02/28/23

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, February 28th.

National Pancake Day!

Listen, sometimes I will make jokes about these holidays. Especially when it’s food related, because it’s silly and silly is in short supply so why not… but I’m very good at making pancakes. So let me give you two hints.

First, because you start making the mix… put your burner on, and leave it at medium, maybe medium low. Let your pan heat up. That way, when you’re cooking the pancakes, your pan is ready to go. You burn the first pancake for no other reason that the pan is too hot. You’re doing great, it’s the pan that’s trying to screw you up.

Also, consider throwing just a little bit of almond extract into your mix. It won’t make it overly almond flavored, but it will add just a little something special.

These are not jokes. I do not joke about pancakes.

And now, the news.

More Snow Ahead for CA

-via LA Times

This is a weather podcast now… as weather experts are now saying the storm that was expected to move on today, will stick around through tomorrow. Though it’s nothing compared to last week, more snow and rain is expected.

So find yourself some good tea and a nice book, because it’s about to get ready Pacific Northwest-y over here.

Fetterman on a Path to Recovery

-via CBS News

Although I feel weird reporting on the personal lives, particularly the mental health, of someone here, Senator Fetterman’s office has reported that, although he continues to receive treatment at Walter Reed, the Senator is on the path to recovery.

Again – while is he for sure not the first Senator to deal with clinical depression, nor do I believe he is the first to seek treatment, he is the first to do so openly and, because he made that choice, may have helped a lot of other people decide to do the same.

Rupert Murdoch: Fox “Endorsed” Big Lie

-via Washington Post

The Dominion lawsuit continues! If you’re not familiar, I would urge you to please go listen to Friday’s episode about the Fox + January 6th + 2020 Election + Republican cluster that’s going on. Because this is about more than one lawsuit, there’s a much bigger problem here which is that, as I say in that episode, Trump Republicans are working with a major media outlet to try and craft a narrative that says the election was stolen and you, yes you, should be mad. A real patriot would be mad. Be really mad and hey, while we’re telling you the election was stolen, we’re also working with some of Trump’s friends on this thing happening on January 6th. You should go to that. Because a real patriot would. And don’t you love this country enough to just… burn it to the ground?

It’s dangerous and it’s built on a lie. I lie they knew was a lie.

And we know that because… the Dominion lawsuit continues!

On Monday, through the suit, we learned just who exactly was endorsing these lies because Rupert Murdoch, the chair of the Fox Corp, named names in sworn testimony that was released yesterday.

It’s who you’d expect – Jeanine Pirro (though he said he “thinks” so), Lou Dobbs did “a lot.” Sean Hannity did “a bit.”

Though, confusingly, Murdoch denied that Fox endorsed the claims.

Okay, just the anchors. The star anchors. That you allowed to go on air and say those things.

Copy copy copy.

Also we learned, in the filing, that Dominion alleges that Murdoch provided Trump’s son in law and senior advisor, Jared Jushner, with confidential network information about Biden’s ads and debate strategy.

This is unconfirmed, as that exhibit remains under seal.

I mean, basically Rupert’s whole vibe in his deposition was “I don’t know. I guess in hindsight we shouldn’t have had Rudy on.” “Probably we could have come out stronger about the Big Lie.” BABE. That’s like me saying, “I don’t know. Looking back, I guess, there’s a chance, however slim it is, that it’s possible, depending on which angle you’re looking at and which sentence you cherry-pick, I was a little, perhaps, awkward around Amy Poehler.”

When in actuality, the fact remains… I cried when I met Amy Poehler. It was weird. Everyone was uncomfortable.

(Still got that photo though!)

More Like Gov. DeSucks, amiright? (DeSantis v Disney)

-via AP News

Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis who, as you will recall, once put an N-95 mask on sideways… not upside-down, which is hard to do but still not impossible. He literally put it on sideways, which requires thought.

That’s not part of this story but it’s always good to remember the brain power we’re working with here…

Anyway, Ronny D (ugh, that’s too cool of a nickname for this guy. I’ll come up with something, don’t worry) signed a bill on Monday that gives him control of Disney’s self-governing district as punishment over the company’s opposition to the heinous, and cruel for the sake of being cruel, Don’t Say Gay bill.

The bill requires DeSantis to appoint a five-member board to oversee the government services that Disney provides in their parks.

Ah yes, there’s that small government that the Republicans love so much.

Can I please read you his quote after signing? Because you know how sometimes you’ll think “I am NAILING IT with this quote!” And then, in the end, maybe not so much? That’s what happened here but, like… a million times worse.

“Today the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end. There’s a new sheriff in town, and accountability will be the order of the day.”

I don’t feel bad for him because he’s a terrible person, and the way I know he’s a terrible person is because that’s his whole vibe and also because he’s mean… but if I DID have the ability to feel bad for him, which again – I do not, nor do I have any interest in finding that ability… the secondhand embarrassment I would have.

I mean, I would never be at a bill signing for something like that, unless it was to protest, but if I were there, I would have to look away. That’s such a lame quote!

Lame quote from a lame dude picking a hateful fight that he will lose.

Because Bobby Iger is back and if he thinks Chapek put up too much of a fight over the Don’t Say Gay bill (by basically endorsing it and then realizing how much people didn’t like it and then doing the absolute bare minimum), he’s probably not going to be too thrilled to see what Iger’s gonna do.

I assume. I have no idea what he’s going to do but like… it’s probably going to end up biting DeSantis back.

Don’t fight with Disney. They have so much money!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Ron DeSantis, the guy that put an N-95 mask on sideways once? He’s a dinkus.

And that’s it. That’s the news.

This episode was 75% news and 25% cyber bullying Ron DeSantis and honestly… I’m fine with that. Honestly, I’ll split it down the middle a little more. That dude sucks.

I’m proud of pancakes! I like to put food coloring in them!

I’m proud of Amy Poehler! I did cry in front of her once and she was a champ all the way through.

But more than pancakes… more than the ombre pancakes I like to make sometimes… because you are worth the effort… I’m proud of you.