Headlines and ponderings
Donald Trump says Meryl Streep is an "overrated" actress. She's been recognized by her peers with three Academy Awards and a whole slew of nominations. Then again, in his mind he's the greatest actor on Earth. His acting managed to convince over 62 million people that he is qualified to be President.
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Apparently Sylvester Stallone had a problem with the seats assigned for himself and his wife at the Golden Globes and wound up watching from backstage. They plan these ceremonies down to the smallest detail but somehow things got screwed up and there weren't enough seats for Sly and his wife to sit down?
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A woman was arrested for allegedly sending men to rape the wife of the man who she'd once been engaged to. Turns out that the wife framed the former fiancee. You have to have a lot of hate in your heart to do something like that.
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Students at UCLA protested the return of a tenured professor to the classroom after his suspension for sexual harassment allegations. While he paid a fine and accepted suspension without pay for one academic quarter, he never admitted wrongdoing.
The University paid settlements to the two graduate students who made the allegations. Protests against his return prompted the cancellation of his classes. Now the university will videotape his classes so students who don't want to attend in person don't have to. That's a good compromise, which will allow the protests and the classes to continue.
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Best news of the day is that the Dodgers finally announced that they'd signed Kenley Jansen to a new contract.
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Dylan Roof has been sentenced to die. He did murder nine people after all. My question is, how long will it take before he is executed. They got Timothy McVeigh from death sentence to execution in only four years.
Roof will go to the Federal Death Row in Terre Haute, IN. Now there are difference between that Death Row and the various state-level death rows. Then again, three of the dozens of convicts on Federal Death Row have been awaiting execution since 1993 (all for the same murders).
Hopefully Roof's execution won't take quite so long.
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Back in 2000, Spike Lee put out a film, "The Original Kings of Comedy." I'm watching it cable at the moment and found in it a metaphor to define the last 16 years. Cedric the Entertainer is doing a bit and he started talking about how the national debt was "6 Trillion Dollars."
Want to see where our national debt is now? Take a look.
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Are the Chicago Cubs accepting President Obama's invite to visit the White House before he leaves office because they share a love of Chicago, or because they aren't interesting in visiting Donald Trump? We will never know.
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Apparently Sylvester Stallone had a problem with the seats assigned for himself and his wife at the Golden Globes and wound up watching from backstage. They plan these ceremonies down to the smallest detail but somehow things got screwed up and there weren't enough seats for Sly and his wife to sit down?
* * *
A woman was arrested for allegedly sending men to rape the wife of the man who she'd once been engaged to. Turns out that the wife framed the former fiancee. You have to have a lot of hate in your heart to do something like that.
* * *
Students at UCLA protested the return of a tenured professor to the classroom after his suspension for sexual harassment allegations. While he paid a fine and accepted suspension without pay for one academic quarter, he never admitted wrongdoing.
The University paid settlements to the two graduate students who made the allegations. Protests against his return prompted the cancellation of his classes. Now the university will videotape his classes so students who don't want to attend in person don't have to. That's a good compromise, which will allow the protests and the classes to continue.
* * *
Best news of the day is that the Dodgers finally announced that they'd signed Kenley Jansen to a new contract.
* * *
Dylan Roof has been sentenced to die. He did murder nine people after all. My question is, how long will it take before he is executed. They got Timothy McVeigh from death sentence to execution in only four years.
Roof will go to the Federal Death Row in Terre Haute, IN. Now there are difference between that Death Row and the various state-level death rows. Then again, three of the dozens of convicts on Federal Death Row have been awaiting execution since 1993 (all for the same murders).
Hopefully Roof's execution won't take quite so long.
* * *
Back in 2000, Spike Lee put out a film, "The Original Kings of Comedy." I'm watching it cable at the moment and found in it a metaphor to define the last 16 years. Cedric the Entertainer is doing a bit and he started talking about how the national debt was "6 Trillion Dollars."
Want to see where our national debt is now? Take a look.
* * *
Are the Chicago Cubs accepting President Obama's invite to visit the White House before he leaves office because they share a love of Chicago, or because they aren't interesting in visiting Donald Trump? We will never know.
posted by me at 9:52 PM
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