God has a sense of humor, and timing
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Mac Davis, called home to heaven at 78 on the eve of last night’s debate.
He wrote lots of great songs, but this was his best. Not sure The Donald would get it, but it was always my favorite.
Case closed
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Watching a bit of this live-streaming it looks like the typical shit show, though give credit to Chris Wallace for trying his best to rein in the Trumpster, but America’s Paper of Record has spoken, so I’m giving up and going to bed.
U.S.—In a highly accurate and scientific CNN poll taken pre-debate, presidential candidate Joe Biden has had a clear win over incumbent President Donald Trump, with 98% saying Biden won the debate tonight and only 2% saying Trump won.
“Biden just dominated Trump with his very non-senile performance,” said pundit Jacob Ingram. “Or at least that’s what everyone knows is going to happen.”
The poll sampled smart people who are also attractive and cool, and it’s very clear that those people all think Biden is great and have already awarded him the win in tonight’s debate against the dumb and abrasive Trump.
“With such a clear and decisive win, there’s really no reason to even have the debate,” said Biden campaign staffer Lucas Mathis. “That would only distract from how great Biden is doing. And ruin his naps.”
The Trump campaign has denounced the poll as “fake news,” even though the poll was made using numbers and a computer which are common instruments of science.
It is unclear if the actual debate tonight could affect the poll results, but most experts expect that it will not.
Huh — maybe we can watch a train wreck tonight after all
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I’ve been assuming that Slo Joe would be able to fairly easily muddle his way through this, the first debate, and he’d go back to his basement, undamaged. But today comes news that his handlers, having first agreed, now refuse to let him be searched for an earpiece and earlier today tried, but failed, to get two separate 30-minute breaks inserted into the 90-minute program.
Maybe debate prep hasn’t been going well?
Greenwich Democrat unhinged
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“I’m going to fairfield hills!”
David Rafferty equates Republicans with the Taliban. This would be insulting if it weren’t the ravings of a madman, but it does shed light on why we can no longer have a civil discourse with Democrats.
St. Ginsburg update
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In 27 years on the Supreme Court, RPG hired exactly one black law clerk, and zero in her 13 years on the federal branch. Using conventional, pre-woke math, that’s one clerk in forty years.
She hired on merit and was color blind in her choices, perhaps, but she had no problem upholding “racial disparity” rulings against other employers during her tenure.
(The picture above, created by the Babylon Bee, was a huge hit with the Left, including, among others, NYT editors. Here’s Elle’s take:
Just sayin'
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Just a little temp work while awaiting her rightful inauguration
1929 Khakum Wood home is still loved
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33 Khakum Wood Drive has sold for $3.6 million. That’s not the $5.875 it asked for back in 2017, but given what it’s going to take to restore this grand old house, still an impressive number.
Aww, another one down
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31 Crown Road has sold for $1.7 million, a tad above its asking price of $1.695. Owned by the late Jerry Dumas and his now-widow Gail, I’m delighted that it sold so quickly, and at a good price, but it’s surely a land deal — Steve Cohen’s $40 million palace is across the road, and there’s nothing cheap about the neighboring houses either — but I’ll miss Jerry’s place.
A couple of decades ago I was honored to be invited to join “Thursdays at Jerry’s” luncheons, where Jerry, Greenwich icon Bernie Yudain, and other writers and artists from around town would meet, laugh, and argue over sandwiches and beer. It was a golden time, when politics didn’t determine friendships, and intelligent discussions could be mixed with jabs and jokes, with no harm intended or taken.
I hope this home’s demise isn’t symbolic of a permanent destruction of that ideal.
If you believe the polls, these are the people a majority of Americans want to let run our lives
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NO CANDY FOR YOU!
Berkeley CA prohibits displaying junk food near supermarket cash registers
In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council passed the “healthy checkout” ordinance.
Come March 2021, when the measure is set to take effect, large grocery stores in the California city will be prohibited from selling food and beverages deemed unhealthy in a 3-foot radius from the checkout.
But not to worry, these nanny-commies know how to improve the capitalist pigs’ profit line, because … well, they’re experts on consumer behavior.
The new measure will not harm stores, according to the Councilwoman. Profit margins on the healthier products are sometimes greater than that of the less healthy options. An apple, for example, generates five times the margin of Doritos. [Stupid grocerers think they’ll sell ten Dorito bags for each apple — hah! The fools!]
We’re on the eve of ushering in an ever-expanding government that will tell us, even more than it already does, what to eat, what to wear, what to drive, what to think, and what to say. To equate a ban on Snickers Bars to the end of personal freedom may seem silly, but it illustrates the Left’s determination to create the utopia that is just around the corner if only the correct laws are imposed on the sheeple by those smarter and wiser than them. That hubris and lust for power permeates our political climate and is rapidly metastasizing.
Vote early and often.
UPDATE: Having written the above, I read this essay on American Thinker’s website by one Angelo Codevilla. It is many, many pages long, but lays out the entire shift from individual independence of citizens to “the Progressive’s fundamental proposition — that the American way of life suffers from excessive freedom and insufficient lattitude for experts to lead each into doing what is best for all”. Well worth reading, though I think the Sickers Bar example sums up much of it; one thing Codevilla adds is the imposition of moral righteousness of our good government types in the past century, thus distinguishung their movement from previous dictatorships of the elite.