Wednesday Stuff

Yeah, we know what Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao is, but it needs to be repeated over and over, and once more, The Lincoln Project goes where the DNC and DSCC fear to tread (and to help a Dem running against the other U.S. Senatorial mistake from Kentucky, click here)...



...and “grim reaper” McConnell would be nothing without dark money to keep him in power, and Rachel Maddow speaks with Jane Mayer, someone who is truly an expert on that subject, on what Mayer has uncovered about some right-wing outfit called the American Accountability Foundation going after Biden nominees...



...and this clip includes Ana, Francesca and Kate Bettino of TYT telling us that teen depression is skyrocketing unfortunately; I’m not sure how helpful it is to include a clip bitching about social media (for the benefit of anybody who may be reading this), but I hope it’s therapeutic at the very least to include this info (I think Francesca nails this in the Greta Thunberg discussion at about 16:30...I’m sooo glad that this stuff wasn’t around when I was growing up, to be honest)...



...and on the subject of mental health, I’m sure it doesn’t help that Oklahoma just passed another anti-abortion bill that only makes an exception for the life of the mother, meaning that (as Cousins points out), women may have to carry their “rape baby” all the way to term (God willing that circumstance won’t arise, but unfortunately we know the probability that it will...utterly monstrous, and Cousins’ outrage towards the end is completely spot-on IMO)...



...and I know I’m a little late with this, but Emma V. and Nomiki Konst of The Majority Report talk about The Swanson TV Dinner Heir and his interview with that loony Penn law professor Amy Wax (NSFW/H but for a good reason as far as I’m concerned)...



...and Thom Hartmann takes a deeper dive into Lex Luthor’s Scott’s 11-point plan to return the U.S. basically to those glorious years of the 1800s (hey, @DNC, @DNCC, @DSCC and anybody I may have missed – are you going to start screaming your heads off about this, or what?)...



...well, in case anybody needs an example of how to fight back, Michigan Dem state senator Mallory McMorrow provides one here (in response to that slanderous lunatic Lana Theis – yep, this is the Repug Party now totally beholden to Trumpism – Brian Tyler Cohen explains...mildly NSFW/H)...



Update: Karoli is spot-on here.

...and it should be noted that a true legend in broadcasting left us earlier this week, and that would be Sid Mark (here), the host of “Fridays with Frank,” “Sundays with Sinatra” and the syndicated “Sounds of Sinatra” program...there was a period during the ‘90s when I can’t tell you how many times we would put in the FM crystal set in the Doomsy household and turn on WWDB-FM and leave it on pretty much all day, and we would spend quality time of sorts with Gil Gross and Pat Farnack in the AM, and then the one and only Irv Homer in the afternoon along with Kent Voss during the evening drive time, along with Dr. Jim Corea in the evening, and Sid Mark of course on Fridays and Sundays (sometimes Saturday too)...I definitely didn’t follow Mark when his program went to WPHT-AM (after Beasley Broadcasting eviscerated WWDB in 2000...Beasley and Clear Channel have pretty much destroyed non-public terrestrial radio), partly because the sound quality went down the drain (sounded like Radio Free Europe when compared to FM fidelity) and also because, as a matter of principle, I choose to do ASOLUTELY NOTHING to support AM talk radio, but it was nice to know that Mark’s Sinatra programs were still out there...didn’t grow up listening to Sinatra, but because of Mark’s show I came to appreciate “that skinny kid from Hoboken”...this was the tune that closed Mark’s program – what a wonderful legacy Mark and Sinatra both left us.