I marched at the San Diego No Kings event this morning. I’ll have photos later. It was intense. My phone needs recharging and so do I.
Loni Anderson, Star of ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ Dies at 79 — “In 1980, she starred in the biographical drama and made-for-TV movie ‘The Jayne Mansfield Story,’ opposite a young Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Hungarian actor and bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay.”
I’m going to the No Kings event Saturday. I didn’t want to shlep a sign but then I thought — T-shirt! Ordered one, but it arrives Sunday. Oh, well — there will be other protests. Sadly, we’re not going to get rid of the 🤡and his 🍩enablers in one day.
My hotel room has no desk. It has an ironing board and iron but no closets, so once you’ve ironed your clothes, there is nowhere to hang them up.
I haven’t ironed anything since I ironed my shirt on our wedding day in 1993, but don’t you need to hang things up immediately after you iron them, if you’re not going to wear them right away?
Here’s something I saw today — this restaurant next door to my hotel. Colombian. It wasn’t great, but I’m glad I tried it anyway.
President Donald Trump is desperate for an enemy to justify the extreme force he wants to deploy on blue states and is trying his hardest to convince people that antifa is so dangerous that, as Attorney General Pam Bondi said at the roundtable this week, they need to be exterminated like ISIS or Hamas. The Trump administration also has a nearly pathological habit of accusing their enemies of being exactly like them. Which is why they think the left is a dark money-funded domestic terror cell full of pedophiles and spree shooters that wants to destroy America.
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[Jack] Posobiec, an influencer who never ascended to Kirk’s level because he just can’t stop going full Nazi, said at the roundtable, “Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.” What happened to antifa after that, Jack?
— Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day, The war against giant frog costumes
The Romantic: How Diane Keaton’s quest for beauty left an imprint on American culture — A beautiful appreciation of a beautiful spirit and woman.
The Oatmeal’s comic/essay about AI art starts as yet another AI rant, but then goes in an interesting direction that more or less aligns with how I think about using AI for writing. I use it for what the Oatmeal calls administrative drudgery — dragging cans of paint up the stairs to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I do not use it to write.