Busy day. I may not find the time to post links to bad things Trump and his minions are doing…and let's remember that the problem isn't just him. It's all the people around him who are empowered by him including the Republicans in Congress.
John R. Hall reminds me that the song "Georgy Girl" was not the biggest hit from the group, the Seekers. "I'll Never Find Another You" was bigger, just as ABBA had bigger hits than "Mamma Mia."
I couldn't sit through the Grammy Awards but there are some fun clips online including what looks like a nice hosting job by James Corden. My impression of the Grammy Awards is that they give out so many of them that the top musical artists kind of expect to each get at least two or three and a "loss" is when someone only gets one, whereupon they fire their publicists.
Saturday and Sunday, I will be down at the San Diego Comic Fest where I'll be moderating four panels, three of which will be about Jack Kirby. On one, I'll be interviewing my old friend, Mike Royer, who was one of the best of the many fine artists who inked Jack's pencil art over the years. Then there will be two panels where I talk with Mike and my partner from back then, Steve Sherman. We'll just tell stories about the amazing man we were privileged to know and work with. The fourth panel will be me interviewing another amazing man, Disney Legend Floyd Norman. If you can make it, all the details are here.
Nice to have John Oliver back, though I thought the episode last night covered a lot of ground that others have covered before him. The great thing about Oliver's show usually is that they get there first.
Hey, here's an idea I wish someone would do. The word "lie" has been thrown around so much in politics — and often misapplied. Sometimes, when your opponent is just plain wrong about something, you lambaste him for lying…and, of course, since he lied about that, no one can trust anything he says about anything because he's a congenital, mentally-ill person incapable of telling the truth.
One of the reasons I think Trump gets away with it is that we've dumbed-down the word "lie" in politics such that it doesn't carry much sting anymore. We kind of all accept that all politicians lie and that our guy can be forgiven because (a) he lies for a good cause and (b) he has to lie a little to win against those evil liars.
I'd like to see someone assemble a montage of prominent politicians and pundits who were outraged when someone on "the other side" lied…and see those same folks change the subject or rationalize when confronted with their guy lying. Seems to me the contrast would be educational and you might be able to chart the growth in brazenness as candidate after candidate got away with it and went on to win.
Back later.