How awful would that have been?

Meghan Markle actually thought she had a shot at becoming a U.S. senator: "True scale of Meghan and Harry’s US political plans revealed — from request for Biden Oval Office meeting to eyeing Senate seat".

It would have been strange, and undoubtedly she would have become one of those politicians known as much for her personal obnoxiousness as for her knee-jerk leftism; however, considering the state of the senate these days, I don't believe she would have moved the needle very much one way or the other when it comes to assessing the institution's general intellectual level. One more nincompoop - especially from California, and most particularly as a replacement for Kamala Harris - probably wouldn't merit much notice, save for the personal gossip component.

Movie history

Some interesting tidbits from the great Bill Hickman's stunt driving scene in Bullitt.

Gee, Wally, I wonder why the Israelis are so uptight about their neighbors

Could it be stuff like this?

Happy Feet Friday

Gene Krupa and his band perform the aptly-named "Ball of Fire".

Hey, I saw this movie

It starred Boris Karloff, didn't it? "Harvard Agrees to Pay Massive Settlement to Families Over Ghoulish 2024 Case of Stolen Body Parts Sold on Black Market".

One more

I found another picture of the two Superbirds in their natural habitat.

This really puts me back in May of 1975: a pleasantly warm day, dogwoods in bloom, the smell of pine needles, and not a worry in the world.

Interestingly, years later - after the Superbirds and the house had been sold, and I had gotten married and moved to Miami - Mrs. Paco and I returned to near-by Raleigh to visit her parents, who were then still living there. We drove through the old neighborhood in Cary just to see what it looked like (I had not seen it in something like a decade) and what did I see parked in the driveway? An orange Superbird. To put it mildly, I was astonished.

Delighted to see this Krispy Kreme profit center crash and burn

"Alex Vindman got clobbered in Florida. Seeing him get annihilated in the Florida Democratic Senate primary, given the arrogance and entitlement of this little twerp, makes it even more delicious."

He lost to a socialist nutjob, but, still, it gives me great satisfaction to see this fat, pasty-faced Trump hater's political career run off the rails and plunge into the gorge of, what I hope will be, permanent obscurity.

Related Another big karma sandwich is served: "FBI Agents Confront Former Dem Congressman Eric Swalwell at Airport and Seize His Electronics, Including His Cell Phone".