Tuesday, November 26, 2019

A cornucopia of craziness

240 ton mining truck containing Potus agrievements
First, I wish to take issue with the use of "cult of personality" as applied to the followers and enablers of the Current Resident. That posits the existence of a personality. I've seen no evidence of such, but there is evidence of a dump truck load of:
unearned self regard
inexplicable assertions of genius and stability
occasional fleeting concern for (fill in the blank)
and, most notably, wide ranging and petty agrievements.

But (sadly) no sign of what one generally thinks of a personality with attractive qualities.

I steeled myself (as in dossier) to listen to the impeachment hearings. No, not in their gruesome entirely, but as skillfully edited by the fine folks as Lawfare.com. They offered 6 podcasts with no bull. They are lengthy and include laughable, off topic, and ill advised contributions from the distinguished" minority. If you have 12 hours or so with nothing to do you can catch a listen (while knitting, puzzling, or other semi-mindless activity). Search the site with: "lawfare podcast bonus edition" and scroll down to the one with Marie Yavonovich on  Nov. 15th. They are oddly not in date order and missing the best ones. (I promised craziness!) There is one each on the 13th and 15th and two each on the 20th and  21st. Bizarrely, this search does not find the Sondland or Hill testimonies (the best ones). Those can be found by adding their names to the end of the search suggestion above.

Now for the parting gift! Of course the internet was created to proliferate cat videos and modern life would be much more livable if that purpose was generally adhered to. I randomly discovered one well worth the 10 min. I laughed, I peed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRqYI4TvEEY