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TV: Tehran S1

Most intelligent spy show I've seen in a long time. 

TV: Slow Horses E1

Enjoyed show more than the book, even though the narrative is the same. 

DEI Kills

Literally.

And this: …Moderna executives expressed confidence they could hit the enrollment targets without significantly slowing down overall enrollment. But Fauci and Slaoui said they actually wanted Moderna to slow down overall enrollment in order to ensure they enrolled more minorities. 

 The book estimates the delay here at three weeks — how many lives was that in winter of 2020/2021?

Separately, just imagine if all the resources from DEI efforts went into teaching reading at grade level. The problem for DEI people: teaching kids to read is hard and requires effort and discipline they do not have. And does not provide an outlet for their own emotional shortcomings. 

Monkeypox

After two years of watching liberals bash Florida spring breakers and the unvaccinated gathering for Christmas, their silence on the irresponsible spread of monkeypox at Pride events is rather loud.

Oh Yeah, Covid

One of the best articles I've read on COVID, explaining where we are. 

“Those who get through it will probably actually have then seen the virus, maybe 10 or 15 times over the next five years,” he says. But each exposure, vaccination or boost does add to the tool kit and makes the risks of future infections less scary — one reason a recent small-scale social-media panic about possible heightened risk from second infections is so misplaced.

Does this mean we're either getting COVID or vaccinated 10-15 more times each? 

Kamala Harris Inspiration Posters

These are fantastic. 

For The Record

I always thought Ben Affleck and JLo made sense. 

I Missed This

And you would've thought it might've been a bigger story: NIH admits to funding gain of function research in Wuhan. 

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TV: Euphoria Pilot 

The show really wants to be cool and bold, but they didn't dare make Zendaya rich or Nate black, both which would've been far more provocative. Still, I didn't hate it like a decent person of my demographics ought to.

A Candidate For Changing the World

More than autonomous vehicles or the metaverse, I could see a new world built around a lot of remote work and electric bicycles.   I mean, e bikes are here already, affordable, and could actually improve two major urban problems right away: parking and traffic. Why is no one talking about this? Why is this technology not being promoted more? Why aren't cities giving away electric bikes for folks who give up owning cars? Seriously...

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TV Show: Spy EP 1

I paused watching Sacha Baron Cohen's performance to look at old Ali G clips. Not as funny as I remembered them.

Wildlife Rescue

My son is at a camp at a wildlife center where they rescue animals. Some can never return to the wild. My son learned there is a quail who thinks he's a human because as an egg it was taken away from the mom and nurtured by a person. So this quail cannot survive in the wild. 

Lucky for the quail, our medical establishment hasn't gotten ahold of him and put him under the knife to change him into a human. I think he's better off as a delusional quail. 

It Wasn't Donald Trumps Fault

In case anyone cares: the FDA bought 1 million monkey pox vaccines from Denmark, but can't bother to cut any red tape and so while people are getting sick and dying, the vaccines are sitting in storage. 

And in other news, they are doing nothing to speed along a new vaccine that would help with omi - the actual variant that is spreading.

To anyone paying attention, it's become clear for a long while now our public health authorities are asleep at the wheel and letting Americans get sick and die due to their sloth.

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TV: We Own This City

Felt like the longest 6 episode TV series in the history of man. David Simon's greatest power is casting original looking middle aged white dudes. 

Book: Cut to the Chase

Screenwriting book.

Book: Charlotte's Web

With my kid. Summer read.

Book: Autobiography of Ulysses S Grant

One of my favorite Americans of all time.

Play: Richard III

One chapter/act a night or so...I can't understand half the language, yet still enjoyable. Someone needs to explain that to me. 

Scripts: Samples from Erin Brockovich, Argo, Social Network, and Breaking Bad

Surprise, surprise, they are all really good.

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Film: RRR

Very much doubt I'll see a more original and exciting film in the next several years. 

Piers Morgan - Macy Grey 

A polite, rational conversation. Who thought it possible anymore!

Buddy cop ideas:

1) Rajon Rondo - Alex Smith

2) Piers Morgan - Macy Grey 

Macy has a great line, "I'll call you what you want to be called because it's polite, but just because you have a surgery doesn't make you a woman." I kinda think she solved it right there.

Explain This

Here's a decent NY Times article talking about how both the Left and Right are trying to "erase" or "not count" women.  

Here's how the author describes the difference:

The right’s position here is the better known, the movement having aggressively dedicated itself to stripping women of fundamental rights for decades. Thanks in part to two Supreme Court justices who have been credibly accused of abusive behavior toward women, Roe v. Wade, nearly 50 years a target, has been ruthlessly overturned. 

Vs. 

The noble intent behind omitting the word “women” is to make room for the relatively tiny number of transgender men and people identifying as nonbinary who retain aspects of female biological function and can conceive, give birth or breastfeed. But despite a spirit of inclusion, the result has been to shove women to the side.

Do ya notice the difference? The Right wants to strip women of fundamental rights. The Left has noble intent, but unintended consequences. Really? This is our discourse now? We just assume the Right has nefarious motives - not even going to mention the debate about when life begins? And then with respect to the Left - why should we assume noble intent? It's been pretty obvious for a long time there are great swaths of the far Left who want to tear down anything that functions. This is why a lot of "environmentalists" block efforts for clean, abundant energy because what they really want is to impose an anti-consumerist ethos on everyone. It's why some homeless activists basically enable drug addicts to commit suicide in slow motion on our city streets and why some elements of the progressive Left want to Abolish the Police. These are people who want our society to commit suicide. Why assume these motives are noble? 

This Should Freak Us All Out

Google says it will delete all search history for visiting abortion clinics.

Which implies, it has and does keep our search history for everything else under the sun and uses it for unknown purposes.