It’s a busy day, here at the CatBox, and I’m working earlier then usual, due to a mild case of Republicosis.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, or at most, an Open Thread.  I have a routine follow-up appointment with Megan, my PCP.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:15 (average 5:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (NY Times Channel): Students Walked Out. Here Are Their Videos

Kudos to the kids and the fine teachers that enabled them. Jeers to the NRA/Republican deplorable teachers that tried to prevent their protest. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Vox Channel): The guide book that helped black Americans travel during segregation

It was a wonderful thing in its day, but we must fight the Republican plan to create the need for it again.  RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: In a freewheeling conversation with reporters after his departure from the State Department on Tuesday, Rex Tillerson said that he “really hopes” that Donald Trump finds out that he is being impeached on Twitter.

“I mean, the way I see it playing out, he’s up at 3 a.m., starting a new feud with Oprah or someone, and that’s when he finds out,” Tillerson said. “My only regret is that I won’t be there to see it.”

Tillerson started laughing in what some witnesses described as a demonic manner as he imagined Trump learning of his impeachment on Twitter.

“I mean, you have to picture him with his BlackBerry in his itty-bitty hands, and that’s how he finds out,” Tillerson cackled. “It would serve the bastard right.”

Oh Andy! From your pen to God’s plan! RESIST!!

Cartoon:

I made this cartoon in 2013.  The more things change…

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox.  The site is working properly again.  I’m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.  WWWendy is coming this evening, and I need to catch up on sleep.

Jig Zone Puzzles:

Yesterday’s took me 4:07 (average 5:26).  To do it, click here.  Today’s took me 4:47 (average 6:23).  To do it, click here.  How did you so?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Democrat Conor Lamb Is The Apparent Winner In PA Election

Woooo Hoooo!! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Ex Tillerson

I think he has a point. Was criticizing Trump’s owner what got Tillerson fired? If Trump replaced staff with dawgs, they’d be too toxic to eat. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): Who Receives More Government Help, Stanford or UC Berkeley?

Interesting. I never realized that there is an imbalance in government support for rich schools. I’m not sure about the best solution. Ideas? RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Reaching the opposite conclusion of many of their committee peers, Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday that the Japanese did not meddle in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

“After an exhaustive investigation, we have come to the conclusion that there was no attempt by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service to influence the outcome of Pearl Harbor,” Rep. Mike Conaway, a Republican of Texas, said. “Any suggestion to the contrary amounts to nothing more or less than a witch hunt.”

Conaway said that while there were Japanese bombers in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, their role in the attack there has been “blown out of proportion.”

Dang Andy! The Japanese were as innocent as Trump and far more humane than he is. RESIST!!

Cartoon:

π R Pizza!

It’s a muggy day today here at the CatBox, and I’m still quite tired.  I’m celebrating my 39th birthday for the 32nd time.  Our server at Blue Host is intermittently offline.  Please be patient.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

I’ll have to include it tomorrow, because the website has been down all day.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): In Memoria – A response to the NRA Ads

They did not sing, but their voices were as clear as a bell. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Inequality Media): The 6 Ways Millennials Are Changing America

I’m a boomer, and I have no objection to any of the ideas Robert attributes to the millennials, with the caveat that the only way to get a viable third party is to elect people, who will change the current plurality rules system, under the two party system. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Furious about her treatment on the CBS news-magazine program on Sunday night, Betsy DeVos spoke to reporters on Monday, and called “60 Minutes” a “total waste of a half hour.”

“I had never watched ‘60 Minutes’ before, but I can tell you this, I will never watch it again,” the Education Secretary said. “I have better things to do with a half hour of my time.”

Calling her interviewer, Lesley Stahl, a practitioner of “gotcha journalism at its worst,” DeVos said that it was “very unfair of her to ask me so many questions about education.”

“She asked me one thing about schools, and then another, and another,” she said. “If I had to answer every question she had about schools, I would have had to bone up on education for a month.”

DeVos said that she was “frustrated” that Stahl neglected to ask her about any of her “really good ideas” for the nation’s schools, such as “purchasing guns for teachers with money that is currently being wasted on books.”

Dang Andy! Betsy Wetsy, as Trump must like to imagine her, is a waste… of skin! RESIST!!

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