Thursday Stuff

Jack Germond was one of the handful of print journalists that I admired way back in those supposedly awful Clinton years, back when we last saw anything close to actual prosperity – not proud of admitting that I spent more time than I probably should have watching “Dr. McLaughlin’s Gong Show,” but I always thought Germond was the rock of sanity while lunacy reigned just about all around…love the Germond quote from Dan Balz here about interviewing politicians in New Hampshire…RIP…



…and I would guess that Mohamed Morsi in Egypt probably would not have done everything we would have liked, but that’s still no excuse for the carnage depicted in this video (interesting analysis anchored here by Chris Hayes – an equally-tragic-at-least update is here)…

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…and Martin Bashir had a clip on the U.S. House and immigration here that I thought was typically well done – the House will never pass comprehensive immigration reform, and it will end up as a great big political millstone around their necks that they will completely deserve…

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…and this guy is coming to the Philly Folk Festival in these parts starting tomorrow (yep, the graphics on this video are really busy :- ).