July 4 Reads

I am perhaps one of the very few people in the entire world who actually like the Alexander McQueen dress Melania Trump wore to the Mount Rushmore rally last night to celebrate Independence Day.

I have always been partial to black-and-white clothing because of the stark contrast.

Many on Twitter and other social media sites eviscerated her choice of garb.

The only thing I don't care about it is the asymmetrical hem.  I see this and the so-called "shark bite" hem on many clothing styles, and both of those will easily date them.  Ditto for the bare shoulder cutouts and off-the-shoulder styles of tops.


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In case you missed it:



Myself, I skipped the video clear to nearly the end, when the fireworks display took place.
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Obituary:  The UK's first black actor who was a star, Earl Cameron, died yesterday.  He made it to the impressive age of 102:

Born in Bermuda in 1917 and arriving in the UK in 1939 after a spell in the British merchant navy, Cameron ended up with a small role in 1941 in a stage production of the musical Chu Chin Chow. More theatre work followed after the war, and Cameron was then cast in a substantial role in Pool of London, a thriller set in the London docks in which he played Johnny Lambert, a merchant seaman. Cameron’s character is also involved in a mixed-race relationship, generally acknowledged as the first such portrayal in a British film.

In 2017 Cameron told the Guardian: “I never saw myself as a pioneer. It was only later, looking back, that it occurred to me that I was.” Cameron was cast in Sapphire, another British-set thriller, in 1959, Britain’s best-known contribution to the “passing” genre; he played the brother of a woman found dead on Hampstead heath, who is discovered to be mixed-race. Other roles in the 1950s included two films about the Mau Mau uprising: Simba (1955), where he played a doctor, and Safari (1957) in which he played a rebel commander.

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No, Governor Kate Brown  of Oregon didn't fire those state police officers who didn't wear masks when going into a coffee shop.  Instead, she had a discussion with them.

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Today's race:  The Runhappy Metropolitan Mile:


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With this obvious attempt to help Trump, Kanye West proves beyond doubt he is crazier than a shithouse rat.

Furthermore, considering the family he married into, there is no way he is going to get very many votes.

NOBODY wants the Kardashian-Jenner families anywhere near the White House.
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