Melania looked like she had just come from Jimmy Carter’s funeral. Goodnight, America.
And there’s this. How do the Evangelicals feel about it? If he doesn’t issue all of those “J6” pardons he promised, then we’ll know he’s signaling to his followers that he doesn’t need them anymore.
Update: Well, he did it. It wasn’t an insurrection to prevent the transfer of power. No, it wasn’t a riot, it was a love-in.
Well, it’s done. For $300 I have a Pixel 8a and keep the Pixel 4a. Everything has been copied over, the SIM swapped, and the cellular phone service checked. To my surprise, 5G came up. The last I knew, my plan was limited to 4G/LTE.
All of the many updates have been taken. Now there’s the arduous task of logging onto many accounts and pairing all of the Bluetooth devices.
How did I take a picture of both phones, while both of them were busy? With my ol’ reliable Canon PowerShot SD1000. I don’t know how long it had been since I last used the camera, but it powered right up without needing a charge.
This old commercial with Maria Sharapova had absolutely nothing to do with why I bought a Canon PowerShot camera! Not a thing, I swear!
I admire absolutely everything about Nick Parks’ creation Wallace & Gromit. If anyone were to suggest even a hint of criticism about the series, rather than express an appreciation of its very existence, I would cover my ears and hum.
Trump must be worried about the effect of the cold weather on the crowd size at Monday’s inauguration. The ceremony has been moved indoors, where the place will be packed, even with a much smaller turnout.
Did you see Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer? MGM’s dramatization of the Manhattan Project, with Hume Cronyn as J. Robert, was released only 18 months after the end of WWII. It opens with a whopper of a fib.
The museum’s impressive collection is about the wars that America has fought, and the weapons of those wars. The question that must be asked about every war is, “what are we fighting for?” There is no doubt whatsoever that America was forced by Japan to join the fight in WWII.
The decision to end the war by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan will always be controversial. It wasn’t for my late father, a Navy sailor who was in the first wave of American forces to occupy Japan.
I once visited a museum that presented an overview of WWII that was smaller in physical scale, yet much more comprehensive in scope. The defunct International Museum of World War II, in Natick, MA, had an extensive collection that was bought up by a rich guy who reneged on his promise to make it available for public viewing.
Movies made during the war are especially interesting, because everything was still happening. Without a rearview mirror, nothing could be seen in hindsight.
The Human Comedy was made during wartime, with a bittersweet tone about the American home front. It stars Mickey Rooney, whose fame faded quickly after the war. Having not seen it in decades, I’ll make a point of catching it on TCM, the next time it’s on the schedule.
Another wartime home front movie, with a less sentimental tone, is Since You Went Away with Shirley Temple. She grew up to have the looks of a pinup girl, but the public couldn’t shake their image of her as a child star.*
Since You Went Away is a long, and at times downbeat, movie. Guy Madison‘s brief appearance earned him a starring role in 1946’s Till the End of Time, the same year as the better-known post-war movie The Best Years of Our Lives.
* As a young woman, Petula Clark had a similar problem in England. In the Fifties, the public had no trouble seeing former child stars Elizabeth Taylor and Natalie Wood as sex symbols.
