Charlie From Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Is All Grown Up! Tabs, Tues., Dec. 5, 2023
No shit, that movie's fifty years old. Morning news roundup.
Oh shit they’re gonna peach Joe Biden for “son paid him car payments.” OH SHIIIIITTTTT. — Gift link Washington Post
Vice President Kamala Harris is apparently relentlessly lobbying/negotiating for a two state solution with Middle Eastern leaders. Most of this is about the politics of how nobody (outside us and some Californians) really knows who Harris is except that she’ll be president in about four minutes according to Fox News. (And hell, she might!) (Thom Hartmann)
Today the Supreme Court will hear its latest LIEsuit (no really, all lies), this one with the aim of invalidating a wealth tax and presumably all federal taxes whatsoever (for the rich)! Won’t we have fun. — Lisa Needham at Public Notice
From what I can gather, Texas AG Ken Paxton is suing Pfizer for the frauds for … not protecting Americans from the pandemic who refused to get vaccinated? (MSNBC)
Our Liz says we all have to get off Twitter now. (I mean, we really mostly already did.) — Law and Chaos
Here’s an awesome: California is making direct cash payments to help released felons reenter society. I LOVE IT. (CEO Works)
One to lie on the floor to:
No, of course not all homeschoolers abuse their children. (When my son was a boy, our cross the street neighbors were the absolute loveliest evangelical homeschoolers. Their mom did actual lessons with them, they were gorgeously cheerful and well-behaved, and one time I paid them $5 to feed my dog for the weekend, and they also walked her, brushed her, and picked up her poo.) But people who want to abuse their children are first going to pull them out of school. And in Michigan and 10 other states, there’s no check-in whatsoever, and the homeschoolers associations will fight to the death for that. — Gift link Washington Post
Here, have a poem to wash your heart. (Weston Parker)
Here’s one. Photo by Shy.
Hey, did somebody say VACATION?
Even more here and here (I think Shy’s, the second link, is public).
I’m really really really tired and I have an eye infection so my eyes hurt and I just had some little palpitations and my mom just fell on her face and smashed up her mouth. I’m out. Hell yeah SHORT TABS, NO HOMEWORK!
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Bye.
It’s Hamlet the mini pig! More info about that guy here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/hamlet-descends
You must be tired and eyehurty for not splainin' the clickbait. So I will.
The kid who played the original Charlie is named Peter Ostrum. It was his only acting role. Peter is two years older than I am, and he gave it all up to pursue a career in veterinary medicine. He went to Cornell's vet school and his first year there overlapped with my senior undergraduate year- but nobody knew. This was in the era when Jodie Foster was at Yale and Brooke Shields was at Princeton, paparazzi following their every move. Yet Peter toiled in pigshit at the end of Tower Road in virtual anonymity from whatever media existed then in Ithaca, New York. He has spent the past 40 years as a farm animal vet in upstate's North Country, and his only recreation of his brief fame is going into the local elementary school on occasion and telling the kids what the experience was lile.