IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge in Iowa admitted wrongdoing and publicly apologized for comments ridiculing former President Donald Trump for issuing a series of pardons to well-connected Republican officials.
Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt made the remarks during a phone interview with The Associated Press in December, saying: “It’s not surprising a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals.”
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-2df8728cfafe4624c1e21ef44622e756
Stephen Colbert chatted with Robert Duvall recently. Colbert asked Duvall about working with Brando, which is where this clip comes in.
A very different interview with Duvall would focus on his Science Fiction work, including THX-1138.
Years before THX-1138, Duvall appeared in The Twilight Zone. A while ago I watched as many episodes of the original The Outer Limits as I could before it was yanked from Amazon Prime. The series was good at stretching what could have been half-hour episodes into full hours. Duvall worked well with the deliberately slow pacing, as seen in “The Chameleon.”
Follow-up: The Daily Cartoonist reports this cartoon has been banned from Facebook.
Luddites unite!
Progress is inevitable, as I was reminded last night, watching The Blue Gardenia on TCM Noir Alley. After George “Superman” Reeves lights up in this video, there are telephone switchboard operators hard at work.
https://youtu.be/-QewqQUs8aE?t=2152
Are there even clerical secretaries anymore? Many minimum wage jobs in food service and retail used to be filled by students who quickly left those jobs, and by women making money for family vacations, Christmas presents, and college funds. Today, many people depend upon those jobs to support themselves and their families. The economy has changed a lot since I started working part-time as a high school kid 50 years ago.
Having watched “The Man Trap” on Star Trek, Thursday, September 8, 1966 at 8:30, I’m a first generation fan. Despite that, I don’t care to converse with computers, so there are no smart speakers in the house. My FireTV remotes have a mic for Alexa, and using the button for it means you don’t have to start commands by saying “Alexa…” I test the feature occasionally, with the results being useful about 75% of the time.
Amazon has a new feature, called Sidewalk, integrating with their Internet of Things (IOT) things. Creating a WiFi mesh between residences sounds cool, but just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should be done.
Trump has added blogging to his list of failed ventures. But I’ll be fair to the ex-prez in exile and note that Google has a worse track record.
Coming up on 15 years for doggie rattus dot commonus. Now that’s staying power!
