how good your access to nature is.

Marie: If you don't like birthing stories, don't watch this video. But I thought it was pretty sweet -- and funny:

If you like Larry David, you may find this interview enjoyable:


Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs at the 2024 Grammy Awards. Allison Hope comments in a CNN opinion piece:

~~~ Here's Chapman singing "Fast Car" at the Oakland Coliseum in December 1988. ~~~

~~~ Here's the full 2024 Grammy winner's list, via CBS.

He Shot the Messenger. Washington Post: “The Messenger is shutting down immediately, the news site’s founder told employees in an email Wednesday, marking the abrupt demise of one of the stranger and more expensive recent experiments in digital media. In his email, Jimmy Finkelstein said he was 'personally devastated' to announce that he had failed in a last-ditch effort to raise more money for the site, saying that he had been fundraising as recently as the night before. Finkelstein said the site, which launched last year with outsize ambitions and a mammoth $50 million budget, would close 'effective immediately.' The New York Times first reported the site’s closure late Wednesday afternoon, appearing to catch many staffers off-guard, including editor in chief Dan Wakeford. As employees read the news story, the internal work chat service Slack erupted in what one employee called 'pandemonium.'... Minutes later, as staffers read Finkelstein’s email, its message was underscored as they were forcibly logged out of their Slack accounts. Former Messenger reporter Jim LaPorta posted on social media that employees would not receive health care or severance.”

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May282019

King Donnie's Weekly To-Do List

By Akhilleus


1. Ratchet up tensions in the Middle East. Tell the losers I don't want war but then order troop deployments. That oughta make those towel heads shit their pants. Always keep 'em guessing, is say. Besides, wars are good and easy to win.

Check.

2. Ratchet up the trade war with China. So what if farmers lose and rural Americans have no cell service? As long as they can all still watch Fox, they'll know what a tough and generous king I am. And so what if we have to pay billions in bail out money and hundreds of millions to clean up after my poorly thought out bullshit plans? It's just tax money. And I don't pay taxes. So, hahahahahahaha...

Check.

3. Best of all, continue to make the people investigating MY treason look like traitors themselves. Threaten them with death. Tee-hee. That'll get the Democrat Party hopping.

Check.

Continue to tell congress to fuck off. I'm the king. Who are they? Peasants.

Check.

4. Insult, insult, insult. Attack, attack, attack. Whoever and whatever. Thank you Roy Cohn wherever you are. Best advice evah.

Check, check, check, and check.

5. Go to Japan and piss on the Democrats. Embarrass the shit out of Abe.

Check and check.

6. Ignore warnings from allies, experts, and every intelligence service in the US about North Korea. Kim loves me. He won't do anything without telling me first.

Check

7. Make jokes with the murderous dictator of an antagonistic foreign power (wait, which one? Oh, yeah. This time it's Kim.) about Joe Biden. Or is it Bidan? Who fucking cares? Besides I'm king. I can spell it Bitin' if I want to.

Check

8. Destroy the environment. Fucking Obama thought he could save the planet. Fuck him. And fuck the planet too. I'm the king, I can do whatever I want.

Check, check, and check

9. End the Fourth of July celebrations. From now on, it'll be King Trump Day Celebrations. After all, I deserve it. I'm a very stable genius. (Which reminds me. Call IRS and have them audit that fucking Randy Rainbow.)

Check and check

10. Call the Speaker of the House crazy. How dare she make fun of the king!

BIG CHECK with flowers and hearts and little horses around it.

Well, that's enough for one week. Who says I don't work hard? Trying to start a war, destroy the planet, ruin the economy, and dismantle two centuries of legal precedence while eviscerating the country is hard work.

Yawn....time for a nap, then Egg-zecutive time to listen to my pals at Fox talk about my greatness.

(Editor's note: And this is just one week. Does Nancy Pelosi really need more?)

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Reader Comments (3)

The thing is, this is not much of an exaggeration.

May 28, 2019 | Registered CommenterMarie Burns

Idle digits are the devil's workshop.

May 28, 2019 | Unregistered CommenterPatrick

Everyone should follow the lead of Nancy Pelosi. Pray for him, ridicule him, make him the fool. All opposition should realize by now that he has no sense of humor and can not stand being laughed at. All his statements should get the response, there he goes again, that silly old man talking silly. Who is watching him, do they know he is out. Ignore him on issues but question his spelling , his thinking, his appearance and his audience of clowns. Do not challenge him on issues as that gives him a chance to give stupid things credence.
Challenge his enablers .Make his Senate defend him on every issue. The Senate must be charged with every act that has harmed the Country. Call attention to the terrible thing that have been done and ignore the things Trump says.
Stop letting Trump establish the day's story.

May 28, 2019 | Unregistered Commentercarlyle
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