I started to write this a few hours ago but there was a big car crash outside my house and I went out to see if I could help. Nobody was hurt but a couple of cars are probably past the stage where insurance can make them right again.
We have a fair number of traffic accidents in this area. I'm waiting for one of them to involve James Corden as he drives around our neighborhood doing one of his Carpool Karaoke segments. About half of them seem to take him down streets I walk or live on and I can't help but notice how the backgrounds jump on those things. They must record some of those songs three or four times then cut them together.
I keep thinking I should write more about the Harvey Weinstein matter…but then I keep realizing I don't have anything interesting to say about it that I didn't say here already, except maybe this: Weinstein has been booted out of the Motion Picture Academy, prompting many to ask why they haven't kicked out Mel Gibson, Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby. I'm not sure all three of those men are even in the Academy and I'm not sure anyone ever suggested that the organization judge its members like that. I'm not saying that they should or shouldn't; just that the Academy has rarely if ever considered if someone is a decent human being. They only seem to care if the person is in the industry.
Getting bounced out is not really much of a spanking, anyway. All it means is that Harvey may miss out on some of the screeners. He deserves some actual punishment.
Trump today said that most presidents, including Obama, do not place phone calls to the families of soldiers who die in the line of duty. When it was pointed out that this was just plain wrong, Donald's excuse was that someone told him that. I wonder why that kind of thing doesn't worry his supporters. Isn't a president supposed to (a) take responsibility for his own words and (b) fire aides who give him faulty information? Imagine if he decided to bomb some country, found out his reason wasn't true and said, "Well, someone told me they were about to attack us!"