Friday Reads

Greenland is not for sale, so Donald Trump will have to look at something else.
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Naomi Wolf always was a dipshit:

Important summary of UK debate putting feminists against trans people - one I can’t fathom. https://t.co/9YB4T6Xw0m

— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) August 16, 2019

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Yes, he did commit suicide by hanging.

That won't stop the conspiracy theorists, however.  This despite the fact the examiner has a stellar reputation and had nothing to gain by making shit up.
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Obituary:  Actor Peter Fonda, brother of Jane and son of Henry, has died at the age of 79.  He, like two of my relatives, one of whom died two days ago, had lung cancer.  Fonda died after respiratory failure.

Cancer really sucks.  I just hate it.

Anyway, Fonda is best remembered for co-starring with Dennis Hopper in a film released fifty years ago this year, Easy Rider, which everybody I went to school with at the time saw, but I didn't see until a few years later.  I wasn't impressed with it, to tell you the truth.

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Born in New York City to screen legend Henry Fonda and Frances Seymour Brokaw, Peter spent his early years growing up alongside his older sister, Jane, until he was sent to boarding school at just 6 years old.

Their childhood was plagued with tragedy when their mother, who struggled with her mental health, committed suicide when Peter was 10 and Jane was 12.

In his 1998 book, Don’t Tell Dad: A Memoir, Peter said his mom’s death was something that his “forbidding figure” father, who was remote and often away on set, lied about and subsequently “ignored”.

“When I walked toward [my family] they told me to go through the closed doors and into the living room. I opened the doors and saw Jane, Grandma, and Dad sitting on the couches. Jane was on Dad’s lap,” Peter recalled in the memoir. “I went to Grandma, and she told me Mother had died of a heart attack, in a hospital.”

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