Friday Stuff

RIP Harper Lee - you know the movie (and more importantly, the book it's based on)…



…and kudos to Media Matters and Brian Stelter of CNN for busting the Foxies on still more propaganda, this time on the Black Lives Matter movement (here)…



...and God, did I miss John Oliver (LOVE the Wisconsin poem I can't repeat, and this Joel Kleefisch nematode and Debbie Riddle can cry me a goddamn river…and believe it or not, this wasn’t even the best segment; check out the bit at the end with New Zealand and MP Stephen Joyce – have to see it to believe it)...



...and Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao is talking out of both sides of his mushy face again, as usual, on Obama and Supreme Court nominations here (as stated many, MANY times before, we can thank idiot Southern voters for continuing to send this clown back to Washington every six years...in the clip, though, McConnell is actually correct for the last ten seconds, but not in the way he thinks)...



…and I give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (again, more or less) from 2/18/09, in which Mike Papantonio discusses the lack of GOP leadership, which of course would be filled by the Teahadists – still, though, I think this clip is timely in light of this (sooo, their “leader” now is this guy, Trump I mean? And isn't THIS just precious, by the way? Leave it to a "Catholic" like Bill Donahue to "give to Caesar what is Caesar's" at it were, and I'm not talking about a pizza - I think Donahue is the only one who is "confused" here, or pretending to be that)…



…and Cenk and John of The Young Turks tell us about that Repug presidential candidates’ debate, such as it was, on Wednesday night (here – Anderson Cooper should be utterly ashamed...NSFW)…



…and Thom Hartmann brings us Economic and Labor News for the week (the way the U.S. House Repugs treated Obama’s final budget was scandalous even for them)…



...and here's kind of an apropos Friday tune.

Thursday Stuff

OMFG, IT'S ZOMBIE REAGAN!!! And do you want to know what's scariest of all? HE REALLY IS A DEMOCRAT!!! (here)...



...and Jimmy Kimmel redid Dubya's ad for his "little brother" in S.C. here (heh)...



...and turning to something serious with a bit more substance, I'd like to think that we'd do the same thing as the Aussies profiled in this AJAM story, but Number 44 has been a bit of a disappointment lately when it comes to immigration enforcement (again, without a law crafted by those numbskulls on Capitol Hill), and don't even get me started on what the standard bearer for the Repugs would do (here..."it's hard to square that circle" indeed)...



...and hey, did you hear the one about Iraq admitting that it lost radioactive material, probably to ISIS? Unfortunately, it's no joke - terrific...



..and cash-only pot dispensaries are creating a problem for banks, and subsequently, the IRS; we need to get serious about this stuff and treat it like we treat any other business enterprise (convert $$ to other security types)...



...and "Good Vibrations" by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys (and The Wrecking Crew, let's not forget) was recorded 50 years ago yesterday (the instrumental of the first version of the song...don't read a connection into this tune and the prior item, by the way).

Wednesday Stuff

RIP Vanity – “Action Jackson” is definitely a guilty pleasure movie for yours truly, full of tongue-in-cheek moments kind of like the one in the clip…NSFW (on somewhat of a similar note, I recently saw “Deadpool” with Ryan Reynolds, which is full of that sort of thing – I give it a thumbs up, as it were, though it’s definitely rated R for a reason)…



…and Rachel Maddow and Dahlia Lithwick talk about the impact on Supreme Court cases now with Scalia gone; they acted like it was kind of funny/strange, but both of them are too smart to NOT know that we're in what could be dangerous legal waters here...



…and speaking of the latest Supreme Court vacancy, I give you more great stuff from Samantha Bee here (again NSFW)…



...and this is one of the best Motown homage tunes that I've ever heard.

Tuesday Stuff

I thought this was a good report by Rachel Maddow on South Carolina politics in general (what a bunch of rubes) and Ted Cruz's wacko endorsements in particular (including clips about Dubya doubling down with typical arrogance about his Bob Jones University speech in '00), but along with all the nutsiness in this video, Maddow was too polite to point out that Dubya won the South Carolina primary mainly because of this...



…and this is a little late but still worthy of mention – it looks like Governor Bully haz a sad over dropping out of the Repug presidential primary (awwwwww)…



…and normally I get fed up with Bill Maher over his “liberals should do this, liberals should do that” act, but on this subject he’s absolutely right, and way to light up with Killer Mike and Margaret Cho to make a point (here)…



…and congrats to Linda Ronstadt for winning a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys last night.