Wednesday Reads

 It's payback time for Mitch McConnell and the other GOP idiots who refuse to sign on to the $2,000 stimulus checks Trump demanded as a condition for signing the COVID aid bill.

I hope the GOP loses both Georgia seats in two weeks.  The party deserves it.  McConnell needs to go in the shit bin of history.

Meanwhile, people are hurting terribly.

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I had forgotten all about the 2009 balloon boy hoax.  The parents were pardoned by the Colorado governor after eight years of shame and embarrassment.

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Obituary:  Chad Stuart, 79, half of the 1960s duo Chad and Jeremy, has died.   He died of pneumonia on December 20:


With their guitars and pleasant if not exactly traditional teen-idol faces, Chad Stuart, distinguished by his trademark black-rimmed eyeglasses, and Jeremy Clyde, friends since their undergraduate days at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, scored big during the first rush of the Beatles-inspired British Invasion of America. The duo’s 1963 Stuart-penned UK hit “Yesterday’s Gone” made the U.S. charts the following year. 

The wistful “A Summer Song,” co-written by Stuart, was even more successful, hitting the Top 10 on U.S. charts, the most successful in a series of hits that also included “Willow Weep for Me” and “Distant Shores.”



"Yesterday's Gone":



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So women are denigrated.  What else is new?

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