I’m sorry, but the year 2023 still sounds like something out of a science fiction story to me.
The sordid history of Ticketmaster apparently includes that company getting a boost from former Sen. Phil Gramm.
“The US Senate is a fundamentally broken institution. Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions.”
“A freelance producer for ABC News also gathered dirt on critics of a consulting firm’s powerful clients.” A truly bonkers story.
“You Can Now Sue Movie Studios for False Advertising With Deceptive Trailers”. You can thank Ana de Armas, or more specifically two of her fans, for that.
“The 5 ‘known unknowns’ that will define 2024″.
About damn time: “West Point will remove Confederate symbols from its campus”.
“A List Of All The Jan. 6 Committee Witnesses Who Pleaded The Fifth“. A real rogue’s gallery in there.
Meet Bessie Mae Kelley, pioneering female animator from the 1920s whose story is just now being told.
“From a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator plowing into an asteroid (deliberately) to a helicopter trying to catch a rocket plummeting back to Earth, 2022 offered surreal moments in space that could have been ripped from the pages of a science fiction movie script.”
RIP, Thom Bell, Grammy Award-winning producer, arranger, composer, and one of the architects of Philadelphia soul music.
“The question of why the Trumpian populist right is so consumed with hatred for Ukraine—a hatred that clearly goes beyond concerns about U.S. spending, a very small portion of our military budget, or about the nonexistent involvement of American troops—doesn’t have a simple answer. Partly, it’s simply partisanship: If the libs are for it, we’re against it, and the more offensively the better. (And if the pre-Trump Republican establishment is also for it, then we’re even more against it.)”
No, Buckminster Fuller was not a cryptocurrency prophet.
“‘Home Alone’ reimagined in the style of ‘The White Lotus’ opening credits“. And generated by an AI, which makes it even creepier.
RIP, Kathy Whitworth, pro golfer whose 88 LPGA Tour victories, six more than Sam Snead and Tiger Woods had on the men’s tour, makes her the winningest golfer of all time.
“Netflix is reportedly developing a Stranger Things anime series set in 1980s Tokyo that will be labeled as the franchise’s first official spinoff.”
“Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming.”
“The Dog Not Barking about a U.S. Recession”.
RIP, Pele, all-time soccer legend. I had the opportunity to see him play a game with the NY Cosmos of the old NASL at Giants Stadium in the 70s, and yes, he scored a goal, the only one in a 1-0 Cosmos win. I have no recollection of how I came to be at Giants Stadium watching a Cosmos game but I’m glad I was there.
“Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend”.
RIP, Benedict XIV, Pope Emeritus.
RIP, Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV newscaster and anchor.
Here are your 2022 Golden Duke winners.
