Wednesday, August 21, 2024

‘I’m trying to make it’: Jimmy Carter’s goal is to vote for Kamala Harris

Jimmy Carter is the very best human to have ever been President. 

From the article:

Nearing his 100th birthday and in hospice care since February 2023, the former president Jimmy Carter reportedly has one goal: voting for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

"I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris," Carter told his son Chip this week, as his grandson Jason Carter recounted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.



Wednesday, August 14, 2024

'Sesame Street's' brutal parodies of Donald Trump

Since the 1980s, 'Sesame Street' has featured a few greedy, grouchy characters who have had names like Ronald Grump and Donald Grump. Here's a look at the three of them.

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Flashback: Waxing Poetics - The Oral History (Part 1 of 2)

The First Single

David Middleton: We felt that going from playing live to entering the studio was a natural progression. You know, naturally, all of the groups that we grew up listening to made records. Paul and I at one point even kind of started chomping at the bit, and I remember a time when he and I were driving around town, just kind of talking, and saying, "Okay, if we don't have a record out by this time next year, we're just busting it up."

So much of being in a band is sitting around and waiting. Getting your name out and waiting for things to happen, waiting for sound check, waiting for the club to open, and this and that. And weeks go by without a gig. Especially back then. Of course, I sound like an old man, but without the internet and things like that constantly putting your name out there, you had to play gigs, you had to put up flyers, you had to really keep your name out there to get anything going.


Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos — ProPublica

A review of the training videos shows that 29 of the 36 speakers have worked for Trump in some capacity — on his 2016-17 transition team, in the administration or on his 2024 reelection campaign. The videos appear to have been recorded before the resignation two weeks ago of Paul Dans, the leader of the 2025 project, and they are referenced on the project's website. The Heritage Foundation said in a statement at the time of Dans' resignation that it would end Project 2025's policy-related work, but that its "collective efforts to build a personnel apparatus for policymakers of all levels — federal, state, and local — will continue."

JD Vance - Wikipedia

The New Republic criticized him as "liberal media's favorite white trash–splainer" and the "false prophet of blue America."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance