This MSNBC video tells us about the U.S. House passing an extra $2,000 in COVID-19-related economic relief, which of course was blocked in the Senate by Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao (here)... I’d love to believe that this is the “death knell for austerity,” but I’m definitely not getting my hopes up too high on that...even though he can be a good reporter, I’ve read plenty of other pieces in the New York Times where Peter Baker is an utter tool, but I think this is a pretty accurate analysis here...
...and what indeed will history say about "Grim Reaper" McConnell...
...and the only way this will change, people, is to vote out Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in the upcoming Georgia special U.S. Senate elections (to help Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, click here)...
...and this “Now This” clip tells us about notable people who left us over 2020 (and I thought this was an appropriate, though tragic, epitaph, particularly the last paragraph)...
...and in the “In Memoriam” department for the year, I’m also pretty sure I didn’t have anything to say about Robert Conrad, star of TV’s “The Wild, Wild West” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep”; I recently heard an interesting story on Little Steven’s Underground Garage on Sirius XM about how Michael Garrison, who created the show, once purchased the rights to Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel by Sir Ian Fleming, but sold the rights to attorney and film producer Charles Feldman in 1960 – Garrison, however, was so inspired by Bond that he sought to recreate that oeuvre, if you will, in the TV series set in the U.S. after the Civil War...
...also in the milestone department, I was so preoccupied with the 80th birthdays of Ringo Starr and John Lennon that I neglected to point out that this year marked the 50th anniversary of “All Things Must Pass” by George Harrison, which to me is far and away the best of all of the solo Beatle efforts – here is a tune for the occasion (and in somewhat of a related story, I’m not sure what else can be mined from the story of The Fab Four, but I should probably approach this new Peter Jackson flick with an open mind...here).
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