Some things are just too weird, sick and hilarious. On Friday, after visiting a prison to give aid and comfort to Jan. 6 rioters who are in prison for staging a violent Insurrection to overthrow the government where people died and hundreds were injured, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the well-known ignorant fascist snowflake, wanted a protestor arrested at her press conference for WHISTLING too loud!! Yes, it's true. I'm not making this up. Honest. And the thing is, I'm not even using hyperbole. The thing is, it gets worse. And yes, that’s possible. She said, “This man assaulted everyone there by blowing a whistle as loud in as he could in other’s ears” – and no, I am not making this up. And again, this was immediately after she left a prison where she’d gone to offer support to those in jail for taking part in an Insurrection where people died and hundreds were injured. And she continued “-- and tried multiple times to assault me and other members.” To assault her and others (this can’t be repeated enough) by… whistling. As infomercials like to say, but wait, there’s more!! That’s because, after having gone to this prison “faux-outraged” that insurrectionists were in jail for trying to violently overthrow the government and democracy, and should be released, Greene added that the whistling shows what "the left does repeatedly without accountability.” Yes, the left whistles. Without being held accountable. Honestly, I’m sure it was annoying, having to listen to loud whistling. But so is having to listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene. The similarities don’t stop there, because both make their noise by expelling a lot of empty air. The difference is that I don’t think Ms. Greene should be arrested because she is annoying. Rather, I think she should be arrested for having enabled an Insurrection. And trying to foment another one. Man, if this wasn’t a textbook example of a total lack of self-awareness, I don’t know what is. A couple weeks ago, Ms. Greene complained that people on the left called her ignorant. I said at the time that it was a shame she didn’t follow the words of advice from the founder of her party, Abraham Lincoln. “Better to be thought a fool and remain silent, than speak and remove all doubt.
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From the archives. This week's contestant is Caroline Cassil from Sutherlin, Oregon. If you don't get the composer style within three seconds (and the specific piece it's based on), you're not trying. The hidden song is tougher. Until halfway through, when a passage leaps out. But they're very well interwoven, so you have to catch the passage. There's also a wonderful musical joke between the classical piece and the hidden tune.
On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild talk to Olympic champion, New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, investor and dog mom Lindsey Vonn. As the site says, Lindsey (who calls Phil her “L.A. dad” gives insight “into her legendary skiing career, her ventures in show business with the HBO Max documentary "The Final Season" and her co-directing effort on the docu-series "Picabo" with Frank Marshall. Most movingly, Lindsey pays loving tribute to the influence and inspiration that her mother has been both in her life and career. After an extraordinary life and brave battle with ALS, Lindsey's mom sadly passed away shortly after this recording.
I can’t embed the audio, but if you click on the link here, it will take you to the website, where you just click on the “Play” arrow underneath the photo. On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest is Natasha Lyonne, from the series Russia Doll and now Poker Face. She talks with host Peter Sagal about her rambunctious youth growing up in New York. And she most definitely is rambunctious – though, honestly, I don’t find her as overly interesting as some do, but she certainly is spirited.
This the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts around the 18:30 mark. The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast are Andy Slavitt and Laurie Garrett. The two are among the top experts on the pandemic, and they talk with Al about the question “The End of the COVID Emergency?” and where things actually stand where we are right now.
It's only nine seconds, but that's enough. I love it. What I particularly like is the dog's initial reaction -- and then the cat's. I shall say no more. |
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