This raises a question I had. Was the 1986 USSR that threadbare? everything here is old and decrepit, like they hadn’t painted since Stalin croaked. Also, do they really smoke that much?

If you use subtitles you loose  half the audience in the first 15 minutes.

I suspect we will not find any single reason for the discrepancies. The health authorities are seeing a lack of a paper trail. Once they clear that up the real dimensions of the problem will appear. We may find things are not quite as bad as we think.

That was the Sabin oral vaccine. I got mine in a little sugar cube. This was a couple years after I got the original Salk vaccines as injections. They were all administered by the city in my Catholic school.

GMG has also ignored the Australian elections, where the conservative parties trounced the left.

Ms. Winston has worked in accounting, retail, pharma and publishing. Is management so generic that it can succeed in any industry?

Burke’s ward is mostly Hispanic, but had 4 precincts filled with white cops and firemen. (Chicago city employees have to reside in the city) The Hispanic polls had 30% turnout and the white ones almost 60%. Burke, btw, is a former policeman,

Why is Naomi respected? Vox has a nice piece on her lunatic conspiracy theories, like the US Army spreading Ebola in North America or how ISIS beheadings are faked. This current contretemps is pretty minor, in retrospect.

are transit employees fingerprinted?

A fast search through Jez looking for Prince ‘s postmortem legal issues is instructive. The Purple One was admired as a canny businessman regarding his music, but never drew up a will. We were treated to a number of dubious heirs and children coming out of the woodwork.

Sigh... I remember when jounalists got the Who, what, when where and how of a story in the first paragraph.

Speaking of skin color, I’ve been hearing about some Chinese tycoons who bribed their kids into top tier US colleges, at greatly higher amounts. Like $1.6 million vs. Huffman’s $15,000 chickenfeed. When do the Feds start freezing their Stateside assets?

Nobody wants to do mini-series? ABC is wrapping up the 8-episode The Fix this evening, and A Discovery of Witches is doing another 8 on AMC. Fox has done American Horror Story for several years now.

The Count of Ten?

More to the point, how many were convicted?

If Law and Order were still on they would have already had such an episode in the can,

Good thing Swift didn’t include bagpipes in the set, or we’d accuse her of stealing from Enya!

I’m seeing reports that the Hollywood parents were amateurs. Some Chinese parents paid $1.2 million to get their kid into a prestigious US university. Any chance we’ll get any of them in court?

I hear Richard III has a few descendants in Australia. Is it time for a Yorkist revival?

I don’t think they pay much attention to rehabilitation on death row.