Trump told Zelensky he isn’t holding any cards, but then Trump handed him the biggest one of all when he said, “You’re gambling with World War III.”
This is the second time that Zelensky has defied and infuriated Trump. He refused to go along with Trump’s scheme to falsely claim that Ukraine had opened an investigation into the Bidens, resulting in Trump’s first impeachment. Trump is looking for payback and finding only frustration.
As expected, the external 1 TB WD My Book/AV HDD, installed for more than a decade on the now-retired Fios TV DVR, was seen by Windows as a raw disk. I initialized and partitioned it to be used for whatever.
I need to initiate an equipment return process with Verizon, but the drive was my own purchase, so it stays with me. Verizon actually doesn’t care about the old gear, but as I must return the new Fios TV One and Mini, I may as well send the old stuff back as well.
He was the best of the very best. Perfect in every role, whether playing a dramatic lead or having a blast with a comical supporting part.
There was a time — most of the 20th century, in fact — when it was possible for cartoonists to make a living as cartoonists. With few exceptions, those days are gone. Bill Waterson bowed out at just the right time, in late 1995, right before the decline of print media in general and newspapers in particular.
Ten years after the Richard Taylor book was published, the Famous Artists School introduced its cartooning correspondence course. It competed with the cartooning course from the Art Instruction Schools that Charles M. Schulz took. He later became an instructor at the school.
Here’s another good exhibit for me to see at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.
Long before I was declared, with Morley Safer’s approval, to be a member of the CBS Family, I followed The CBS Evening News.
For me, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC seemed cold, off-putting and intimidating. They conveyed a sense that “beware, the world is a scary place.”
Walter Cronkite on CBS was a firm authority figure, while also being warm, welcoming and reassuring that, “we can get through this.” I was a big fan of Cronkite’s series The 21st Century. That was when I first heard about lasers over fiber optic cable. Having been myself, albeit not in a big way, a broadcast journalist, I consider Cronkite to be the reference standard for integrity.
By today’s age standards, Cronkite was required to retire much too soon, but I thought Dan Rather was a capable successor. I remember watching his infamous 1974 exchange with Nixon as it happened.
After Rather, CBS News lost its way, especially when the news division was put under the entertainment division. Consistency and stability were finally restored to the evening newscast by Nora O’Donnell. Now Nora is gone, and I am not surprised by this news item.
CBS News Ratings Collapse After Norah O’Donnell Exit
https://www.tvinsider.com/1177996/cbs-news-ratings-norah-odonnell-john-dickerson-maurice-dubois/
I disliked the new format so much that after two nights I switched to NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. So ended my sixty years following The CBS Evening News, and now Lester Holt has announced that he’s leaving!
Fortunately, there is The PBS News Hour, that I began watching when it was the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. They’ve been providing excellent, professional coverage of the chaos that has gripped the nation with the return of Trump to the White House.
