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- The house/yacht distinction — it's a tax question.
- "All may contain lard" — "When we decided to put it on the wall, it was a way of not being super-PC. It was more like, Boom, this is how we do it."
- Morning snow... plus that turkey who has made our yard its territory.
- "Will Smith was never asked to leave the Oscars following Sunday's slap, a new report claims, as Academy Governor Whoopi Goldberg says bosses were too scared..."
- "Tommy Thompson is meeting Thursday with former President Donald Trump as he ponders another run for governor."
- "There is no legal prohibition on Mr. Trump assembling and publishing photographs that a White House staff member took during his tenure; under federal law, those photographs are considered in the public domain..."
- Beyond masks... here's the new look for you — and by "you," I mean you who can afford whatever this thing is going to cost.
- "No longer will a little girl in a gown be greeted with a 'Hello, princess!' as my daughter had been so many times on our Disney World trips."
- "I don't have a bunch of shit about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I had like a whole show I wrote before this weekend."
- He'll have to name names then, won't he?
- "His decision to get the [face] transplant came about because he didn’t want his children to be bullied and be labeled as 'outcasts' due to his disfigurement."
- Robot dog barks "wear a mask, wash hands frequently, check temperature" — in Shanghai.
| The house/yacht distinction — it's a tax question. Posted: 01 Apr 2022 06:42 AM PDT More, here, at the Miami Herald. Miami-Dade County has sent the owners a property tax bill of nearly $120,000, but there's a state constitutional law provision barring property tax on boats. What makes a boat? The lawyer for the owners says the county is relying on "the shape and the style and the look" of what the lawyer calls "this boat." This isn't just an isolated case. This thing — "The Arkup" — has been touted in mainstream media and is intended as a model for extensive new housing development — "small apartments on the water for students, townhouses for families.... housing solutions for a broader audience." I can see why the promoters of this kind of floating house-building stress future benefits for the non-rich, but the real house/boat in issue in this case belongs to rich people. Who should pay property taxes? Why should land-based domicile-owners pay the bills? Should you have to change that state constitutional law provision first, or is it enough for the government to draw the boat/house distinction in the way that allows for more tax collection? But houseboats have been around for ages, so you'd think this problem would have been worked out long ago. |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2022 06:03 AM PDT Said Giovanni Cervantes, chef and co-owner of Taqueria Ramírez, quoted in "The Unapologetic Poetry of 'All May Contain Lard'/A menu disclaimer that's also a mission statement" (NY Magazine). One fan of the proclamation is Eric Sze, the chef and owner of the Taiwanese restaurant Wenwen, which recently opened nearby: "I loved Taqueria Ramírez when I went, so the fact that they have the line," he says, "you're putting your — for lack of a better term — genitals on the table, and showing everybody what you got, take it or leave it."... The author Bill Buford calls lard "an expression of utter deliciousness and possibility" with an "ancient, ancient tradition."... Meanwhile, Aaron Foster, who renders lard from whole Pennsylvania pasture pigs at his market Foster Sundry, says it is "something that went away with our grandparents, like knitting and sourdough baking, that has come back into fashion. There's something outré about it," he adds, "because our parents wouldn't be caught dead touching lard, and there's something nostalgic about it." |
| Morning snow... plus that turkey who has made our yard its territory. Posted: 31 Mar 2022 04:05 PM PDT The view, from the window, at 6:28:
At 6:52, there's that turkey again:
Write about anything you want in the comments. |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2022 03:52 PM PDT "... to physically remove the star over fears he was 'manic' and would cause an on-camera scene.... But according to TMZ, Oscars producer [Will] Packer told Smith he could remain at around 8pm, about 35 minutes after the slap and just five minutes before the actor won his first Academy Award for his role in King Richard.... Goldberg was not present at the Oscars and stressed that she was not speaking on behalf of the Academy's board of directors. 'I can't imagine what was going on back there, but I do know that the only person anybody should be focusing on is Will Smith,' she said." |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2022 03:22 PM PDT "The get-together comes three weeks after former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch had her own meeting with Trump as she pursues a bid for governor." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Thompson did a terrible job of running for the Senate in 2012 (losing to Tammy Baldwin). He seemed old and very low energy. "Thompson started at plus 18... But he finished at minus 14." And that was 10 years ago! Here's a quote of his from 2016, aimed at Trump, as quoted by Trump: "Don, I really like you. Get the hell out of here.… You're not going to win this state.... But if anything changes, I'll call you." Thompson is 80 years old. I can't believe he's offering himself up as a candidate again. |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2022 02:54 PM PDT "... and not subject to copyright. There is a public Flickr account, now managed by the National Archives, that has 14,995 photos from the Trump White House, a third of them listing Ms. Craighead as the photographer." And that's the main thing you need to know, squirreled away in the 16th paragraph of "She Took the White House Photos. Trump Moved to Take the Profit.The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos. The former president had other plans" (NYT). We, the People own these photographs. Go ahead, go into that Flickr account and pick out whatever you like and make a book! It's perfectly free. It's in the public domain! Were they really this desperate for another get-Trump story? I was almost too jaded to write this. Ridiculous! ADDED: Why say "considered in the public domain"? They are in the public domain! |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2022 07:08 AM PDT
