NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER: Healthcare Workers in Maine Win Revival of Their Challenge to State’s Covid Vaccine Mandate.
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May 30, 2023
IN THAT ALTERNATE REALITY THINGS ARE DIRE INDEED: Remembering When The New York Times Reported East Coast Beaches Would Be Gone by 2020.
Meanwhile here, every purported believer in rapid climate catastrophe has a lovely ocean front property. Well, the ones who are politicians and rich*.
*An unfortunately and suspiciously large overlap of those two groups.
May 29, 2023
OPEN THREAD: How was your holiday?
FAUCI AND BIRX WERE ESSENTIALLY BOND SUPER-VILLAINS:
Flashback: Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: UAE to land a probe on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter in 2034.
THE MICROPHONE IS ALWAYS HOT: ‘They Got Their Heads Up Their A**:’ Umpire Caught On Hot Mic Slamming Miami Marlins While Officiating Them.
Recently, MLB installed a rule where umpires now have to wear a mic so the league can listen in on what the officials are talking about on the field.
Surely, it’s giving Major League Baseball (MLB) results, but it’s also giving hilarious content to us baseball fans. Take Sunday’s game between the Miami Marlins and Los Angeles Angels, for example, when one umpire was caught on a hot mic talking trash about a challenge issued from the Marlins.
The Fish challenged a call that was made at home plate, which forced the game to come to a halt so the umpires could take a look at the play. But this wasn’t your normal review — rather, an ump was heard slamming Miami in a hot mic moment that has to be an instant classic.
And here’s the kicker: The Marlins ended up winning the challenge, proving the umpire was hilariously wrong.
Classical reference — and excellent advice — in the headline:
😂😂🤣 And it was a successful challenge for the @Marlins 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/CWjiCsIynZ
— Andrew Powell (@AndrewPow3ll) May 28, 2023
2023: A FORD PINTO ODYSSEY: A-B InBev distributor abandoning Bud Light brand in TN.
YOU HATE TO SEE IT: The Associated Press Is Having a Horrible Holiday Weekend.
Once again we get an altered headline from the source. Originally, we were told how “A poem by Amanda Gorman that was written for President Joe Biden’s inauguration was banned by a Florida school after one parent’s complaint.” Then, after scorn and mockery, the AP gave the new headline and adjusted text: “Amanda Gorman’s poem for Biden’s inauguration barred for younger children by Florida school.”
While notably different, this is still highly inaccurate, and here is why: The school moved the books from an elementary section of the library and shelved them in the middle school section. They are still in the library, and any student can still access the books. No works have been banned.
Making this all the worse for the AP is that to make these claims they had to ignore the original article from the Miami Herald that detailed this. Oh — also needing to be ignored was the text in their own article defying its headline.
The poem and books are still available in the media center for middle school-aged children, Ana Rhodes, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade school district, said in a statement.
This has been an amazing string of malaprops on the matter in just a few days. To see this all originating from the same source is rather remarkable.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and all of AP’s one-sided mistakes make perfect sense.
BOOSTING MENTAL FUNCTION? Biggest Study Yet Suggests Electric Stimulation Boosts Brain Function.
THE LITTLE MERMAID: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Film’s Box Office Performance.
From the moment the public learned Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid would race-swap the title character Ariel, the film has been the subject of both controversy and excessive praise. Disney’s live-action remakes have consistently adjusted the original material to appeal to current sensibilities and to make casting less white and the content more woke. Naturally, Disney purists who cherish the classic 1989 animated film and wanted a more faithful adaptation of the story were a bit perturbed. While there’s no doubt that Halle Bailey, the actress playing Ariel, is extremely talented, it was a puzzling move for a story based on a fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
Still, it gave the media exactly what it wanted: a pretext to accuse right-wing viewers of racism. Disney, meanwhile, saw dollar signs as its woke audience would be clamoring to prove just how anti-racist they are and flock to the theaters to see this movie.
Well, the movie itself clearly isn’t great. Despite the race-swapping and the woke tweaks to the content, professional critics didn’t gush over the film as you would have expected. As of this writing, the film has a 67% rating from critics tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. The audience score is 95%, but those reviews appear to be filtered and may not accurately reflect the views of all those who have reviewed the movie on the site.
One audience member who saw the film and wasn’t too enthused with the finished product was the Critical Drinker. And he’s got some (unfiltered) thoughts on the myriad of things that went wrong:
RIP: Ed Ames, star of TV series ‘Daniel Boone,’ dies at 95.
In the 1960s, Ames shifted careers and began persuing acting. His first starring role was an off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible.’
However, on television, Ames was likely best known for his role as Mingo, the Oxford-educated Native American in the 1960s adventure series “Daniel Boone” that starred Fess Parker as the famous frontiersman.
Due to his role in “Daniel Boone,” Ames became skilled at throwing a tomahawk, which led the actor to one of his most memorable moments of his career during a hilarious appearance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson’ on April 27, 1965.
While on the show, Carson asked Ames to demonstrate his skills by throwing a tomahawk at a target of a cowboy outlined on a wooden panel.
Ames’ throw landed directly in the groin of the wooden cowboy, which caused the studio audience burst into laughter.
It’s a classic moment, which Carson repeated every year in his anniversary show:
As James Lileks asked in 2005, after Carson had passed away, “Ed fargin’ Ames throwing the tomahawk – was it funny because he planted it the yarbles, or because it resembled homo erectus? Both?”
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BETO O’ROURKE COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Rolling Stone tries to paint Ron DeSantis as evil for “bringing the ax down on furries,” makes huge campaign contribution instead.
MICROBIOME NEWS: Consuming grapes modulates the human microbiome with potential benefits for health.
Can you take them in liquid form?
GO AWAY: Jersey Shore town to crack down on the ‘mere existence of any kind of alcohol’ on beach and boardwalk. “Those not abiding by the ordinance could walk off with a warning, a fine of up to $2,000 or potentially 90 days in jail.”