Saturday Reads

 So why does Trump want to know?

JUST IN: Trump demands names of GOP lawmakers who said they recognize Biden as winner of election https://t.co/e4KIdUiuOe pic.twitter.com/iWjSgKVWaw

— The Hill (@thehill) December 5, 2020

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The Jackson County Courthouse was the site of a vigil for a black 19-year-old murder victim who was killed in Ashland the other day.  The killer was allegedly upset at the victim for playing loud music in a hotel parking lot and confronted him when the victim was murdered.

Even worse is the fact the accused killer lost everything he had in the Almeda fire.  He has a son, and they were staying at the hotel.

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Obituary:  Well-known actress Pamela Tiffin, 78, has passed away in a hospital from natural causes according to her daughter.

She was frequently seen in movies in the 1960s.  She retired from the industry in 1974.

From the obituary:

Pamela Tiffin Wonso was born in Oklahoma City on Oct. 13, 1942, and raised in a suburb of Chicago, where she began modeling. She moved to New York with her mom to continue that career path and appeared several times on the cover of Vogue, in commercials and in a 1960 short film, Music of Williamsburg. 

While on vacation, she was having lunch with a friend in the Paramount commissary when she was spotted by Hal Wallis, who was producing a film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. Wallis right there and then asked her to audition for the role of the flirty Nellie, and after extending her vacation, she took a screen test and was hired for the Geraldine Page-Laurence Harvey drama directed by Peter Glenville.

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No way is Trump anywhere close to being King Cyrus.

That comparison was always a smokescreen to cover for these religious rightists' support of a quasi-fascist while inoculating themselves from the charge of hypocrisy.

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It remains to be seen if Trump's whining about "fraud" in Georgia carries over into the two Georgia Senate races in January.   There is a lot of concern in GOP circles many GOP voters may not show up at at all to vote.

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Nuttier than a Georgia peach orchard boar:

The rally clearly wasn't about helping Perdue and Loeffler. It was all about Trump and his gripes, as expected. The crowd lapped it up:

Trump is about to hold a rally (ostensibly for Loeffler and Perdue) in Valdosta, Georgia. It will be his first since losing the presidential election to Joe Biden. Follow for a video thread. pic.twitter.com/bB80Z6pzjV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 6, 2020

You KNOW things are off the rails when Rush Limbaugh criticizes the Trump diehards who are filing bogus lawsuits in courts.