LaceyLou

He really doesn't seem to have much appreciation at all for living things. And something tells me that urn just over RR's head had a special meaning also.

That at least would serve a useful purpose, even if it's still a bad use of our National Guard.

That, and because of propaganda from the people who are benefiting from the new technology cutting into their bottom line.

On another note, how much photoshopping had to be done to make his face look like that? He looks like he's entirely made of plastic. And there's that dead eye look yet again for the stats boss.

I just finished The Cafe with No Name, by Robert Seethaler. It's a fairly quick and satisfying read. I like that it goes over how the city of Vienna changes and yet doesn't change, just as is the case with the characters in the book.

Boston has a fair number of homeless also... linked in part to closure of a treatment center on Long Island. ETA unfortunately a lot of cities have people displaced by the high cost of housing, and a lot of them are blue cities. That's probably why many people who are right of center seem so happy when they hear of 'violent homeless people' wandering their streets. It just fits and confirms what they believe to be true.

I'm torn... most of the time I roll my eyes when people tell me my city is burning to the ground or is too dangerous to walk around... Another part of me likes it because I'd rather not have them around anyway.

On another topic... how many of the people blocking release of the Epstein files, and bending over backwards to support a certain person were campaigning to 'restore dignity and honor to the White House' in 2000?

I do remember there was a campaign to remove the ad from television, and that it worked. It was a case study in one of my communications classes in the 80s.

I wonder which HGTV show will take on renovating the White House after this administration-Maybe Ugliest House in America or Help I Wrecked my House?

The cynic in me suspects that certain donors are used to making money from oil, coal, etc, and haven't yet figured out how to continue making money with renewables.

Unfortunately there are a lot of people who only like children around when they're good for publicity-especially when they're cute. I know a fair number of survivors of sexual abuse (which is depressingly common) and their own mothers looked the other way or even went along with it. Or they blamed the kids for 'leading the adult on' or dressing/acting 'sexy.' Sigh....

The media has been making money from Trump for years.

The best part is that from what I remember of Bonfire of the Vanities, he would have fit in perfectly as a character.

Without warning, I'm remembering the Simpsons episode where they're under the influence of a cult, and the answer to everything in class is The Leader.