This is a particularly blunt bit of questioning by Rep. Al Green (D-TX) of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson who was appearing before Financial Services Committee. If you thought Ben Carson was out of his depth being named HUD Secretary (as he said he did himself), this... well, I was going to say "Q & A," but it's more like "Q & no-A", will confirm your well-reasoned analysis
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It's been far too long since I've had some Jiminy Glick. In this segment, he interviews Tom Hanks. For much of it, Hanks is pretty benign about it all, letting Jiminy be Jiminy, though at one point he does a fun improv to take the interview off in another direction. But mainly, what leaps out here is a moment where, for the first time in all the Jiminy Glick clips I've watched, he seems to leave Martin Short speechless. And I don't think it's a planned moment. I love the low-key subtlety of this. Here's a terrific new CNN ad about facts and lying and...well, I'll let it quietly speak for itself. What I find fascinating about the story is that it occurred almost two weeks ago, it is still actively happening, it's seriously substantive, and yet I haven't seen it even mentioned on television, nor pretty much anywhere. The story is a major -- indeed, massive -- oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.
Indeed, it's considered the biggest oil spill since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill by BP. Fortunately, it doesn't appear to have the utter disastrous ecological devastation as that spill seven years ago, though given the size and impact of the BP catastrophe, that's small comfort. Newsweek wrote about it a week ago -- and good for them -- but I haven't seen anything about it in headlines anywhere and certainly nothing since on TV nor tweeted by Trump. At that time, last Tuesday, 320,000 gallon of oil had spilled into the Gulf from a rig operated by LLOG Exploration Co., and the cause was unknown. As of a couple days ago, after doing an online search to find out something, it turns out that the Coast Guard has reported that more oil has leaked into the Gulf than initially believed, and the figure is up to 700,000 gallons. Did you know about this disastrous oil spill? Me, I had no idea. None. By the way, I didn't find that updated information from any major news source (and of course nothing from Tweet Land), but rather the mighty The Martime Executive website. I understand that Trump being cold-hearted to a Gold Star war widow deserves coverage, as does his Chief of Staff lying about a U.S. Congresswoman who's involved. They deserve coverage, and a lot of it -- and I mean that, in all seriousness. But folks -- nothing?? Remember the wall-to-wall coverage of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill? This isn't quite as bad as that...but it's massive, and the biggest since. And nothing?! It'd be quite nice to know what the government's plans are to cap the ongoing spillage and what clean-up effort there is, now. Here's the Newsweek story from a week ago. And this is an update written on Friday from The Maritime Executive website.. Heading back on the road with Charles Kuralt, today he visits the hidden valley of Boonville, California that's so out of the way that the residents there developed their own secret language that still lives today. The guest contestant on the "Not My Job" segment of Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! is Allen Page. If you don't know the name, he's a very interesting fellow. Page had a long and successful career as a tough defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings, becoming only one of two defensive players ever named league MVP and eventually getting elected into the Hall of Fame. But his work after retiring from football even more impressive -- not just as the first black to be on the Minnesota Supreme Court, but serving on the court for 22 years. He has a charming talk about it all with host Peter Sagal before a particularly enthusiastic crowd which, though the show is based in Chicago, appears to have hit the road this week to take place in Minnesota.
By the way, for the second question in the quiz, the correct answer not only surprises Page but also the audience -- in fact, when host Sagal gives the answer he adds in an almost-bewildered "Who knew??!" I raised my hand. Indeed, if you've followed my articles from the days on the Huffington Post before even this site began, I actually wrote about it here, back in 2011. See! Read these pages closely, and you too may have a chance to answer obscure question properly and win theoretical prizes! |
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