Thursday, May 30, 2019

Grumbles, Growls, and Guffaws 20190529-1

I had to turn on the heat pump last night. [Marshals crane backing up while hoisting Summer] "Okay, back a little more ... little more.... Right there! Okay, set 'er down easy--" BATHUMP. "Awesome; there's Summer right it belongs, just after Spring."

Thank the gods: can we now kindly drive a wooden stake through the heart of Game of Thrones as an act of mercy? Why do we keep thinking bad fiction makes for good media? Think GoT is good fiction? Read Mark Twain's Seventeen Rules for Writing.

Made biscuits today since I'm not paying $$$ for a loaf of bread.

I like how Trump is multi-tasking all the different levels of Dante's Inferno Trump will occupy after he dies. Satan will need to install a light rail system just to shuttle Trump around to meet his just punishments. At least Trump will improve Hell's infrastructure....

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Mock Paper Scissors: Little Kremlin-on-the-Potomac: tengrain: 'And then Fox News had a nutty, when analyst Andrew Napolitano said Robert Mueller “basically” said in a public statement that his office would have indicted President Trump had he not been president. Pravda on the Potomac, Fox News, by the way, did not have a single Mueller story up yesterday. The Memory Hole is in working order.'

driftglass on Thomas B. Hofeller: 'Republicans find their courage in one of two ways:  once they leave office and go shopping for a cable news gig, or once they drop dead and leave behind a pissed off family member and an uncleared hard drive.'

The Smirking Chimp: Alex Henderson: Here Are 4 Key Moments from Mueller’s Stunning Statement on the Russia Investigation [Editing and formatting mine]:
  1. 'Mueller can not say with “confidence” that Donald Trump “clearly did not commit a crime.”
  2. Mueller was bound to honor policy against indicting a sitting president.
  3. Mueller indicated that he will not testify before Congress.
  4. Mueller stressed that Russian interference in 2016 was aggressive and brazen.'


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