They appointed a habitual liar with no clear indication he’s qualified to be a senate page, let alone a representative.

He’s lied about everything, including his education, so is obvious he bring nothing intelligent or intellectual or even factual to this committee.

How did a wheelchair bound old woman get the fungus inside her?

The “insane pressure,” if true, would seem to necessitate tight summaries that hit the key point in as few graphs (three?) as possible.

Ah, thank you for filling that in for me.

Yeah, this is the most America story I’ve read in a while.

The cops—who, again, were participating in a live television show—

If this were the late 1970s/early 1980s, those words would find their way into some indie punk band’s lyrics tomorrow.

But a sculpture of a historical figure should make the historical figure easily recognizable.

The Picasso wasn’t always... well... a Picasso. It was described as “a woman” when it was first designed and very few, if any people, got it. Picasso has different styles - both literal and abstract - so there is not one “Picasso.”

Same. No clue it was broadcast, let alone on the CW. But since I watch no shows on the CW, I can see how I might have missed this info.

Step one of any public art project should always be showing a mock-up to the oversight committee and some focus groups without any context given and the artist in another country to see whether it actually gets anything it’s supposed to across when encountered in the context it’s designed to

Can you feel the building sway?

That well-known conservative brand of humor rears its head again...

Well, let me introduce you to the podcast “Dead Eyes,” wherein a small-time actor recounts the time Hanks fired him from a movie because, according to Hanks, the guy had “dead eyes,” then follows the actor’s subsequent movie life.

Somehow, I think he’s going to be out-alphaed in prison.

The GOP has always been an “until it happens to me” party.

The first couple of award winners were allowed to go on for quite some time, and THEN they decided to start the play-off music. If they had started from the get-go, it might not have been so jarring to the others.

Now, in the if you’ve never heard her name (unlikely)

I’d never seen him before either, but his interview on NPR about the doc was annoying (to me). But that’s not relevant.