lots of scary warnings about losing coverage

I’ve seen something circulating on Facebook that there’s a plan afoot for a TSA sickout across the country on Jan 29, the would-be State of the Union day. A one-day action to shut down the air system would get enough attention, I would think.

The executive staff in the West Wing are all funded somewhere through existing, approved budgets, but the staff that manages the White House as a residence and a historical site are part of the National Park Service, and they are furloughed.

Anything with Regina King is a big improvmenet.

• In Touch claims James Marsden is the world’s hottest James, when it’s clearly Desperate Housewives era James Harden.

There’s absolutely no reason why capital gains taxes shouldn’t be on a progressive scale as well.

Sounds accurate to me...

Admit it, if you had a choice between listening to Ryan drone on and on and on about some complicated policy details that hurt poor people, and The Price Is Right, you would make the same choice.

First-time Best Director nominee, Spike Lee.

I’m flying next Friday and I’m seriously considering picking up a bunch of Target gift cards to hand out to the screeners. I wonder if they would be allowed to accept them?

Don’t do me like that.

To steal a phrase from “Cell Block Tango,”

Yes, the Russian Tea Room is right outside Carnegie Hall on 57th St. But I can certainly imagine Carol Channing did plenty of “swanning” in Los Angeles too. She was a bi-coastal swanner.

if a young woman went to England for a “holiday” she wasn’t going to the seaside

It’s just so damn obvious. You use the reward money to set up a trust fund for Jayme. She’s going to need extensive counseling and after that it can go towards a college fund.

And then he told him that the unregistered gun was taped under the toilet tank, and to dispose of it in the river immediately afterwards.

They set loose toxic forces that have made Trump’s presidency far less effective than it would otherwise have been

I’m getting worried. I’m flying to Hawaii a week from Friday, potentially the second missed paycheck for TSA. If I were them I’d be striking already; I can’t imagine the breakdown in airport security by next Friday.

More specifically, “What does it add to ask them again?” Why go back to Donnelly and McCaskill now that they are in forced retirement? How are the opinions of those two at all relevant any more?

Jury nullification is a concept where members of a trial jury find a defendant not guilty if they do not support a government’s law, do not believe it is constitutional or humane, or do not support a possible punishment for breaking the law.