Monday Reads

It has been EIGHTY years (I believe in December) since Gone With the Wind made its premiere in Atlanta, and the last of the four leads, Olivia de Havilland,  is STILL alive.  Today she turns 103.  She is just about the last credited cast member of the film still alive.  Her three major co-stars died DECADES ago, the last being Vivien Leigh, who died of tuberculosis in 1967--52 years ago.

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It is obvious to any honest observer Kamala Harris fucked up big time during the debate the other night trying to play "gotcha" to Joe Biden over the long-dead busing issue.

She blew it with me, but as I have said, she can't get elected dog catcher outside of California.

Willie Brown has a lot of goddamned nerve:

But former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — whose patronage of Harris helped put the then-Alameda County assistant district attorney on the political map in her early years — bridled at the suggestion that Harris may have muddled her political future with her attack on Biden. He told POLITICO that the vice president has no one to blame but himself for a lackluster and unprepared performance.

“They better hope she would accept [a VP nomination],’’ he said. “Otherwise, he’s a guaranteed loser.”

But Brown, who also served as speaker of the California Assembly, said Biden’s stunned reaction only underscored that — on the issue of civil rights — he has so far failed to be completely honest with voters and should simply admit his past unpopular actions and positions.

It's because of him she can't get elected to anything outside of California. He has no business commenting at all.
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This post is number 45,000 since I began the blog back in December of 2002--17 years ago.  Of course, in the early years of the blog, I tended to make a post for every single news item, and years ago I decided to combine news items, which is why I do far fewer posts on a single subject anymore.
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Retired Stones bassist Bill Wyman, 83 (!) in October, remembers Brian Jones, who died fifty years ago Wednesday.
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