• Recycled products are often inferior to items produced from virgin materials, so we shouldn’t be surprised to see “deplorables” recycled as “garbage.”
• I’m so old I can recall when the mainstream media excoriated President Nixon for referring to leftist hippie protestors as “bums.” Good times, good times!
• Biden’s typically offensive remark is getting subjected to more slow-motion analysis than the Zapruder film in the desperate attempt to deny what he clearly meant. Think this is an exaggeration?
And of course the inevitable media headline, from NPR natch:
And not to be outdone by NPR, here’s Politico:
Here’s how the Washington Post reported on the cleanup by the White House:
The White House initially provided a transcript of Biden’s remarks that purported to show him saying “supporters’” — a plural possessive. A few hours later, the White House distributed a new transcript that used “supporter’s” — a singular possessive word that apparently refers to the comedian alone.
Important question from the great Mollie:
The best revenge:
• So Trump visits McDonald’s and promises to fix their chronically broken ice cream machines, and guess what?
McDonald’s Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
The U.S. government wants to make it easier to fix McDonald’s ice-cream machines, whose problems have for years annoyed lovers of the McFlurry.
Frequent breakdowns of the appliances have long been a struggle for the fast-food chain. Out-of-service machines have gotten roasted by comedians and fast-food rivals and spawned an online tracker of broken machines called McBroken.
Now a new determination from the Copyright Office could make it cheaper or faster for restaurants to fix broken machines and keep the McFlurrys churning.
• “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off” is my new favorite epithet. I’m thinking of making a bumper sticker. In the meantime:
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