Comedy in reverse - The Kennedy Center and "The life of Brian"

Kenneth P Altshuler

I smell a rat.

He steps forward at this time to help the voters of Maine.

EOM

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Regulatory Fairness Hearing

Join the Office of the National Ombudsman and SBA Mid-Atlantic Regional Office for a Regulatory Fairness Hearing on May 13, 2026, from 9 am to 12 pm at the MSHA Training Academy in Beaver, WV.

This event gives coal, gas, and energy entities a direct platform to engage with the Ombudsman and SBA leadership to voice concerns regarding unfair or excessive federal regulatory enforcement, providing a unique opportunity to discuss how specific guidelines and inspections impact the energy sector.

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Since when did "Big Coal" become a small business?

NYT Guest Opinion "Rich People Didn't Look Like This Before"

If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it’s clear. People didn’t use to look like this because people naturally can’t look like this.

Models in a Paris Fashion Week show for the luxury brand Matières Fécales last month caricatured the 1 percent by wearing prosthetics that resembled post-op faces, including grotesque under-eye bulges, skin pulled up from their temples and lips that appeared unnaturally inflated and stitched at the edges. South Park depicted Kristi Noem with a face so Botoxed it melts off and scurries away. From the Met Gala to the Oscars and every red carpet in between, these rich faces are everywhere.

A “rich face” is stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions and plumped with filler or implants or a person’s own grafted fat. Once, this face belonged to a villainous class of elites in sci-fi depictions of a dystopian future. In “The Hunger Games,” residents of the capital city who revel in luxury and excess at the expense of other impoverished districts often wear sculpted, altered faces. In “Dr. Who,” a wealthy socialite from the distant future has gone through so many face-lifts that she becomes little more than a stretched face on a thin sheet of skin mounted on a frame, maintained with constant moisturizer.

The ultrawealthy seem less and less concerned with hiding their excesses. They’re richer than ever, and figures like Lauren Sánchez Bezos and President Trump give them permission to flaunt their neo-Gilded Age spoils. After all, the unspoken appeal of cosmetic work is that it’s not just about looking “better” or “fixing” something or trying to remain competitive in ageist workplaces. It’s about indulging in a particular kind of experiential self-care that is infinitely customizable and accessible to only a select group. It signifies extreme wealth and belonging to an elite, all-powerful clique that gets to operate under a different set of societal norms and rules.

More at link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/plastic-surgery-rich-face.html

Just exactly why is Secretary of Warped sporting an American flag pocket square?

"Pocket Square" = "Hanky."

This is stupid on its face, but then he removes all doubt when he seems to think Quentin Tarantino somehow heavily influenced the Old Testament.

DOD allows service members to carry personal weapons on Wright-Patterson

The Department of Defense is opening military bases to personnel carrying personal firearms, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will abide by that directive, a spokesman for the Air Force said Monday, April 6.

“The Air Force/Space Force will comply with the Secretary of War’s direction,” the spokesman said. “We don’t have any additional details to provide at this time.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last week signed a memorandum directing base commanders to allow uniformed service members to request to carry privately owned firearms while in their “nonofficial duty capacity” on military property in the United States.

“Before today, it was virtually impossible … for War Department personnel to get permission to carry and store their own personal weapons aligned with the state laws where we operate our installations. … Well, that’s no longer,” Hegseth said in a video on the subject.

In 2020, the 88th Air Base Wing allowed base personnel to request approval to transport licensed firearms to and from Wright-Patterson.

The allowance was open to those who held a Federal Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act permit, an Ohio concealed carry permit, or another state’s concealed carry permit that had reciprocity with Ohio. Under those conditions, those personnel were authorized (on approval) to transport secured, privately owned firearms in their private vehicles.

But the firearms were not authorized to be removed from those vehicles and had to remain completely unloaded while stored in a locked container out of plain view.

Privately owned firearms had to be registered with the 88th Security Forces. A spokesman for the wing declined to offer additional details.

Military police officers are allowed to carry firearms.

Firearms allowed in ‘nonofficial duty capacity,’ per DOD.

WTF!

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/community/beavercreek/dod-allows-service-members-to-carry-personal-weapons-on-wright-patterson/article_877697a5-7334-50f1-998d-bcf918cec558.html

"They cut babies' heads off. They chop women in half...."

He actually said this.

“They are among the most evil people ever on earth. They cut babies’ heads off. They chop women in half — take a look at October 7. Take a look at one they’ve done over the last 47 years”

Trump could never make this shit up by himself.

Bibi is a miracle worker.

Trump is now holding the bag.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-irans-regime-among-most-evil-people-on-earth-they-cut-babies-heads-off/

I got up just now to pee. It's an old person thing.

And, it occurred to me that he's up, not thinking, but fantasying about his next perfect speech.

When he should just go pee, and die, but he won't.

Abusive.

Manipulative and Untrustworthy.

Narcissistic and Entitled.

Zero Empathy.

Cowardly.

"If she wasn't my daughter, I'd be dating her."

Butz resigned his cabinet post on October 4, 1976.

Butz said: "I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit.”

Trump says shit like this everyday, and nothing happens.

Bondi declared that Donald Trump is the greatest president in the history of the United States.

"Today, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, failed again in her constitutional duties.

In a highly watched House Judiciary Committee hearing, Bondi repeatedly refused to answer direct questions from members of Congress about the Department of Justice’s handling of critical issues, including the release and redaction of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, actions that left survivors without meaningful accountability and raised bipartisan concerns about transparency and justice.

More troubling still, during that hearing, Bondi deflected crucial oversight and attacked sitting members of Congress rather than addressing substantive legal concerns. Witnesses watching in the room, including survivors of Epstein’s abuse, tried to raise their hands and seek acknowledgment of their experiences, only to be ignored.

This is not mere political theater. This is a failure of leadership at the highest level of our justice system."


So much more at link:
https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/an-oath-to-the-constitution-not-to