And all of it so fawning. I keep expecting Lester Holt to burst into tears.

Centre Parcs is still going? Wow, I thought for sure the pandemic would’ve put paid to those hellholes, particularly since they seem to have been intentionally designed as rapid viral incubators.

I went the other direction. I came to the US in 2006 after living in the UK for much of my life. To say the healthcare “system” here came as a shock is a gross understatement. It’s a hideous mess that’s been permeated by predatory capitalism at every level.

And lets not forget the £350m/week that the Tory/White Nationalist Brexiters claimed would magically go to the NHS once the UK left the EU. It was, of course, a complete fucking lie that the media reported largely uncritically at the time, and nobody has been held accountable for subsequently.

It has been the goal of the Tory Party to destroy the NHS since Thatcher’s days.

FYI, if you were back here in the US, you’d think you were in the UK, based on how the news cycle is Dead Lizzie 24/7 (all of it breathlessly covered under “breaking” banners, as if her state of death is subject to change.)

I remember this nonsense with Diana’s funeral: the crying and wailing; the rending of garments; mountainous piles of rotting flora stacked in front of any piece of street furniture more “royal” than a parking meter; grief-stricken idiots practically throwing themselves under her hearse. It’s the closest I’ve come to…

Rollin’ coal, Putin style. Just a big middle finger to the rest of the world. “If we can’t have the planet, noone can.”

One white person was assaulted?!!? TIME TO TAKE HATE CRIMES SERIOUSLY!!!!!

It’s got to be something faux-fancy like that. He strikes me as the kind of twerp who thinks Grey Poupon and Ferrero Rocher are high-end products.

He’s like a Chauncy Gardner character, for whom the only reality is what’s on TV.

Even better, Yertle is basically admitting that, without gerrymandering, the GOP is toast. When they can’t choose their voters, they struggle mightily.

Thanks for the tip! I like the idea of a mental “jar” I can use to measure progress against. Otherwise, my old brain will just keep falling back on habitual behavior and never change.

Dammit, I did it again. I really need to pay attention.

“Don’t be absurd! We didn’t spend the last 40 years gerrymandering every state legislature and packing every courthouse we could get our hands on, just so some filthy voters could come along and undermine all our lovely power.”

I just assumed they strapped him to a gurney on the old Arkham Asylum set. They’ll let him out for the premier.

It’s almost as if the endgame of all the anti-”woke” and anti-”CRT” guff wasn’t to restore a sense of “balance” to education, but rather to erase the merest suggestion that black people have contributed anything of value to American life.

Just noticed I used the wrong pronoun for Miller. Too late to edit. My apologies.

That said, I’d pay good money to see Tig as the Flash.

Miller is a messy toxic disaster, which makes him perfect for someone like Zaslav, who made his career churning out endless variations of “My 90 Day 600 Pound Kitchen Nightmare Island” “reality” shit for the mouthbreathing demographic.