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Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Treating STEM Like DEI
Trump wrecks everything he touches. He isn’t a builder of anything. Donald is an agent of destruction.
Author Michael Lewis tarnished his reputation by failing to immediately see Sam Bankman Fried as a fraud. Before that misstep, Lewis wrote about the systematic efforts to undermine Science during Trump’s first term.
Now, eight years later, DJT continues his perhaps irreparable damage to scientific research and understanding.
This ‘n’ That
Before Denro and I attended last weekend’s Albany Comic Con, we caught a fun show with Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits.
My ‘Last Show with Stephen Colbert’ t-shirt arrived today. I shall wear it proudly.
Shall I watch the 3-hour film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles? I’ll save it for later, after watching Thor and Hercules pummel each other, Kirby-style.
Time and Temp
I woke up this morning when the heat came on in the bedroom, with the thermostat set to 65 degrees. It’s June 1st. The temperature outside was 47 degrees. “Global warming” should never have been used to describe climate change.
Here’s an Idea
Performers have been dropping out of Donny’s self-aggrandizing Freedom250 show.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-declares-bigger-elvis-artists-220109737.html
Let’s get ready to see the Donald on stage, dancing once again to ‘YMCA’. He should invite his pal Putin to join him. It would be a real treat seeing Vlad performing this catchy ditty.
Play Money
All I can do is keep thinking, in equal measures of hope and despair, “Three more years … Three more years …”
Bessent and Hassett. What a pair. They both have the same obsequious, sh*t-eating grin.
On Fox News, Hassett was, as usual, boasting about how great the economy is, when he was asked why Americans aren’t feeling it — why the long-running Michigan index of consumer sentiment has hit its lowest level ever. He responded by claiming that the index “is being driven by Democrats who have Trump derangement syndrome.”