Eight years ago, we should have spent more time talking about how much Mike Pence resembles Race Bannon from Johnny Quest.
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Vote for whomever you’d like, I just think Tim Walz does resemble a walrus.
When Tim Walz takes his grand kids to play miniature golf, does he put pencils in his mouth and make walrus noises to amuse the children? If not, then, missed opportunity. Miniature golf is fun.
Turns out that Walz doesn’t have grandchildren, so he should file that tip away for later use.
It occurs to me that if I worked with an anthropomorphic walrus, like one might on BoJack Horseman, I might call him ‘Walz” if we got chummy.
Vote for whomever you’d like, I just think this kind of thing is funny.
The video and photos of Hurricane Helene show devastating damage. As usual, there are reports of federal officials not responding sufficiently and FEMA not being prepared. Several reports are highlighting the published goals of FEMA. I went to the FEMA site to check.
Secret Service Report: Averting School Violence
After the school shooting at Appalachee High School in Georgia, the discussion proceeds as it does after every school shooting. Both sides make their predictable political arguments, and it isn’t clear that anyone really cares. The corporate media encourages a therapeutic response, without providing much actual information. The Secret Service studies these things, but their reports aren’t mentioned much.
WE: Immigration in Springfield Ohio
This article is like the rest of the news reports that are presented if “Haitian immigrants Springfield Ohio” is Googled. All the articles emphasize that Haitians are not eating cats and dogs, or killing geese and ducks. The residents are being pressured into making enthusiastic statements about the Haitian immigrants or get accused of being a racist.
Nobody asks about life in Springfield.
College Fix: Ohio State’s new intellectual diversity director
Legal scholar Lee Strang is now at Ohio State University to lead the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society. It is one of five new “intellectual diversity” centers at public Ohio universities that are in the works. They will work to promote “civic thought and leadership,” according to Strang, a former University of Toledo professor.
Intellectual diversity is important to get all sides of an issue. This sounds like a good move, but we’ll see what this center actually accomplishes.
It’s been five days since the Appalagee High School shooting, and the details are starting to come out. A few items are notable.
Bri Jones, 14, was in second period Wednesday when Colt Gray left the classroom, Jones said. “We didn’t notice he left,” Jones said, adding that he was “always quiet.” But Gray came back and knocked on the door, Jones said. Bri said she peeked out the door before she opened it because that’s what her mom taught her to do. “As I was looking at the door, he was pulling his gun out, and then I froze up, like I froze up and I said ‘no’ to myself,” she said. The teacher asked for the door to be opened, Bri said, “because she didn’t know he had a gun because she was at her desk.” As she went to open the door, “I was like, ‘No, he has a gun,’” Jones said.
Everyone in that classroom owes their lives to Bri Jones. Generally, 14 year-olds are awfully dumb. Bri should get a statue or t-shirt or something.
RCS: Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear
It’s interesting to watch a country intentionally destroy itself. Germany presents itself as a technically-minded country with high-quality manufacturing, not a country that makes uninformed and impetuous decisions.
That didn’t take long. Cheatle should have resigned the day before the hearing, rather than the day after.