Monday Stuff

This clip via Tony Hinderman of Really American tells us about Stephen Colbert responding to Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the air– AWESOME job on the “Beauty and the Beast” parody (and how about this, my fellow prisoners?)...I didn’t know that FCC hack Brendan Carr wrote that bit about Section 230 of the Communications Act and how that relates to Project 2025, but that’s typical of the utterly disgusting subterfuge of our ruling cabal and all of their whiny BS grievance (“oh, we’re oppressed wingnuts – help us!!”)...I can take or leave Joy Behar, to be honest, along with the rest of that show, but they should be immune from FCC interference just like any other program unless they’re doing the equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded movie theater (NSFW/H)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen informs us that, apparently, Kimmel’s firing was a bridge too far even for the wingnuts (some anyway), including this Kennedy person and The Swanson TV Dinner Heir...this clip does a pretty thorough job of documenting all of the ways that every Republican/conservative is an utterly shameless liar in defense of Mango Mussolini (and as usual, Jon Stewart rises to the moment at the very end)...slightly NSFW/H...



...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that, after Brian Kilmeade says that the homeless should get lethal injection (and Kilmeade’s wishy-washy apology), three guesses what came next and the first two don’t count...yep, homeless people are being shot and lynched, including an attack at a homeless camp in Minneapolis...and by the way, I don’t give a damn that Minneapolis, MN mayor Jacob Frey is a Democrat; you’re either going to get serious about some kind of transitional housing for indigent people or you aren’t...I mean, if you’re more concerned about elderly boomer suburbanites brainwashed by Fix Noise, then say so, even though those folks likely won’t even come to your city anyway, it being a baaad urban environment and all that...”poverty is a policy choice” indeed...



...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” on Yambo’s UK visit and...well, that other story I just alluded to involving late night hosts...looks like our friends “across the pond” indeed laid out the red carpet for Bronzer Beelzebub, but it was an appropriate push back IMO to broadcast the Trump/Epstein clip on the side of Windsor Castle...yep, we know what kind of an insecure, whining man-baby our *preznit truly is to go after comedians, and I honestly don’t know what else there is to say about it (I think Meyers was pretty spot-on, particularly near the end)...



Update: OK, so this is good news, which begs the question; why the hell was Kimmel kicked off the air to begin with?

...and I have to admit that, growing up in the Philly metro area, you can’t help but be inundated with sports history, especially when you’re fortunate enough to have teams in the four most popular professional sports leagues (not trying to demean the WNBA, soccer, etc.), and I realize that there are other cities that can make the same claim (including Detroit, Chicago, LA and NYC of course)...there was a time when all four Philly teams were “poor step children,” if you will, but I can recall that the first team that broke that mold was the Flyers, which was remarkable really since they had been a team of castoffs that were beaten pretty regularly by better teams...there are a few names in Philly that are legendary for the Flyers’ ascendancy (notably Bob Clarke), but no one more so than goaltender Bernie Parent (and yes, I know we’re talking about the pre-disco era, but the history matters)...Parent was truly a fearsome competitor on the ice for the reasons noted in the clip, but MUCH more than that, he was an inspirational figure for people coming back from addiction...my interests have moved on a bit and I now spend probably too much time as an idiot news/politics blogger, but I do remember where I came from...I know there’s that quote that you can tell when a mighty oak has fallen by the absence you feel, or something like that, and that is true big time in Parent’s case...this video captures a bit of why he was so important, though his impact goes way beyond that of course (kind of freaky that the NHL has lost some truly terrific goaltenders recently, also including Ken Dryden and Ed Giacomin)...RIP...



...and once more, I know I’m overdue for a newer tune, so I settled on this one; I have a feeling Bernie would approve of this selection.