Mercury Rx, BAFTA, and Jemele Hill's SPOLITICS on Parlez Vous Monday

 

Louvre-ing – Saturday Night OT

 

Taking A Break from My Black Jobs to Note We Have Restored Some Library Hours – Saturday Night OT

 

Some Rest and Some Joy on a Saturday Night – OT

 

Ruben Santiago Hudson told Jonathan Capehart this morning in Tiffany Cross’s hour (because she is on vacay and has been covering for Joy Reid during the week all week) that 

Lackawanna Blues is going into previews and then back on Broadway by mid-September (we’re going to be optimistic here)

We don’t forget what led up to needing it.  We certainly remember the people who continue to LEAD THE WAY in making it permissible and to their critics we say *raspberry*

with (in comments) a nice little case of schadenfreude in both Piers Morgan’s and Novak’s case

Oh, Novak

Novak Djokovic pulling out of the mixed doubles actually costing his a medal after throwing a tantrum and losing in a singles match….let’s see how Piers Morgan, Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk feel about that since they have much to say about Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka

— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) July 31, 2021

 

Sportsball and the Gaslighty Overuse & Misuse of the Illusion of Fair Play Mid First Oympic Weekend OT

 

 

I’m going to need someone who knows a little bit more about cannabis biochem to tell me what the difference is between THC and CBD, because right now all I’m seeing is hypocrisy (well, that and the standard /longstanding racism & classism in the place where our national & international “convincers” and “influencers” and “smoothers over”).

 

(I was going to put the barrelful of Tweets I’d seen about this in the post but I will put them in comments because the heat / humidity combo is making my computer slo-ow)

For sharp contrast, we have the way Brett Kavanaugh was treated in the "investigation" by the FBI during his confirmation hearing by the then (and still) head of the FBI his law school buddy Chris Wray (as Elie pointed out this morning - his comments will also be in chat) -- where of the 4000+ comments that came in about his prior conduct only 10 (!!!) were actually investigated ... and apparently the 83 ethics complaints he had against him as a member of the federal bench were dropped because someone (it's not quite clear to me yet who, honestly) decided it wouldn't be "fair" to hold those against someone who's now sitting on the SCOTUS bench.

So to me it seems the easy remedy to THAT would be to impeach him (as Elie again points out).

But in order for that to happen the whole country would have to be both playing by and subject to the same set of rules.

So I guess we'll have to see.