What’s the stupidest thing you’ve seen today?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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It’s always the diaries, unfortunately.
Myself.
I glanced at a headline on Google News and thought it might be about the mass media.
My hopes were dashed when I saw it was from the NY Times.
Never happen.
Self-incrimination, don’tcha know…
I shoulda known better.
AG
. . . reason.
The woman at the supermarket who was on the phone the entire time and then continued in the parking lot while she walked to her car.
The President’s Press Secretary released a memo yesterday. It was a one-paragraph summary of what was claimed to have been Trump’s yearly physical exam, listed as being from the “Physician to the President”. The memo was written in the peculiar writing style that has been the hallmark of all of Trump’s recent physical exams. The memo was clearly not written by any physician with a sense of ethics.
Check this out:
💀 damned sinker 💀
@dansinker
Gold from the White House Press Pool that didn’t get nearly enough attention today.
“Hogan Gidley came into the hold room briefly. He didn’t have an explanation for how President Trump was tweeting during his physical.”
Your comment got me curious, so I looked up the exact text of the memo:
https:/www.politico.com/f?id=00000168-cf64-d3d6-a7f8-ff6e6ed10001
What a joke! They can’t even decide if this is supposed to be a memo FROM his doctors or TO his doctors (thanking them for the “outstanding care” he received.)
That was my thought too:
Who writes a memo to the president and reports that the president is very grateful?
My guess is that Trump spent the four hours of his examination drafting the memo and then handed it to Dr. Conley and ordered him to sign it.
An ad on the History Channel (really?) advertising a show called American Trucks which apparently concerns driving trucks through mud and breaking things. The “History Channel” should be changing its name.
The History Channel is the absolute pits of the choices on cable tv. It is not and never has been a history channel. It’s now a place where conspiracy minded males of a certain geographical identity can gather and indulge themselves.
“Not available in Canada!”
That’s how you define quality programming.
A 10 minute segment of an episode of Bar Rescue before I found the strength to change the channel.
Today? Not much, but I have avoided the news.
Um, A Serious Question about stupid things? 🙂
Serious Off-Topic Answer: 1. Keep up the excellent work. 2. Please note how precisely Hunter’s lyrics for The Wheel describe UK politics in the run-up to Brexit Or Not Or How Or Why Or When.
Huh? “Can’t go forward and you can’t stand still and if the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will?” I suppose that’s pretty much summing up Brexit at this point, yes.
This:
https:/www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/08/washington-measles-outbreak-draws-crowd-hearing-vac
cine-law?utm_term=.57aa2670a923
Working link (above URL had a gap)
aside from my usual stumbling & fumbling it’s been pretty quiet on the stupid front…so far.
Spotted on a sidewalk sandwich board while walking up Morris Park Blvd in the Bronx (where English is not necessarily the first language)
FRENCH TOES
Well, you CAN get pretty much anything in New York, so maybe it’s accurate!
Nothing stupid, just a bit of sadness. Our next door neighbor in our row of townhouses, the 88 year old, living independently, Mr. Fujimoto is headed to an assisted care center in the spring. His townhouse adjacent to us will be sold to an estate agency, gutted/remodeled, and put on the market. I’m bummed because Fujimoto was kind of a personal hero for me, to be kicking it well into his 80’s, on the cusp of his 90’s, self sufficient. He gives me something to look forward to. He’s a really good gardener too. I really admire what he does to his front garden patch and his small, tidy lawn with lemon tree off his patio. Fujimoto never smiles. I won’t call him an overly friendly guy. He’s hard of hearing, and he grunts in communications with me in some kind of Japanese I can barely understand. I smile, and listen to him. I’ll miss seeing him head off to a fitness center down the hill and a mile walk from our neighborhood which he does three times a week. Amazing. Whoever buys his old townhouse crib will hopefully be cool enough to endure my once a month playing of “Led Zeppelin at the BBC” recordings. Fujimoto is hard of hearing. He never seemed to mind.
The U.S. at its best.
Thank you, byzantium.
Love ya…just from this one post.
Later…
ASG
https://bluevirginia.us/2019/02/video-ralph-northam-keeps-opening-mouth-inserting-foot-indentured-se
rvants-vs-slaves-showing-he-still-doesnt-get-it
‘ . . . Virginia’s “now at the 400-year anniversary — just 90 miles from here in 1619 – the first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores.‘
Well, it’s Sunday now. Governor Northam said, on CBS, that blacks came to Virginia as indentured servants. Now, while it is technically true that, until the slave laws were passed in 1661, blacks were nominally treated as indentured servants, this was a remarkably stupid thing to say.
IMO that comment was not a `mistake’. It was an obviously orchestrated dog whistle.
No educated person believes there is an equivalency between indentured servitude and bringing kidnapped, chained people directly from Africa, using the power of the whip to do so.
Except a racist.
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