Wednesday Stuff

RIP Bubba Smith, one hell of a defensive end with a neat sense of humor to boot (once again, athletes make a lot of dough, including football players, but their bodies pay a terrible price)...



...and Rachel Maddow brings us the latest on Wisconsin, including the most recent Repug garbage (to do something about it, click here)...

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...and remember when the news networks with initials for names actually produced prime-time programs called "documentaries," such as the "CBS Reports" series, including "Harvest of Shame"? Well, it takes Al Jazeera doing it here since our corporate media won't touch this stuff with the proverbial ten-foot pole (except maybe Scott Pelley's report on "60 Minutes" about the unemployed...and by the way, Todd Akin is full of shit - and only a Repug would actually be happy about the fact that this country is "deeply divided." And yes, Paul Ryan really is that big of a dick, as witnessed at about 11:15.)

..."oooh, you and you're name-calling - you're so mean." No I'm not. I've just been watching this garbage play out unabated for years and years and years and I'm sick of it, that's all (and please pay particular attention to the very end here)...



...and happy 85th birthday to Tony Bennett, performing here with John Legend (an apropos selection for some of those Harvard graduates in the prior clip who profess to hate government so much, or at least want to see it diminished).