Jesse Dollemore lets us know about the return of Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, with Combover Caligula having done his best to draw more viewers to the ABC host’s show...great point by Kimmel that his show is actually secondary to the overall principle of adhering to free speech as enshrined in the Constitution...I’d neglected to mention the restrictions that “I’ll Drink To That” Hegseth is putting into place on what journalists can and cannot report under Trump’s DoD (here)...and “It could only good happen” - ???...I wonder if Fix Noise is going to play that in an endless loop as they did every time Biden stammered (and yes, I know that answer, but I’m inclined to ask anyway)...
...and as a bit of a follow-up, Thom Hartmann explains how the death of comedy can be a pretext to the death of democracy (I can take or leave the jokes except the “running out of bullets” one, but the resistance is the point I know)...”dictators can’t take a joke” indeed...interesting (and disturbing) history on Goebbels For Real going after comedians in 1939 for criticizing Der Fuehrer, and I don’t think it’s hyperbole at all to say that the FCC’s Brendan Carr has taken a page out of that execrable playbook...and yeah, banners of Yambo’s surly mug all over the place is another indicator of our slide into authoritarianism that we need to keep fighting...
...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union tells us that it looks like some folks in New Carlisle, Indiana are going through a process with the Orwellian name of “de-watering” in order to cool the computer chips at Amazon’s data center...boy, I must have missed the spirited public debate that took place (I’m sure) over building yet another of these monstrosities (#sarcasm)...and the news isn’t any better in Michigan City in that same state, where some secret “end user” would get some big tax break...and God almighty, possibly 40 of these data centers in that state? Ugh...and yep people, you can just trace all of this to Repug supermajorities in state government...and this Genco sounds like a corporate behemoth in the making that likely will not be accountable to anybody except the shareholders of course (wasn’t that the name of the “front” olive oil company in “The Godfather” movies?)...and I’m sure that 7-2 vote in favor of the data center was probably prearranged before that public meeting even took place...
...and it’s been a few days since I checked in with Mr. Newberger, but I’m glad to see he hasn’t lost his touch...
...and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin died on this day in 1980.
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