📸 🌊 6:50am
Eleven Minutes Later.
Also Eleven Minutes Later … with a wider perspective.
While the Dems - ably supported by the media - wring their collective hands over the suitability of Biden as a President 🔗🎙️ Olberman (15 minutes) wonders why absolutely nobody .. anywhere … is asking the same question about the other guy?
I mean - nobody.
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This is a perfect example of problems I have with ‘The Prof’. Am I alone?
And a second note.
📺 The Lincoln Lawyer
One of those shows that was originally a movie .. so you don’t bother. On this one, I eventually gave in and just finished the second series, so I guess good .. right? Right.
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📺 The Last Thing He Told Me
Not ‘unentertaining’ (is that even a word?).
I did get to the end .. which doesn’t always happen, even though ‘the why’ I got pretty much immediately.
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… and so the work begins …
Fascinating to see some Tories want the Conservative Party to merge with Reform. Old school thinking at its best. Not to mention revealing their true colors.
🔗 Stonekettle Station: Raggedy Man
So let’s say you make that change. Do you have a plan?
If not, then why the change?
If so .. then what is it?
It’s a valid question, though Jim might have got to it sooner if he had a good editor.
Whoa .. Go Kansas!
I know there are few Doctor Who fans that float around in my spaces … so sharing this for them … 🔗 Best of the Whoniverse … and if you are also a writer .. double share.
http://williamgallagher.com/selfdistract/2024/07/04/best-of-the-whoniverse/
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Dear EU .. why are you surprised by Orban?
A quiet beer - with the ‘usual’ background music .. and all good … and then Chumbawhumba .. I am convinced that my friend at the bar turned it up all the way to ‘eleven’ .. just for those opening lines from Pete …
"Truth is, I THOUGHT it mattered. I thought that MUSIC mattered. But does it bollocks."
A lot of chatter in many places about the elections in the UK and the USA. A recurring refrain … “If the Brits can do it .. so can we.”
Just to remind my American friends that on pretty much anything that Britain does .. the US will likely do the opposite and always different .. even if they are the only ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/05/a-lot-of.html
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Being a sucker for Guy Ritchie - I loved the movie ‘The Gentlemen’ - so approached the TV show cautiously. It turned out to be rather good.
I enjoyed the Damon movie … ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ - and so rejected the idea of sitting through the series. Until I didn’t …. And it was marvelous.
I watch McCon... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/04/being-a-sucker.html
"Based on some back-of-the-envelope math, if Bezos had sold the earlier tranche of 50 million Amazon shares at Tuesday’s share price instead of February’s, he would’ve made about $10 billion instead of the $8.5 billion he pocketed.
The difference of $1.5 billion could’ve covered nearly two decades worth of losses at The Post.—Theo Wayt"
via ‘The Information’ (my bold).
It has always been clear to me that the Bezos changes at WaPo are not really about the money (as in burn, losses, run rate and costs) and all about the money (in terms of opportunity, influence and upside.)
🔗 📼 The King Must Die
Bob makes the connection 🔗 here
Elton might have written the music, performed it, made it famous - but it was Bernie who wrote ….
No man’s a jester playing Shakespeare
Round your throne room floor
While the juggler’s act is danced upon
The crown that you once wore
And sooner or la... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/04/the-king-must.html