I have a Dyson hairdryer. It cost more than $400. |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2022 06:37 AM PDT "Disney has been pushed to toe the leftist gender line, and it is doing just that.... Now it's clear that Disney's commitment to exposing children to inappropriate indoctrination on transgenderism goes far deeper than its opposition to the Florida law.... Why should kids be getting any sort of gender-identity lesson in school or at a theme park?" Asks Karol Markowicz, in "I'm quitting Disney after seeing it boast about pushing 'gender theory'" (NY Post), reacting to a statement by Disney Television Animation executive producer Latoya Raveneau that she has a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and she was "adding queerness" whenever she could and "no one was trying to stop" her. Markowicz pretends that the theme park never delivered a gender-identity lesson, but of course it did. You can deny it by restricting the meaning of gender-identity lesson, but that's a con. Cinderella, Snow White... etc. etc.... that was always delivering a gender message. It was indoctrination, just the indoctrination that was traditional and conventional. The princess idea didn't come straight from your little daughter's head. It's a meme that she was infected with. And it's pretty shallow and inane. I don't know if Latoya Raveneau's vision is deep and intelligent. I suspect it's not. If it forces people out of Disney's suffocating embrace, I think that's good. And now what will you do to feed the souls of your children? Markowicz continues:
As if Cinderella's love for the prince is not sexual! Is your idea of Cinderella just someone who loves fancy clothes and lavish parties? And that too is a sexual orientation: She's not attracted to human beings but to riches and glittering surfaces. Cinderella is better if what she is looking for is real love from a worthy man. That's age-appropriate sexual orientation. I dare you to deny that this is sexual:
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| Posted: 31 Mar 2022 05:53 AM PDT "And I'm still kind of processing what happened, so at some point I'll talk about that shit. And it'll be serious and it'll be funny, but right now I'm going to tell some jokes." Said Chris Rock last night, as he took the stage for his show at Boston's Wilbur Theater, CNN reports. He said absolutely nothing more than the bare minimum. It was just on with the show. That's what he did on the Oscars stage too: On with the show. "On with the show" is an old show business slogan. It's old-timey, so maybe you don't remember it. If you try to Google it, you'll get a first page full of Mottley Crue links. I know there's a way to exclude a term from the search, but I've forgotten how to do it and I've got the distracting prior question whether I need to use those fake umlauts. I see it's a Rolling Stones title too. Ah, but there is another version of the slogan that gets me to a nice TV Tropes article: "The Show Must Go On":
Ethel said it best (words by Irving Berlin):
And here's the crazy, over-the-top finale, with Marilyn: |
| He'll have to name names then, won't he? Posted: 31 Mar 2022 06:04 AM PDT  If he doesn't, people will infer he made the whole thing up. The screenshot is from Drudge, and the links go to "Kevin McCarthy Says Madison Cawthorn Admitted He Exaggerated Claims About Cocaine and Orgies: He 'Lost My Trust'" (Mediaite) and "'He's an embarrassment': Republicans threaten to primary Cawthorn over controversial antics" (CNN). By the way "admitted he exaggerated" means that the underlying assertion is true. It's just that the words were imprecise. I don't remember to use my "embarrassment" tag often enough. You know, there are different ways of being "an embarrassment." An embarrassment to whom? Just himself? Or to the party? Or to a bipartisan group of powerful Washingtonians? |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2022 05:06 AM PDT "Having people scream at the sight of you is upsetting, and I couldn't imagine that happening in the company of my own children,' he said. He recalled the aftermath of his accident... no one would show me a mirror until my ex-girlfriend at the time came to visit and brought one with her.... I can't describe the feeling I had when seeing myself like that, it didn't feel real. I was unrecognizable....'" Leave it to ex-girlfriends to confront you with the awful truth. Here's the article, at the NY Post, "I had a full-face transplant and it was the best decision I ever made." I'm not going to confront you with the visual truth right here. You can click on the link. You will see a terrible disfigurement and a really nicely accomplished face transplant. I have followed face transplants here on the blog since the first one — Isabelle Dinoir — whose nose, mouth, and chin were bitten off by her Labrador retriever. (She was unconscious. Don't judge the dog. But spare me the theory that the dog was just doing his faithful best to wake her up.) Here are the before and after photos of Dinoir. It's impressive how well it was done the first time: "I couldn't even begin to imagine it was my face or my blood - or that the dog had chewed my face," she says. The injuries to her mouth, nose and chin were so extreme that doctors immediately ruled out a routine face reconstruction. Instead they proposed a ground-breaking face transplant. "From the first time I saw myself in the mirror after the operation I knew it was a victory. It didn't look that good because of all the bandages, but I had a nose, I had a mouth - it was fantastic," she says. "I could see in the eyes of the nurses that it was a success." |
| Robot dog barks "wear a mask, wash hands frequently, check temperature" — in Shanghai. Posted: 31 Mar 2022 04:46 AM PDT
English translation and the fact that his was video'd yesterday via The NY Post. |
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