Friday Reads

Robert Reich is all in love with Bernie Sanders, but really, he doesn't have a prayer.  Paul Krugman writes that he is going for broke, and, in my estimation, he will likely go broke.

Then again maybe not if he is getting Russian money.

Sanders is brazenly lying even more than usual:

In fact, things have gotten so bad that Sanders is running an ad that attempts to portray him as best buddies with former President Barack Obama.

Fact checkers have pointed out that the ad is deeply misleading. It jumbles together things Obama said over the course of a decade and leaves out important context.

But a frame-by-frame analysis actually understates how disingenuous it is for Sanders to try to tie himself to Obama. For Sandersism, as a philosophy, is all about rejecting Obamaism. That is, it’s about refusing to accept incremental, half-a-loaf-is-better-than-none politics and demanding go-for-broke maximalism instead.

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Vancouver (British Columbia) Rape Relief has NO intention at all of scaling back despite losing a city grant thanks to the trans activists who hate women with a passion.  I think plenty of people will donate, keeping it afloat.

This organization has been around for decades.
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Time to self-publish, Woody:

Hachette on Friday dropped its plans to publish Woody Allen’s autobiography and said it would return all rights to the author, a day after its employees protested its deal with the filmmaker https://t.co/8vqyOh396C

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 6, 2020

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The next "debate," such as it is, will be on March 15.

It is certainly going to be the last one of the 2020 Democratic Party primaries.  Sanders is a dead man walking.
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Jim Bakker is in deep doo-doo:

The clip generated a good deal of press coverage and on Tuesday, the office of the New York Attorney General sent Baker a cease and desist order instructing him to stop “making misleading claims regarding the Silver Solution’s effectiveness” and to add a disclaimer to the solution that he sell.

He did, however, comply with the directive.  The disclaimer is there on the website.
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Acquitted killer Robert Durst's colorful past was put on display by the L.A. prosecution, including how he buried his late wife, Kathie McCormack Durst.  Durst is now on trial for the murder of his "friend" Susan Berman.
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The EPA has come out with a list of products to use at home to kill the coronavirus.
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